Bitcointalk trolls, internal dysfunction and all out flame wars. Guide to the scandals.
Alternative title: Strays, catfights and hissing competitions.
I’ve considered writing this earlier. It is with some reluctance that I write this. I do not want to re-open old wounds or getting inadvertently involved. It is written from a neutral perspective so that an outsider understands it. I decided to go ahead after Pugman published a list and then encouraged me to write an article about it.
Corrections, additions and comments welcome.
Knightmb (Michael Brown)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/knightmb-on-bitcointalk-from-37106736-btc-to-mitt-romney-extortion-4547124
knightmb on bitcointalk -went from owning 371,067.36 BTC to being jailed for Mitt Romney extortion.
Involved with bitcoin early on. One of bitcoins largest whales. Obtained the bitcoin in curious circumstancesv
Pirateat40 (Trendon Shavers)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/history-bitcoin-savings-and-trust-and-pirateat40-on-bitcointalk-ponzi-4464504
Bitcoin Savings and Trust and Pirateat40 on Bitcointalk (PONZI)
More that 146,000 bitcoins were collected.
silkroad & altoid (Ross Ulbricht)
Silkroad and Altoid were both accounts tied to Ross Ulbricht and subject to a DOJ subpoena
Silkroad Founder jailed for running a darkweb drug market
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/silk-road-and-bitcointalk-how-it-played-a-role-in-its-rise-and-fall-4437773
MagicalTux (Mark Karpeles)
Founder of hacked exchange MtGox,
Police suspect in Silkroad (never proven)
Hosted the bitcointalk on his servers and reviewed the code after the first bitcointalk hack.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-history-of-mtgox-and-how-a-bitcointalk-post-caught-the-mtgox-hacker-4412667 (Mt Gox story)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-history-of-hacks-and-vandalism-4405796 (Bitcointalk hacks and vandalism)
WME (Alexander Vinnik)
Bitcointalk user WME was identified as Vinnick when he made this post:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1037908
http://archive.is/6cFcY
Other online activities by the same user account are alledged to link it to the hack on MtGox.
Investigations by Wizsec, a group of bitcoin security specialists, had identified Vinnik as the owner of the wallets into which the stolen bitcoins had been transferred, many of which were sold on BTC-e.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcointalk-history-of-mtgox-and-how-a-bitcointalk-post-caught-the-mtgox-hacker-4412667
Cablepair (Tom)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1157524
Cablepair took a lot of orders for the bASIC miner and when the BTC priced spiked he started paying back USD valued refunds. More mining issues here: Mining equipment scams, shams and failed deliveries.
escrow.ms (Pankaj Bharadwaj)
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13840774
Following a report in the India Times Escrow.ms got removed from the DT list.
The arrest was for credit card cloning and then converting it to bitcoin to launder and distribute the stolen funds.
Master-p
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13376914
Master-p scamming people – When Escrow goes bad.
Goat / El Cabron (Chaang Noi)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622250.0;all
VIP accounts can change their username. Goat renamed his account El Cabron.
Goat attacking theymos
Goat versus the forum administrator.... check out the cool signature....
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.7030081
Banned since June 5 2014
Cyber pinoy V Gleb Gamow
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990219.0;topicseen Cyberpinoy going after Gleb Gamow because Gleb caught him using a sockpuppet to shill his company.
Only half of the conversation remains. The rest was deleted by Cyberpinoy
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1012713.5
aTriz
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/hilariousandco-mitchellvodognasty-bitblisscoincom-could-be-a-scamsite-2751956
aTriz being naive and providing his signature to a scam
The exchange between aTriz and ibminer explains it.
It was a marketing strategy and they tried to say they raised so much in just a day or 2.
I doubt they raised anymore then 1 BTC.
This is nothing but deceitful nonsense. What you call a "marketing strategy", I would call fraud.
Scammer: a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
Swindle: to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit
Fraud: a person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities.
No, you are not forced to do anything you do not want to do here, especially when someone is being fraudulent.
Scammer: a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
Swindle: to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit
Fraud: a person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities.
No, but when I'm 2 weeks into a bounty program I'm basically forced to go along with it.
No, you are not forced to do anything you do not want to do here, especially when someone is being fraudulent.
Zeroxal and the blackmail sting operation
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17624090
the Zeroxal case divided some of the community.
Shorena and OgNasty gave negative trust to the DTs involved.
theymos stance on extortion/blackmail by staff
Lauda/TMAN/minifrij/IronMarvel2/owlcatz extortion attempt
Lauda tried to get a confession using a sting operation from user Zeroxal who “was not able or willing to explain double evasion of forum ban, advertising of counterfeit goods, selling botnet/cloud mining packages.” according to
This resulted in Lauda leaving as a staff member of this forum.
Zeroxal is still and active member of the forum.
After this relations between Lauda, TMAN and Owlcatz soured against OgNasty and QuickSeller
Ognasty V Lauda
Vod v Ognasty
One of the few long lasting feuds / flame wars that didn't get resolved during the recent "forgiveness and reconcilliation".
TMAN V OgNasty
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/who-won-the-bet-1946142
I’m not the only one that remained confused after reading that.
[POLL] Should OgNasty be removed as a forum treasurer?
should Og Be Removed from DT1 [POLL]
Owlcatz V OgNasty
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/owlcatz-scamming-users-by-posing-as-an-escrow-agent-on-telegram-3157259
TwitchySeal V Ognasty
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.31139998
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.30944546
TwichySeal made the followning accusation:
Vod is attempting to create an unlimited and unconsented liability by offering refunds for those who have rendered services from me.
To be clear, your liability only extends to those you escrow scammed. I've asked for a link for each request, so the community will easily be able to see if you scammed them, or if you properly used a third party escrow.
You could make this easier on everyone by providing a list of those you have scammed, so they can ask for the refund you have promised.
You know the first won't happen. Self moderated threads are self moderated and the OP may do so as they please; they've been there since the inception of the forum with "Local Rules".
I agree that Vod should certainly be removed from DefaultTrust. His remarks disparaging you as a scammer could fall under Canadian defamatory law; given the business activities you conduct on bitcointalk and the damages Vod's remarks could have on you, you might be interested in pursing civil action. And you'll get justice on Vod.
@Quickseller, I'll contribute 20 BTC towards a civil lawsuit against Vod. One of his email addresses is [email protected] , as given here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1070760
You may be able to subpoena Yahoo Canada for his IP address (via a John Doe-style civil suit), and then subpoena the ISP for account holder details.
I agree that Vod should certainly be removed from DefaultTrust. His remarks disparaging you as a scammer could fall under Canadian defamatory law; given the business activities you conduct on bitcointalk and the damages Vod's remarks could have on you, you might be interested in pursing civil action. And you'll get justice on Vod.
@Quickseller, I'll contribute 20 BTC towards a civil lawsuit against Vod. One of his email addresses is [email protected] , as given here: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.1070760
You may be able to subpoena Yahoo Canada for his IP address (via a John Doe-style civil suit), and then subpoena the ISP for account holder details.
Quicksellers list of users that condone violence
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1614573.0;topicseen
Likely as a reaction to the ongoing feud it shows the dynamics between some of the long-term members on here.
people calling Vod a pedophile vod
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.12962871
This is essentially due to a false and malicious report made about Vod on the ripoffreport. The website is owned by Ed Magedson who makes it particularly difficult for process servers to find him. While he claims not to remove anything from his website. He will remove it for a ongoing fee. The ripoff report is currently in serious trouble in several jurisdictions.
In March 2017, the Italian Data Protection Authority affirmed that Ripoff Report's activities — namely, Ed Magedson's requests for money to edit web pages — are illegal in Italy. The Italian authorities also noticed that Ripoff Report's web servers are occasionally not reachable from Italy in order to evade controls by the authorities themselves. Besides, they noticed that some web pages — which were being investigated by the authorities — were deleted out of the blue by the website owner, despite the claim that Ripoff Report does not remove reports.
A federal court stated that victims have "probable cause to sue for extortion and racketeering". http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripoff_Report
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/the-real-rip-off-report-6445677
http://drjaniceduffy.com/2017/05/ed-magedson-ripoff-report-darren-meade-sued-for-60-million/
http://drjaniceduffy.com/2017/05/ed-magedson-ripoff-report-darren-meade-obstruction-of-justice/
According to ripoffreport, you sent them information and content that should not be relied upon... and the accuracy of the information you sent them relies on anonymous authors and commenters.
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Repeating false accusations without proof can result in defamation proceedings.
digaran - The DT investigator:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--3779450
digaran Started a thread called ” Re: Hire me to defend your case for 0.01BTC! “
Which is now changed to: Voluntary service to defend your case!
Digaran attempted to assist people in getting their negative default trust removed – initially for a fee with no guarantees. This resulted in a longstanding feud between digaran and certain Default Trust members that resulted in lots of red negative feedback for digaran and in constant posts by digaran complaining about Trust abuse.
This resulted in a lot of negative trust:
This resulted in lots of posts and accusations:
Vod trolling me with red tag!
Marlboroza changed email address after getting on DT2!
OgNasty is misusing the trust system for personal gains!
Do not trust suchmoon, a blatant trust abuser.
Marlboroza is abusing DT power!
Please don't ban digaran. He'd be back with 500 accounts trying to prove how unfair the ban is.
Flat Earth topic:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/flat-earth-1009045
This is a long running topic and people have received negative trust for expressing their opinions on there.
Prominent flat earthers include:
notbatman
nomad13666
BFL staff posting negative feedback on Theymos:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.42793771
(Details further in this thread)
Spoetnik - FUD Philanthropist™
FUD first & ask questions later™
Spoetnik (self proclaimed FUD Philanthropist) clearly likes to troll and some of his topics and posts can be amusing.
[P2P] Ever Wanted to Ask a Pirate Questions ?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.13251832
[TRIVIA] Who's worse GOX or Spoetnik ?
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.19469329
Noob.. you are an idiot.
Read the fucking sticky topic here about the rules.
Notice anything that mentions SPECULATION ?
Further more why would anyone give a shit about the scam coin anyway ?
I have never had anything to do with ETH nor will i so why would i give a shit about the price of it ?
Read the fucking sticky topic here about the rules.
Notice anything that mentions SPECULATION ?
Further more why would anyone give a shit about the scam coin anyway ?
I have never had anything to do with ETH nor will i so why would i give a shit about the price of it ?
https://www.neowin.net/news/cryptocurrencies-have-been-banned-in-pakistan
Drown losers..
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The State Bank of Pakistan has issued a circular on its website banning the usage of any virtual currency. Banks will not be able to allow customers any transaction in the form of cryptocurrencies.
Drown losers..
Dishonerable mentions:
I've seen a handful of members here in the past 3 years get banned for trolling (I think).Mixan, fwdxlsh, and that girl who kept writing that she has a thigh gap....or maybe that was fwdxlsh, can't remember. MPOE-PR was another, right around the time I started lurking.
There was another member, with the handle of Oxoo10 or something similar who was trolling hard.
There was another member, with the handle of Oxoo10 or something similar who was trolling hard.
codishmumu had the thigh gap. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.15484527
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1203093.5
Thank you to Pugman who provided extensive source material which I could expand on.
Thank you to The Pharmacist for some of the troll history.