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Coup or Death for the Bitcoin Foundation?
- e3pi 13y agoDefinite chip on his shoulder. View a persistent legacy of angry blog posts: http://two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com/archive http://two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com/archive Back story? Anyone know?
- mbreese 13y agoI can't help but think that a scorched earth strategy might backfire...
- Phlarp 13y agoI'd rather have all the facts open and on the table. For better or worse the amount of information asymmetry in the bitcoin market is staggering.
- mbreese 13y agoOh, I would too... but whatever happens, it's not going to be pretty or look good for Bitcoin. I'm not sure if that's an overall good thing or bad thing.
- yawniek 13y agojaw dropping how this so called "industry" behaves. scam here, blackmail there etc. it's like you give a bunch of kids one new shiny toy and boom, there is war.
- Sambdala 13y agoYou're terribly right. I've never seen immature behavior come from anyone involved in any "grown up" sector of the economy.
- baddox 13y agoAfter all, there definitely has never been scams, blackmail, or war (literal or figurative) related to traditional currencies.
- gtirloni 13y agoPoint taken. However, by positioning Bitcoin as a alternative to what most think are corrupt financial institutions, the Bitcoin community is automatically held to a higher standard. So far it's failing miserably to meet that standard.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoI've mostly seen claims praising bitcoin as anonymous, distributed, and unregulated currency.
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- thinkcomp 13y agohttp://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=98 http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/essay.html?id=98 Hiding $12 million from a federal bankruptcy judge in a sham bankruptcy is a bad idea. But maybe there's more than that even.
- nwh 13y agoThis guy has an horrible writing style for somebody who is meant to be releasing ground breaking information.
- baddox 13y agoWhat's wrong with it? It's a bit colorful for my taste, but the writing seems precise and clear enough.
- nwh 13y agoGrammatical nitpicks aside, it's just not what you'd expect from somebody who is playing the good-hearted blogger with a lot of sensitive information under their belt. > Not a happy Friday, Idiots. War. > To the chagrin of the less confrontational, I plan to attack. And in putting my personal and professional reputation on the line, I will attack ruthlessly, from the front, and (figuratively) shoot to kill. If you were to go down this particular path, the article just needed to be a clear statement of the information he has and the outcome he expects before he releases it. Instead it's more schoolyard nonsense from people pretending to be better than it all, painting himself as an outspoken martyr and a savior of the community. > This egregious behavior and negligence may not be the worst of the information to come. > If I get hit by a bus this weekend, my lawyers will release it. At best it reads like a blackmailer, extortionist or market manipulator. I'm inclined to believe the latter.
- Sovietaced 13y agoThis guy must not have been involved with bitcoin for long if any of this rustles his jimmies...
- baddox 13y agoDoes he indicate that he is surprised? He sounds disappointed and angry, and highly motivated to change things, but I caught no implication of surprise.
- Sovietaced 13y agofixed
- baddox 13y agoBut that doesn't make much sense to me. Like, if I got mugged on the street, my jimmies would be rustled, despite the fact that thousands of muggings occur and have occurred for centuries.
- 21echoes 13y agoanother example of the bitcoin community slowly learning why financial regulation and oversight exists...
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoThis guy sounds like he lost some bitcoins in mtgox collapse.
- e3pi 13y agoWhistleblower Threatens to Expose Corruption at Bitcoin Foundation http://valleywag.gawker.com/whistleblower-threatens-to-expose-corruption-at-bitcoin-1538965958 http://valleywag.gawker.com/whistleblower-threatens-to-expos...