John (Peter Manglaviti) was essentially the public leader of NxT, he was the one who represented NxT's booth at several public conferences / expos and seminars and he was the man the public dealt with.  For all intensive purposes, while he may not had been a developer, he was essentially the public face of NxT.  He was the man the public saw at anything NxT and he was the one persuading people to buy it.


You assume it's just the BTC stolen.  Probably ran off with all the NxT he collected as well.  You assume "John" (Peter Manglaviti) is his real identity.  Linkedin profiles are easily just as faked as Facebook profiles.  The best fake linkedin profiles are those which combine truth with outright lies.

John wouldn't be the first person who thinks he can scam investors and get away with it.  After all, has the Visacoin guy gone to jail yet?  Has anyone actually gone to jail?  Even just one person?

 The statue of limitations for these sort of crimes is 7 years or less.  The time to investigate, acquire the evidence, book a court room hearing, et cetera, can take years, that's even IF the police can be bother to actually to issue a warrant.  They generally don't go after 'small fish' like John.  


 The only people who have been arrested in crypto currencies has been people like Charlie Shrem and mainly due to drugs / DEA.  I've yet to hear of a crypto scammer who has gone to jail, even with their personal details wide out in the open.

this requires clarification.

John 'Justabit' Peter Manglaviti is NOT the public leader of NXT.  He arrived fairly recently and managed to get the community to fund a trip to london where he 'represented' NXT at a conference called PayExpo.  Fact is he openly admits he is neutral to all projects and that he is some kind of promotional mercenary for cryptocoins(his company is called Cointropolis).  Most of the people I knew from the project hardly even knew him or what he was up to.  ASMOF, about a week ago I publicly repudiated him and officially distanced myself(there is a record of this on the NXT forums).  I made it 100% clear that I have nothing to do with this person and I did it at the height of the recent price inflation at my own personal cost.

Some stories had emerged on the forums regarding his involvement with Feathercoin and Peercoin that suggested he was responsible for pumping up the price and then feigned ignorance when the price later collapsed. I personally greatly disliked his style of working(I wasnt the only one) and I demanded that some of the claims made against him be explored properly.

We have not yet determined whether this particular incident was a hacker or not.

-bm

there are also some significant questions regarding his claims to a deal struck with GoCoin...

I don't dismiss hack defenses but the hack defense never looks credible when it is applied to someone lacking in credibility.  If we take BM's word, then John was never a credible person to begin with.   Anyone can hack themselves with TOR and claim someone else did it.  

It vaguely echos Fuserleer from eMunie who recently claimed to had been hacked, but this was a guy who was accused back in February of lying on his linkedin, posting on whitehat-blackhat forums, had a court order against him from paypal and was accused of stealing thousands on other internet websites.

I'm less familiar with this John, as he came into NxT long after I did, but I have a haunch that there was no hack.

i hope anyone that invests in IPO's learns a lesson..

What was it then?  Until this story is cleared up, we can assume all the NxT that went into the Cointropolis Asset is gone.  As well as any private investors into Cointropolis.

Over 1+ million NxT - which a guesstimate is somewhere a bit under $80K or $90K.  Then the 200 BTC on top he just stole.

As I said no one has gone to jail yet for scamming in crypto.  Charlie Shrem is currently in court (unless it already ended) but that was due to being arrested by the DEA / drug enforcement agency.

Mark Karpeles got off with tens of millions.  There are lesser scammers, even going years back, who stole six figures and nothing happened to them - despite all the evidence and incriminating public information

it was called a "unicorn blessing" ? any other terms you wanna make up for the word scam ?

use your brains or don't.. but don't you god damn dare come in the forum and start crying and whining like a little whiny suckholes when you get ripped off
and THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS DAILY ..non fucking stop !
Stupid fucking morons buy into IPO clone coin ponzi schemes then the get ripped off and come in here creating topics in CAPS begging for sympathy.
And sorry but i don't need your little warning topics that so & so and his coin is a scammer.. no shit dumb ass why do think i avoided in from the start ?

wanna gamble with ponzi scheme clone coin ipo scams then stfu when you get burned idiots.. i don't wanna see you crying like a baby in here later Wink
like you guys ALWAYS do  Roll Eyes

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and yeah it's copied and pasted wonder why ?

No oversight on the asset exchange and then investor euphoria - you end up with these stories.  That lee guy gave John 50 BTC but we don't know how much Lee invested into the cointropolis asset or if he had gave prior money to John.

This is all bigger than you all think.  John likely got off with $250K+.

Just feel that NXT is very dirty.