Zach was the tech guy/coder. Trendon is about as good at coding as he is at day trading..
What was he good at? Being charismatic?
Scamming, it seems. Not good at evading the punishment for it, though.
Topic: Find Trendon Shavers in person thread... [BTCST, BTS&T, pirateat40] - page 8. (Read 81238 times)
August 15, 2013, 12:13:11 PM
What was he good at? Being charismatic?
Scamming, it seems. Not good at evading the punishment for it, though.
August 15, 2013, 12:06:17 PM
Zach was the tech guy/coder. Trendon is about as good at coding as he is at day trading..
What was he good at? Being charismatic?
August 15, 2013, 05:52:11 AM
Zach was the tech guy/coder. Trendon is about as good at coding as he is at day trading..
August 14, 2013, 08:20:44 PM
My guess is they got a backup of his database from Zach in a plea deal.
This is a pretty decent guess seeing how Zach isn't named.
Remind me again. Who is Zach?
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Austin/gpumax-technologies-llc/101278778.aspx
Ah one of the two partners. Is it confirmed they're actually his partners? Also, why just Zach and not Mike Thalasinos?
August 14, 2013, 06:17:05 AM
My guess is they got a backup of his database from Zach in a plea deal.
This is a pretty decent guess seeing how Zach isn't named.
Remind me again. Who is Zach?
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Austin/gpumax-technologies-llc/101278778.aspx
Ah one of the two partners. Is it confirmed they're actually his partners? Also, why just Zach and not Mike Thalasinos?
August 14, 2013, 04:59:18 AM
My guess is they got a backup of his database from Zach in a plea deal.
This is a pretty decent guess seeing how Zach isn't named.
Remind me again. Who is Zach?
http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Austin/gpumax-technologies-llc/101278778.aspx
August 14, 2013, 04:41:20 AM
My guess is they got a backup of his database from Zach in a plea deal.
This is a pretty decent guess seeing how Zach isn't named.
Remind me again. Who is Zach?
August 13, 2013, 07:43:03 PM
My guess is they got a backup of his database from Zach in a plea deal.
This is a pretty decent guess seeing how Zach isn't named.
August 13, 2013, 08:52:44 AM
re thread title -- Mr Shavers arguably has been found in person by now. Thread can be closed. 
August 13, 2013, 05:45:55 AM
Hopefully. And it wouldn't be bad to see the SEC investigating also the very well known "hero" members that gave Trevor credibility and promoted his ponzi by running PTs and such...
Totally agree with this, even though some of them might already have been punished pretty bad...
Here are the top ending account balances from: http://ia600904.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.txed.146063/gov.uscourts.txed.146063.4.8.pdf
payb.tc 150.501
gigavps 45.783
hashking 45.680
onefixt 39.781
copumpkin 37.936 (received 10.5% weekly interest for some reason)
goat 35.864
imsaguy 35.064
brightanarchist 30.486 (funny username)
PatrickHarnett 29.140
rpac_internet 27.998
rix2000 25.100
bitcoinbaltar 25.501
brendio 25.000
btc4domains 21.420
PxJem7Cj 20.000
reeses 17.682
bwagner 13.500
ineededausername 9.275
Yeah sure, some of these were Pass-Throughs, but still I am sure some took some heavy losses here.
I hope you don't imply that all of those were promoting him and/or ran a pass-though..
A lot of them were.
August 10, 2013, 12:52:13 PM
My guess is they got a backup of his database from Zach in a plea deal.
August 10, 2013, 11:02:06 AM
I'm guessing the Internet Archive has an account here and this is where they are pulling the documents from:
http://www.pacer.gov/
http://www.pacer.gov/
"Public Access to Court Electronic Records"
"Access to PACER systems will generate an $.10 per page charge"
PFFFT enjoy your Kafka court system where you can go to jail and you can't even see the evidence used against you in court.
August 10, 2013, 10:54:10 AM
They can't. I presume Trendon opened up the books.
It's also possible they just confiscated the btcst.com server/database, that should hold all account-balance info they need.
I'm talking about the blockchain analysis graph from a few pages back, not just the list.
August 10, 2013, 09:57:09 AM
Pretty sure he was running his entire thing off of excel spreadshits.
Every investor had (as far as I know) the possibility to login to btcst.com to view their account balance and interest rates, so even though he initially might started off using Excel, he eventually moved to an automated system.
August 10, 2013, 06:17:31 AM
If I would do omething really illegal such as running a Ponzi, there is not a chance in hell I'd use anything but my own physical server which would physically be at my disposal to burn.
If he would have run the server from his basement (for example) its IP address would have revealed his location and home address easily, so there are drawbacks to that too.
Pretty sure he was running his entire thing off of excel spreadshits. Like this idiot.
August 09, 2013, 07:53:19 PM
...every hosting provider holds backups of its customers data.
Next you'll be telling me to invest in 7% return financial instruments.
August 09, 2013, 07:50:32 PM
Well Trendon Shavers is officially fooked! The SEC nabbed him today
https://www.sec.gov/servlet/Satellite/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539730583#.Ue6-II2sh8G
https://www.sec.gov/servlet/Satellite/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539730583#.Ue6-II2sh8G
Great... thats some news... lets hope this leads to less scams in bitcoin world. Its needed for sure.
Nice news, Looks like he will come back from jail after 40 lol
Maybe he'll post from jail?
New account: inmate@40
August 09, 2013, 07:40:18 PM
If I would do omething really illegal such as running a Ponzi, there is not a chance in hell I'd use anything but my own physical server which would physically be at my disposal to burn.
If he would have run the server from his basement (for example) its IP address would have revealed his location and home address easily, so there are drawbacks to that too.
August 09, 2013, 07:34:23 PM
If I would do omething really illegal such as running a Ponzi, there is not a chance in hell I'd use anything but my own physical server which would physically be at my disposal to burn.
August 09, 2013, 07:28:53 PM
They can confiscate all they want, if Shavers would have wanted the data to be gone, it certainly would have been. I mean it's not exactly rocket science to use a shredder.
I'm not so sure about that, for such a low-traffic site its much more likely he used shared-hosting (or a VPS) instead of his own dedicated server, and every hosting provider holds backups of its customers data. So even if he quickly deleted everything, that company would be able to provide the SEC with a recent backup.
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