Topic: MicroGuy - claiming to be a "friend of Satoshi" in order to promote his altcoin (Read 526 times)

The issue has already been resolved in the most positive way possible.

If you guys want to drone on about conspiracy theories, do it in your own thread(s).

More interestingly NotATether's trust list looks totally based on some conspiracy too me and aimed towards having DT Crawling up motives. It even seems odd to see just 5 months of journey here taught NotATether too much about creating a biased trust list. Looks like an alt of somebody here who likes walls of text !

Intresting !

Before we look at the one being accused/attacked, perhaps it would be better if we look at who the accusers are:

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MicroGuy doesn't appear to be one to carry issues against others:


while interestingly enough "notatether" seems to have cranked up their trust DT trust list just to game MicroGuy (and a few others):

Isn't this the same guy that got a ton of alts from cryptsy and gave them back for free to their communities?

Doesn't strike me as a scammer or untrustworthy at all.

Gold coin is less of a scam than 99.99% of alts. Not that I would waste any bitcoin on it but still was never scam.
Guy is a crypto enthusiast 100% more than the chipmixer spammers here to milk the board pushing double standards.  

Probably done more for crypto and is more known in crypto than everyone else on DT with a couple of exceptions

Care to expand on this? I'd be happy to help correct your misunderstanding(s).

So far so good! Great to hear from you, hope you are well old friend.

You really are an idiot, nutildah. 

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Hi @MicroGuy - How're they hanging?  Stayin' Safe during the Covid Lockdown?

Flag Opposed.

Just be aware of the fine line between education and indoctrination.  You are welcome to your opinions, however nutty I might find them, but be careful about how you express them.  Particularly when it comes to topics around satoshi.

Thanks. I've never made any knowingly false claims on this forum and I've never scammed anyone in this industry. Nice to see flags and feedback being updated after due diligence is done.

A good bulk of my work in cryptocurrency has been educating and helping others. One example was our Cryptsy Community Relief Project where we returned billions of coins to communities who lost funds after the exchange hack.

https://www.goldcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3789.0

And of course, my opinions are just that. But I see no reason to begin each sentence with "In my opinion." That should be assumed by the reader.

Having considered it carefully for the last few hours, I'm going to replace the negative feedback with a neutral one.  I'm still deeply suspicious and don't find your recent behaviour in any way trustworthy, but with regard to the author of that blog post, it does appear to be a case of your word versus theirs. 

This blog post was addressed in 2013 by our then lead developer in the following thread:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.3289325

The blog author was a serial coin creator who made coins in direct competition with Goldcoin.

And what about the issues raised here?  I'll be willing to edit my trust rating regarding your withdrawn claims about satoshi, but I'll need to see some very convincing evidence that your altcoin is not a scam before I can consider removing the negative trust.

Thank you. I apologize for my error and will work on better researching future statements.

Thanks for your honesty and quick resolution. Because you have demonstrated a willingness to be reasonable I am removing support for the flag as it was based on this claim.


I tried to tell you in the other thread that posting two posts in a row isn't allowed. Simply edit your last post with your new thoughts to avoid them being deleted.

If you have ever moderated a thread in that sub-forum, you'd understand. No one in the community is being censored. Would love to have the staff here review the deletions and make them available. Most of them were from a character calling himself GreatOrchid and creating multiple accounts.

(fyi, I've had three of my posts deleted on this forum this week. and none of them were warranted.)

Damn! And the stats shown in the deletions are only from the time Theymos Announced self-moderated topic statistics. The number of deleted replies must be way more than that provided the thread has been over 6 years old 

It's true I was claiming to be friends with Satoshi on the P2P Foundation website.

However, after spending a few hours today researching the hacking episode that occurred in 2014, I've learned that most likely his account was hacked several months before he added me as a friend later that same year.



https://p2pfoundation.ning.com/friends/SatoshiNakamoto

In light of these facts, I have unfriended Satoshi Nakamoto on the P2P Foundation website and stand corrected.

I knew goldcoin was scammy, but dammmnnnn. I didn't previously know the full scope of it.

Yeah, never trusted the guy after seeing the amount of censorship on his shitty altcoin thread - currently 661 posts by 22 users deleted.

China has less censorship. Syscoin not though.....lol

Edit: I have withdrawn the flag and no longer support it; see here for details.

MicroGuy is a long-time member of the forum (since 2013) who has primarily promoted Goldcoin (GLC) through the history of his years at the forum. He hasn't been active much this year, but came back in mid April to start promoting an update to Goldcoin.

On April 23rd, he made this post, which is now deleted, but this is an archived copy of the post:


He repeated this claim in a few different posts - including one in the Goldcoin thread - and deleted all of them, but he continues to post about it on Twitter; in this example he is defending himself from the negative trusts recently placed on his account:



I notice he's also mentioned it in various other Goldcoin groups to his followers, which makes it all the more obvious that he is using his supposed "connection" to Satoshi in order to promote Goldcoin (which he has been heavily invested in for a number of years - here is a good background story on the matter).

So, is there a chance that the real Satoshi actually added MicroGuy (Greg Matthews) on P2P Foundation?

The answer is no. We know:

1. Greg Matthews wasn't "added" by Satoshi until sometime between Oct. 22nd and Dec. 23rd 2014, which can be verified by looking at the linked web archives of this page, when Satoshi's friend count jumps from 2 to 12.

2. This is years after Satoshi had gone totally silent. The last communication from Satoshi was in 2011 when he famously communicated to Mike Hearn that he "had moved on to other things."

3. Satoshi's P2P Foundation account was hacked* in early September 2014, and on September 9th the hacker posted a message using Satoshi's account on the P2P Foundation forum:

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/satoshi-nakamotos-account-hacked/2014/09/09

The hacker then left a Pastebin post saying he would release his data on Satoshi if 25 BTC was sent to his address, and even threatened theymos on the same day.

Given the contents of the P2P Foundation post, it is quite obvious that it was not the Satoshi who was in control of the account in September 2014, and therefore it was not the Satoshi who added Greg Matthews (MicroGuy) in October-December 2014.

TL;DR: MicroGuy made a false claim that he was friends with Satoshi Nakamoto, who he says "friended" him on the P2P Foundation forum, in order to attempt to pump Goldcoin.

Because this behavior is highly untrustworthy, I think people should be warned against investing in Goldcoin on a false premise that he was actually acquaintances with Satoshi (he was not). I have opened a flag on MicroGuy which is here.

*it could very well be that the [email protected] address had simply expired and the "hacker" re-registered it, performed a password reset on Satoshi's P2P Foundation account, and logged into it - in which case technically nothing was "hacked" - somebody will have to correct me if this is wrong... This might have originally taken place before March 7, 2014, as that was the date that the "I am not Dorian Nakamoto" message was also left by whoever was in control of Satoshi's account at the time. What is clear is that whoever had it by September 2014 was NOT Satoshi.