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That's not at all what we said, we were pointing out that your UABB and school looked like fraudulent institutions, and that people shouldn't trust you.

The Bitcoin community should thank us for taking a step back from our occasional joking or sarcastic posting to help the other members see what a scumbag you are.

Too bad you lacked certain expertise in verifying that the university you were attending held proper accreditation.

I don't understand, are you saying that the people who got your vanity page deleted from Wikipedia were Internet trolls, or that the people who wrote the page were trolls?

IMO your ideas are too centralized and look too much like grabs for power and fame, specially with all the fancy sounding titles and faux corporate management-speak. Decentralized, open, all-inclusive systems with no bullshit would be far more trustworthy, but wouldn't offer any personal gain.

Hey, Matt. I would have put a link to where to donate after you wrote this:


I'm one who likes to take humor a tad further.

http://www.edustem.com/mwright.kr/presidents_welcome.php

Love your school's website - Lots of seals on there, like the US Department of Education and a bunch of accreditation groups, each with an asterisk next to them and some fine print saying you aren't accredited by them.

I hope the Korean government catches on to your "school" and "other business ventures" and either jails or deports you, you scammy fuck.

Thank you kindly for the further insight of yourself. I truly appreciate the following:

Just read the first sentence and starting laughing for I thought I was going to read "It's ironic-- I put up the avatar to be more transparent, now everybody wants me to put it back up." Going back now to read the full post.

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First off, why did you take down your avatar? Surely you didn't bow down due to the rhetoric on this forum. I just read your credentials provided by Taxlow. I want to state that you are at least a hundred times smarter than I am, regardless of where your degrees came from. As you've probably read, and put the pieces together, I was defending the attack on you and, moreover, your start-up--UABB. I was reading so many other attacks on this forum, as well as the name calling (poor trolls), that I guess I reached my tipping point and decided to take a stand. UABB just happened to be the flavor of the hour then, hence the posting of the this thread and poll. Not in my wildest dreams did I think it would be this long. But in a sense, I'm glad it is. I've learned a hell of lot during the course of this thread (and I'm not talking about what I've learned in regards to you) and, from what you've written here and on other threads, so have you.

So, here's where I stand. If I can offer up any help to your endeavor(s) that are for the betterment of Bitcoin, I would do it in a heartbeat. If you F up on a personal level, you won't hear a peep out of me stating such. If you F up to point of Bitcoin being involved, I'm screaming from the highest South Korean peak, provided you help me get a passport. Give me a holler if you feel I can help you. And maybe, just maybe, heed some of the advice offered up by the members here. True, some are jerks, but the ones that aren't--WOW! They're there for you, me and the Bitcoin community as a whole.

I'm not sure how that shows he's a fraud, if anything it seems pretty consistent with the story he's told here unless I've missed something.

Wow. Just... wow.

Well, to his credit at least he seems to have gotten rid of that unfathomably douchey avatar photo.

My cousin wouldn't use it...the fun of the manic phase outweighed the misery of the depressive phase to him.  He died in the street a few years ago.

Each of us can only do his own research and in the end make up his own mind about Matt's efforts. Matt definitely is a boiling pot of boundless energy, optimism and seems to care about Bitcoin. My opinion is that he does have sincerity on some level and a grand unfocused vision in which "details" get in the way (or he's BAT SHIT CRAZY, I can't tell).

Sometimes those "details" are things like having money in the bank before promising it -- putting the cart before the horse. Sometimes those details are things like telling the entire community you WILL fly to West Indies to take care of the MyBitcoin issue, then pulling back to say you're offering to do so for donations, then sliding further back to say you won't do it at all. I don't think its nefarious but such details have a bad way of biting you in the ass. It's hard, and goodness knows I fail at this one enough, but think before you speak.

I'm sorta rooting for him to come through since it looks like he's in personal turmoil. We all have multiple parts to our personalities; we're not JUST a plumber but maybe we also create stained glass pieces at night; we're not JUST a lawyer but also participate in a Rugby league on weekends. But Matt's like a Freudian id geyser, spraying unfocused creativity all over the place; between U.S. and Korea, starting schools, running a 20,000+ GPU farm, joining police forces, living the YouTube rock star lifestyle (his YouTube account is found easily enough), herding Bitcoin cats via the UBB, being an artist, filmmaker, his YouTube / Facebook / Twitter accounts and whatever the other 900 projects are. Somehow he doesn't look more than 22. If he manages to channel all of this into one or 2 finished projects it could well be of benefit, and he does seem determined, though I think his plans could be too scattered to get to the finish line.

Time will tell. I see 2 paths ahead: he either learns to tone down the arrogance and channel the energy into some interesting finalized projects; or he continues to spiral off into insanity with 1000 projects that never come to fruition because the "unwashed masses" are so ignorant. This may just be a matter of him needing to grow up a little.

My advice to Matt is:
1) You're obviously intelligent and learning new things comes easier to you than it does to many others. You struggle with this gift because others mostly don't possess it -- and that just irritates the hell out of you. This gift is a double-edged sword. You squander it by looking down on those who don't have it. Ease off on your arrogance. You're smart but there is always someone in the world smarter and/or more talented than you. Until you do learn to temper your ego, look into finding a marketing person to be the "voice" of your organizations.
2) Like every good writer knows: show, don't tell. Don't tell us all the wonderful things you're going to do for Korea, for Bitcoin, for the world; it makes you sound manic. Instead go focus quietly on those goals. When you achieve them, then come shout it to the world. You'll receive all the glory and praise you crave.

There ya go! Let's start BitCynicsR.Us, we'll make millions I tell ya! lol

Oh you cynic...

Same here

I'll back those conditions too. But I wouldn't bet any money on it at this point in the game.

If it was just a pipe dream, it might be OK.

But there are signs that he might be one of those MLM style con artist (title dropping, inflated credentials, verbose/flowery speech), better to make everybody aware than for him to gather a following and therefore influence to cause damage.

I mean there are lots of people who are trying to start things related to Bitcoin, there's got to be some reason why we aren't tearing into those


But if Michael hankers down, do the real work and shows actual results instead of just talk, without trying to center power on himself or his organisation, I'll be man enough to post publicly and say I was mistaken about him and he's done a good thing.

At this point I have not seen anything that suggests to me that this UABB thing is anything more than a pipe dream at this stage. The part I don't get is why people seem to care so much about discrediting this Wright guy by trying to find flaws in his purported life story. Why give him the attention he seems to crave? Likely as not the "project" will just fizzle out on its own. Even if people like the idea otherwise, Wright's public relations skills are so unprofessional it's not even funny.

OK! Here's where I stand. When I started this thread, I saw, in my mind's eye, a new Bitcoin related service being kicked around like there's no tomorrow. I didn't have all the facts, of which I have now been provided, thanks to the kind contributors of this thread (and elsewhere). Maybe, if something like https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/all-things-considered-34399 was available, I wouldn't have chimed in so quickly. I offer no apologies, and will not diss Matt over at UABB (for it's not my nature). But, I do want to thank you all, once again, for providing me relative information and, moreover, not dissing me, with the exception of this one SOB who I'm goin' to tear him new a**hole (only kidding).