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Topic: Who is "Variety Jones"? - page 8. (Read 47178 times)

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legendary
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September 21, 2015, 08:57:57 AM
He will never be back.I hope he writes an autobiography to enlighten what has happened.

What I know is, he is a Swiss guy.

Care to put some light on that?
legendary
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September 21, 2015, 05:33:52 AM
He will never be back.I hope he writes an autobiography to enlighten what has happened.

What I know is, he is a Swiss guy.
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legendary
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September 21, 2015, 02:38:30 AM
Some of the questions I am waiting to be answered still in my lifetime:

1. Why VJ is in favour of killing a man, without having any evidence?
2. Will VJ really be doing a sightseeing tour with a helicopter, while beeing in the US, even after finding out, that Ross has saved his compromising  chatlogs?


PoM, if you read this, consider explaining (1.) to have your bad image removed and let (2.) be answered with headlines  Lips sealed
Waiting to read more from you on MPG. Made me an account over there ... Cheesy



edit: I want to add some quotes of PoMs recent statements on MPG, which I found interesting, away of beeing entertained by his general writing style:

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So I've got this trip planned, to the Big Apple. Golly gee and shucks, I shure am looking forward to seeing the big city 'n stuff. I'm not sure exactly where I'm gonna be staying when I get there, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be one of them 'state of the art' facilities, if you know what I mean.

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I really never thought it possible that I would be in a position to have to say that no, I didn't architect anything, I was too busy being in Wandsworth fucking prison. Life, she deals you some strange curves sometimes, don't she.

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This one time, I accidentally built a large, high-tech, totally bitchin' modified atmosphere, high lumens cannabis grow operation above Choy's Chinese Food restaurant in Surbiton, Surrey, Merry Olde England.

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Now, while I was building it, I also needed to decide what to grow in it. Having access to literally millions of seeds representing over 3,000 strains of ganja in my seed fridges, it was indeed a dilemma.

Q: What happened to these strains? Confiscated?

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Speaking of misconceptions, a few folks seem to think I have something to do with varietyjones.com. Nope, now that's just someone fucking about for the sheer joy of fucking about, I'm thinking. I looked at it once about a week ago when I found out about it, and yeah, it made me giggle. Someones got panache, eh.

Like I said ... copycat.

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legendary
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September 21, 2015, 12:46:59 AM
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legendary
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September 20, 2015, 12:04:02 PM
When I  Duckgo for "Thomas Clark" koh chang, as 2nd result there is one video about elephant riding, that says "by Thomas Clark", but in reality it is by someone called Joel Oleson. Google doesn't find it with these keywords.

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Elephant Jungle Trekking in Thailand ... ROSITA'S ELEPHANT RIDE @ KOH CHANG THAILAND - Duration: ... by Thomas Clark 4,962 views.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Thomas+Clark%22+koh+chang&t=ffsb

Some guys on myplanetganja have a picture of Thomas Clark. Would like to see that.

see:https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Joel+Oleson%22%2B%22Thomas+Clark%22&t=ffsb

If you look at the yahoo cache of Joel's vid page a Thomas Clark video is listed in the sidebar( https://www.youtube.com/user/JungleMasterUSA/videos (Thomas Clark)).

That's probably why duck duck go was hitting your search. Youtube was linking "Jungle Trekking" (Elephant Jungle Trekking in Thailand) with Thomas Clark... this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwM9Ygs9QeA. If you search for "Jungle trekking"+"Thomas Clark" you get more non-related links from youtube linking to thejunglemaster.

Just look at the page views for the respective videos. Family man has upper 5322 views, and junglemaster has 4993 (*had*  4,962). See the ... in Duration: ... by Thomas Clark 4,962? It means Thomas Clark(junglemaster (another innocent bystander)) had a video in the side bar cached with those results. You idiot.
http://junglemaster.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/TheJungleMaster

Looks like a missionary based out of the Amazon. Pretty sure it's a miss.

Don't you think this slack-jawed lynch mob hair-trigger finger pointing mentality is kind of unseemly, and *slightly* unfair on said guys above? I mean, the guy you're fingering has kids and all and doesn't at all fit the profile and the other dude, who threw your result, is a frikken missionary!!!

I don't think it's unfair to post some search results, but you should rethink, if your posting wasn't a little overreacting to a simple linking with no accusations whatsoever, you idiot?
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legendary
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September 18, 2015, 12:08:33 PM
When I  Duckgo for "Thomas Clark" koh chang, as 2nd result there is one video about elephant riding, that says "by Thomas Clark", but in reality it is by someone called Joel Oleson. Google doesn't find it with these keywords.

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Elephant Jungle Trekking in Thailand ... ROSITA'S ELEPHANT RIDE @ KOH CHANG THAILAND - Duration: ... by Thomas Clark 4,962 views.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Thomas+Clark%22+koh+chang&t=ffsb

Some guys on myplanetganja have a picture of Thomas Clark. Would like to see that.
hero member
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September 14, 2015, 06:55:16 AM
That's pretty good journalism, but they're just journalists and really shouldn't be hacking into someone's emails? But if I'm honest I'm glad all that info has been published publicly so VJ has a chance to gtfo of Koh Chang before the feds turn up! I mean the evidence is pretty damning. Unless of course he is an informant Wink

I've been to Koh Chang 3 times, I love the fact I could have been chilling with the legend that is Variety Jones... Good luck Mr. Clarke!

Well, they said "Through a source ...". So, they didn't hack.

Haha yeah that's why it's shady as fuck! Did the solicit this 'source' themselves? I not like we have heard anywhere else that someone had hacked VJs email and Bangkok airways account, that's big news!
legendary
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September 11, 2015, 06:56:51 PM
What are all these shady characters doing converging on Thailand? Being shady no doubt. Last I heard VJ was buying a goldmine in Ghana Huh

Motherboard does good work. Incidentally it's one of my few daily reads.
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legendary
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September 11, 2015, 07:14:51 AM
That's pretty good journalism, but they're just journalists and really shouldn't be hacking into someone's emails? But if I'm honest I'm glad all that info has been published publicly so VJ has a chance to gtfo of Koh Chang before the feds turn up! I mean the evidence is pretty damning. Unless of course he is an informant Wink

I've been to Koh Chang 3 times, I love the fact I could have been chilling with the legend that is Variety Jones... Good luck Mr. Clarke!

Well, they said "Through a source ...". So, they didn't hack.
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September 11, 2015, 05:43:57 AM
That's pretty good journalism, but they're just journalists and really shouldn't be hacking into someone's emails? But if I'm honest I'm glad all that info has been published publicly so VJ has a chance to gtfo of Koh Chang before the feds turn up! I mean the evidence is pretty damning. Unless of course he is an informant Wink

I've been to Koh Chang 3 times, I love the fact I could have been chilling with the legend that is Variety Jones... Good luck Mr. Clarke!
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legendary
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September 11, 2015, 02:41:06 AM
This possibly is Smedley (~shabang~ ?):



More about the number 3 of SR:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikewattier
https://twitter.com/MichaelWattier



Just a coincidence?:

From Wattier's Twitter:
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Marcus McNeill ‏@MarcusMcNeill73 5. Mai 2012

Ima forever be a #Charger beeeliiieeve that!!
14 Retweets 6 Favoriten


from http://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-are-the-two-forgotten-architects-of-the-silk-road

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Smed worked closely with DPR, and communicated with the site leader more than anyone else, under what evidence suggests is one of his pseudonyms, “Charger”, according to TorChat logs released during Ulbricht’s trial.
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legendary
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September 11, 2015, 02:22:41 AM
These Are the Two Forgotten Architects of the Silk Road:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/these-are-the-two-forgotten-architects-of-the-silk-road

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Through a source, Motherboard has gained access to emails sent and received by one of those characters, who is perhaps best known by the pseudonym Variety Jones. This reporter has seen first hand the contents of this email account, and verified that it is legitimate.
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The information in these emails led to two names: Mike Wattier and Thomas Clark.

Variety Jones

Variety Jones joined Silk Road in 2011, according to site archives maintained by the security researcher Runa Sandvik. He was known as a vendor of marijuana seeds, and his aversion to the failed War on Drugs was clear from his postings on the site forums.

“I'm here to break the back of prohibition, to make the jack-booted thugs from the DEA roll up their tents and sneak off into the night, and to do what I can to ensure a future where 65 year old MS patients aren't shot by SWAT teams during drug raids because they suspect there was a fucking plant growing in the back room,” he wrote.

But in private conversations with Ulbricht, he acted as a penetration tester, financial advisor, and, in the site creator's own words, a “mentor.” Variety Jones even suggested the now infamous moniker Dread Pirate Roberts, often shortened to DPR, which Ulbricht adopted.

Variety Jones was also the one who suggested Ulbricht’s first attempted murder-for-hire, which targeted an employee (although, it's important to note, didn't actually result in anybody being killed).

“[He] was the biggest and strongest willed character I had met through the site thus far,” Ulbricht wrote in a 2011 journal entry.

Documents released during Ross Ulbricht's trial highlighted how the Silk Road mastermind (pictured) relied heavily on the assistance of Variety Jones. Photo: AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams

Earlier this year, an independent researcher known as “La Moustache” published an extensive investigation into the history of Variety Jones, tracing digital footprints of the character back to pre-Silk Road cannabis forums.

Based on that research, Motherboard contacted several people who may have known Variety Jones in real life.

One of those contacted provided an email address for the individual suspected of being behind the Variety Jones alias, which, through a search of public online records, led to a website owned by the same person. Linked to this website was another email address, which included the name “varietyjones....”
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August 22, 2015, 11:26:27 PM
An account on reddit (/u/VarietyJones37) posted a thread "Solve riddles, win bitcoin via Electrum's restore function. Free to play. Early feedback to be rewarded." with links to the website discussed earlier in the thread (varietyjones.com).


https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3gap1k/solve_riddles_win_bitcoin_via_electrums_restore/

https://np.reddit.com/user/VarietyJones37
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legendary
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August 11, 2015, 03:15:57 AM
Here is a link to a lot of information about the DNMs incl. Atlantis by Gwern ( https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/3dfq8s/dark_net_market_archives_20112015/ ) : https://archive.org/download/dnmarchives
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August 09, 2015, 04:17:09 AM
Possible that this page is indeed from the original VJ, because its content could make one think it is, but I doubt it as long as he don't sign it with his pgp key from 2010.

That particular pgp key is basically radioactive. Had Ross' trial gone differently (with those corrupt agents a part of it), maybe, someone would sign. Life in prison without the possibility of parole? This whole case is messed up...

This guy is giving away his address and telephone number. He doesn't look too scared to me.

That phone number is part of pop culture. Mike Jones... a rapper who used to include his number in songs and whatnot. That address is fake as well. 330 1st Avenue ... 330 1... 3301. Probably poking fun at Cicada 3301?

You are right, I didn't pay attention on that. So the address/no is fake then. I still think, that someone is using the fame of the nick "Variety Jones", rather than VJ beeing the mother of all attention whores (which IS still possible btw, knowing the backstory of PoM). He is doing a good job in imitating the style of VJ and his art on vj.com is respectable good, but only signing with his old key or answering my encrypted message would convince me.
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August 09, 2015, 04:15:34 AM
Possible that this page is indeed from the original VJ, because its content could make one think it is, but I doubt it as long as he don't sign it with his pgp key from 2010.

That particular pgp key is basically radioactive. Had Ross' trial gone differently (with those corrupt agents a part of it), maybe, someone would sign. Life in prison without the possibility of parole? This whole case is messed up...

This guy is giving away his address and telephone number. He doesn't look too scared to me.

That phone number is part of pop culture. Mike Jones... a rapper who used to include his number in songs and whatnot. That address is fake as well. 330 1st Avenue ... 330 1... 3301. Probably poking fun at Cicada 3301?

I highly doubt that, that is the real Variety Jones.
Probably some kid trying to have fun without knowing what he getting himself into.

The real VJ is long gone (if not an agent) as I am sure he knows the seriousness of this.
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legendary
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August 08, 2015, 04:59:01 AM
A message to the original VJ:

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legendary
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August 08, 2015, 04:36:03 AM
More info on the VJ copycat:
https://twitter.com/blockOperator
Interesting that after my request to sign with his 2010 key a few days ago he answered with a new one, which looks like he is following this topic:
https://keybase.io/varietyjones/sigs/iSYOSv1FoCVb7k4zWdUGFyMOO97xGqhjBfP3
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