Tor Based Hosting Service Hacked

Freedom hosting II, the webhost that offered website hosting for tor and "Deep Web" users, has reportedly been breached by unknown "Anonymous" hackers. All webpages hosted by the company were displaying the following message Friday morning:

Hello Freedom Hosting II, you have been hacked

We are disappointed… This is an excerpt from your front page ‘We have a zero tolerance policy to child pornography.’ — but what we found while searching through your server is more than 50% child porn…

Moreover you host many scam sites, some of which are evidently run by yourself to cover hosting expenses.

All your files have been copied and your database has been dumped. (74GB of files and 2.3GB of database)

We are selling all data (excluding cp) for 0.1 BTC. Send 0.1 BTC to 14iCDyeCSp12AmhVfJGxtrzXDabFop4QtU and send your transaction id to fhosting@tt3j2x4k5ycaa5zt.onion or fhosting@danwin1210.me and We’ll get back to you with a full dump.

Up to January 31st you were hosting 10613 sites. Private keys are included in the dump. Show full list

We are Anonymous. We do not forgive. We do not forget. You should have expected us.

No Bitcoin payments had been reported on the address associated with the above message at the time of this article. Freedom Hosting is notorious for hosting fraud, scam, and child porn sites in both iterations of it's services.

US Postal Service Posts Curious Job Ad

The United States Postal Service is stepping up efforts to combat "darknet" market sales by hiring cybercrime investigators. The official title will be “Intelligence Gathering Specialist" and would be expected to trawl onion sites as well as popular clearnet gathering sites seeking to obtain information to help stem the flow of so called contraband through USPS channels.

An excerpt from the listing stated:

“Candidates shall be capable of performing a prioritized assessment of the data to identify the most critical and reliable data in order to identify , bitcoins, locations, accounts, services, travels, email addresses, IP addresses and other pattern of life data in an effort to determine physical attribution of an Internet identity. Candidates shall be capable of creating intelligence and investigative reports which represent the steps taken, the data sources reviewed and the conclusions drawn from the evaluation of the Internet information.”

US University Endowments Net Loss In 2016

Universities in the United States experienced an average endowment return of negative 1.9 percent over 2016. Harvard University enjoyed a very bright and special negative 2 percent return. Across US universities the 10 year average annual return fell from 6.3% to 5% and the 5 year figure went from 9.8% to 5.4% compared to 2015 figures. Continued dismal energy and mining sector performance along with the activist led divestment fad likely contributed to the suffering of these fiat institutions. In the inflationary fiat monetary system exemplified by the US dollar, a positive ~7.4% growth rate is typically cited as a target for endowment growth to outrun the inflationary loss in purchasing power. Sorry for your loss.

Roger Ver Presents Bitcoin.com Presents "Bitcoin" Unlimited Mining Pool Goes Over On Blocksize, Gets Orphaned

Roger Ver's bitcoin.com mining pool once again demonstrated its incompetence and total lack of knowledge regarding actual Bitcoin Monday by mining a block greater than 1 MB, valued at a total of 13.2 BTC in the process.1 The rest of the network quickly rejected the attempt to fork the network away from actual Bitcoin and ignored the buggy big block. Bitcoin Unlimited just released version 1.0.0 of their software, which was by and large untested, unlike the rigorous testing schedule and research that goes into therealbitcoin reference client. Disgraced former Bitcoin core developer Gavin Andresen shrugged off the news on twitter, the butthurt of his continual stream of poor decisions apparently still stinging. Sorry for your loss.


  1. A healthy ~0.72 BTC in fees were attached to the block.  

First Wave Of Attorneys Challenges Trumpreich

Numerous leftist attorneys in the United States have for the moment shifted from ambulance chasing to airport sitting as they scour for test cases to attack Trump's executive orders concerning ingress into the United States. Hussein Bahamas appointee to the bench Anne Donnelly (WOT:nonperson) issued an order purporting by the media to stay a substantial portion of Trump's executive order while doing little of the sort. Much of the fake news media has taken to this development with nearly the enthusiasm they show for increasing leftist violence. Slate/WaPo/Amazon.com legal commentator Dahlia Lithwick (WOT:nonperson) supposed:

Donald Trump has no idea how terrifying a blue book1 and a Lexis2 password can be. He’s about to find out.

This is a very bullish indicator for metaphorical popcorn futures.3


  1. Special undersized notebook used in US exams  

  2. Arcane subscription service used by US legalists to read the law as they understand it.  

  3. Actual corn futures continue to trade in the basement.  

Shinohai's Saturday Shitcoin Roundup Xtend Again: Tor, 21, and Buttfunex

Bitpay has suspended the account of the Tor project, citing "a number of higher risk transactions during our routine monitoring program" that led to the decision. Bitpay is allowing the account to remain open until Jan. 31 to allow the Tor project officials time to relocate their coins elsewhere.

Bitfinex alleges that some of the funds stolen by hackers in August are now being moved to various other exchanges, and is offering a 5% bounty to anyone that can help trace the funds back to the hacker(s). At the time of this article around 867 BTC had been moved.

21 co releases a "life-changing" app hailed across social media that allows anyone to get some Bitcoin by watching ads.1

An unknown hacker attempted to encrypt and hold the St. Louis Public Library network ransom for roughly $35K USD in Bitcoin, though library IT officials were able to regain control of the system and restore the network to a usable state by restoring from backups.


  1. As early as 2011 a venture describing itself as "Free Digital Money" did this same thing.  

US Activist "News Aggregator" Begins Celebrating Political Violence

Alternet, a news aggregator serving US Leftists involved in activism, in one of their rare pieces of original1 content celebrated an act of political mob violence against a presumed right winger (archived). The piece's author Ben Norton (WOT:nonperson) spent 11 short paragraphs vilifying the "Bad Swastika Man" before gleefully noting later that the man was later beaten and robbed after he was confronted by protesters.

This attack glorified by the American left follows a vicious sucker punching attack on local right leaning personality Richard Spencer. In a piece titled "Do Punch Nazis", Ari Paul (WOT:nonperson) writing for the Observer described the attack as "self defense" and attempted to justify further violence against the socialist left's political enemies with the purpose of spreading fear.2

The losers, angry that Trump won the election on Hussein Bahamas message of change, appear to be priming their followers for further violence of the sort that previously peaked in the 1970's. Coincidentally Russian interference in US politics had also hit a peak at that time and previous decades' of shipping export grade cultural Marxism to local schools had primed that period's activists to pursue violent revolution.

In the intervening decades, after Reagan and crack cocaine handicapped the left's storm troopers, leader's of the US left's terrorist organizations become the countries political elite (Culminating in the recent Presidency of Hussein Bahamas. ))3 while Russia traded socialism for nationalism and became "great again".

The trend likely to continue into the next decade is need to elevate the threat posed by antifa and rogue government actors4 when considering physical security measures for persons physically present in the United States. State actors remain the primary adversary model for cryptographic and technological security.


  1. As opposed to syndicated content. Alternet mostly republishes content from Salon, Mother Jones, and other leftist outlets.  

  2. Which is notably the very definition of terrorism.  

  3. A subject that merits further investigation.  

  4. And after the shrinking of the bureaucracy former government actors.  

Vessenes Gox Drama Continues

Peter Vessenes (WOT:nonperson) of the failed Vessenes' Phoundation and failed start up Coinlab continues to stir the drama pot as he holds out hope that a court just might award him a portion of the insolvent Gox's corpse. Such a move would naturally represent the first, last, and best revenue received by Vessenes venture which promised much and delivered nothing.

Tim Draper: Theranos Targeted By "Conspiracy"

Sometime United States Marshal's service auction winner and self described "venture capitalist" Tim Draper is alleging that his pet investment Theranos is the victim of a conspiracy. Headed by Elizabeth Holmes and attracting investors like Henry Kissenger, surgeon and former US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and further having incoming US Secretary of Defense James 'Mad Dog' Mattis having served on the board, Theranos must in Draper's mind have been the target of an organized conspiracy instead of the victim of its own fraud and incompetence. Sorry for your loss.

Ether.camp Breaks Out In Cheating Accusations After Huffing Orgy

War broke out in Ether.camp this week when one of the participating parties accused another party of cheating. Artchain members say that ether.camp awarded the $50,000 prize from the competition to coindash.io, whom they maintain used vote rigging and other underhanded tactics to game their position in the hackathon standings. Social media users could vote for their favorite team in the competition via "likes" on facebook or twitter and could also signal their support for a particular team by sending ETH to a designated address. Artchain alleges that some sort of bot was used to garner votes by coindash and that ether.camp organizers may have been complicit in the scheme. If the allegations prove true, this would be the second major issue to surface for the platform this month, after it was discovered that their "Hacker Gold Token" contained a critical bug that required a complete rewrite.