Piece of Shit Bitcoiners et al. Hall of Fame

[QuestionAuthority]

If you want a link just try reading the last two pages of this thread and see if that will work for you: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82866.msg3775936#msg3775936

[QuestionAuthority]

I don't see James McCarthy or Vladimir Marchenko on there either. Just for fun here's some more info on Ryan Kennedy for you.

Remember Ryan Kennedy, AKA Alex Green? He’s the former Moolah chief who got arrested in the UK last year on charges of stealing circa $1.8 million worth of bitcoin. Well, he’s back in custody on a different charge altogether. Local media in the UK, specifically the town of Bristol, reported that Kennedy has just been arrested on rape and sexual assault charges.

The Bristol Post documented a court appearance that took place on February 1, 2016, at which Kennedy was accused of fourteen total charges; among them rape, sexual activity without consent and various other sexual assault related charges.

We don’t know yet how the case will play out, and obviously are not n a position to comment on the likelihood of his guilt, but we know the charges cover the period 2007-2015, and that Kennedy has plead not guilty to all of them. We also know there are five separate women involved, each of which has accused him of rape at least once.

Information is pretty thin on the ground at the moment, but we’ll stay on top of the story and bring you any developments as they happen. As things stand, he’s in custody, and it looks as though he will stay there until litigation commences – scheduled for a May start.

For those readers not familiar with Ryan Kennedy, he is commonly referred to as the man who killed dogecoin. A few years back he started handing out large dogecoin tips to seemingly random users on Reddit, and used the reputation this errant him to raise the money to expand and maintain an exchange Kennedy was running called Moolah.

After a successful period, he set out to buy another exchange – MintPal – which was reelig from a security breach, with the (stated) goal of improving the platform’s security and expanding its userbase. He raised more money to do so, and took a 35% stake in MintPal through his company Moolah. They set about the task, but the exchange failed miserably, dogged by technical issues and shut down after a matter of days’ post-relaunch.

Then things got bad. People started reporting that they couldn’t withdraw capital, rumors spread that Kennedy (at that time he was going by the pseudonym Alex Green) was not who he said he was, and Syscoin, an altcoin organization that at one time held up to $200,000 with the exchange, started litigation for recovery.

Shortly after, Green came out as being Kennedy, shut down the exchange, declared Moolah bankrupt and – essentially – disappeared. For a while he claimed he was processing withdrawals (we’ve never seen any evidence of this so we can’t really comment on the validity of these claims), but then in February last year, and as mentioned, UK authorities arrested him on charges related to the Syscoin funds.

Taken from http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/02/08/bitcoin-scammer-kennedy-aka-green-arrested-on-sexual-assault-charges/

[QuestionAuthority]

I also don't see Alberto Armandi from Bitscalper or Andrew Nollan of BitArb/Shades Minoco. Also Leandro Cesar of Bitcoin Rain.

[Gleb Gamow]

I also don't see Alberto Armandi from Bitscalper or Andrew Nollan of BitArb/Shades Minoco. Also Leandro Cesar of Bitcoin Rain.

Currently looking for good info against Vladimir Marchenko.

Alberto just added prior to your post. Nollan seems to be a given after I check, and first time I've encountered Cesar (I believe).

Taking a break to do some spring cleanup. Back in a couple hours or so.

[Gleb Gamow]

I also don't see Alberto Armandi from Bitscalper or Andrew Nollan of BitArb/Shades Minoco. Also Leandro Cesar of Bitcoin Rain.

Above complete.

QA, please give me something concrete to peg Vladimir Marchenko with. I'm echoing the sentiment, but still at a lost, losing mega masturbation time seeking a definitive source to peg.

[suchmoon]

concrete

Here you go:



Sorry, I got nothing on Marchenko, but here is a couple more:

Sergey Mavrodi (MMM)

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/02/29/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mmm-bitcoin-scam/

Ruja Ignatova (OneCoin) - could be a fake person, but the scam is real. You can find many other names linked to this scam if you google around.

http://cointelegraph.com/news/one-coin-much-scam-onecoin-exposed-as-global-mlm-ponzi-scheme

[Gleb Gamow]

concrete

Here you go:



Sorry, I got nothing on Marchenko, but here is a couple more:

Sergey Mavrodi (MMM)

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/02/29/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-mmm-bitcoin-scam/

Ruja Ignatova (OneCoin) - could be a fake person, but the scam is real. You can find many other names linked to this scam if you google around.

http://cointelegraph.com/news/one-coin-much-scam-onecoin-exposed-as-global-mlm-ponzi-scheme

Done. Thanks, SuchSuchSuch.

[QuestionAuthority]

I also don't see Alberto Armandi from Bitscalper or Andrew Nollan of BitArb/Shades Minoco. Also Leandro Cesar of Bitcoin Rain.

Above complete.

QA, please give me something concrete to peg Vladimir Marchenko with. I'm echoing the sentiment, but still at a lost, losing mega masturbation time seeking a definitive source to peg.

I looked for some info on the original bitcoin magazine sale scam and his ASIC mining scam and couldn't find them either. Maybe we can make a new list later for "scumbags you shouldn't trust" or something like that. lol

Also, look up the scams of Deathandtaxes and cypherdoc. Their real names are out there but I can't remember them right now. Cypherdoc is a ballsy one. He fucked over Greg Maxwell. lol

PS: the wife said to say hi back at you. She said to tell you to stop wearing pink tutus. Black is more your color. rofl

[Gleb Gamow]

I also don't see Alberto Armandi from Bitscalper or Andrew Nollan of BitArb/Shades Minoco. Also Leandro Cesar of Bitcoin Rain.

Above complete.

QA, please give me something concrete to peg Vladimir Marchenko with. I'm echoing the sentiment, but still at a lost, losing mega masturbation time seeking a definitive source to peg.

I looked for some info on the original bitcoin magazine sale scam and his ASIC mining scam and couldn't find them either. Maybe we can make a new list later for "scumbags you shouldn't trust" or something like that. lol

Also, look up the scams of Deathandtaxes and cypherdoc. Their real names are out there but I can't remember them right now. Cypherdoc is a ballsy one. He fucked over Greg Maxwell. lol

PS: the wife said to say hi back at you. She said to tell you to stop wearing pink tutus. Black is more your color. rofl

I got Cypherdoc (last name Lowe, HashFast scam). I recall something about D&T so looking now.

Edit: Gerald Davis  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=998257

[suchmoon]

How about

Pankaj Bhardwaj (escrow.ms)

Eric Charn Hung Lew (Lau) (Master-P) nevermind

I think I know more scammers by name than I have friends IRL... pathetic me.

[Gleb Gamow]

How about

Pankaj Bhardwaj (escrow.ms)

Eric Charn Hung Lew (Lau) (Master-P) nevermind

I think I know more scammers by name than I have friends IRL... pathetic me.

Added, and changed Lau to Lew.

[TPTB_need_war]

How is that Evan Duffield from Dash is not on this list, when smooth and others documented his ninjamine scam and then changing the planned coin supply to much less than was originally touted so that he and insiders owned most of the coins, and then creating a masternode design for Dash to pay more coins to those who own the most coins, thus a steady supply of selling coins to n00bs and then paying more coins themselves.

The alleged ongoing scam is allegedly perpetrated via to a great extent trading BTC for DRK, so should be included in this Bitcoin Hall of Shame.

[Gleb Gamow]

How is that Evan Duffield from Dash is not on this list, when smooth and others documented his ninjamine scam and then changing the planned coin supply to much less than was originally touted so that he and insiders owned most of the coins, and then creating a masternode design for Dash to pay more coins to those who own the most coins, thus a steady supply of selling coins to n00bs and then paying more coins themselves.

The alleged ongoing scam is allegedly perpetrated via to a great extent trading BTC for DRK, so should be included in this Bitcoin Hall of Shame.

Adding, linking to a post by Smoothie but would change the link if requested by whomever.

[Gleb Gamow]

Here's something interesting: TheRealSolid: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=102245

mindragon 10: -0 / +1   2013-11-28   40.00000000   Reference   Scammer.

Hover over "Reference" and see where it links to. It redirects to https://btc-e.com/

[suchmoon]

Here's something interesting: TheRealSolid: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=102245

mindragon 10: -0 / +1   2013-11-28   40.00000000   Reference   Scammer.

Hover over "Reference" and see where it links to. It redirects to https://btc-e.com/

Domain expired and they grabbed it 'cause it's such a respectable site? 

[Gleb Gamow]

Here's something interesting: TheRealSolid: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=102245

mindragon 10: -0 / +1   2013-11-28   40.00000000   Reference   Scammer.

Hover over "Reference" and see where it links to. It redirects to https://btc-e.com/

Domain expired and they grabbed it 'cause it's such a respectable site? 

What an excellent idea! Hey, you wanna go halfies with me when StakeMiners.com and Cryptsy.com expire?

[TPTB_need_war]

Why is Craig Steven Wright on this list? Has anyone documented a scam? I remember him schooling Nick Szabo on Turing completeness.

[Gleb Gamow]

Why is Craig Steven Wright on this list? Has anyone documented a scam? I remember him schooling Nick Szabo on Turing completeness.

Alluded to being Satoshi Nakamoto, then left Australia for supposedly the UK to avoid a 3-LA investigation.

[btcusury]

Wow Gleb, this is amazing work! Thank you for this effort.

Could you perhaps add a section about the major anonymous ones who deserve to be on the list even though we don't know their identity? We (you!) might still somehow unmask them at some point.

Would it also perhaps be most fair to add something like "[maybe no malicious intent]" next to some of them who don't seem to have had the intention of scamming? It might piss people off to see that next to Mark Karpeles, but fairness is fairness. There's a difference between being a "piece of shit" and a "complete idiot".

[suchmoon]

Here's something interesting: TheRealSolid: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=102245

mindragon 10: -0 / +1   2013-11-28   40.00000000   Reference   Scammer.

Hover over "Reference" and see where it links to. It redirects to https://btc-e.com/

Domain expired and they grabbed it 'cause it's such a respectable site? 

What an excellent idea! Hey, you wanna go halfies with me when StakeMiners.com and Cryptsy.com expire?

Short of scamming muggles with a "send us moar money to unstuck yer deposits" kind of thing I'm struggling to think of any use for them.