Sebastian- with all due respect, you are wrong. James has made token payments of less than 10% of the cash value that is owed out there, and has now conceived this convenient "double payment" storyline to cover for why he is not taking further action. He is just trying to find the balls to make off with the rest and deciding if it is enough to live a life on the run. The only name that matters is James McCarthy. Who he may have sent payments to or not is irrelevant and not an excuse for holding anyone's money. Just as it is equally wrong for the other GLBSE/BitcoinGlobal owners to hold the money that they have and not make refunds with it.
Where is this 10% from? I heard several times that someone got payments over 100 or 200btc back. I believe deadterra was one of them. Of course it would be wise to pay one or two trustworthy members a bigger amount so that the community can be convinced that he is paying back. But at the end... he only had 8000BTC in users money. Thats $80000. And when he paid back 10% of it already its only $70000. So would you really run with this amount of money? When you have a family you have to feed? I mean thats nothing when you want to start a new live somewhere far out. You buy a small house and have to work because the rest of the money would be gone in some months feeding the family. On top you wouldnt be anonymous there. I mean how could you ship a family to another country without leaving trails? So no, i doubt that he will scam the people for this amount of money. I mean he got a yearly salary of $40000 as glbse ceo. Plus on top the earning coming from his shares as shareholder of glbse. So no, it doesnt make much sense to me to be pleased running with that amount of money. If he would be some schoolkid, running his first ponzi ok, but not a familyman with responsibility for wife and kids.
Anyway... his lack of communication... and only coming buy to insert an excuse why not paying back further looks the same way like ponzis closing look. Thats right. And i would love when someone would go talk with him. Regardless if on phone or personally.
I think James should stop using any remaining unreturned funds as an excuse for not putting asset-issuers and their users in contact with one another. until he does that, he has no credibility whatsoever. He's hardly in a position to take the moral high ground over unreturned funds when he's the one who is holding information which has nothing to do with his overpayment fuck-up hostage.
Youre right. Unfortunately i think that he thinks if he gives back the assets he has nothing in the hand anymore to supress the double payments back. So he fears that he will have to pay it himself what he wont do. Because of that my conclusion is that the majority of double payment has to get back before he will move forward. Sad but true for me.
And if 3/4 of the overpayments have been returned then GLBSE should now have sufficient funds to make the remaining payments - they can do it out of the already returned overpayments and their own reserves. James is the one trying to pressure people, not the reverse.. He is the one who loses if those funds aren't returned because there'll be no funds left to pay his salary/lawyer/weed bill/whatever. He's acting out of pure self-interest here.
Yes. Its lowlife to keep all hostage. And he is doing it out of fear that he will get financially hurt in any way. Because that would be a problem for him and his family. And thats the reason why i dont think that he will scam at the end. His family is on the line. And if he cares about it he wont make moves risking there anything. So he now thinks the best way to get out mostly unharmed is the way he is doing it now.
Naming and shaming people who haven't returned over-payments doesn't prove that they are holding the money of other users. Nefario could only prove that by giving a complete financial accounting of BTC on hand and amounts still owed to users and I doubt there's anyone here who would trust any numbers he published because there's absolutely no way to verify them - he's not even letting the other shareholders verify what he's doing and could be paying his friends triple what they're owed for all you know.
*lol* Dont say me that you got a doublepayment and dont want to return it.
Its useless to search justifications for not paying back double payments. And i hope nefario moves fast. If he let it lay like it is now this would show he has no interest of clearing the double payment issue and is using it as an excuse.
All Nefario's SuperSekrit Stalled Until Further Notice repayment plan is likely to do is piss people off enough that they'll rain down upon him the very kind of legal problems he hoped to avoid by closing down GLBSE in the first place.
Im sure he knows that. And i think he thinks too short here not to act more like a honest businessman. He thinks paying too much is his worse problem... he should realize that he could get sued fast. And that this is his biggest problem.