Hall of Shame Leaderboard/Awards: Vote for your Favorite Worst Crypto CEOs Ever!

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Ranked by # of Votes:

Leaderboard:
4x Kenneth E. Slaughter, CEO of fail-scam company Active Mining (3x *Google Translated*)
3x Eric Corlew - Basic Mining (1x *Disappearing Act*)
3x Danny Brewster (Neo & Bee)
3x Alberto Armandi - Labcoin (1x *Carrot on a Stick*) (1x *Disappearing Act*)
3x Garrett Ian MacDonald (1x *Disappearing Act*) (1x *Carrot on a Stick*)
2x Mark Karpeles - Burned a company earning millions upon millions into the ground.
2x Yifu Guo
2x Jerrod Brunce (BTCQuick) (1x *Disappearing Act*)
2x Mircea Popescu (1x *Smooth Talker*)
2x Dead Terra and Will from Icedrill (1x *Carrot on a Stick*)
2x Eduardo DeCastro of HashFast (1x *Smooth Talker*)
1x Mentor Palokaj ( Took over for liquidation process of cognitive) (1x *Smooth Talker*)
1x Erik Voorhees (1x *Disappearing Act*) (1x *Carrot on a Stick*) (1x *Smooth Talker*)
1x Jon Montroll
1x BitVPS
1x TradeFortress (Inputs.io)
1x Will For Cryptomex

Inspired by:
List of fraudulent companies and corporate failures
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=643178.0

I am adding special "awards" you can vote to "pin" on your favorite CEOs.

These include:

*Smooth Talker* - Specialist at bullshitting investors and customers
*Disappearing Act* - Probably spending your BTC on a new yacht
*Carrot on a Stick* - Ignores everyone for long periods, posting updates just often enough to keep the pitchforks away
*Google Translated*, for when you have no idea what the CEO's actually talk about in their announcements. Of course I nominate Mr. Slaughter. (Thanks PurpleTentacle)

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[PurpleTentacle]

Please include Kenneth E. Slaughter, CEO of fail-scam company Active Mining.

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Updated

[MrWDunne]

 Mark Karpeles - Burned a company earning millions upon millions into the ground.

[tekke]

Alberto Armandi - Labcoin
Eric Corlew - Basic Mining

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Alberto Armandi - Labcoin
Eric Corlew - Basic Mining

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[gogxmagog]

Thing about lab coin is they never intended to do anything but steal so technically Alberto isn't even a CEO he's simply a fraud

[adept]

I am adding special "awards" you can vote to "pin" on your favorite CEOs.

These include:

*Smooth Talker* - Specialist at bullshitting investors and customers
*Disappearing Act* - Probably spending your BTC on a new yacht
*Carrot on a Stick* - Ignores everyone for long periods, posting updates just often enough to keep the pitchforks away

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Mark Karpeles - Burned a company earning millions upon millions into the ground.

Posted

[PurpleTentacle]

Award Idea:

*Google Translated*, for when you have no idea what the CEO's actually talk about in their announcements. Of course I nominate Mr. Slaughter.

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Award Idea:

*Google Translated*, for when you have no idea what the CEO's actually talk about in their announcements. Of course I nominate Mr. Slaughter.

Awarded and credited!

[gogxmagog]

Mircea popescu - price manipulation on his ridiculous exchange and hyperactive trolling/sabatauge of every bitcoin entity out there. Not exactly scam, per se but such terrible ethics and underhanded business practices I think he deserves a mention

*plus he is so arrogant, including him here will drive him crazy lol

[damiano]

Ken Slaughtered all my bitcoins

[Hoofprint]

I nominate Dead Terra and Will from Icedrill.

*nominate for Carrot on a stick*

They are doing the Hasfast Scam almost down to the letter,
Miners now missing and holding Shares entitlements hostage.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269216.0

Will For Cryptomex.

Investors cant sell their shares with out filling out a KYC form,
that could be used to scam in future.

https://www.cryptomex.io/cryptomex/docs/CryptoMex%20-%20Account%20Opening%20Form%20-%20Individual%20%28140429%29%20Final.pdf

[julz]

I nominate Yifu Guo.  The avalon chip sale fiasco cost a lot of people a lot of money... and he certainly had enough funds that he *could* have done the right thing by his customers. Instead - he screwed over the end users as well as a number of promising miner assembly businesses.


Also - Eduardo DeCastro of HashFast.
Hashfast delivered late on initial batches, and then not at all.
A flowon casualty was the IceDrill project which was due to receive a large number of hashfast units.

[RoadStress]

I nominate Yifu Guo.  The avalon chip sale fiasco cost a lot of people a lot of money... and he certainly had enough funds that he *could* have done the right thing by his customers. Instead - he screwed over the end users as well as a number of promising miner assembly businesses.

+1 First ASIC on the market, also first one to fail/scam! This is pure and live bitcoin history.

*Not sure if he qualifies for the CEO position.

[somestranger]

Overall, I vote for Ken Slaughter.

*Smooth Talker* - Ken Slaughter
*Disappearing Act* - BTCQuick / basic mining tie
*Carrot on a Stick* - Alberto
*Google Translated* - Ken Slaughter

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Mircea popescu - price manipulation on his ridiculous exchange and hyperactive trolling/sabatauge of every bitcoin entity out there. Not exactly scam, per se but such terrible ethics and underhanded business practices I think he deserves a mention

*plus he is so arrogant, including him here will drive him crazy lol

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I nominate Dead Terra and Will from Icedrill.

*nominate for Carrot on a stick*

They are doing the Hasfast Scam almost down to the letter,
Miners now missing and holding Shares entitlements hostage.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=269216.0

Will For Cryptomex.

Investors cant sell their shares with out filling out a KYC form,
that could be used to scam in future.

https://www.cryptomex.io/cryptomex/docs/CryptoMex%20-%20Account%20Opening%20Form%20-%20Individual%20%28140429%29%20Final.pdf

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Overall, I vote for Ken Slaughter.

*Smooth Talker* - Ken Slaughter
*Disappearing Act* - BTCQuick / basic mining tie
*Carrot on a Stick* - Alberto
*Google Translated* - Ken Slaughter

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[elasticband]

Cognitive Mining

*Smooth Talker* - Mentor Palokaj ( Took over for liquidation process of cognitive)
*Disappearing Act* - Garrett Ian MacDonald
*Carrot on a Stick* - Garrett Ian MacDonald

[superresistant]

Garrett Ian MacDonald
Cognitive Mining
https://i.imgur.com/rTtGHgR.png

+1
Garrett is a champion

[freedomno1]

Well looks like everyone got the goodies
I would throw Pirate in there though since Trendon can be on the list or Tradefortress but they didn't have IPO's
So My vote goes to Eric since its the only one I fell for lol tsk and it was working till btct died lol.

[MrWDunne]

Well looks like everyone got the goodies
I would throw Pirate in there though since Trendon can be on the list or Tradefortress but they didn't have IPO's
So My vote goes to Eric since its the only one I fell for lol tsk and it was working till btct died lol.

This isn't about IPOs, this is just about the failed businessmen, hence Mark Karpeles being on the list.

[malevolent]

This topic might be helpful if you're looking for more people to choose from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337.0;all

[dunchy]

yep, Garret - the prom queen of stupidness

[dropt]

+1 for Will and Terra of Icedrill.

I'd also like to nominate Eduardo from HF for "smooth talker".  I talked to that knob on the phone because I had a few simple questions that could have been succinctly and sufficiently answered in five minutes.   Thirty minutes of phone conversation later, nary a single one was answered.

[toffoo]

I nominate Erik Voorhees, not so much for SatoshiDICE, where his leadership of this innovative and hugely profitable gambling site seems to have done okay for himself and investors, but for FeedZeBirds, where he very much deserves to be on this illustrious list:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82866.0

Of course with the following "pins":

*Smooth Talker*
*Disappearing Act*
*Carrot on a Stick*

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82866.msg1741669#msg1741669

[E.Sam]

Alberto Armandi - Labcoin (1x *Disappearing Act*)


Alberto disappeared - not carrot on stick there

[freedomno1]

This topic might be helpful if you're looking for more people to choose from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=576337.0;all

Thanks Malevolent needed to keep track of it, a lot of scams run in the securities thread so an unfortunate addition comes every now and then.

Added Basic to that list as your post reminded me to add CreativeX aka Eric although I already nominated him here and a few others
It looks like a cross listing might be needed with the other thread based on how many Bitcoins were lost.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=643178.msg7181923#msg7181923

[AcoinL.L.C]

Mircea popescu - price manipulation on his ridiculous exchange and hyperactive trolling/sabatauge of every bitcoin entity out there. Not exactly scam, per se but such terrible ethics and underhanded business practices I think he deserves a mention

*plus he is so arrogant, including him here will drive him crazy lol

I vote Mircea Popescu. Same reasons.
Him for *Smooth Talking* award as well

[knybe]

Goxed by karpeles and Slaughtered by ken… nothing left.

[lynn_402]

I vote for Danny Brewster, because of how legit and full of potential his service seemed.
Other than Karpeles, no other CEO on that list has had as much media coverage before deciding to become a trainwreck in a few days.

[cooldgamer]

It's hard to beat Karpeles after he lost so much... especially how he's still on Twitter posting random shit just to piss people off

[pascal257]

Danny Brewster and Jon Montroll

[Lohoris]

Please add BITVPS as a whole, though it's difficult to understand who exactly owned it when.

[damiano]

Trade fortress

Inputs.io hack

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Updated... Thanks for the votes guys!

[Scottbit]

I would definitely add RiverBoatBTC (Robert Chet Panzer) and his River Boat Bitcoin casino and Cryptney scam attempt

Whole information in one post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=665033.0

[wasubii]

Ken Slaughtered all my bitcoins

and mine

another vote for Ken

[MrWDunne]

I would definitely add RiverBoatBTC (Robert Chet Panzer) and his River Boat Bitcoin casino and Cryptney scam attempt

Whole information in one post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=665033.0

This guy (Scottbit) is either a) Scammer Ryan Gay or b) Friends with Scammer Ryan Gay (most likely a).

RiverBoatBTC is not a scammer, but he did expose Mr Gay who raised 150BTC for starting an exchange, bought a 1BTC script and has never spoken to investors.

I nominate Mr Gay

[Neo.op]

Given the state of btc securities, I am surprised the list is so short

[jjdub7]

Don't forget that aethero/Ryan-whatever who founded ZIGGAP, ran off with everyone's money, and then came up with all the conspiracy accusations.  I was like "dude...its an internet forum"

And Jon Montroll gets another vote as well, along with Ken Slaughter and his sad attempts to come off as an actual businessman.

[NotLambchop]

Given the state of btc securities, I am surprised the list is so short

Most people want to forget.  Ignoring the scam/honest fail distinction, here is a list of *all* the listings on Bitcoin's highest-volume exchange, Havelock, and how well you would have done if you bought@IPO and held:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=666993.msg7605049#msg7605049

[stereotype]

aethero/Ryan-whatever who founded ZIGGAP,

"laptop got fried by lightning strike"

Thats what Jon Montroll should have said. Much more courageous than "simply not there". However, at least the latter is actually true!

[stereotype]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=666993.msg7605049#msg7605049

Blimey crumbs. Like the new format. 

[NotLambchop]

Hit the "quote" button to make eyes bleed.  Tables in this forum = ASCII art  

[stereotype]

Hit the "quote" button to make eyes bleed.  Tables in this forum = ASCII art  

Wow, theres Proof Of Work, right there. 

Pass on my praise to those sustainably sourced artisans, for their choice of vintage!