My apologies, I had not seen that document. Although my criticism does stand with regards to your lack of calling out anyone involved in the yobit campaign..
Thanks for reading it. I have no recollection of you criticizing me about anything involving yobit...I think you might be confusing me with someone else, or I just don't remember. I don't even really know what happened with yobit other than they used to shit post like crazy.
Elsewhere in the deposition, transaction histories of all the account holders accounts are mentioned, but are not attached to the document. If you can find an account history of OgN's BS&T account, the last withdrawal(s) can be cross referenced to the blockchain (if the txid is not listed), and I will consider the probability if OgN actually received the withdrawal or not.
About half the interest payments and divestment transactions were made from OGs main
address. He didn't receive any large amounts after August 2.
If the feds seized any of Pirates
BTC we could probably track them the say way we did with Silk Road Coins and work backwards.
It was suggested by pirate40's lawyer that some pass-through 'lenders' were scammed by pass-through operators, although the article I read did not mention him offering evidence to support this.
If Pirate made a few big refunds to pass-through operators in the middle of the collapse, it would provide an ideal situation to scam a bunch of money for each operator.
The document you provided was a deposition of pirate40, who for obvious reasons is not the most reliable person. He also contradicted himself on the following page in where he testified to compared to what he told an SEC investigator via telephone previously. He testified that he first gave priority to new account holders, and then prioritized his long standing accounts, but he previously only said that he prioritized his long standing accounts.
At this point, Pirate lying about returning the funds is by far the most likely scenario that ends in Og being not being a thief. And it's easy to just say 'oh he wasn't trustworthy, OG is, so pirate must be the one lying'. But
the transcript is pretty convincing, Og won't address it, and I don't see what motivation Pirate would have to lie about returning what looks to be ~
BTC800 to OgNasty and only a few others. You could argue he was trying to look nice or just get the number he scammed down I guess.
Probably the biggest red flag is how cagey Og has been about the whole thing. It doesn't make sense if he's innocent. When he's tried to defend himself it's always a vague, weak or not relevant argument. Refuses to answer any direct question. While we have solid, easily accessible proof that from May through July all his investors were making good money and being payed promptly. Why aren't there any details of how the whole thing ended? He's obviously capable of keeping records and being transparent. It's possible there's a valid reason...why not just tell us?
If he's guilty, he's probably wary about saying anything that could be disproven at some point in the future, and the truth doesn't make him look good. The vague deflection and insults would make a lot of sense .
Not saying any of this stuff proves he's 100% guilty, btw. Just pointing out what I consider pretty big red flags.
I also reviewed posts of some others that pirate40 claimed to have paid in full, however, some never made any mention of pirate40, btc4domains
posted that he lost money in the pirate ponzi,
brendio posted multiple times that he had not received anything from pirate40, coin_toss tried to
sell his BS&T account after he would have received payment. Imsaguy seems to imply that he was expecting a payout for his
pass through, but it is unclear if he ever received a withdrawal, he did say in late August 2012 that he had not received anything.
I'll look into these too. I've already sent a few pms out to investors who may have answers.
I am a bit more interested in the extent to which posts might have been deleted in terms of OGNasty's own back and forth communications, which seems to be what Twitchy asserted to have happened within a short period of Twitchy's attempted investigation into some of the possible factual matters. In that regard, I had thought that there should be way back machines or something like that that would establish if Twitch's assertion about OGNasty engaging in shredding would be true.. and then furthermore, a way to see the contents of the shredding attempts without having to rely upon any forum administrator's possible abilities to access such contents.
Am I naive to believe that there are way back machines that would capture the contents of forum post shredding attempts. There are guys (and perhaps a gal or two) who are way the hell better at using those kinds of interwebs tools than me... to the extent such tools might exist.
It looks like I was wrong about him deleting posts from that thread. It's possible I saw the long OP get deleted and for some reason though it was actually deleted posts, or it could have been in another thread. It looks like all he did was delete the entire OP and lock the thread. So, yeah, I was wrong about that and apologize to OG for making that claim.
I'm seriously not out on a Witch Hunt here and If I find anything that exonerates him or something I that makes him look 'less bad' I would post it for sure.
For anyone that is behind, please read
this post, and then
this post if you want to catch up.