Topic: Is Theymos anonymous? - page 2. (Read 7366 times)

True and at reddit. But over all I don't think he has abused his power (in any significant way that i know of) and we all fuck up here and again.

He is just a kid with a lot of power (over the forum) and now a lot of wealth (in real life).

Clearly his moral actions have been questioned in the past but over all I think he does a pretty good job considering. I think he tries to do good but it does not always work out that way. I understand that guy.

But still I think my point about "default trust" being confusing at best is valid.





Hi, welcome from reddit!

http://www.benzinga.com/tech/13/05/3563567/meet-the-22-most-important-people-behind-bitcoin#15.-michael-marquardt-(@theymos)

do you guys talking about thermos?  

I'm all for respecting privacy. Pretty much everyone one here will agree unless someone scams.

I'm not a sociable guy. There are few people in the Bitcoin community who I have any sort of casual relationship with. AFAIK, I've met a grand total of two forum users AFK.

Your misunderstanding of how the trust system works is one reason why you are not in DefaultTrust.

Unless he hands out blowjobs while off duty there is no fuckin way this site generates that kind of revenue. Esp per week. That's the dumbest thing I've heard anyone ever say. Don't go around telling people that.

I don't see any doubleclick tags in the site serving me a premium ad. I barely see any ads. And they aren't ads tracked in the traditional fashion (CPM/CPC/affiliate/ etc).  Simple plain HTML ads with an external link. This cannot generate the amount of ad revenue you claim.

And even if he is making bank good for him. Stop
Hating.

No offense, but your statements say otherwise. Hint:


And so 90% of the internet, also you have no understanding of XSS. Can you please stop posting your "expert" opinions please? Because that's simply dumb.

Also Theymos was doxed, google it.

I'm not a security expert, but if Theymos did want to be untrustworthy, it seems like he's in a better position to do harm than a lot of people:

-Bitcointalk uses Javascript. It is well known that a lot of members here will be on bitcointalk and on their favorite web wallet site at the same time. There may be some XSS opportunity here, though as I said I'm not an expert.

-There are some small % of newb/dumb bitcointalk forum members who probably use a similar password on bitcointalk and on their favorite web wallet. It seems possible that Theymos could somehow get access to people's bitcointalk passwords if he wanted, giving him or his friends a huge password cracking advantage over a random person.

A few small bits of info that I found mildly concerning, and caused me to be curious about Theymos:

-Theymos seems to have been a defender/supporter of TradeFortress. It's possible that they are friends, but I'm not sure. The circumstances around 1 million dollars disappearing from TradeFortress's inputs.io business suggest that TradeFortress may be very shady.

-There are a lot of people on reddit who pop up with stories about how funds were stolen from their hot wallets because they didn't have 2-factor authentication, and they describe having pretty complex passwords. It's somewhat of a mystery how their passwords are being cracked.

-The fact that Theymos allegedly raised like $600k for this forum, yet the forum is not that good technically, is sort of weird and makes me wonder how much of that was actually spent on the forum.

I'm not saying we should suspect Theymos of any nefarious activities, but the above is just why I care more about Theymos's trust level than I care about a random user's.

 

but i have to say to never test the doj/fbi/cia/nsa. they will shred you! i've seen them pull some very elaborate schemes. you're only safe in russia and china. you cannot fight the doj/gov. they will own you.

First of all no software development was done here.

When it comes to fine tuning the performance

if i can sustain a single website on 33 server cluster running a custom build of gentoo, with 14 billion monthly pageviews with occasional influxes of DDOS saturating an entire OC192, on a super strict budget, then by god one can sustain this fucking site for less than 2BTC/mo.

Anyway, lemme backtrack to your idiotic statement. Full time IT guy to manage things? sure, if he's a retard. the guys that do the real, serious work are the core linux kernel developers, and those are extreme geeks. the kind you can respect. too bad there aren't enough of them.

@OP passwords are usually md5/sha1 encrypted with these forum scripts,

put faith and trust in your intuition.

and use pgp when sending PMs discussing sketchy shit. the fbi could be lurking inside. the integrity of things is always questionable.