From earlier in the thread:
*Putting my paranoid hat on*
What if this is all a big nothing, conspired by Matthew to steal all our coins? He gets BTC from advertisers, and from people pre-ordering the magazine. It's fairly easy to make good-looking headlines and cover pages if one knows their way around photoshop. It could be one very elaborate scam!
*Takes paranoid hat off*
BUT, I don't believe it is. Just something interesting to think about, especially given the history of various Bitcoin entrepreneurs.
SgtSpike is right. We could easily be a scam trying to get mailing addresses and real names of bitcoiners. And even if we're not, the security of that confidential data is extremely important is it not? Now rather than put all this on my shoulders at this moment (usually Vladimir handles our security) I will say that if you are ordering through e-Mail, your e-mail is only seen by myself, Mihai Alisie, and Google documents servers. If you are ordering through Bit-pay, it is only seen by me and Tony of Bit-pay. That should be enough but I understand if a security and anonymity conscious community requires more from me. I am absolutely all ears on this one. Any advice?
Bbit (although surely jesting) is wrong. I am not going anywhere. I enjoy trolling low standards far too much to ever leave the world of Bitcoin. I also have shared my personal, banking, address, etc information with 50+ individuals in our organization, the Digital Commerce Advancement Organization (
http://dcao.org). So if I ever did something stupid, Vladimir Marchenko, Ken Armitt, Zhou Tong, Arthur Britto, Roger Ver, Stefan Thomas, Charlie Shrem, Jay Shore, Erik Vorhees, Mihai Alisie, Nuri hodges, Slush, Steven Wagner, 40+ others would not only know where I live, but they'd know exactly how to hurt me the most.
So, who are these 50+ individuals with whom Matthew has shared his personal information? Do any of them know the current status of Matthew and the magazine?
I'm not ready to throw in the towel yet, but if this was a scam, it was certainly the most elaborate and believable scam I've seen so far.
