Are you fools pathetic - or what?

[JPage]

C'mon guys - this is just crazy.  The poor guy went to JAIL yesterday.  He has done so much for the community.  His crime was TINY!  

This is all we managed to scrape up for him?  (.6 BTC)  What!?
https://blockchain.info/address/1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93

C'mon you cheap bastards, give the guy a few bucks.  



I challenge you, no, I demand you pick up your damn android and kick down a few bucks.  Just to make his first day feel a little better like someone actually cares.  I am sleeping in nice sheets tonight - he is sleeping with four roommates on canvas.  To answer this challenge, please send .111 bitcoin to 1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93 so we can see who agrees.

[MCHouston]

Two questions.  Who is that?  Why did he go to jail?

[tokeweed]

Two questions.  Who is that?  Why did he go to jail?

read..

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-first-felon-charlie-shrem-begins-2-year-sentence/

[JPage]

Two questions.  Who is that?  Why did he go to jail?

What are you kidding?  It is Charlie Schrem.  Definitely not a pedo.  He sold bitcoin to people who were supplying bitcoin to Silk Road.  It is the smallest crime imaginable after cross the road without permission.

[bigbitmine]

C'mon guys - this is just crazy.  The poor guy went to JAIL yesterday.  He has done so much for the community.  His crime was TINY!  

This is all we managed to scrape up for him?  (.6 BTC)  What!?
https://blockchain.info/address/1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93

C'mon you cheap bastards, give the guy a few bucks.  



I challenge you, no, I demand you pick up your damn android and kick down a few bucks.  Just to make his first day feel a little better like someone actually cares.  I am sleeping in nice sheets tonight - he is sleeping with four roommates on canvas.  To answer this challenge, please send .111 bitcoin to 1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93 so we can see who agrees.

You DEMAND???  Go fuck yourself!

[tokeweed]

Wasn't he a pedo or something like that?

and I doubt he is sleeping on canvas he is able to tweet from jail, pretty sure it's low security.

Nah.  All he had were a couple of jailbait pics in his laptop.

[JPage]

Wasn't he a pedo or something like that?

and I doubt he is sleeping on canvas he is able to tweet from jail, pretty sure it's low security.

low security yeah, 'tweet' - I am not sure about that.

[tokeweed]

C'mon guys - this is just crazy.  The poor guy went to JAIL yesterday.  He has done so much for the community.  His crime was TINY!  

This is all we managed to scrape up for him?  (.6 BTC)  What!?
https://blockchain.info/address/1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93

C'mon you cheap bastards, give the guy a few bucks.  



I challenge you, no, I demand you pick up your damn android and kick down a few bucks.  Just to make his first day feel a little better like someone actually cares.  I am sleeping in nice sheets tonight - he is sleeping with four roommates on canvas.  To answer this challenge, please send .111 bitcoin to 1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93 so we can see who agrees.

Who's wallet is this?  Yours??

[JPage]

C'mon guys - this is just crazy.  The poor guy went to JAIL yesterday.  He has done so much for the community.  His crime was TINY!  

This is all we managed to scrape up for him?  (.6 BTC)  What!?
https://blockchain.info/address/1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93

C'mon you cheap bastards, give the guy a few bucks.  



I challenge you, no, I demand you pick up your damn android and kick down a few bucks.  Just to make his first day feel a little better like someone actually cares.  I am sleeping in nice sheets tonight - he is sleeping with four roommates on canvas.  To answer this challenge, please send .111 bitcoin to 1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93 so we can see who agrees.

Who's wallet is this?  Yours??

Charlie's wallet.  Read here: http://charlieshrem.com/so-im-going-to-prison/

[JPage]

You DEMAND???  Go fuck yourself!

'Demand' - its a French word.  It means 'ask'.  It if far more polite than you could imagine.  I am in France.  I mix English 'demand' and French 'demand' sometimes.  No big deal.  Now go send a buck.  Jesus.

[tspacepilot]

Two questions.  Who is that?  Why did he go to jail?

What are you kidding?  It is Charlie Schrem.  Definitely not a pedo.  He sold bitcoin to people who were supplying bitcoin to Silk Road.  It is the smallest crime imaginable after cross the road without permission.

But wait, I thought Silk Road would be receiving bitcoin from sales, not supplying it.  I have to admit, I know next-to-nothing about SR.  Nevertheless, I have to ask, did CS know what the folks he was supplying were doing with their BTC?

[12345mm]

the guy was consistently moving a large amount of btc (to drug traffickers) , without a money transmitter license , aka felony money laundering , per the law ... just so anyone else out there is aware - you CANNOT as a private citizen in the U.S. legally buy or sell over $5000 worth of any type of currency in a single day without a money transmitter license ... whether that's btc/pesos/euros/seashells/usd , if you're converting currency , there are legal restrictions on what you can and cannot do ... he broke the law , and now is in jail ... i wonder why nobody wants to give free money to a criminal money launderer ? ? ?

[tspacepilot]

the guy was consistently moving a large amount of btc (to drug traffickers) , without a money transmitter license , aka felony money laundering , per the law ... just so anyone else out there is aware - you CANNOT as a private citizen in the U.S. legally buy or sell over $5000 worth of any type of currency in a single day without a money transmitter license ... whether that's btc/pesos/euros/seashells/usd , if you're converting currency , there are legal restrictions on what you can and cannot do ... he broke the law , and now is in jail ... i wonder why nobody wants to give free money to a criminal money launderer ? ? ?

I felt confident there was more to the story than what was posted in the OP.  I don't move anywhere near that amount of BTC (in fact, I'm basically just a hodler) however even I start to feel weird when someone says that someone went to jail for selling BTC.  I'm glad there's more to it than that.

[12345mm]

yup ... i mean that's basically the long and the short of it ... think about it like this ... if you were being brought bags of cash on the daily with tens of thousands of dollars , which you then deposited in your bank , and used to buy btc off exchanges so you could give those btc to the people bringing you bags of cash , you'd pretty well know that what you were doing was money laundering for criminals ... and that's exactly what he was doing ... so remember folks , only launder $4000 per day in btc for your criminal buddies , just to be on the safe side with exchange fluctuations , and then you'll be legal (ish) ...

[SaltySpitoon]

the guy was consistently moving a large amount of btc (to drug traffickers) , without a money transmitter license , aka felony money laundering , per the law ... just so anyone else out there is aware - you CANNOT as a private citizen in the U.S. legally buy or sell over $5000 worth of any type of currency in a single day without a money transmitter license ... whether that's btc/pesos/euros/seashells/usd , if you're converting currency , there are legal restrictions on what you can and cannot do ... he broke the law , and now is in jail ... i wonder why nobody wants to give free money to a criminal money launderer ? ? ?

He did have a money transmitter license. He owned Bitinstant which was legally registered in New York. You were only legally allowed to purchase $1k in BTC per day, however he found out that a user with connections to the silk road was bypassing the $1k/day limit. He then got nailed for his relationship to the Silk Road through that intermediary.

There are additional details in the case, but that is the gist. I dont know, I am personally a fan of Charlie Shrem, I am of the opinion that if this was a standard USD business and not a BTC business in question, he would have got a slap on the wrist and a warning that what he was doing could be considered illegal. People are quick to defend him, because this was one of the first cases of pretty openly biass of law enforcement targeting a Bitcoin business to send a message.

[bigbitmine]

You DEMAND???  Go fuck yourself!

'Demand' - its a French word.  It means 'ask'.  It if far more polite than you could imagine.  I am in France.  I mix English 'demand' and French 'demand' sometimes.  No big deal.  Now go send a buck.  Jesus.

Umm..  No!.  Now aller te faire foutre

[tspacepilot]

the guy was consistently moving a large amount of btc (to drug traffickers) , without a money transmitter license , aka felony money laundering , per the law ... just so anyone else out there is aware - you CANNOT as a private citizen in the U.S. legally buy or sell over $5000 worth of any type of currency in a single day without a money transmitter license ... whether that's btc/pesos/euros/seashells/usd , if you're converting currency , there are legal restrictions on what you can and cannot do ... he broke the law , and now is in jail ... i wonder why nobody wants to give free money to a criminal money launderer ? ? ?

He did have a money transmitter license. He owned Bitinstant which was legally registered in New York. You were only legally allowed to purchase $1k in BTC per day, however he found out that a user with connections to the silk road was bypassing the $1k/day limit. He then got nailed for his relationship to the Silk Road through that intermediary.

There are additional details in the case, but that is the gist. I dont know, I am personally a fan of Charlie Shrem, I am of the opinion that if this was a standard USD business and not a BTC business in question, he would have got a slap on the wrist and a warning that what he was doing could be considered illegal. People are quick to defend him, because this was one of the first cases of pretty openly biass of law enforcement targeting a Bitcoin business to send a message.

Thanks, Salty, I think I should obviously read up on this case a bit.  There's clearly waaay more to this than what was posted in the OP.

[spazzdla]

The bankers told their pigs to decimate anyone involved in Bitcoin.

Becareful.

[12345mm]

currency exchange license is different from money transmitter license as i understand it ... that's why some of the small time online btc places have that $1000 per day per customer limit , right ? (and why he was conducting what was considered a felony volume of currency conversion) ... in any case , he obviously did not have procedures in place to prevent bad actors from bypassing the legal limit , functionally looking the other way with inadequate identity verification ... but i was under the impression that he was , in addition to running his online exchange , conducting in person business , which was how he was popped in a sting yes ?

[OgNasty]

C'mon guys - this is just crazy.  The poor guy went to JAIL yesterday.  He has done so much for the community.  His crime was TINY!  

This is all we managed to scrape up for him?  (.6 BTC)  What!?
https://blockchain.info/address/1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93

C'mon you cheap bastards, give the guy a few bucks.  



I challenge you, no, I demand you pick up your damn android and kick down a few bucks.  Just to make his first day feel a little better like someone actually cares.  I am sleeping in nice sheets tonight - he is sleeping with four roommates on canvas.  To answer this challenge, please send .111 bitcoin to 1NEgShr962NMHXet3WTVzwuW2189JRrP93 so we can see who agrees.

It looks like bracek gave him 60 BTC.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=817069.0