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Topic: [2018-11-02] Bitcoin’s ‘First Felon’ Faces More Legal Trouble (Read 154 times)

legendary
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it's funny to me the winkle bros ever went into business with him. Cheesy

Yeah, he's always smelt of pure hustler to me but it's easy to forget that when the Winklevii started to get interested in 2012 there really weren't very many people to hook them up, he might have been the one and only game in town.

Perhaps they wanted to Pygmalionise him and turn him into a preppy guy with a sweater draped over his shoulders they could wheel out for their buddies.
legendary
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ross ulbricht. shrem didn't get arrested until 2014---the charges against him partially stemmed from silk road related money laundering conspiracy, so naturally the feds didn't pursue him until after silk road and DPR were taken down.

The Winkies reckon he's been funding his sexy post-prison lifestyle with money rightfully owed to them. If you've read Digital Gold by the author of this article you'll remember they have plenty of history with each other.

It's interesting how sticky Bitcoin's earlier scum phase is. It still keeps on bubbling through things like this and Gox etc.

it was the wild west. it still kind of is.

it just makes me shrug. shrem gonna shrem. it's funny to me the winkle bros ever went into business with him. Cheesy
legendary
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He might be the first high profile felon that the United States government made sure they can use as its instrument of FUD hehe.
legendary
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/technology/bitcoin-charlie-shrem-winklevoss-twins.html

Was he really the first?

The Winkies reckon he's been funding his sexy post-prison lifestyle with money rightfully owed to them. If you've read Digital Gold by the author of this article you'll remember they have plenty of history with each other.

It's interesting how sticky Bitcoin's earlier scum phase is. It still keeps on bubbling through things like this and Gox etc.
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