Is Theymos anonymous?

[haightst]

do you guys talking about thermos?  

L/\/\FAOOOO!!!!    x1O

[Xian01]

http://www.benzinga.com/tech/13/05/3563567/meet-the-22-most-important-people-behind-bitcoin#15.-michael-marquardt-(@theymos)

[theymos]

http://www.benzinga.com/tech/13/05/3563567/meet-the-22-most-important-people-behind-bitcoin#15.-michael-marquardt-(@theymos)

Great picture of me!

[Gyrsur]

is Stefan Thomas and Jed McCaleb still in "Behind Bitcoin" or are they outlawed because of Ripple.com?

And how about Vladimir and his club?

 

[oakpacific]

I'm not a sociable guy. There are few people in the Bitcoin community who I have any sort of casual relationship with. AFAIK, I've met a grand total of two forum users AFK.

You live in a bubble and want to determine how a whole community should trust each other?

Time for a reality check!

He is just a kid with a lot of power (over the forum) and now a lot of wealth (in real life).

Clearly his moral actions have been questioned in the past but over all I think he does a pretty good job considering. I think he tries to do good but it does not always work out that way. I understand that guy.

But still I think my point about "default trust" being confusing at best is valid.

do you guys talking about thermos? 

Hi, welcome from reddit!

His power is not limited to this forum, he has the Bitcoin-qt alert key as well.

[oakpacific]

I'm not a sociable guy. There are few people in the Bitcoin community who I have any sort of casual relationship with. AFAIK, I've met a grand total of two forum users AFK.

You live in a bubble and want to determine how a whole community should trust each other?

Time for a reality check!

He is just a kid with a lot of power (over the forum) and now a lot of wealth (in real life).

Clearly his moral actions have been questioned in the past but over all I think he does a pretty good job considering. I think he tries to do good but it does not always work out that way. I understand that guy.

But still I think my point about "default trust" being confusing at best is valid.

do you guys talking about thermos?  

Hi, welcome from reddit!

His power is not limited to this forum, he has the Bitcoin-qt alert key as well.

True and at reddit. But over all I don't think he has abused his power (in any significant way that i know of) and we all fuck up here and again.

Had he been yet another global moderator I would have considered him to be exceptionally good , but he has much greater power so more responsibility should be expected from him.

Back on topic: since he is in control of the alert key, it is indeed sensible that he should retain a degree of intransparency lest he is to be the target of some personal threats, unless it can be proven that he has used his power in irreconcilably wrong ways.

[davout]

he has the Bitcoin-qt alert key as well.

It doesn't really do much anymore anyway: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2228

[fligen]

he has the Bitcoin-qt alert key as well.

It doesn't really do much anymore anyway: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2228

false can easily be used to drop price by 25% or more.

sell before alert
send alert
buy after alert before price rebounces
claim you were hacked.

well written copy. pick your choice

1) backdoor found in windows binary of bitcoin-qt
2) bitcoin core devs arrested for assisting money laundering
3) ECSDA attack found, all bitcoins unsafe.

this will drop the price instantly, good well written authentic copy will do tons of damage.

now theymos be accountable and explain why you read so many PMs without a legitimate reason for reading them
If you don't answer with a good response and apologize, I will post evidence and it's not going to be pretty

little bit of proof.. be more honest about justmoon/moongate's admin account password reuse on another forum

[Gyrsur]

^^encrypt sensitive PM's always with PGP!  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm;sa=send

Note: PM privacy is not guaranteed. Encrypt sensitive messages.

[fligen]

^^encrypt sensitive PM's always with PGP!  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm;sa=send

Note: PM privacy is not guaranteed. Encrypt sensitive messages.

that doesn't excuse theymos's behavior. he knows what I'm talking about but maybe he has an explanation.

[davout]

false can easily be used to drop price by 25% or more.

It'd get picked up instantly on the dev IRC and handled promptly, refer to what happened in march.

And even if it didn't, the price wouldn't drop in five minutes by some random number you just pulled out of your ass. People actually reading the notification, seeing past the bullshit would see an opportunity to buy the coins dropped by the clueless panic-sellers.

Lurk more, think harder.

[jackjack]

^^encrypt sensitive PM's always with PGP! 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm;sa=send

Note: PM privacy is not guaranteed. Encrypt sensitive messages.

that doesn't excuse theymos's behavior. he knows what I'm talking about but maybe he has an explanation.

Seems legit

[fligen]

bumping.

[tysat]

bumping.

Why?  The OP has already been answered.

[tokyopotato]

Has Theymos (the person who runs this forum) ever revealed any personal info about himself? Do we know his name, where he lives, etc? Is the real person behind the Theymos handle an active member of the community apart from on this forum and on reddit?

Gavin Andresen follows him on twitter.  One tweet.  Come on Michael, some more effort would be nice https://twitter.com/theymos

[Inkvor]

Has Theymos (the person who runs this forum) ever revealed any personal info about himself? Do we know his name, where he lives, etc? Is the real person behind the Theymos handle an active member of the community apart from on this forum and on reddit?

Gavin Andresen follows him on twitter.  One tweet.  Come on Michael, some more effort would be nice https://twitter.com/theymos

who is the one guy He is following ? @Simpsonsvault , I doubt it is an imposter made it in 2012.

[dogie]

Has Theymos (the person who runs this forum) ever revealed any personal info about himself? Do we know his name, where he lives, etc? Is the real person behind the Theymos handle an active member of the community apart from on this forum and on reddit?

Gavin Andresen follows him on twitter.  One tweet.  Come on Michael, some more effort would be nice https://twitter.com/theymos

who is the one guy He is following ? @Simpsonsvault , I doubt it is an imposter made it in 2012.

It was a Simpsons streamer.

[Decoded]

Trade Fortress actually doxxed Theymos. That's why he's banned. I think he paid for donator just to change his name, lol

Theymos is pretty much known as Satoshi's first mate, he's basically the admin of bitcoin.

[mexxer-2]

Trade Fortress actually doxxed Theymos.

Not quite, AFAIK he just compiled info which was publicly available.

Theymos is pretty much known as Satoshi's first mate

IIRC Satoshi chose theymos because of his technical know-how, and maybe that he trusted him. But I don't think satoshi would've thought that the forum would grow into what it currently is
Edit:

he's basically the admin of bitcoin.

Owh hell no

[minifrij]

Trade Fortress actually doxxed Theymos. That's why he's banned.

Fairly sure he just posted an existing dox which was on the internet, but was just banned from this forum.

I think he paid for donator just to change his name, lol

TF has been donator since long before I even joined, probably at least 3 years at this point (if not more).

Theymos is pretty much known as Satoshi's first mate

Eh, I'd say that Gavin got closer to Satoshi as he was entrusted with continuing the project as a whole and with the Alert Keys to the project.

he's basically the admin of bitcoin.

He's the admin of a lot of the Bitcoin community (BCT & r/bitcoin), not Bitcoin its self.