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Is this your personal collection of white dildos?
Topic: BREAKING: SEC Charges pirateat40 With Running Bitcoin-Denominated Ponzi Scheme - page 6. (Read 44440 times)
July 26, 2013, 11:53:04 AM
Is this your personal collection of white dildos?
July 26, 2013, 11:01:46 AM
man the day pirate sold off all that bitcoin was a lucky day for me, My deposit had just cleared and i was gonna buy some btc @ 14 but he crashed it down to 8. its nice to see one of bitcoin's early villains get some!
July 26, 2013, 10:52:34 AM
July 26, 2013, 02:34:33 AM
And yet nobody charged with anything related to the financial crash.
July 25, 2013, 06:11:19 PM
It's called 'cashing out' not 'debit-card-at-walmarting-out'.
July 25, 2013, 06:09:26 PM
July 25, 2013, 04:27:31 PM
Stop with the BFL stuff, take it to another thread.
July 25, 2013, 02:42:55 PM
Oh, I agree with everything you said. 7% weekly was obviously unsustainable. However, I'd like to quote you here:
I'm sorry but I don't feel the least bit sorry
Should have said I apologize for not feeling sorry for them but it was their fault for not listening. lol
July 25, 2013, 02:17:50 PM
Can anyone work out the number of coins in 1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM when he stopped paying out?
I think it was a lot more than the 193,319 XBT he apparently didn't return to investors.
I think it was a lot more than the 193,319 XBT he apparently didn't return to investors.
1) 700000 is not exact, it's a lower bound. He likely didn't return more than 200000 BTC.
2) 1Dky is more likely to be Silk Road's than Pirate's.
July 25, 2013, 01:59:00 PM
Next up: Hashking aka Sam Theofanopoulos, 7262 W Benton Dr Frankfort, IL 60423
I really hope they go after all the PPTs and the Starfish too.
SEC? Why would they? I don't like BFL as much as the next guy, but SEC has nothing it wants from BFL.
July 25, 2013, 01:37:15 PM
Can anyone work out the number of coins in 1DkyBEKt5S2GDtv7aQw6rQepAvnsRyHoYM when he stopped paying out?
I think it was a lot more than the 193,319 BTC he apparently didn't return to investors.
I think it was a lot more than the 193,319 BTC he apparently didn't return to investors.
July 25, 2013, 01:20:03 PM
Oh, I agree with everything you said. 7% weekly was obviously unsustainable. However, I'd like to quote you here:
I'm sorry but I don't feel the least bit sorry
July 25, 2013, 12:48:01 PM
Next up: Hashking aka Sam Theofanopoulos, 7262 W Benton Dr Frankfort, IL 60423
I really hope they go after all the PPTs and the Starfish too.
SEC? Why would they? I don't like BFL as much as the next guy, but SEC has nothing it wants from BFL.
July 25, 2013, 12:46:34 PM
Was this a ponzi scheme aimed at luring in investors or lenders for a real or fake mining company, or something else? I don't know what his 'company' is.
Grab a beer and start here.Based on that thread, he sucked in a lot of people that I wouldn't have thought would fall for his BS. But then again, when I first came to this forum theymos had an ad for a Ponzi in his sig line.
Another thing: if you look at the threads in the lending forum of last year, people were taking out loans denominated in BTC with higher interest than credit card rates. The fact that many loans were made at 2% weekly made 7% weekly seem less crazy (to some) (I think).
There's no hindsight necessary. As user CornedBeefHash, before I deleted all my posts and started over, I had a thread calling out Pirateat40, Clipse and Goat. I wanted them to explain how they could offer such great returns without it being a scam or somehow criminal. No one but Holiday (who has now deleted all of his posts and disappeared) agreed with me. Goat was the only one of the three that actually responsibly answered questions in that thread. The shithead Pirate just made snide comments like he always did and became his typical angry asshole self (the reason I think Josh is the same as Pirate because they act the same when questioned). Gmaxwell also appeared in that thread and accused them of illegal activity. Gmaxwell was all over IRC at the time telling everyone that it was a scam or some sort of illegal activity and NO ONE listened. I'm sorry but I don't feel the least bit sorry for the "investors" here. Stupid people will always be parted from their money. If not Pirate and Clipse then someone else will do it.
BTW Goat: Aren't you at least a little bit nervous over what's happening? You were one of the Pirate pass-throughs and had your own offerings on GLBScamE at the time. If I were you I be shitting a brick of worry about now.
July 25, 2013, 11:31:53 AM
Next up: Hashking aka Sam Theofanopoulos, 7262 W Benton Dr Frankfort, IL 60423
I really hope they go after all the PPTs and the Starfish too.
I second this.
July 25, 2013, 11:31:06 AM
Was this a ponzi scheme aimed at luring in investors or lenders for a real or fake mining company, or something else? I don't know what his 'company' is.
Grab a beer and start here.Based on that thread, he sucked in a lot of people that I wouldn't have thought would fall for his BS. But then again, when I first came to this forum theymos had an ad for a Ponzi in his sig line.
Another thing: if you look at the threads in the lending forum of last year, people were taking out loans denominated in BTC with higher interest than credit card rates. The fact that many loans were made at 2% weekly made 7% weekly seem less crazy (to some) (I think).
July 25, 2013, 11:24:09 AM
Also looks like Mr. Moustakis asked the Eastern Texas courts for the right to appear "Pro Hac Vice". Simple version Pro Hac Vice is a request for an attorney to practice in a specific case outside of their jurasdiction. Rather than have the plantiff (SEC) be represented by a TX based attorney they petition the courts to allow Mr. M (who has license to practice law in NY) the right to appear in the TX court. It would appear the request has been granted.
People in this forum living in Eastern Texas who did not "invest" with Pirate, go register for jury duty, you might get lucky and be assigned to this case, that's a courtroom session I'd pay to watch...
Uhm, you don't "register for jury duty." As a person aged 18 or older you're automatically enrolled without a choice in the matter.
Based on the location info he's only 10m away from me but we're in different counties so I wouldn't be called regardless. Ironically I did get called to one from my county just last week!
I live in the same county and have been summoned for jury duty in August.
Keep you fingers crossed everyone!
July 25, 2013, 11:01:47 AM
Based on the location info he's only 10m away from me but we're in different counties so I wouldn't be called regardless. Ironically I did get called to one from my county just last week!
It is federal court, the district is half* the size of Texas so you might get to "attend".
Ok so not half but maybe a quarter.
Whoa, wasn't aware there was a difference, lol. Anyways, I never get lucky... I've been called to jury duty 5x so far... all 5x I got sent home... always depresses me... if I'm stuck there for 6+ hours they could at least let it be for something, =S.
July 25, 2013, 10:59:50 AM
Was this a ponzi scheme aimed at luring in investors or lenders for a real or fake mining company, or something else? I don't know what his 'company' is.
Grab a beer and start here.Based on that thread, he sucked in a lot of people that I wouldn't have thought would fall for his BS. But then again, when I first came to this forum theymos had an ad for a Ponzi in his sig line.
July 25, 2013, 10:44:00 AM
Was this a ponzi scheme aimed at luring in investors or lenders for a real or fake mining company, or something else? I don't know what his 'company' is.
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