I feel his idea merited consideration. Merchants outside the Bitcoin community constantly reinforce the idea of security on their web sites with this badge and that badge and "tested by whomever" badges. People want to feel safe. Bitcoin usage doesn't have the safest feel to it so maybe an organization that champions Bitcoin issues is valuable. It just turned out maybe Matt wasn't the #1 candidate to run an organization that is meant to instill trust.

He had talked about "UABB is happening even if i'm not involved" so maybe if he's truly that passionate he could work with others to continue it just not with him involved in any titled position. Just throwing some thoughts out there...

It's not that average people are stupid, its that the folks innovating Bitcoin are smarter than average about Bitcoin and have created a beast that accomplishes cool functionality with not-so-much focus on usability. Average people like functionality but CRAVE usability. Code developers in general, no matter the project, do not hold as high regard for usability as they do functionality -- this is the eternal divide between left and right brain.

Drupal CMS went through this in last couple of years. Mega-functionality in Drupal but not as usable as average Joe wants. Drupal avoided this issue for as long as it could believing "if it does cool stuff, people will come to it no matter how unusable". The community eventually paid to conduct studies about the open source Drupal CMS product, watching people on video trying to use their product, and finally realized: we need to improve usability to grow the user base.

I believe Bitcoin will survive but if it can't survive the world at large, with all its clowns, trolls and scammers I'd rather know now. Mommy can't protect it from the world.

Mostly it seems like facts. There's some gossip I guess. Some poking fun. But mostly its facts that Matt himself left here and all over the internet for us to find.

He's like an Arrogant Easter Bunny, leaving precious eggs of insight into his personality gently hidden throughout the forums of the internet's wastelands. The eggs are there, only just a little out of sight, waiting for folks to walk by and see them, only these eggs are rotten so one is more likely to smell them first.

Kuods to the folks at SomethingAwful.com who've have found a ton of his rotten eggs (assuming the screen names are our same beloved Bitmole). I don't know where they find the time but it is absolutely amazing what this bunny is up to.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3413928&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=392#post394248384

What I can't yet fathom is how Wright has the time to post so much on so many sites. Apparently he also uses the nick "miljeong" often and googling it reveals another basket of stinky eggs. I can only assume Matthew has discovered time travel yet uses it only to increase post counts on all of the world's forums. The attention he craves is massive.

I told you Bitmole has boundless energy and loves Bitcoin. He could well be responsible for the next big climb in Bitcoin value.
BTW, the guitar video was fun but I might have actually pooped my pants in laughter if the guy playing guitar had a mustache like the photo you posted.

lol, yes. You might add "I'm still trying to wrap my head around a home schooled guy with a diploma mill degree setting up a private school using public school education materials..."

This may sound a bit convoluted however, while I believe it is resoundingly beneficial for most everyone that the threads not be removed, I do not regret being willing to take down that thread because I was honoring a resolution to our disagreement. If you read closely you'll see each time I mention it I pretty much say the same thing: it was his request and I agreed out of respect for our resolution. I knew what he was doing.

If you read the threads (and actually managed to care about 2 nincompoops arguing, lol) I said a couple times that once he paid I would post an apology. I never did. That was because it was a part of our agreement. His actual request at the end was for me to delete some posts and threads AND apologize, which would have meant there would be no record of our disagreement, only my apology post. That wouldn't have played out so well for me or the truth.

The apology, if it had been posted, would've been to comply with an agreement and would've been along the lines of "my belief that you never intended to pay was, in the end, erroneous because you did indeed borrow money and pay me." From my perspective there wasn't anything else to apologize for. He had been dishonest. He was also pushing back the payment time. These are classic scam moves that led me to believe he wouldn't pay me. I had a sense he did care about his online credibility, so that meant my only hope of payment was to embarrass him publicly. I did so. He claimed my actions, especially the release of "his" artwork, warranted the non-payment however eventually I was paid.

The debate about whether he would have paid without my prompting (and without the urging of maybe half the thread respondents, and without the scammer tag the mods put on him until he paid, and without the loan he was given) can rage on. It's like politics and religion; no one will be swayed from their beliefs.

It may be hard to see because I edited some posts to comply but from my perspective there was more to the story than just the late 1BTC payment. Some of it has been whitewashed into simply being a story of "purchaser couldn't pay immediately, asked for an extension; Keyser refused and immediately went to the forum to shout scam."

What are you talking about? Matt is the one who forced Tom to post the receivership notice on MyBitcoin.com. Matt, in a Fedora and London Fog jacket, flew to Nevis and camped a PO Box, surviving on BitMunchies.com until Tom attempted to sneak in and grab all the KMart junk mail flyers. It was really a very simple case to crack.

Yes I would. He told me he used to run a school but now works with the Korean Police Force. I trust someone like that would not take advantage of me. I mean, he used to work with kids so he obviously has a big heart. And he works with the police... how could a policeman be corrupt? Doesn't make sense to NOT trust him with a car purchase. Actually it works out rather nicely as I can just go ahead and send him the BTC and he'll make arrangements to get the car to me ASAP.

Matthew made it onto the Bitcoin Show at @47:40:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZldY-ZBBE

I don't know if the site posted is legitimate or what the deal is but user Taxlow posted a link to an apparent Wikipedia deletion that may shed light on Matt's university degree situation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=34016.msg429272#msg429272
...not that it matters to me if he graduated from a university or not. Sure as heck-fire I ain't got no uppity college degree none neither. Maybe it's just grist for speculation on why Korea was so tough on his school. It'd be a shame if they put pressure on him just because his degree was from a mill. But if the article was written by Matt then at least he's taking steps to correct it, so he says.

It's possible he was a translator because speaking 2 languages is very easy for him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JQPJFGr2h4

Just conjecture but it may be that Bitmole also considered suicide and so they had something in common:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQvGUfflnBE
... either way, if they were able to trade stories and console each other then good for them.

Matt,
These seem too young to be college age so they must be some other school you visited or were/are a part of? I guess it could also be you just reading for the kids at a local library? Or maybe these are the children's books you wrote - is there an ISBN for those because we might be able to support you by purchasing the books through Amazon? Though maybe they're only available in Korea? This one sounds like the kids enjoyed it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnwK5s7EHkI

I'd like to know the rules of this game. Is it really just whoever laughs loses? Looks like fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoCMtlTGoQw

Let's not whitewash anything. In the end we resolved our difference by your borrowing 1BTC to pay me. While the payment resolved one glaring aspect in our disagreement, there were other aspects that I simply "agreed to disagree" with you on. The facts are still there for anyone to see, except that at your urging and in the spirit of our resolution I did delete a few posts so some things may seem odd at this point.

Maybe its best if you just leave it at "I stood my ground and paid for the artwork."

Wow. Just... wow.

rotfl

Each of us can only do his own research and in the end make up his own mind about Matt's efforts. Matt definitely is a boiling pot of boundless energy, optimism and seems to care about Bitcoin. My opinion is that he does have sincerity on some level and a grand unfocused vision in which "details" get in the way (or he's BAT SHIT CRAZY, I can't tell).

Sometimes those "details" are things like having money in the bank before promising it -- putting the cart before the horse. Sometimes those details are things like telling the entire community you WILL fly to West Indies to take care of the MyBitcoin issue, then pulling back to say you're offering to do so for donations, then sliding further back to say you won't do it at all. I don't think its nefarious but such details have a bad way of biting you in the ass. It's hard, and goodness knows I fail at this one enough, but think before you speak.

I'm sorta rooting for him to come through since it looks like he's in personal turmoil. We all have multiple parts to our personalities; we're not JUST a plumber but maybe we also create stained glass pieces at night; we're not JUST a lawyer but also participate in a Rugby league on weekends. But Matt's like a Freudian id geyser, spraying unfocused creativity all over the place; between U.S. and Korea, starting schools, running a 20,000+ GPU farm, joining police forces, living the YouTube rock star lifestyle (his YouTube account is found easily enough), herding Bitcoin cats via the UBB, being an artist, filmmaker, his YouTube / Facebook / Twitter accounts and whatever the other 900 projects are. Somehow he doesn't look more than 22. If he manages to channel all of this into one or 2 finished projects it could well be of benefit, and he does seem determined, though I think his plans could be too scattered to get to the finish line.

Time will tell. I see 2 paths ahead: he either learns to tone down the arrogance and channel the energy into some interesting finalized projects; or he continues to spiral off into insanity with 1000 projects that never come to fruition because the "unwashed masses" are so ignorant. This may just be a matter of him needing to grow up a little.

My advice to Matt is:
1) You're obviously intelligent and learning new things comes easier to you than it does to many others. You struggle with this gift because others mostly don't possess it -- and that just irritates the hell out of you. This gift is a double-edged sword. You squander it by looking down on those who don't have it. Ease off on your arrogance. You're smart but there is always someone in the world smarter and/or more talented than you. Until you do learn to temper your ego, look into finding a marketing person to be the "voice" of your organizations.
2) Like every good writer knows: show, don't tell. Don't tell us all the wonderful things you're going to do for Korea, for Bitcoin, for the world; it makes you sound manic. Instead go focus quietly on those goals. When you achieve them, then come shout it to the world. You'll receive all the glory and praise you crave.

Hopefully their process goes through more verification than the rep's posts have. A professional banking establishment representative whose grammar and spelling is that off the mark should be sending red flags to most.

I think she's just busy. Being in the porn industry, her inbox is constantly stuffed.
(ba-da-BING! thank you. I'll be here all week...)
On a serious note I did the same as you. After reading her intelligent posts in that thread I checked to see if she had other posts but noticed it had been a month since her last login.