Inquiring minds want to know.
I've talked to the admin that performed the block and I know their reason for it.
Here is the background:
A couple days ago a number of people on rbtc started posting this outrageous lie that I backdoored the firewalls of Juniper networks-- I worked for Juniper a number a years ago, and last year they discovered that someone (likely a state actor) had added backdoors to their firewall products. The compromise was traced back to about a year after I left the company. I never worked on the firewalls and it was a long time after I left-- there isn't any reason to say I was involved (no more than the hundred thousand other juniper alums and current employees) and, of course, no one _except_ rbtc has ever thought there was a reason think I was involved.
I replied refuting this libel (as I've found that if I don't reply they repeat it as fact until it starts showing up in the press as something 'known to be true'
) and the ex-mod soupernerd responded skeptically and basically spreading the claim.
This was highly surprising to me because a couple months ago he contacted me lamenting the lies and personal attacks on Reddit, it just didn't sound like him. Also, a couple months ago he offered-- unsolicited-- to sell me his moderation account on rbtc so that I could use it to clean things up. An offer I did not accept.
So I asked him if he was the original account owner. He insisted that I was incorrect and that he was insulted that I'd suggest that he would sell his account. I pointed out that he did attempt to sell his account and that I had cryptographically signed emails showing it. He
demanded I show it, so of course I did:
https://0bin.net/paste/uH-GH2fgXFSQT--i#1EXsaWxQAGJXFnqnyYXo7LS9KvbLwRGrQQ0fRcTLXw0 Of course, even if I wanted or thought it was appropriate to remove the email address (which had no personal information beyond the same pseudonym as used on Reddit)-- I couldn't without invalidating the digital signature. He continued to deny it, denied ever owning that email address, but many other people cropped up and showed he was using that address on twitter, classic slack, domain registrations, and other places. Souprnerd was banned on rbtc.
A few months back rbtc's admins also fraudulently reported me for 'doxing' because I posted a commit message from the public Bitcoin repository to show the origin of an error message a person was accusing me of maliciously adding (the error message was added by Gavin). I was unbanned after showing the Reddit admin that Gavin himself had posted his name and info on Reddit months ago.
So after this souprnerd posting the rbtc admins reported me to the site admins asserting that I was repeatedly guilty of doxing and in response Reddit has permanently suspended my account because of this.
Unfortunately, I think Reddit's admins are just being unwittingly made pawns in certain parties fight against the Bitcoin project; similar to how
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5m3d4i/lets_report_bitcoinorg_for_what_it_is_unwanted/]bad actors in that subreddit have gotten Bitcoin developer
sites listed on anti-malware bad site lists and Bitcoin Core listed in anti-virus software as malware. The fact of the matter is that their untruthful claims are more effective when there isn't an expert relentlessly disagreeing with them, and if they can use reddit as a pawn to achieve their goals they think that is fair game (as Roger Ver told me specifically when I previously complained about the ethics of him attempting to pressure Reddit's CEO for control over rbitcoin).
Meanwhile, the same Reddit admin (so I am told) decided that both Myself and Theymos' personal information is fair game on the site.
Of course, Reddit is free to decide to kick users off their service-- even capriciously-- it's their site.
