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Brock Pierce explains in his infomercial how the controversy surrounding him is "Old News". Fifteen years old he says dismissing its importance or relevance. Unfortunately, he claims he us not at liberty to discuss it.
In other words just take my word for it because my investors have no problems with me and they are reasonably intelligent.

In other words he is calling out anyone in the Bitcoin community as unintelligent unless they just take his word on something his is not at liberty to discuss.

Notice the SaveGox T-shirt. Another scam where he is using the creditors money as a bounty to search for the criminals that absconded with the fist and bitcoins. How much of the creditors money will be left after the bounty is paid out? Zero?

This appears to be a plan to use the communities money to fund his startup of a new exchange. We might get some free coupons.




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I don't know Pierce, I've never met him.  But his involvement with the The Bitcoin Foundation is BAD NEWS.  He is tainted goods.

You people are pathetic. So much for presumed innocent until proven guilty. It makes me think you have a personal vendetta against him. Maybe your guy didn't make the cut for Bitcoin foundation.  Maybe work for Visa MasterCard or a major bank that is threatened by Bitcoin. Are you lobbyists?   Have you been consigned to disrupt the Bitcoin ecosystem and take everyone eye off of the real goal of spreading the word about how Bitcoin and other alt currencies will disrupt the old boys club of international wealth and let mainstream people bank for themselves without fees and restrictions?  Maybe you're too naïve to understand that there are legal proceedings in which innocent people are not allowed to speak about it. The inability to speak about a legal case does not imply guilt.  Yet many of you are ready to crucify Mr. Pierce without any personal knowledge of him or any circumstances surrounding allegations.  At best you're ill informed and naive, at worst you are hired guns trying to bring us all down and hiding like cowards behind internet anonymity. 

you do realise its not idle gossip at a table in a bar/pub right

you do realise its not idle insults in a forum right.

brock pierce has had court orders and other things handed to him.. so dont think its a myth until you read the history.

and its not in the past. as even now he has to stay quiet as it is an ongoing matter. what you hav to realise that the same thing is happening with mtgox too.. karpales has positioned himself as just a representative. and a lawyer is now the guy the debt is linked to.

but w all know deep down who stole funds even if they try blaming someone else or signing the company over to someone else to hide the fraud.

in short pierce is known to set up a business. take cash out for personal use and then give that business to someone else right as its about to get liquidated. yes karpales and pierce are 2 strips of the same cloth.

from looking at possible strategies and admissions. if pierce takes on mtgox, the customers wont get debts recovered. instead pierce gives the indebted customers(lets cal them goxpast) 16% of mtgox shares. and promises them, in short.. dividends..
pierce, just like his past with DEN and the everquest fiasco will take the profits and spend on himself as a salary or business expense and paying out small dust amounts of dividends with the left over profit. and one day after selling his share of the other 84% of the business.. he will run away a rich man. and leave the new owners (goxpast) with a website with no coins in it to honour withdrawals causing yet another gox event lets call it goxfuture and thus the new customers depositing will only have legal cases against the goxpast people and the other 84% share holder.

if he doesnt like what i just said as a future prediction then he can prove me wrong by making everyone whole again.. after all thats all that counts. and i want to be proven wrong, the community want me to b proved wrong about my last paragraph.. i just hope i am not proved right as that would be another disaster the community does not want

Don't play this stupid card. We are not the state of Florida or whatever, we are intelligent individuals with opinions and right of choice and i would not let my kids hang out with him or anyone from the foundation.

I met him in real life while at one conference in Beverly Hills he a cool guy.

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Tell your brother Steven I said hi.

~Bruno Kucinskas (note, I sign my name to posts, and you should try it John)

Dude, it's one of Brock's business partners: https://twitter.com/Beaugas His brother was the last person to see Autumn Radtke alive before she committed suicide(?), two blocks from the apartment cum office they both shared while Steven was hunting down a $500,000 USD VC capital investment for GoCoin.

Looks to me, major shit is about to hit da fan!

not sure if anyone realises it but Beaugas is taking a page out of trendon shavers book

trendon: pirate (a word for a old boat sailor known for stealing)
Beaugas = bogus (a word meaning fake/lie)

A noob with 7 post signs up to defend Pierce.

He's damaged goods and does not belong on a "legitimate" foundation board.  Period.

Foolishly thought some people here were rational humans capable of thought.  Sorry, I was in the wrong place.  Go back to your virtual worlds.  Don't bother posting me.  Out of this going back to real life and rational beings who don't live life speculating on things they really don't know about.  Have a nice day folks.

No one is saying he is not a nice guy.  He is damage goods.  

You do that Brock.

He's not Brock Pierce, but John Beauregard, Steven Beauregard's brother, and he's pissed off because he was called out by me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElKEGGOcFbU

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-beauregard/6/741/a04

Thanks for the Ad Bruce.  As you can see, I haven't done much with my life. 

FTFY

It's Bruno. Bruce is my brother. See how using real names work?

We're pathetic! Perhaps, if were able to hang with your friends awhile, we can change.

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Perhaps, over some wine while in attendance with the above and Brock Pierce as shown here in 2011: http://www.panacheprivee.com/Web/BeSeen/BogartWineDinner11/2011_Bogart_Wine_Dinner.asp

Or at the same event in 2009 with Brock Pierce and Autumn Radtke (RIP, due to a suicide(?)) as seen here: http://www.panacheprivee.com/File/Autumn_Radtke/

http://dailyentertainmentnews.com/wpgo/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/autumn-radtke-boyfriend.jpg

Remember, John's brother was the last to see Autumn alive. I wonder if Steven is an anesthesiologist and expert witness also. I'm just saying!  :o

Oh right, he's the one that survived childbirth.

Steve Beauregard seems like a good guy.  Maybe he should weight in and defend Pierce.

I wonder why the Bitcoin Foundation always has some bad members?

"A fish rots from the head."

Well, that didn't last long!

the best conartists are always the ones that people think "he seems a good guy", purely because they have a photogenic face, yet those calling him a good guy have never done a true background check on him.. and they always act sooo surprised after he has conned them

"... but he seemed such a good guy, i never knew what he was really upto, until now"

If we are judging Brock Pierce solely based on his "photogenic" face, I'd have to go with Guilty.  Looks very creepy and pedo-ey to me.
Of course I have no clue what the truth is.  It would really suck if he's a great guy and it's a witch hunt. 
Either way, I'd say no to babysitting or being the public face of a foundation for him for the time being.

"It just scares me you know, cause well see a lot of people ride their horses alpacas around here,"

"This doesn't happen in this area,"

"I don't think this should shine any type of an unpleasant or unkind reflection on our community,"

"Everything is just so quiet and just the concern is just how could it happen you know, why did it happen you know. I don't know,"

Hell, I could have easily done the money trail thingie, of which pales to comparison somewhat, but opted to shed light on Brock Pierce via the eliciting-of-emotions route first. If I presented the money trail first, it could have been swept under the rug as no-count, whereupon the paedo- claims follow-up would have been viewed upon as a witch-hunt.

I think calling Brock Pierce a pedophile is premature and somewhat ludicrous.  As far as I can tell, he has not been charged criminally with any sex crimes, much less convicted.  Anyone can sue anybody for anything.  Civil lawsuits mean absolutely nothing, whether they are for 'fraud' or 'sexual assault' or anything else.  Companies and individuals get sued all the time for good reasons, bad reasons, and often no reasons at all.

That being said, I'm still opposed to the appointment of Brock Pierce, as he seems to be a venture capital darling and nothing more.  Then again, I'm opposed to the Bitcoin Foundation itself and the direction it is heading.  It seems to me they are trying to centralize Bitcoin especially with their support of mega-ponzi schemes like CoinBase and formerly Gox.  Instead, they should be focusing on decentralization and anonymity exemplified by Amir Taaki and Cody Wilson's Dark Wallet, David Johnston's Mastercoin, Ethereum, and other real innovations.

Raising MtGox from the dead like Lazarus seems like a bad, bad idea ...

Even being a potential pedophile is enough to not get him elected. Charges don't matter that much, was Mark being charged for something? Not really, but look what a fiasco he has caused.
The Foundation should seriously watch more carefully who they put on the board.

The Bitcoin Foundation is not stupid, for that's why they strategically placed Brock Pierce's board seat in a room next to a end table well-stocked with magazines so that they can keep an eye on him.

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 The current and past self titled, self absorbed 'Bitcoin Foundation' isn't worthy of Bitcoin.  Apparently many others believe the same things.

  As far as I have been able to deduce only Gavin Andresen is extremely worthy to be in any leadership role concerning Bitcoin, thank goodness we all have Mr. Andresen leading the Development of Bitcoin and at the Bitcoin Foundation. Maybe others too are very worthy leading the Bitcoin Foundation that are currently in leadership positions but I cannot be anywhere near certain of that at this point in time. Add to that many past/present Bitcoin Foundation board members are obviously extremely unworthy of their past/present positions, and that's what finally forced my reply and voice here.

 Make no mistake about it; this isn't about anyone's brand of politics or whatever else, but instead it's all about the concern of a group of self serving, self absorbed clowns leading the Bitcoin Foundation and acting mainly for their very own benefit more so than anything else.

 One fiasco after another has proved this to date. This Brock Pierce fiasco is only the latest in a long list of fiasco's concerning the leadership, or lack there of, at the Bitcoin Foundation.

 Like the vast majority I am all in favor of a representative body for helping lead Bitcoin.

 The  Bitcoin Foundation is an overall embarrassment, and somewhat of a stain on Bitcoin itself, if that's even possible, which fortunately it's really not. Nothing can stop Bitcoin, that's apparent. But many things can slow it down and hinder it, including poor leadership.

 What I am certain about is that many past and present members of the Foundation should have never made it to a leadership position at the Bitcoin Foundation in the first place, nor even been considered, nor should have an owner of any Exchange been the one to found the Bitcoin Foundation in the first place.

 The very mixing of industry business leaders onto the Bitcoin Foundation is already conflicting enough, perhaps far too much. Then again it appears this is more a self serving quasi-business-political organization that doesn't concern itself much about leading Bitcoin, but instead the members own personal business agenda's far too very often.

 I also believe that soon this all blows over as drastic changes are made to come about at the Bitcoin Foundation, or another Foundation altogether as Bitcoin's growth continues to increase.

 As for all the resignations at the 'Bitcoin Foundation'...outstanding! That's a good start.

 Stand up, be heard, make a stand, do what can be done to make things better, object when nothing else is possible, and if required stand aside and let it self destruct. And if nothing else at least sound out about what one believes and what one objects to publicly, and not merely behind closed doorways.

 Far too often leadership organizations devolve into self absorbed political bodies such as the past and present  Bitcoin Foundation. That needs to end.

 As for the current voting requirements for positions at the Bitcoin Foundation; that too must end. At most a very modest enrollment fee to become an annual member should be all that's required to cast one's vote, nothing more, nor anything less than the BTC equivalent of $10 to $20 annually should be all that it takes to allow one's voice/vote to be heard/cast. When this finally occurs I will join, until then I will continue to cringe concerning almost everything about the so called Bitcoin Foundation.

 Make no mistake: The Bitcoin Foundation doesn't represent those like myself. I also believe the Bitcoin Foundation doesn't have Dorian Satoshi's blessing either, not after reading the Bitcoin Whitepaper more than a couple of times.

 As stated before Gavin Andresen does have my full faith and support as do many others including apparently Dorian Satoshi. Many others also truly help lead Bitcoin from all corners of the Bitcoin community, yet the Bitcoin Foundation doesn't seem to care for anything but a semi-dictatorial self along with of course grossly restricted voting audience for the said Bitcoin Foundation.

 I only suggest to drop any possible conflicting personal political monetary beliefs when it comes to doing what's best for Bitcoin and it's future and open up the voting of all Board Membership to all Bitcoin Foundation members and keep those annual fees for membership at a very modest amount.  Otherwise those on the Board at the Bitcoin Foundation can fully expect to be a lot more than merely challenged.



Caveat emptor

I still find it really hard to believe Brock Pierce placed high enough in the election.
Hasn't this community been pierced enough already?

brock pierce: this news is 15 years old, kind of how i like my boys.

WOW ....wow,woow......that is big lol

Two-Bit Idiot says the only thing Brock Pierce looks guilty of is having shady friends as a teenager, calls allegations "last century", declares him an "upgrade"

I think "Beaugas" is more like "Beau" for the guy's name, Beauregard ("Beautiful look" in French), and "gas" because he is, according to himself an "Anesthesiologist, Epic Anesthesia Physician Builder".

So, while I appreciate your reading between the lines, my 2 second detective work yielded different results.

isn't mr. beauregard the name of a dog for southern people (or something to that effect?). i do declare.

KnC Miner bought a $100k platinum member spot which presumably comes with a large amount of votes in the election. Plus his own Gold company.

ha, this sounds no different to me than politics. you can "buy" votes, as in money = speech. what i don't quite understand yet, is how does he turn this into $$$ and influence going into his pockets?

By legitimizing himself in his quest to buy Gox for a dollar. I guess he expects his position to add credibility to Sunlot.

That's the plan as I see it anyway.

but he had to have known that if he were elected, people would be up in arms about it.. over his sordid past. and the thing is, sociopaths boyfucking scammers are usually pretty smart.

You're right, Bitcoin has become a political tool just like fiat. Everyone that always wanted Bitcoin to replace fiat should be pleased. I think he has little chance of getting business support from core members of this community but he may not even want that. If he could develop and promote (with the help of TBF) a product to reach as yet untapped users then he would profit. Circle fits the bill of a product that will bring Bitcoin to the masses. No one here would ever use Circle. Joe Citizen already gives all his financial info including SSN to banks, PayPal, Amazon, car dealerships, mortgage companies, pretty much anybody that asks for it so why not Circle? They could end up making a tidy sum of money from the average dumbass and so can the pedo.  

well, this is why i'm not as bullish on bitcoin as most other people seem to be. a lot of the "to the moon" people think that bitcoin will solve a lot of the major problems in the world and eventually become a world currency. i think it's going to solve minor problems (like providing a hedge to hyperinflationary currencies and remittance payments), but the underlying root cause of most of our major problems is greed.. and bitcoin isn't going to remove that from the minds of the big players in the game.

or maybe it's about time to remove the bitcoin foundation, a 6million$ fondation that does nothing good to bitcoin and only brings bad reputation and troubles right now, isn't bitcoin about dis-centralization? why would a group of people host the rest of the bitcoin hostage? why someone who has 10k BTCs should have more right than someone who has 1K btc or 1btc for that matter, if it is bitcoin interest we are talking about here, and we want to spread bitcoin to the maximum of people which by default will not own much bitcoins like me and will have to pay top $ for them I think the least to do is to consider their right as well. The idea of a foundation is good and necessary to defend bitcoin interest especially when facing governments, but the reality here is the opposite millions of $ in donations yet we don't see major contribution and only bad reputation right now and naming someone like this guy as the head of such foundation discredit every single hope I had left for this fondation 

That is my main issue with his election. It does not matter if he has been found guilty of anything. Just the extreme nature of his past controversies (cannot be more extreme than a past involving pedophilia) will hurt bitcoin. People outside of the BTC community already read news and share misconceptions (did you hear the one about the guy that owns bitcoin? he stole everybody's money and now bitcoin has declared bankruptcy  ::)).
This election of Mr. Pierce will only further tarnish bitcoin.

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"The first one I got was during the mybitcoin.com days. The second one..."

15 years ago, M & C Estate was regarded as a "Male Brothel" throughout Hollywood. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that one place where a 17-year-old heterosexual lad flushed with cash would not hang out, especially when, at the time, he could probably legally fuck mid-teenage pussy?

If a pastor of a small town is accused once of leaving a strip club the next town over, his flock would surely dwindle. Yet, with hundreds accounts of various credibility, we are told to not believe anything anything written about Brock but, at the same time, dissimilar articles from the same sources are used as fodder to espouse why Bitcoin is good for mankind, i.e. the Fed is bad, mmmkay!

"Hey, Brock. I think those twin freshmen chicks want you to fuck them. Why don't you ask them out on a date tonight?"

"Can't, dude. Marc, Chad and I already made plans."

"That's cool, dude. Then, I can have them?"

"Here's a couple hundred bucks. Knock yourself out!"

PG, all you're doing is taking the smallest amount of fact and stringing them into a fake / implied story. Anyone can do that -- I can imply that aliens were behind apollo 13 based on supposition. I think you're either schizophrenic or just delusional. A lot of what you post I know to be false. I'm sure you'll start stringing me into your theories eventually. You don't really know what's happened or what's going on. It's all just guesses and supposition based on the modicum of public information.

What's even more amazing is people actually believe the drivel. But then again, it is the internet.

reminds me of that line from V for Vendetta.

I'm sorry, but a man in my position survives by taking every precaution.
You have information for us? - No, you already have the information.
All the names and dates are inside your head.
What you want, what you really need, is a story.
A story can be true or false.

Meanwhile, davout still have my 1,132 BTC that he stole from me under the guise of some InstaWallet "hack".

Or, do you believe that Lemon Way, Bitcoin-Central's bank, was well-versed in Bitcoin longer than it posting on Twitter three days prior to said "hack" asking how to get some bitcoins when they could've walked to Paymium's office and get some?

Until I'm reunited with my investment, I'm going to continue to drill deep, posting anything I deem relevant, whereupon with the help of others, Bitcoin-based entities not worth their salt are going to fall like the house of cards they're built on.

These motherfuckers have shown time and time again that they don't play fair (looking at you Paul Snow), so why should I let them have all the fun. It's Go Time!