Does nobody remember TF?
And do not trust the staff just because of their titles, keep in mind that they are regular users that were recruited by theymos because of their helpfulness in posts, not because of their worthiness. There was a staff member that was a lier, got demoted back to a regular user... Darkwingx or something, I can't remember.
xDeathwing didn't really
scam anyone, some newbie posted a very suspiciously looking exe, he said something like "I'll bet you 5 BTC it's a virus".
Apparently it wasn't a virus, but back then edit history wasn't saved. So the OP could have swapped out the malware exe with a non-virus exe and then tried to claim the 5 BTC.
You mean the bet in
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=284167.msg3041458#msg3041458? The bet was just 0.5 btc and it later became 0.05 btc.
