The jealousy I’ve encountered for holding that position alone has been so toxic, I would welcome others joining me in that responsibility at this point. It would feel like a target has been taken off my back.
I don't think it is jealousy. I think some people believe you are willing to take money off the top when you are holding money for others, because that is exactly what they do, and they want part of that action.
When it was well known I was holding a large amount of money on behalf of someone else, I received extortion threats asking for the exact amount I was holding, even though it had been well known I personally owed an even larger number of coins at the time.
It is my belief that these people believe you will be willing to part ways with money you are holding for other people and the "jealousy" you are seeing is actually a setup for an extortion attempt, if you have not already received extortion threats for the amount of money you are holding.
The people who are saying that Theymos should switch to multi sig are secretly trying to extort the forum funds from OG? Please explain how that would work when multiple people need to sign the signature.
OgN currently holds the only key to the 500 BTC he is holding for the forum, and there have not been any serious calls for forum funds to be held in a multisig address. What is being said about OgN is not unlike what was said about zeroaxl before he was extorted. The primary difference is that zeroaxl was privately accused of a bunch of BS, while OgN is being publicly accused of the same.
No I am not, that is exactly what you said. Regarding the whole Xeroxal extortion, it was stated up front that financial gain was not the incentive. Even Xeroxal said that he believes it was done with "good intent" (which doesn't mean that it wasn't a bad move).
OgN currently holds the only key to the 500 BTC he is holding for the forum, and there have not been any serious calls for forum funds to be held in a multisig address.
Yes there have, many times. Cobra addressed it back in 2014:
Has anything been done to make sure that in the event of another treasurer's death, their BTC also won't be lost?
It was suggested in 2014 after Paraipan disappeared/died:
It sounds like a good idea to me.
According to this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/forum-funds-155000, the forum fund is currently held by 5 persons (incl. paraipan) and theymos.
What about putting the forum fund in several 2-of-3 addresses (3 parties being Treasurer 1, Treasurer 2 and theymos).
According to this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/forum-funds-155000, the forum fund is currently held by 5 persons (incl. paraipan) and theymos.
What about putting the forum fund in several 2-of-3 addresses (3 parties being Treasurer 1, Treasurer 2 and theymos).
Lauda suggested it to Theymos in 2016:
1 of the BTCT fund holders (forgot his name) died/disappeared and I believe those funds were lost. Multisig is a safer way to store the funds imo.
I've suggested this to theymos sometime in 2016. Even though he was in favor of the idea, he still did not do anything about it AFAIK. I don't even know who the remaining treasurers are? There are plenty of other posts/topics made about it. A lot of research has been put into the whole Paraipan mystery and it could've all been prevented by using multi sig (https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/--5135232). Some people might use the topic to attack OG but it is a very valid point. I am not under the assumption that OG would ever attempt to steal the funds but why would Theymos risk over $3,500,000 by not upgrading to multi sig? As far as I am aware OG is not immortal and freak accidents happen every day.
