Most here are familiar with Zhou Tong's last tweet on Twitter which, on the surface, seems rather mundane.
For the record, only one person has retweeted that post.
George Henderson
@Angel_Investor1Angel Investment and Venture Capital News and Info for Entrepreneurs and private equity investors.
New York, USA
(Feel free to follow that lead, for I've yet not.)Some of you may have taken the liberty a while back and did some research on
SurfAir and found the following:
Surf Air (formerly PlaneRed) is starting an all-you-can-fly membership airline that will offer first-class travel on executive aircraft in and out of local airports. Launching Summer 2012, we are simplifying and enhancing the flying experience.
But did you know that a link from that same page offers up the following:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/06/members-only-airline-surf-air-raises-series-a-from-anthem-nea-others-including-jared-leto/Surf Air, a new membership-based air service providing short jaunts between California hot spots like Palo Alto, Monterey, Santa Barbara and L.A., has just closed its Series A. And look who invested:
Jared Leto, noted actor/musician/entrepreneur. Leto has already launched three businesses –
The Hive, The One and Only Golden Tickets, and Vyrt – so he’s no stranger to the startup scene at this point. But his investment in this potentially disruptive new airline should turn some heads. (Actor/investor is the new actor/director, apparently.)
It's at this point that I want to go on record by stating that currently I have no reason to believe that Jared Leto is directly affiliated with any Bitcoin entity, including Bitcoinica or pairateat40's alleged Ponzi. But if I do find such a strong connection, I will publish it. That said, please bear with me as I outline why Jared Leto is important to the the presentation of this exposé.
Now I will connect the dots to Pirate.
Last night (early this morning), I published
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=104221.msg1145593#msg1145593 and presented the following image, first offered up on this forum by cablepair
here.
Source:
http://www.veidt.com/?p=119You may be asking yourself how an image of a purposely overweight actor has anything to do with two recent episodes involving Bitcoin. I, too, asked myself the same question when the image of first introduced. After firing up Google image search (used to use Tineye a couple years ago, but forgone that practice), I stumbled upon this revelation.
The following image will aid in how Jared Leto entered into the fuller scheme of things.
The key part for this discussion is of Zach Nakaska:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/znakaska AND https://plus.google.com/117414643911834461861/postsIn Zack's circle on Google+, we find
Charles Lauzon who uses the following image as his avatar.
Interesting, to say the least, that a person of Charles' (Charly, Charley, Chuck) stature would choose such an avatar, but he did, and currently I have no idea as to why.
So, who is Charles Lauzon?
Meet Charles Lauzon:
http://goo.gl/fw5d5 (I shorten the Linkein URL)
Charles Lauzon
Process Industries/Manufacturing/Oil and Gas/ Waste Management in Eastern Europe/Russia/Africa/ME/Central Asia
Paris Area, France Renewables & Environment
Current
Expert on PPP, planning, financial studies, waste management, industrial development at Acciona Engineering
Previous
Consilu Judetean Giurgiu, Acciona, Fichtner
Education
MBA at INSEAD
You may now be thinking to yourself that you've seen that likeness before. I did and, lo and behold, I found it. But first, a little more on Chucky Boy.
Charles Lauzon (a different link) likes to meet up with the boys every now and then. Here's another image of Charly (see name tag).
Looking a little more familiar?
But, before I present to you the image that connects him to Pirate, let's first visit a place where Charly likes once hund with future Bitcoiners.
(I did edit this sentence during the initial penning of this post to reflect the '09 dated quote below)On March 24, 2009 (this may be my first oops! moment on this thread, but let's please continue), Charles Lauzon stopped by this meetup group to pen the following.
Robit, enjoy Paris! Time here can be short...
Robit is short for Robert Salita who runs this [imghttp://www.meetup.com/ParisHackers/members/2807529/]http://hacker group in Paris[/img].
About the meetup group:
We are a group of hackers (not crackers), often readers of Hacker News, that meet regularly in Paris to discuss a wide area of topics like Entrepreneurship, Node.js, Fundraising, Webdesign, Apple fanboyism, FabLabs, Clojure, Start-up stories, arcane C++ optimization tricks, BitCoin, ramen profitability, … you get the idea : whatever might be hot and interesting.
Most likely, BitCoin was added prior to Bitcoiners using the more common spelling--Bitcoin.
Granted, there are several talking points within this post that possibly merit further discussion, but I guess I need to cut to the chase and present my closing argument.
Do you remember seeing this guy? (I placed the image of Charles Lauzon to his right for comparison purposes)
You win mega bonus points if you guessed:
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=26935132&pid=35604655&authType=name&authToken=u32K&trk=pbmapTrenton Shaver
Website Marketing Manager at Thunderbolt International, Inc.
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area Health, Wellness and Fitness
Current
Thunderbolt International, Inc., Spectrum Electronics, Inc.
Previous
Hard Rock Cafe, Washington DC, Miami, FL, Central Investigation Bureau, Inc., United States Navy
Education
BA at Texas A&M University
~Bruno~