Last month an account
made a stupid false claim about me, suggesting I opposed BIP110 because I was not invited to invest in Ocean. This is kind of fractally stupid: Who would give a damn, as far as I know most people who invested in ocean regret it, and moreover I was invited to invest and explicitly declined and kept my distance because Luke-jr was clearly not doing well mentally. Plus I've been extremely explicit about why I'm confident that 110 is a horrible proposal and have written about it at some length, so no convoluted conspiracy theories are required. But hey, it's better than them calling me a pedophile which has been their go to against anyone who has spoken out against Ocean's attempted protocol change.
The writing sounded like a good match for Ocean's marketing director, known to most people as Bitcoin Mechanic. I blasted luke-jr via signal for the falsehood, but Luke insisted that the account was a 'rando' and not his employee (and so their false claims were not his concern).
Today, Mechanic seem have revealed on twitter that he is, in fact, the operator of the account-- by way of an undercropped screenshot of Bitcointalk:
(and oh look, the Knotzis have reached the "fuck theymos" stage of forker derangement-- of course there is no reason to think Theymos had anything to do with whatever posting difficulties he's having)
Now this would mostly be of just idle amusement-- especially since the consistent dishonesty from that camp is well established as far as I'm concerned--, but what got me to drop the matter is that the spooderman account is a 2013 account clearly belonging to another person. So that leaves me thinking that it appears that ocean's marketing department is astroturfing on Bitcointalk with hacked accounts. I'm sure that sort of thing happens from time to time, but it's less common to have concrete evidence of it!
Of course, I immediately brought the situation to Luke-jr's attention-- but he hasn't responded, and I expect like my messages pointing out 110's confiscation issue he simply will not respond.
Given the gravity of what I think happened here, it might be helpful if a global mod could get the timeline on the supposedly (apparently?) deleted post in question. I don't see anything in the trashcan. Given that related parties have straight up lied about being 'censored' before then
lied more even when they were caught, I have no confidence in what actually happened here.
If they're somehow innocent of this I don't want to accuse otherwise even if their strategy continues to be stonewalling any communication from me.
