Topic: Butterfly Labs Ordered Foam Pitchforks to Mock Customers (Read 1149 times)

Giving all of us in Missouri a bad name.  About time they moved on this lame duck company though.  Completely ridiculous.

This is very similar to what a law firm in FL that handled foreclosures for banks did. They had a Halloween party when employees would dress up as the kind of situations that people would routinely complain about. I believe a lot of people dressed up as owners who were claiming to have not gotten served with foreclosure papers right after the process server confirmed they were served. Another example was people dressing up as squatters who were living in abandoned houses.

This just gets better and better....

According to the latest documents filed in US District Court, FTC lawyers allege that not only did Butterfly Labs engage in deceptive business practices and use pre-sold machines to mine bitcoins, employees went so far as to order custom foam pitchforks to mock their frustrated customers. Helen Wong, an FTC attorney wrote to the court:

"Further demonstrating Defendants’ disregard for their customers, they used corporate funds to make and mass order red foam pitchforks mocking their own customers, emblazoned with the words, “BFL is late! Y U NO SHIP!”

Last week, a federal judge shut down Butterfly Labs, a Missouri-based firm that manufactures specialized computers for mining bitcoins, alleging fraud and criminal wrongdoing within the company.

Today, the judge extended the restraining order until Friday to give both sides time to agree on a plan for reopening the notorious bitcoin business. He also appointed U.S. Magistrate John Maughmer to mediate the discussions, which are ongoing.

Bitcoin is a new currency that was released in 2009 by a person (or group) using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Transactions are decentralized and require no middle man. More and more merchants are beginning to accept the currency as it gains traction with the mainstream.

Nakamoto vanished into thin air in early 2010 with over 1 million bitcoins he mined while controlling the majority of the bitcoin network's hashpower.

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