With sentences like:
- "Cryptsy has had problems for some time now and it’s time to let everybody know exactly why." (Cryptsy has problems. ie. not taking responsibility)
- "These problems were NOT because of any recent phishing attacks, or even a ddos attack, nor does it have anything to do with me personally." (nothing to do with me personally. I swear...)
- "About a year and a half ago, we were alerted in the early AM of a reduction in our safe/cold wallet balances of Bitcoin and Litecoin, as well as a couple other smaller cryptocurrencies." (why the word choice of "reduction"? Why use that instead of "theft"? Next time I get robbed at gun point, I'll tell the cop that I was alerted to a reduction in money stored in my leather wallet and see what they say.)
- The decision was made to pull from our profits to fill these wallets back up over time, thus attempting to avert complete closure of the website at that time. (Oh a decision was made... By who Paul? You can't take responsibility for making the decision?)
- It wasn’t until an article from Coinfire came out that contained many false accusations that things began to crumble. The article basically caused a bank-run, and since we only had so much in reserves for those currencies problems began. (So, it's coinfire's fault... Ok. Starting to get it I think...)
- As you can see, 2014-07-29 13:17:36 is when the event occurred. (Ok so now we call it: "the event"?!? Again, why not "theft"?)
- In fact, I’m offering a bounty of 1000 BTC for information which leads to the recovery of the stolen coins. (Ok, so you can offer bounties, but you can't talk about anything negative in reference to yourself?)
The way this guy writes is amazing. He just can't take any ownership or responsibility at all, and he wants the community to do all the work to get him his coins back and save his business. This guy has real balls.
Hell, thanks to our efforts, we found over 556 more bitcoins reduced from Cryptsy during the event, with possibly a 1700 BTC more reduction, and Paul Vernon has yet to thank those responsible for finding them, yet we're to believe that he'll honor a 1000 BTC reward. What a fuckin' asshole!