Tyson Key

"Hmm, what's the protection mechanism, this time? An RFID tag of some variety, or just a series of patented holes, and bumps, or a proprietary barcode algorithm?" - Tyson Key

"Today, Apple announces a revolutionary new way to prepare food. For too long, now, chopping boards have been too big, unintuitive, and frankly unsatisfying - but that's about to change. Presenting iChop." - Tyson Key

"Now that's cutting-edge technology!" - Tyson Key

"It'd be nice if they'd fix their sending tool to account for this dumb change in notation, so that users don't have to manually comb through their transaction logs to find the BTC values, and add them together as necessary, before sending." - Tyson Key

"The fuchsia's bright?" - Tyson Key

"Brilliant. At least he now has a TV to watch the back catalogue of his own show on." - Tyson Key

"However, unsurprisingly - you don't actually get back (all of) the "real" coins that you sent your address - but instead, a tiny fraction of them, along with some coins from other accounts, seemingly sent through a mixing algorithm of some sort. (So your chances of getting "special" types of BitCoins back is slim, and there's likely to be bits of things like MasterCoins, and CounterParty tokens floating around, attaching themselves to random transactions). :)" - Tyson Key

"Heh, I'm the guy whose wallet address was involved. Thanks to packetdoge for sending me the extra coins!" - Tyson Key

"Giving up on this FedoraCoin thingy. I can only find 3 faucets, and none of them work - and one had an amusingly sleazy pop-up, trying to convince me that I was using an outdated version of Chrome, and that I should download some malware..." - Tyson Key

"Hmm, and there's no transaction, right now. Either the faucet's broken, dry, or requests are manually processed." - Tyson Key

"Thanks! I asked in the IRC channel, but it seems that everyone's busy at the moment. No big deal, though." - Tyson Key

"What sort of coin are you trying to withdraw, out of interest? From what I've established, so far, doing anything with FedoraCoins is pointless (probably since the official blockchain explorer's offline); and I don't have sufficient BitCoins to warrant trying to withdraw them to an external address." - Tyson Key

"So far, the last FedoraCoin transaction is a virtual, system-generated one ("Daily free coins for November 20, 2014", that arrived, today), and the incoming transaction page claims "No incoming FedoraCoin transactions have been seen on the network"." - Tyson Key

"Annoyingly, I can't seem to find a working FedoraCoin block explorer (the canonical one keeps throwing CrowdFlare errors), but I decided to do a test, just now... I requested 6.9116308 FedoraCoins, for my QoinPro wallet, at EMBjKrn9PdLSG4cyNDo8KbTwKQVxUR3LE7, from http://tipofthefedora.com/, just now. No idea about whether they'll actually be associated with that address on the blockchain, or even if the FC network, and faucet are really working, though." - Tyson Key

"I've also noticed the problem with not processing FedoraCoin deposits, and I haven't been able to receive any WorldCoin deposits. Also had a problem when I opened my account, where they'd fail to generate a BitCoin address, without an error - that they eventually resolved, when I sent them a Tweet." - Tyson Key

"Right, I see now. Sorry for the misunderstanding. Yeah, it does seem pretty shady that they're not paying up, when requested, come to think of it. Either they've got problems with bookkeeping (which would make sense, since they don't do transaction deductions, when sending stuff like MasterCoin assets to a QoinPro wallet address), or they don't have the capital on hand to actually back people withdrawing their "phantom" bonus coins, plus deposits." - Tyson Key

"I think it'd be unfair to call them a scam, since they seem to be doing *something* whenever I Tweet at their account, asking why stuff doesn't work - even if they don't reply back to me." - Tyson Key

"I haven't tried withdrawing from QP, yet (I'm more than content for now to keep squirrelling my coins away, there, to let them build up), but I believe that they supposedly manually approve each withdrawal request. It also seems that they've been having some minor glitches with processing incoming transactions, as of late, and the dates on the free coin payments are 10 days off. Not complaining, though." - Tyson Key

"After going through the motions of trying to submit a photo of my passport using their crappy validation tool, I just tried with my HSBC account details, and they reckoned that my SWIFT BIC was incorrect - even though I copied-and-pasted it, and my IBAN from an online statement... I think I'll pass on this, until they make it less of a pain in the rear for folks who only want to buy £2 worth of coins for testing purposes." - Tyson Key

"Interesting. Is this phenomenon limited to the US - since I've never heard anyone say that in the UK, so far?" - Tyson Key