Roger Ver made his first substantial sums of BTC by importing MtGox to the USA and earning substantial fees in the process while the exchange was in fact running bankrupt. The only reason he avoided jail time was because he had anulled his citizenship, while his close partner Charlie Shrem did 2 years simply for running an exchange while on US soil!
Mircea Popescu (now reportedly dead) earned BTC that later became valuer millions in $ through misleading fees and trading junk securities on his own exchange.
Can you name more now millionaires that earned their wealth through scamming people out of their BTC? Ideally originating in this forum.
You mean people became millionaires by scamming others? You managed to tell 3 names, lets assume it as 20 in total even if we name all the scammers who involved shady practice to make millions while 1000s of others became millionaires simply by HODLing. They bought bitcoins for few dollars and in next 5 years it worth millions.