The hilarity continues.  The persona 'poofKnuckle' is a long standing member and pillar of the NXT community.  Evil Dave is also trying to get people to give him more money.

https://nxtforum.org/general-discussion/is-the-word-%27muslim%27-not-allowed-here

-bm

He's right....NXT's 1billion coins were distributed to around 6 people...Worst distribution ever. Now they own all of NXT and dump whenever the price rises a little.

These posts, although unpleasant, are also necessary to learn and grow. If we don't understand what we are doing wrong we will continue to do so.

One of the main differences between Nxt and XCP is that NXT has a central lead, someone who is directly responsible and invested in the success of the currency. With XCP no one person is any more invested than the next. We all stand to gain and lose just as much as we invested.

NXT has someone to say "hey, this is a problem, so we are going to do this". Where as XCP doesn't have that central lead or authority. This was the decision of the developers to create a grass-roots free-growing enterprise and only the future will tell how it all turns out. I don't support this model and in the past I have voiced my opinions on the subject so I wont rehash them. It's also important to understand that NXT isn't limited by outside factors (BTC). NXT lives and dies by its own decisions. It is not arbitrarily limited or denied (OP return anyone?) by external forces (BTC developers). The initial XCP developers chose to attach this project to BTC for certain reasons and it was their right to choose so.

Hard to argue with that.

Just a heads-up from the Nxt world:

If you haven't seen this thread, please check it out:

"Big scam in NXT hundreds of BTC stolen with a one post"

Best estimate is that a scammer stole ~200 BTC from trusting Nxters through the Asset Exchange. The amount stolen has made the fellow who scammed us look like a small-change hustler...

Thankfully, this is one kind of "scam-dal" that has not plagued the NFD world! But please read through it and take it as a reminder to be on your guard. The trouble with the Asset Exchange is that it's 100% trust-based at the moment.

So, in the abstract, that big Nxt AE robbery was entirely foreseeable...but still...

So please be cautious. I don't know if it's me, but there seems to be a whole new crime wave directed against Nxt & its clones. The crypto world, at least seemingly, has gotten more dangerous recently . "Safety first" is inconvenient, but it doesn't hurt.

EDIT: Please withhold your judgement about the incident until all the facts are in. I meant for this post to be a "it can happen to you..." cautionary note, and nothing more.

So they're putting bounties for people to chase forum members that point out negative facts of their project? do boring things with text to find sockpuppets.
This is ridiculous, what's next? Bounties to kill people that spread fud? ffs

I can't believe how 2 weeks old member of community could get 1M NXT for development 

Ethereum is going to allow everyone to be able to participate, it will be well distributed for everyone without 50x profit instant for insiders.

Ethereum > NXT.

Can't wait to buy Ether along with all my BTC, LTC, DOGE nrothers who care about a fair launch and not just cutting people's hearts out and stealing their money like the NXT leader just stole $250,000.00 cash on a fake trade.  Now he is saying it is a hacker - but even if you believe that lie it means NXt is not secure.

If this john fellow was in fact a scammer than that is unfortunate, but what does this really change? is the code any different than it was yesterday? is the technology any different? did we suddenly not solve the proof of stake problem? everyone should quit being so dramatic and just for christ sake, use escrow next time.

This guy is the major public face of NXT.
He was at the convention booth promoting NXT as the public face of NXT.
Again - proof NXT is to the core a scam - he knew it and wanted BTC only.

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Hi Tai!

when are you posting this video to the internet for everyone to view?

-bm

Here are some observations:

1)  It appears the majority of the btc in the account belong to the scammer and was used to "prime the pump" and create a sense of "social proof" to make it seem legit.  The bitcoins were sent into the account in roughly 3 min and roughly 15 min intervals which is weird.... statistically, it doesn't appear to be statistically probable that random people around the world would just send btc in precise time intervals like that which leads me to think that probably 175 of the those 202 btc already belong to the scammer.

2)  There has NOT been conclusive evidence that John Manglaviti is guilty nor innoccent.  I have friends sitting in u.s. prisons for being accused of drug crimes in which they did not commit or even know about so let's make sure we have irrefutable evidence before we start making judgement or accusations.

Having "feelings about the guy" or he "screaming about how great he was" will probably not constitute as "evidence" in most people's eyes or in any court.

3) I personally know that nearly half a dozen people are in direct contact with John investigating this matter at the moment and they will probably share their findings once they have some solid proof of guilt or innocence.

4)  John is not the "public face" or "public figure" or "leader" of nxt.  We have ricky james, myself, brian snyder, etc. and many others who have spoken publicly about nxt.  does that make us the public figure of nxt? probably not.  all it means is that we spoke about nxt in public.  Don't kid yourself about this "public" or "leader" nonsense.

5) Some say, "The statue of limitations for these sort of crimes is 7 years or less."  This is not true. In the U.S. if the police does not know that a crime existed there is no statue of limitation.  A statue of limitation begins when the police are fully aware that a crime happened and chose not to pursue it. in this case, a crime has occurred but no one knows who is the perpetrator so the crime can be picked up at any time when the police decide to investigate it.

6) The nxt community is made up of very talented and smart individuals n fairly experienced in crypto.  Accusing the nxt community of being foolish about giving up 200 btc to a scammer is retarded especiallly when the majority of the btc in the scammer's account was owned by the scammer himself.  Let's not make a mountain out of an ant hill.

7)  The best way to clear up this mess n move on is not to make accusations but to put yourself in the shoes of John and ask yourself.... if you were innocent... what would you do to provide conclusive evidence that you were innocent to the community?  Then ask John to provide the evidence.
If John is guilty then I do hope he gets what he deserves.  However, if he is innocent, it would be a shame to slam an innocent person with a lifetime ban in crypto.

My comments here are just my opinions based on the experiences I've had with the U.S. federal court systems.  Do not think that I believe John to be innocent or guilty.  I am simply stating what i observe and investigating the truth as well.

Tai Zen