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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[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

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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.

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[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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