What about the truth of the allegations that aren't 15 years old?
Is it wrong to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding for companies where the most significant business activity is a bunch of "soon" marketing via a Facebook page and a twitter account?
Depending on the size of the VC, Google+ and Linkedin juice are included at no extra charge. I wonder if Froot Loops™ was started by a Cereal Entrepreneur. |
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I was there that day of the recording of the video. Guys need to give him a break. Its flooding the boards already pretty bad.
You and I discovered Bitcoin via the same Google search - copper cents. |
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Let's say, for example purposes only, there's hidden illegal data embedded in the full node. Could I be arrested for having illegal data, i.e. child porn on my computer even though it was unbeknownst to me?
Well, it depends which country you are in. If you are in the US, you can be liable for merely linking to infringing content. In Canada, the Supreme Court ruled that linking is not the same as hosting (in a libel case). Is one full node in theory enough for the whole network?
Having only one full node starts to break the security assumptions of the protocol. Cheating is prevented by "proof-of-work". However, if there is only one node, you have a situation where that node can rewrite the entire block-chain history. To avoid this situation, you probably need at least 3 nodes for an active Bitcoin network. Okay, so I'm in the US and am hosting the full node on my computer. The full node is encrypted with all kinds of nasty stuff like child porn and terrorist plots, to name a couple, but only accessible to those with passwords who know it's there. Can a person be in serious trouble for having said on his computer even though they don't access it? |
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I submitted my public resignation as a lifetime member from the foundation in their forums.
I can't be associated with such an organization in it's current incarnation.
Oddly enough, they don't seem to honor member resignation/revocation requests. In February, I spoke to one of the Foundation attorneys, asking to be taken off the public list of members. He gave me a helpful response asking for a quick clarification but assuring me it was doable, then dropped contact. Still get their spam, too.  Oh, well. Good job, PG. Thanks, bud. But, instead of a "good job", I want another badge from psy.  Spam, as in email/newsletter? If that's the case, I wonder why I wasn't contacted prior to the election. Anybody have the tx showing KnC paying for their $100K USD Platinum Membership. While you're at it, hunt down the $25K USD that GoCoin paid for their Gold Membership. (Ironic: Brock Pierce once earn $25K X times over to sell Gold, now pays to buy Gold) |
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As far as office spaces being shared -- I don't see how that's odd? There are incubators with 100s of companies registered to their addresses -- Gocoin's new london office is at an incubator (aka shared). I guess they're some how complicit in this as well? Up to the night before Autumn Radtke's suicide(?), Steve Beauregard and her share the same apartment cun office space. GoCoin was already past its incubation stage having already garnered $550,000 USD in VC in early November of last year. http://www.coindesk.com/gocoin-raises-500k-bitcoin-payments-asia-south-america/Bitcoin payment processor GoCoin has raised $550,000 in venture capital to expand its operations.
GoCoin’s seed round was funded by a group of investors, most notably Owen Van Natta, a former Chief Operating Officer of Facebook who has also held positions at Amazon and Zynga. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Van_NattaOwen T. Van Natta (born November 12, 1969)[1] is formerly the Executive Vice President of Business at Zynga, an internet company that makes online social games.[2] He is responsible for the company’s revenue strategy, corporate development, international expansion and brand. Prior to officially joining Zynga, he consulted for the company across a number of critical business functions.[3] He is also a member of the Zynga Board of Directors. He resigned from Zynga on November 17, 2011. Owen, seemingly to have some financial background, of sorts, I wonder if there was any date-rape drug in the wine provided him by the founders of GoCoin prior to him signing on the dotted line and issuing a check. OTOH, if VC;ed via BTC, then he's doubly fucked unless somehow he was guaranteed an ROI, whereupon all the others who also REALLY contributed are only singly fucked, but who wants to go to a party stag unless, of course, stags are on the menu, in, out and alongside the hot tub. |
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I thought that "serial entrepreneur" was a mocking term, like "serial killer", "serial rapist", etc. Funny to see him describe himself as such. Danny Brewster of Neo&Bee was a serial entrepreneur too, it seems.  An entrepreneur who continuously comes up with new ideas and starts new businesses. As opposed to a typical entrepreneur, who will often come up with an idea, start the company, and then see it through and play an important role in the day to day functioning of the new company, a serial entrepreneur will often come up with the idea and get things started, but then give responsibility to someone else and move on to a new idea and a new venture. This can be a good thing if the individual has lots of unique ideas and is the best one suited to get each one started, but can be a bad thing if the individual stops putting time into a company that needs his or her help, in order to try to move forward with a new idea that may or may not succeed. Obviously, the above doesn't relate to Brock Pierce or Danny Brewster. What was your question again? |
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Let's say, for example purposes only, there's hidden illegal data embedded in the full node. Could I be arrested for having illegal data, i.e. child porn on my computer even though it was unbeknownst to me?
I know my question may be far-fetched, but humor me with an answer. BTW, in case anybody's wondering, there's a reason I'm asking.
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How much of this shit do you think is true? Is Pierce really a poofter? Does Rectum really treat him like his bitch? Did he really fuck that swiss guy out of $50 million? How did that lawsuit finally settle? That might tell us a bunch about the level of truth in those allegations. Either way, that was a heck of a read. Some crazy shit will happen to you if you work with the wrong type of people. You're kidding, right? I have about five threads penned over the past week, summarizing as best as possible everything considering Brock Pierce, et al., and this thread is trying to make heads or tails outta it. Hell, I even went as far as to show that Autumn Radtke associated with all the principals of Save Gox .com as far back as 2009 but, sadly, she committed suicide(?) due to First Meta, of which GoCoin has its office, not doing as well as she had hoped. The way I see it, we either stop this madness right here, right now, or put everybody associated with Silk Road Equity on the board of The Bitcoin Foundation today so that we don't have to deal with the fallout down the road. Autumn Radtke had nothing to do with gox. You don't by chance work for MSM (or maybe Alex Jones)? Autumn was CEO of first meta which doesn't do any bitcoin transactions.. https://firstmetaexchange.com/exchange/quotesThat's not to say I think she committed suicide. But either way it's a stretch to make any association between Autumn and anything bitcoin related. My bad! Please accept my apologies, for I got the two First Meta companies mixed up. The following First Meta was the one I was in reference to, and not the First Meta that the late Autumn Radtke (suicide(?)) ran in Singapore where Steven Beauregard of GoCoin and her shared an apartment cum office directly over a restaurant as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElKEGGOcFbUhttps://angel.co/gocoin Accepting bitcoin via gocoin would make them about as involved with bitcoin as the taco stand that sells tacos for bitcoin. Everyone is trying to make them out to be some huge bitcoin / virtual currency exchange on the level of gox. They're not and they never were. They never traded bitcoin. As far as office spaces being shared -- I don't see how that's odd? There are incubators with 100s of companies registered to their addresses -- Gocoin's new london office is at an incubator (aka shared). I guess they're some how complicit in this as well? Just like there are two First Metas, there are two GoCoin entities. Yours is probably right, whereas mine is some other, for I'm prone to err. http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/2320491. GoCoin
Singapore and Santa Monica-based GoCoin is seriously making bank in the fast-growing digital currency payments industry. So much so that it's taking over the entire 7,000-square-foot third floor of Santa Monica’s historic landmark Keller Block Building. The ambitious international virtual currency payment transaction service, which bills itself as “the PayPal of Bitcoin,” signed a multi-year office lease just this week.
Not bad, considering that CEO Steve Beauregard got GoCoin off the ground less than a year ago, in July 2013. Only four months later, the company announced that it raised a seed round of more than $550,000 -- including cash from former Amazon and Facebook exec Owen Van Natta -- to help it become the “first truly open and international platform to facilitation the purchase of goods and services across the world bought with Bitcoin.”
GoCoin also claims to be the first company to accept Litecoin, a spinoff of Bitcoin, world’s first peer-to-peer cryptocurrency. Must be a different Steve Beauregard and all the other Beauregards working at my GoCoin entity, whereas your GoCoin has a Steven Beauregard sans his kin, probably, working in such a small office in London. Your GoCoin entity is frugal, whereas my GoCoin entity flies my Steven Beauregard to the ends of the world outta their 7,000 mining rig phram in northern Sweden square foot office in office, freely spending that $500K USD VC fund. I'm dying to wait to see your next post to correct my errors so that the record is straight (no pun intended). |
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How much of this shit do you think is true? Is Pierce really a poofter? Does Rectum really treat him like his bitch? Did he really fuck that swiss guy out of $50 million? How did that lawsuit finally settle? That might tell us a bunch about the level of truth in those allegations. Either way, that was a heck of a read. Some crazy shit will happen to you if you work with the wrong type of people. You're kidding, right? I have about five threads penned over the past week, summarizing as best as possible everything considering Brock Pierce, et al., and this thread is trying to make heads or tails outta it. Hell, I even went as far as to show that Autumn Radtke associated with all the principals of Save Gox .com as far back as 2009 but, sadly, she committed suicide(?) due to First Meta, of which GoCoin has its office, not doing as well as she had hoped. The way I see it, we either stop this madness right here, right now, or put everybody associated with Silk Road Equity on the board of The Bitcoin Foundation today so that we don't have to deal with the fallout down the road. Autumn Radtke had nothing to do with gox. You don't by chance work for MSM (or maybe Alex Jones)? Autumn was CEO of first meta which doesn't do any bitcoin transactions.. https://firstmetaexchange.com/exchange/quotesThat's not to say I think she committed suicide. But either way it's a stretch to make any association between Autumn and anything bitcoin related. My bad! Please accept my apologies, for I got the two First Meta companies mixed up. The following First Meta was the one I was in reference to, and not the First Meta that the late Autumn Radtke (suicide(?)) ran in Singapore where Steven Beauregard of GoCoin and her shared an apartment cum office directly over a restaurant as seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElKEGGOcFbUhttps://angel.co/gocoin |
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This thread reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuseEverybody it is time for a moral PANIC! Get your pitchforks we have some witches and things to hunt because someone is saying some stuff and it is making me feel something... emotion! LOUD NOISES! Would you believe you're the forth DogeCoin advocate that has come out against those on the other side of the fence you're on? You have interesting methods and also fail to appreciate the sarcasm dripping from my first post. I will repost it here so you can try again: "To be honest it was the Doge that made me join Bitcoin forum. I could not believe this is really happening and have conflicted feelings of joy clashing with disbelief. Dogecoin actually worth something?! With a relatively easy way to be eventually traded into dogfood and frisbies! That is awesome. I got my doge his own account. Now my cat is just feeling a little left out. Apparently sexcoin doesn't cut it as a substitute for her." Anycase and regardless, I don't think we will get along. I just have something against witch hunts and propaganda in general. Nothing personal. To be über-clear, thi$ i$ not a witch hunt. What'$ at $take i$ more than ju$t one guy'$ dick up $ome little boy'$ a$$. If $uch wa$n't the ca$e, then perhap$ Autumn Radtke wouldn't have committed $uicide(?). re: Autumn Radtke "Beauregard said he had several conversations with her in the 48 hours prior to her death about personal and professional issues. "Bitcoin and Mt. Gox were not part of those conversations," he said." You seem to jump to some emotive conclusions and use some very emotive imagery. At the moment it is abuse of the worst kind, death and destruction. Armageddon next? I am not sure what your goal is. Are you not aware that they lived together? And, if yes, they only spoke shop away from their apartment cum First Meta/GoCoin office over lunch only one flight below? |
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This thread reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuseEverybody it is time for a moral PANIC! Get your pitchforks we have some witches and things to hunt because someone is saying some stuff and it is making me feel something... emotion! LOUD NOISES! Would you believe you're the forth DogeCoin advocate that has come out against those on the other side of the fence you're on? You have interesting methods and also fail to appreciate the sarcasm dripping from my first post. I will repost it here so you can try again: "To be honest it was the Doge that made me join Bitcoin forum. I could not believe this is really happening and have conflicted feelings of joy clashing with disbelief. Dogecoin actually worth something?! With a relatively easy way to be eventually traded into dogfood and frisbies! That is awesome. I got my doge his own account. Now my cat is just feeling a little left out. Apparently sexcoin doesn't cut it as a substitute for her." Anycase and regardless, I don't think we will get along. I just have something against witch hunts and propaganda in general. Nothing personal. To be über-clear, thi$ i$ not a witch hunt. What'$ at $take i$ more than ju$t one guy'$ dick up $ome little boy'$ a$$. If $uch wa$n't the ca$e, then perhap$ Autumn Radtke wouldn't have committed $uicide(?). |
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The data is already in the hand of hackers and any day it can land in public. But, unless u r a criminal, it should not bother u much. What bothers me more, is how the people who lost money & coins at Gox are becoming shareholder. Brock is getting an army of bitcoiners to praise for Gox. A lot of newbies will fall for this trap and start joining Gox and the only motto shareholders will have is to get back their locked money & coin (with some extra profit). I'm not sure how this whole thing is gonna impact the coin price. I heard blockchain.info may work with Gox too. Overall, a tide is coming... effect is unknown !!!
there were no hackers. karpeles has the coins in secret cold stores. he then knew his excuse was week so pasted his own datadump, using his own username and then claimed hackers rehacked him and dumped data. thats his legal defense(false alibi creation)with a utility bill, a copy of driving licence, karpeles, pierce can easily set up new bank accounts, credit cards. and cause people more personal debt. (identity theft)pierce wants to have 84% ownership of gox and give 16% to those in debt. if you do th maths of the 800kcoins lost that puts each bitcoin debtor as being a 2% shareholder per 100k coins or a 0.2% shareholder per 10k btc
0.02% shareholder for 1kcoins
0.002% shareholder for 100btc (ill leave you to break it down to measure how much share holdings you will receive.)
next pierce will do the following
imagine after 1 year, mtgox earns ~50kbtc from fee's (guestimate 136kvolume per day @ 0.1%fee=136coin/day=49640/year fee's)
pierce will first take a cut out to cover costs.
so his CEO wage lets say he is $150,000 salary ~3000btc
he then takes out travel expenses hotels fine food ~1000btc (all business expenses for him and his associates to have weekly meetings)
he then takes out operational costs. oh and by the way he will most probably employ himself as advisor/securtiy or something ~1000btc
you might start seeing the pattern here, he is already mounting up to syphon off 5k bitcoins
now thats a nice 10% cut in his side pocket. leaving 45k coins.
so he is 84% shareholder. that means out of 45k coins left he takes 37800btc and leaves 7200btc.
this 7200 is then divided up to the customers in debt. so that means this:
100k coin debt= 900coins dividend
10k coin debt=90 coin dividend
1k coin debt=9 coin dividend
100coin debt=0.9coin dividend
10coin debt=0.09coin dividend
basically if mtgox owes you $4500 in todays prices, you will only get $4.05 as a yearly dividend
one of his 'supporters' has already been highlighted and had their anonimity removed. beaugas is a dead friend of pierce. and there are a few other people too. they are easy to spot because they spout out the same statement "he seems such a nice guy". you may recognise these words as the same words you hear people around conmen use. then after getting stung by the conmen, if they are not in on the game the motto then becomes 'i would never in a million years expect this from him, he seemed such a nice guy'
this is why its best to know the strategies he has employed in the past to get alot of money and leave people in debt. his history is to leave people with small dividends and then slowly offer them more % of the share, until he can walk away from the company with no ties....... then the ball drops and the share holders are left accountable to new customers.
GoCoin probably already went through their $500K USD VC funding with little to show for it. Care to guess which ones of the following TRULY did put up VC and which ones close to Brock Pierce only claimed to put up funds?  |
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I wish I could change my avatar image.  From profile settings. Changing avatars is currently not possible.Sig updated.. Nice sig. I just wish the EFF didn't come up so often during my searches unrelated to them, for it makes me want to did deeper, and I'm not quite ready for that rabbit hole if one exist. |
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This thread reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuseEverybody it is time for a moral PANIC! Get your pitchforks we have some witches and things to hunt because someone is saying some stuff and it is making me feel something... emotion! LOUD NOISES! Would you believe you're the forth DogeCoin advocate that has come out against those on the other side of the fence you're on? |
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Good move. We should have a website make an article about this.
What about coindesk?
New member of the Bitcoin Foundation Board makes video defending impropriety allegations (interestingly, only the "old" allegations...). Foundation members publicly disclaim their membership. Bitcoin news-sites do not run a story. Interesting. Just like they didn't run the story about Audumn Radtke's suicide(?) till over a week later, in spite of GoCoin sharing an apartment cum office with her and First Meta. |
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Interesting read, thank you for this, Lost Dutchman.
Thak you for you kind reply and you are also quite welcome! Sad part of it is, they are probably telling the ruth. I think those are a group of guys with little or no real-world experience who got in over their heads and became overwhelmed by circumstances. My take is that http://scounsel.com/adam-t-ettinger/ and HashFast's two marketers, Long Dong Johnson and Skropenis, are somehow in bed with Brock Pierce, having already connected Adam to BP. I've already proved all the Save Gox crew were around during the mybitcoin.com and Bruce Wagner and Pattaya Bitcoin Expo[se] and pants-half-off [sale] fun days. My only regret is that RandyFolds and BitcoinPorn and Matthew N. Wright aren't around to join in on the conversations. |
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He points to Charlie Shrem (former BitInstant CEO and accused money launderer), Mark Karpeles (former Mt. Gox CEO), and Brock Pierce (newly-elected board member who has dealt with legal issues of his own) as reasons why the Foundation is headed the wrong way. it's beginning to look like 'the heads of the 5 families' from the Godfather. "Just wanted to thank you for writing this. It was a courageous move, but I think very important. I don’t know what to make of this whole story, and I feel terrible for Brock if he’s just a victim in all this as well. But, we just can’t afford more scandal for the industry or the foundation in particular right now." Courageous move my fuckin' ass! Prior to me posting on Brock Pierce ~3 weeks ago, there were only 3-4 mundane posts pertaining to him on this forum. Now, his cohorts are exposing their user accounts on this forum, some stemming back over three years. |
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Please remove my name from the Bitcoin Foundation, I, Polycoin, am resigning. Dude, you need to go here https://bitcoinfoundation.org/forum/index.php?/topic/951-post-your-bitcoin-foundation-resignations-here/ then come back and let us know your queue position, unless you want to sell it, then I suggest going to the Marketplace section. Hey, I just thought of something. As people resign, I move up the ladder. Having never been in any bitcoin mining hardware queues, I find this... Not sure what I find, but I move up nonetheless. |
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