The Bitcoin Show and Bruce Wagner - Can someone sum up all the recent events?

[Eli]

I've just noticed that The Bitcoin Sham has a new episode (watching it right now) which was released on Sep 8th, i.e. yesterday.

Can someone please sum up what happened with the Bruce Wagner/Tom Williams and all the rest?

Is the community is OK with a persona such as Bruce Wagner being the face of Bitcoin? Has he explained anything of the recent news on him and the Pattaya issue?

What's going on?

[The_Duke]

http://buttcoin.org/

Read the first 2-3 pages.

[Eli]

http://buttcoin.org/

Read the first 2-3 pages.

Went through that, already. Has some interesting stuff in it.

But what I'm interested is Bruce's comment on all of this.
Bruce has become in the past few months "The Voice/Face of Bitcoin", and I'm not really sure if that's a good thing that our public presenter is a known scam artist who steals money from people who have none.

I don't know if Bruce is or isn't what people claim him to be, but I'd really, REALLY like to hear his side of the argument or otherwise I will consider it as him admitting to failure and accepting all the things that are being said about him as truth. And if that's the case, I don't want this cum rag to be the face of Bitcoin, and I will propagate my anti-bruce ideas forward.

So did Bruce said anything about those stuff? Bruce - I'm waiting...

[Chris Acheson]

I don't know if Bruce is or isn't what people claim him to be, but I'd really, REALLY like to hear his side of the argument or otherwise I will consider it as him admitting to failure and accepting all the things that are being said about him as truth.

This was his last post on this forum, about the Bold Funding thing: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=40404.0

It's pretty much just hand-waving, and gets picked apart in the rest of the thread.

[BitcoinPorn]

So did Bruce said anything about those stuff? Bruce - I'm waiting...

Enjoy the silence.

[The_Duke]

But what I'm interested is Bruce's comment on all of this.

He basically said that all the information and evidence that was being spread was VERY MISLEADING. And then left.

[makomk]

So far, Bruce Wagner has lied through his teeth, called his critics 13 year olds and trolls, closed down the chat on his website and stopped posting on the forums in favour of a Google Group in which he has to approve all posts before they become public. Oh, and his last post on these forums was not just handwaving as Chris Acheson said - he also locked it to stop anyone else from responding. Basically he's hiding.