don't know him, but his posts are very similar to a confidence trickster.

some things that have bothered me:
trying to launch a brand, anyone with a business brain knows you don't launch incomplete products and services.
trying to do too many "large" scale projects at once, no one can successfully launch multiple different businesses at the same time.
everything seems to have an alternate motive.
no idea how big business is done.. (ie. purchasing 100+ gpus.. you go to the source and make the manufacturers tender for your business).
to eager to list accomplishments.
has no idea how the legal system works, case in point would be mybitcoin investigation.
wants to be the official bitcoin spokesperson and representative.

If he has the resources, why does he do all the work ? and why are the websites incomplete?

Oh and lastly.. why doesn't he just spend us$10 million.. im sure he has way more.. buy out mtgox.com, tradehill.com and purchase the rights for bitcoin.org ... Or better yet, buy the trademark and IP of bitcoin, and sue everyone.

I'll assume you're directly your comment toward Matthew with UABB and not the OP (me, Phinnaeus Gage, Bruno, or whatever my name is this week).

I just read the post you provided: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=33478.msg418895#msg418895 Maybe hypercritical, maybe not. Either way, the advise he provided sounded sound to me. Spearheading donations could of been a no-no. I missed that post. No need to provide it for I'll take your word on it that he did unless shown otherwise. A slower adaptation could have been a wiser choice.

I want to thank you too, kookiekrak for your comments and insight.

Just in case you guys didn't already read it, it seemed pertinent to add it here as well.

The UABB is spearheading a legal and unbiased investigation into MyBitcoin.com but needs your support. Discussion about MyBitcoin.com is very healthy for the sharing of ideas and suggestions on how to tackle this very serious and difficult problem, but nothing will be done about it through forum posts.


Please start contributing to the actual investigation by adding your affidavit, attaching evidence of funds lost, and contributing to the fund to pay for international investigators. Thank you.


http://uabci.org/redmine/projects/mbci

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The UABB is a not-for-profit organization to promote safe, honest and secure transactions between consumers and merchants, provide a proper method of consumer complaints, as well as optional escrow and dispute resolution services.

The investigationattempt to gather information to help lead to an investigation by the UABB does not require, ask for, nor allow donations at this point and will hopefully never need to. It is merely a campaign to find the truth of the MyBitcoin situation. Ordinarily it is not in the boundaries of the UABB to do such a thing unless MyBitcoin had been an accredited member. It is being treated as a special case due to the high public interest and the relevance to both consumers and business owners across the Bitcoin community.

It is already a failing attempt however, as the previously vocal victims of MyBitcoin have signed up to participate in the project, but have provided absolutely no data of any kind to date. If things move on in this direction much longer, the UABB will cancel its efforts and let the community once again handle it in its own unorganized way.

Matthew N. Wright

Not a lawyer. Participating in this purely for personal curiosity. I work with the Korean government in academic fraud investigations primarily, but do not bring that to the table. I am a CS major who has owned an international college prep school in South Korea for over 3 years. I am involved in Bitcoin because it is a reasonable choice for a hobby for the next 10 years. I am not a politician nor am I lawyer, but we will be hiring one when the time comes. Discussions can be done on the forums of course, but resource gathering for investigations can be hard to organize and gets easily cluttered if left to forums only, thus a project management section has been created for the specific purpose.

I do not give guarantees and therefor need no guarantors. Although it appears that I am asking for donations, that was just a very small side note and in other forums (as well as at the link given) I have attempted to make it very clear that donations will never be asked for unless the occasion specifically calls for it, and we are unable to handle the expenses on our own (the UABB that is).

Just sold out my stock for the rest of the week! I will leave it up to the customer to identify themselves if they like. I understand if you like your privacy but I would appreciate it - helps reassure people I am not up to anything funny.  Contact me if you want to pre-order for when I get the next lot (very soon!). First come first serve.

PM Sent, would you be able to post you Bitcoin address here so that orders can be completely placed while you are offline?

++ bought few copy for my fps clan mates as gift. Fast reply and hazzle free business.

//and yes i bought hb from another seller too as i want to support all who make somekind business with bitcoins.

You're trying to hard, dude

 I pity the fool who falls for this. Looks like an obvious scam attempt to me.
 
The idea that you would do this without charging any fee whatsoever is ridiculous.

How is this different from Shift?

kookiekrak:
Did they verify in any way that they are the real Dwolla and not some scam?