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yes, who wants to know?

I read he is arrested. Do they provide internet access in jail ? :o

idk ask him.

he is under house arrest (after paying a 1million caution or something like that) if I'm not mistaking

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/02/28/bitcoin_millionaire_charlie_shrem_under_house_arrest.html


indeed.... nice jail .... isn't? Only for riches....

If the ID I mentioned in the opening post is him, then he came to this forum today...

IMO - it isn't him.

Send him PM :) ask him :)

But I think that this is not him. As shipping a dagger from Sweden was "too expensive for him" :)
Read his posts.

It's definitely him.

Coindesk recently intercepted an email from Charlie to his parole officer. It simply stated "Beer run."

lol! well played sir well played "slow claps"

Just found: Charlie Shrem gets break from house arrest to attend bitcoin documentary - http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2014/04/22/charlie-shrem-gets-break-from-house-arrest-to-attend-bitcoin-documentary/

It's his real account.
He doesn't lose a lot at all. Most of us do the same, sit at home and write posts at BitcoinTalk. :D
I rarely go outside. I think I'm antisocial.

Of all the things to let him out for lol. Looking forward to that doc though.

I must say that if this is the truth ... well perhaps it is ... my opinion is that it shouldn't be like that.

... world is sick.

So, let's see if I have this straight. The government with its infinite wisdom allowed Charlie Shrem to mingle with a room full of hackers during the length of a world premier movie about a money protocol that could be the demise of fiat. What could possible go wrong?

<humor only, for I like Charlie>

Why's that? Charlie wasn't selling drugs, and the case against him was for an inherently victimless money-shuffling crime where he enabled an inherently victimless drug-selling crime. Don't get me wrong - a lot of drug-related sentences are draconian and awful, and Charlie got out very well in that regard, but Charlie was pretty removed from the kinds of crimes they hammer the proles with to move "neighborhood undesirables" (often Black or Mexican) into prisons so the rich don't have to suffer their presence.

System's fucked up, but I'm definitely glad Charlie wasn't subject to the really harsh sentences they sometimes dish out.

So far as I know Charlie was charged with :

Money launder + bitcoin = bad karma for bitcoin? (isn't?)

And as far as I know money laundering is a crime, and if they will catch me they will send me to a jail for a long sentence.
But .. Charlie is a billionaire :) he can sit at his home and even go out to be a part of a Bitcoin Documentary.

This is a reason why I am telling that the world is sick - I meant system - maybe not whole world :)
Law system is fucked up.

No bad feelings about Charlie - he seems to be "ok"... but he is a criminal and his case is again showing to me what the law indeed is.
You have money - law is on your site. You are poor - you go to jail ;)

Charlie is a Bitcoin millionaire or he made money from other sources and Bitcoin was just another avenue for him ?

Well perhaps he was a millionaire and bitcoin made him a billionaire :-)

Nice way of thinking. I don't think he was a millionaire before but he definitely invested a lot, those were the days.