Dodgy characters of the Crypto boom

makeorbrake · 03-06-2019 11:59pm

That on the assumption that anyone gives a monkeys as regards what you think here. Your social capital got spent up here a long time ago, buddy.

JohnnyFlash · 04-06-2019 8:26am

Whelo79 wrote: »

He gets to invite 7 guests and he has said he will be bringing leaders from within the blockchain community. Here's hoping he gets some good people on board.

McAfee. That Pomp dude. Dan Larimer, Brock Pierce, Instaste. Who else?

Grumpypants · 04-06-2019 2:49pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

McAfee. That Pomp dude. Dan Larimer, Brock Pierce, Instaste. Who else?

You forgot paddy he is a leading figure in prediction algorithms.

makeorbrake · 04-06-2019 3:09pm

Grumpypants wrote: »

You forgot paddy he is a leading figure in prediction algorithms.

Good point...send PPL and ^^ and guaranteed, Buffett would flip.

JohnnyFlash · 04-06-2019 4:36pm

I won the prediction competition at Christmas so maybe I should attend? I’m also a fan of Justin Sun. Don’t want to sit near McAfee, Craig S Wright, Larimer though as I get the feeling any of them might suddenly stab you. Brock Pierce looks like the sort of shiny faced creep who would drop the hand. Maybe V Buterin. I could finish off all his lunch for him after he has had a spoonful of each course.

stockshares · 28-06-2019 11:20pm

Is anyone following Craig Wright court case
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-06-28/self-proclaimed-bitcoin-inventor-says-fortune-inaccessible?__twitter_impression=true

Follow @CarolinaBolado on Twitter. She's a lawyer who's tweeting from the Court.

grindle · 29-06-2019 1:03am

stockshares wrote: »

Is anyone following Craig Wright court case

It'd almost be sad if he wasn't such a cancerous bellend. He looks to be severely mentally ill but he makes it very difficult to conjure up any sympathy.

Good popcorn moments I guess?

makeorbrake · 29-06-2019 1:08am

grindle wrote: »

Good popcorn moments I guess?

try this one...

"You throw another document in my courtroom you will be in handcuffs so fast your head will spin" -- Judge Reinhart

grindle · 29-06-2019 1:40am

CSW would probably like to think he's some kind of celestial being, yet there he is having to be told to act like a grown man instead of like a teenager.

What's up with the few people who believe him? They're aware of how important censorship resistance was to Satoshi yet this fûcknut shows up and says he always wanted it to be permissioned, NSA-friendly and free of criminality. Something no fungible money can ever be. His story makes zero sense. I'd suspect anybody who believes him might be needing a bib again someday soon. Crazy delusions.

stockshares · 29-06-2019 8:57am

Here's Carolina's full recap of what happened in court
https://www.law360.com/amp/articles/1169829?__twitter_impression=true

JohnnyFlash · 08-07-2019 12:44pm

Chinese police at the Tron offices in Beijing

stockshares · 18-07-2019 2:48pm

This guy creates bots to manipulate volume so that exchanges can get listed on Coinmsketcsp

https://www.coindesk.com/for-15k-hell-fake-your-exchange-volume-youll-get-on-coinmarketcap?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=coindesk&utm_term&utm_content&utm_campaign=Organic%20&amp&__twitter_impression=true

stockshares · 15-07-2020 6:43pm

Promoters of Crypto Ponzi scheme OneCoin murdered in Mexico.

https://cryptopotato.com/two-promoters-of-4-billion-crypto-ponzi-found-dead-in-mexico/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

makeorbrake · 15-07-2020 9:14pm

stockshares wrote: »

Promoters of Crypto Ponzi scheme OneCoin murdered in Mexico.

https://cryptopotato.com/two-promoters-of-4-billion-crypto-ponzi-found-dead-in-mexico/?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Scamming big money in LATAM is always likely to end up with someone ending up packed into a suitcase given the nature of who's behind big money in LATAM.:D

Ben Done · 15-07-2020 10:36pm

Big Twitter hack happening - verified accounts sending Bitcoin requests!
Load of money apparently flooding into their wallet and all..

stockshares · 15-07-2020 11:48pm

Ben Done wrote: »

Big Twitter hack happening - verified accounts sending Bitcoin requests!
Load of money apparently flooding into their wallet and all..

Some big names hacked too
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/technology/twitter-hack-bill-gates-elon-musk.html

stockshares · 16-07-2020 10:58am

Not sure whether to start a new thread on the Twitter Hack. Heres more info on it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822

Lex Luthor · 17-07-2020 7:06am

stockshares wrote: »

Not sure whether to start a new thread on the Twitter Hack. Heres more info on it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53425822

Apparently a disgruntled ex developer of Twitter was responsible

Twitter was hacked not bitcoin

Nothing to see here ;-)

unkel · 17-07-2020 1:39pm

makeorbrake wrote: »

Scamming big money in LATAM is always likely to end up with someone ending up packed into a suitcase given the nature of who's behind big money in LATAM.:D

Sure even a goalie making a mistake is likely to end up murdered in LATAM

Stormington · 17-07-2020 9:32pm

Teeka at it again.

Pumping BAT, XTZ and two others. XTZ to 9

SkySter · 17-07-2020 10:10pm

Stormington wrote: »

Teeka at it again.

Pumping BAT, XTZ and two others. XTZ to 9

I thought you said 10? I want my money back!

Stormington · 17-07-2020 11:31pm

9 is the best number, fwiw. Hopefully there'll be good profit with both, but I suspect xtz can go much higher if the Metamask and Defi/stablecoin equivalents get off the ground.

I had like 13 quid lying around and bought some ripple as I felt bad for the xrp army watching as all the other stuff pumps. A burden shared is a burden halved.

JohnnyFlash · 18-07-2020 3:28pm

McAfee was due to tuck into a dish of roast dick and chips today.

unkel · 19-07-2020 9:59pm

Nah he still has until the end of the year to enjoy his part for other than culinary pleasure

stockshares · 30-07-2020 12:53pm

Plus Token scammers arrested in China
https://twitter.com/DoveyWan/status/1288772319540703232?s=19

The original thread on the Plus Token scandal here.
https://twitter.com/DoveyWan/status/1288820977296486401?s=19

stockshares · 05-10-2020 10:46pm

https://twitter.com/akarl_smith/status/1313230132253990919?s=19

JohnnyFlash · 05-10-2020 10:53pm

stockshares wrote: »

https://twitter.com/akarl_smith/status/1313230132253990919?s=19

Now confirmed he was arrested in Spain. Is Arthur Hayes gone on the run or was he arrested?

They are coming for the lot of them.

Stormington · 06-10-2020 9:13am

McAfee should have eaten his dick - they would have been too afraid to touch him then.

unkel · 06-10-2020 9:49am

Hiding crypto and a yacht. What about hiding the murder weapon he killed his neighbour with? :pac:

JohnnyFlash · 06-10-2020 12:52pm

unkel wrote: »

Hiding crypto and a yacht. What about hiding the murder weapon he killed his neighbour with? :pac:

They got Al Capone for tax evasion. They got McAfee for pushing shítcoins on people. Looks like Verge gave him 6 million in Bitcoin to push their coin. Verge!

JohnnyFlash · 06-10-2020 1:40pm

https://www.coindesk.com/fca-bans-sale-of-cryptoderivatives-to-retail-consumers-in-uk

The UK is banning the sale of crypto derivatives to retail customers. This will impact the likes of Etoro, Bitmex, and the shady bucketshop that is Binance - amongst others of course.

“This ban reflects how seriously we view the potential harm to retail consumers in these products. Consumer protection is paramount here,” said Sheldon Mills, interim executive director of Strategy & Competition at the FCA.

Mills said that high price volatility and the difficulty of “reliably” valuing crypto assets brought high levels of risk for retail investors.

“We have evidence of this happening on a significant scale,” he said “The ban provides an appropriate level of protection.”

The regulator suggested that retail consumers would save around £53 million from the ban on such derivative products.

stockshares · 06-10-2020 2:17pm

https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1169752/?__twitter_impression=true

Article
Anti-virus software creator John McAfee, who is wanted in the US for tax evasion, has been arrested at Barcelona airport, police said.

Officers detained the 75-year-old on Saturday as he was about to board a flight to Istanbul.

He is being held at a jail near Barcelona awaiting extradition to the US, a Spanish police source told AFP news agency.

His arrest comes a day after US prosecutors released an indictment against Mr McAfee for allegedly failing to report income made from promoting crypto-currencies, making speaking engagements and selling the rights to his life story for a TV documentary.

The indictment, which was issued in June but only unsealed yesterday, said Mr McAfee failed to file tax returns from 2014 to 2018, despite receiving "considerable income" from several sources.

Mr McAfee allegedly evaded taxes by directing his income to be paid into bank accounts and crypto-currency exchange accounts in the names of others, according to the indictment.

He is also accused of evading the US tax office by concealing assets, including real estate, a yacht and a car, by putting them in the name of others.

US officials issued an arrest warrant through Interpol and have asked for his extradition, according to Spanish police.

Since making a fortune with his eponymous antivirus software in the 1980s that still bears his name, Mr McAfee has become a self-styled crypto-currency guru, claiming to make $2,000 a day.

He made tabloid headlines after moving to Belize and his neighbour in the Central American country was mysteriously murdered in 2012, a crime that remains unsolved.

When the police found him living with a 17-year-old girl and discovered a large arsenal of weapons in his home, Mr McAfee disappeared on a month-long flight that drew breathless media coverage.

The dead neighbour's family later filed a wrongful death suit against Mr McAfee and last year a court in Florida found against him, ordering him to pay the family more than $25m.

In 2015, Mr McAfee was arrested in the US for driving under the influence. He again disappeared from view until January 2019, when he fled the country.

unkel · 06-10-2020 2:35pm

Maybe the Spanish can give him some nice herbs so he can turn his sausage into a more palatable chorizo :pac:

JohnnyFlash · 06-10-2020 4:16pm

Squeaky bum time for Bitfinex/Tether management based in counties with an extradition agreement with the US.

Justin Sun might be booking a ticket to somewhere exotic as well.

Pintman Paddy Losty · 08-10-2020 3:56pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Squeaky bum time for Bitfinex/Tether management based in counties with an extradition agreement with the US.

Justin Sun might be booking a ticket to somewhere exotic as well.

Would you say the house of cards is coming down Johnny?

Dodgy characters of the Crypto boom

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