I've been following the pizzagate thing on voat but I don't have an account there. Among other things the project is an interesting study in citizen investigation (which I hope continues as it seems much more productive at nailing scumbags who are in power than, say, the DC police.)
One of the posters turned up something interesting about bitcointalk.org:
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1703018What they've not discovered yet is that ~madhatter was very probably the guy 'From the desk of Tom
' guy who did perhaps the first major '
my on-line wallet service got hacked and you users are fucked' scams. Many were to follow. I don't even remember the service's name, but it was quite popular back in the day. Oh ya.; 'mybitcoin' IIRC. The guy also had some other interesting attributes.
Thinking back, the Tom guy may or may not have been working in tandem with a guy who had a very popular podcast. Forgot his name too. 'Bruce
' That guy was a homosexual AND caused a rukus when he wanted to have a world-wide meetup in Pattaya, Thailand. ~goat informed people who didn't know (including myself) that that town is a well known destination for pedos.