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Now that Vladimir's actions at Bitcoin Magazine have become public, I think it is time to do the right thing and give him a scammer tag. I will let the following thread speak for itself.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=129722.msg1387040#msg1387040

Only a tiny amount of "old timers" are respected anymore. The rest have shown how they operate. This is not surprising in the least.

And I thought Nefario paying himself a ceo salary while destroying glbse was bad.

1. I'm not sure why all of this is being made public.

2. If it is to be made public, no judgement by me will be passed until I see proof that disputes the other party's story.

This thread at this point is unwarranted without proof and context of any wrong doing on Vladimir's part.

I was expecting this day for awhile.

Me too.  It raises the interesting question of whether the scammer tag is an appropriate response to internal conflicts within private companies.  I guess that Nefario being given the scammer tag for acting against the wishes of some of the other shareholders set something of a precedent.

It depends what the company by laws state, if there are any.

In many jurisdictions it's also governed by legislation related to companies as well - this was an actual company, not one of many Bitcoin enterprises which present themselves as companies but aren't.

This isn't a new drama.  It's been going on behind the scenes for months.  I'm not sure about the wisdom of the parties involved making it public, but that horse has already bolted now.

If the forum gives someone a scammer tag can they sue for defamation ?

Meh, he's always been a dodgy piece of work.  One of those types who will do anything, and trample over anyone, to make a dollar.   Scourge of society basically.

Scammer tag that bitch.

I doubt anyone's going to be suing for defamation.  It's unbelievably expensive to pursue defamation action, takes years to litigate, and awards tend to be inadequate even when you've sustained legitimate damages, especially when there are no "deep pockets" defendants involved.  You're not going to find a lawyer willing to take a defamation case on contingency.  Even establishing jurisdiction can be difficult in defamation cases which involve parties in different locations.

I'm starting a magazine called Better Bitcoin Monthly. I plan on having as much drama as possible, so you're all hired. Let's make bitcoin history! (and i mean that in the worst possible way)

Only if you ship 7% of paid orders each month.

As to the original question: I very much doubt anything of use or importance "came to light" in that thread. People who know about it knew about it independently, people who had no clue still have no clue. Even if you happen to fall in the first category, the information you're working with is fragmentary, in good part not particularly credible and in other (or partially overlapping) good part not actually true. The only people who approach having half the information are possibly the two muppets involved (or maybe more aptly said, their respective WAGs). Consequently, purporting to make calls and issue scammer tags on the basis of such a pile of crap is nonsense.

I do suspect what happened there was, a collection of the more naive but capitalized evangelists were herded together to contribute a pittance each to acquire the Bitcoin Magazine brand "so it may be preserved" as if it were actually valuable. I'm pretty sure they were at least in part lied to by that Alisie character and I'm pretty certain they were blindsided by Marchenko's reply, and they'll have an unpleasant time actually going through the settlement of this mercy acquisition of theirs.

You must have half the board on ignore by now if those are your criteria.   ;D

I think you got it backwards. I heard rumors that so does reeses.

Everyone should ignore everyone else. That would also cut down on scams and spams.

careful now, if vladimir comes in here, he'll make sure to sue all of you!  ;D

It looks like this is one of the better descriptions of what has went down:
http://codinginmysleep.com/the-bittalk-media-meltdown/


What's the qualification for "old timer"? There's still plenty of people who have been around since 2010 that are just quieter than the others. Maybe they just don't intend to use their clout to sell out?

Or maybe they just don't know what to do with it.

you are both the same shade of yellow. how about me? :-)

Damn straight (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=131993.0).


Maroon.  ;D