It's probably been said already (didn't read all the responses) but the best thing to do is to first take a few days away to cool off. Once you are not quite as upset, review what factors led you to get scammed in the first place.

I am not talking simply realizing someone tricked you, I am talking why did you fall for the trick? You need to analyze what was it about the offer that so overpowered you to ignore your good judgement. Did you have any doubts at all beforehand or did you 100% trust the situation you were getting into? If the answer is yes, than you would need to analyze this as well.

If you did have doubts beforehand, but went ahead anyway, you need to figure out why you chose that direction. Simply saying greed is not enough, you need to understand your mental processes better to be better equipped to avoid situations like this in the future. The worse thing would be to have this negative experience polarize you to the other extreme and simply assume everything is a scam and avoid good opportunities altogether.

Is also listed in the OP, but here is a link: https://github.com/john-connor/papers/blob/708f488c8c17e08a12bc4bdb4fc5ac1e2aaf6e24/zerotime.pdf

I am sure you will find lots of people here with first hand knowledge of how to turn a 5 BTC investment into only 1 BTC, often in a matter of just a few hours/days. I will leave you in their capable hands as my expertise in these matters still leaves me with painful mental scars.

I think it's his hobby to bring dead threads back to life, I have seen quite a few being resurrected over the past few days. He is some sort of crypto-forum necromancer.

But to the topic at hand, I agree with what has been said that this is supposed to be Bitcoin Talk Forum, not altcoin talk. Be thankful that there is an alt section at all, so let's not push the hospitality of our hosts.

Another possibility could be that his former accounts were turned over to the Japanese authorities for investigative purposes?

Does Kentucky even have scientists?

I occasionally spend Bitcoin, I found it easier at times especially online. If I do spend Bitcoin I will usually replace what I spent, either ahead of or right after the purchase, so my balance always stays even in BTC.

About time he gets around to spending them. The sooner those mystery coins are in circulation the sooner they can get priced in the market and Bitcoin can take off. There is probably a lot of fear that if the market got too high in the future, say in the $10,000 per BTC range those millions would suddenly be shaken loose and the market dump.

Yes, once he has bought as much as he can sub $300 he will suddenly have a change of heart.

That's exactly what I was thinking when I read the title. After all, he didn't make his billions by announcing what he was doing ahead of time to everyone.

I agree with your sentiment about actions speaking louder than words, but at least it is being backed by someone with the bankroll to actually make it happen. Anyway, this type of news is always helpful to counter the negative Bitcoin seems to get a lot of lately.

That is pretty close to my figures, I have 2 - 280x and the entire rig pulls ~550 watts from the wall. I believe it draws ~ 50 watts idle, so I would say about 250 watts per card is pretty close.

Blackjack, poker, and roulette for me.

Also this:

What more do you want trollboy? You stated "i bet its userbase not more than 50 people" and I just showed you in one small subset of the user base there are more than 50 users. By the way, what did I win? I suppose you won't even honor your wagers.

Also, for thinking 125 users is "extremely bad", I just jumped on a few other coins irc channels and think it is doing quite well. For example, Litecoin only has ~250 users for being out almost 4 years.

Anyway, unless you pay up the bet I am through feeding trolls.

What's ww3, a convention or something?

Well the vannillacoin irc has 125 people in it as I type this, so that's > 50.....

Haters going to hate.

Congrats on surpassing $1 mil in market cap.  

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vanillacoin/

If you can't do the time, don't do the crime.

Pretty simple IMHO, quit feeling sorry for him, he had plenty of opportunities to get help long before it got out of control. If he would have even attempted to bring in people who knew how to run a business properly and actually let them do their jobs, he wouldn't be facing this. He actively covered things up and when he brought people in to help, he wouldn't let them see copies of the books, etc. As one of the former employees stated, it was more like he was looking for a fall guy than actual help to get things in order.

So, what does this mean, time to buy more?

So does that mean 0.00000001 VNL is 1 John?