Unintentionally Ive witnessed one of the largest scammer cooperations in cryptocurrency I have come across in my career. Seems like London UK lawyer Preston Byrne is cooperating with convicted thief and money launderer Joshua Zeidner (Arizona US)
In a recent Bitcoin event I had a former friend and colleague who is well known in the Bitcoin Foundation (and who's sincere and understandable wish it is to remain anonymous) come up to me telling me about their Ponzi scheme. This is the very first time I came across this and I've been outright shocked the minute I heard about it.
Got more details on this anyone?
I never post on Bitcointalk but in this one instance I am willing to make an exception.
This accusation is a malicious falsehood. There is no truth to it whatsoever.My only connection to Joshua Zeidner is that he and I exchanged a number of public messages on Twitter over the past ten days in relation to criticism of the BitShares protocol for being a highly suspect investment scheme, following a series of articles (see
BitShares: don't walk away - run and
BitShares: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence ) I wrote on the subject. We have had no other interaction of any kind.
Note that the telling we see now differs in virtually every respect from what OP originally wrote; the OP did a good job of showing the only story here is his own pseudonymous malice thereby. He initially alleged I'd:
been using his wealthy employer to systematically pump and hype cryptocurrency ponzi schemes on a massive scale (we're talking 1/4 of entire Bitcoin volume on some days, yes you read that right) ultimately laundering the acquired funds in swiss private banks.
This is absurd. Nobody has that kind of trading firepower. I have no holdings in crypto apart from a small amount of DOGE, and work full-time as a lawyer to support myself.
It's a pity that OP, or frankly anyone, feels the need to hide behind a sockpuppet account to harass and defame those who choose to discuss these issues, in public and under their real names, with a view to informing and protecting the public from parting with their bitcoins on account of irresponsible and economically nonsensical schemes such as BitShares (which is by no means the only one of its kind in the cryptocurrency space).
Ultimately I suspect government bodies like the SEC will get it together and finally put a stop to deeply flawed schemes such as BitSharesX. I look forward to the day. I'm not quite sure what they're waiting for.
OP, you're everything that's wrong with cryptocurrency.
