The greatest tragedy is that there were plenty of warning signs, yet all of his friends continued to stick up for him. He disappeared for a year and owed a bunch of people — came back and these same people vouched for him and lent him more funds.
I myself was part of the problem. He didn’t fund 3 of my history sets, sent me some bs message about how he would get to them in time and how he had used my btc for his own use. I waited a week and raised hell - sets got funded and I let it go. But during this time I had many people vouch that coldkey would never scam me or anyone else.
What I should have done was posted publicly- but was afraid of not getting my 1k of pre paid funding returned, plus getting everyone pissed off. Hindsight is of course 20/20
I just wish the people that had dealt with these issues for years, wouldn’t have turned a blind eye to all of the warning signs. It’s not like he just started drugs/gambling this year. Was there even a health issue? Was that all a made up excuse? I believe so. Unless the health issue was a drug overdose.
When people owe you money- don’t keep quiet.
When people owe you collectibles and they start selling other collectibles - raise hell publicly.
When pre funded items are not funded quickly - let the whole forum know. This collectible community is built on trust- and all of these issues are clear cut signs of untrustworthy people.
As I said - Hindsight is 20/20 - but the warning signs were there - those that ignored them got burned the most
I now have a very short list of new producers I will support -
Very well said.....we gave him chance after chance and he abused that trust entirely. I am guilty of not speaking up myself.....he has lied many time but I always hoped he would come thru at the end and waited very pateintly more with him than anyone else. As you can see in my open letter rant to him here....
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5434597.msg61588502#msg61588502 But I let it be figuring mental illness etc etc...never in my dreams did I see this coming.
But then again,
there are people who say till death do us apart that end up betraying each other as well. 
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