At the top of my front page, I had this old piece of "evidence" as part of my sourced collection, which is also copied from the sticky on /v/pizzagate:
Hello Cheese Pizza lovers!
We are offering to send fresh (not seen on Tor before) pictures of Cheese Pizza direct to your email. We will only send to Tor email services (SIGAINT, TorBox etc).
When we send you email we will also include a .onion address that has not been seeded / posted to any Tor hidden service directories. You can sign up at that address to purchase more fresh pictures of Cheese Pizza as well as trade your own for BTC.
Here is how it works:
1) Choose from the menu below and deposit the correct amount into the BTC address -> 12h5PpA4ok6mbfxL8TjCLe3QMZuhWvVTzs
2) Send an email to [email protected] - keep it simple. All we need to know is the BTC address you sent FROM
3) We will reply within 1-2 hours (our daytime) with an email containing the .onion address and a ZIP file with 10 pictures
4) If you purchased more than 10 pictures we will send more emails. Each email will contain a ZIP file with another 10 pictures. If your email service rejects the email - your inbox is full etc - don't worry, we will wait a while and try again until you receive all the pictures you ordered
Cheese Pizza menu:
- 10 pictures = 0.01 BTC
- 25 pictures = 0.025 BTC
- 50 pictures = 0.05 BTC
Looking forward to serving you some fresh Cheese Pizza!
Cheers,
Mario :-)
I looked at the history of transactions for that Bitcoin Address. You can view it for yourself here: https://blockchain.info/address/12h5PpA4ok6mbfxL8TjCLe3QMZuhWvVTzs
There is only 2 outgoing transactions from that address, only 1 of which closely relates to a price on that "menu". If it was a service, it sure didn't get any customers. The real bogus flag however, is this:
- Type that address into google.
- One of the only "clearnet" results is to this forum thread:
https://2hu-ch.org/thread-24823b7c90d5836d93da6d51625abfe08077fb54.html
- I ran a who-is on 2hu-ch.org and it was registered in 2016. This conflicts with the thread date of **Fri Jul 31 05:47:05 2015 **
If somebody can prove that this advertisement for "cheese pizza" was in fact existing on the internet (clearnet or darkweb) PRIOR to #pizzagate breaking out, I will gladly add this back to my site.
I will continue trying to clean up my site to include only properly sourced material.. thanks.
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Millennial_Falcon ago
I'm just not certain the post wasn't prior to pizzagate. For one, can you put a link to the "whois" result in your post? Also, it seems possible that the website had older threads from elsewhere posted on it. The site is called "overchan;" maybe that means it's some kind of aggregator?
Noted. I will remove that bit, at least until such time as sources can be found.
I think the handkerchief code is still relevant, as it indicates a plausible explanation. The code isn't necessarily exclusive to homosexuals; it may have been adopted by others who wish to communicate sexual preferences using code. As for the significance of white, for now I will change that to a suggested possible meaning, until such time as a source for it can be found.
It occurs to me that another possible explanation for the handkerchief email is that it was just a handkerchief, and had a map folded up inside it. This seems somewhat unlikely, though, as in his reply, Podesta said "it's mine, but it's nor important," not "they are mine, but they aren't important." So it seems the handkerchief itself had special significance.
Thanks for your thoroughness!