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[CryptoNames]

You can run but you can't hide

http://find.usa.com/06071-ct-somers-54-horseshoe-ln.htm

https://archive.today/QzkYw

Nice find

[Mr Felt]

Not sure if this comedy has been captured:

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader

https://web.archive.org/web/20150221190021/https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader


I wouldn't consider myself a digital currency expert, but its my understanding that there's nobody who can make something bitcoin-official (being distributed and decentralized and all). Seems like some HT folks, and possibly GAWCEO, have a fundamental misunderstanding of BTC.

Could be wrong . . .

[zanza]

Turns out WE are the bad guys fellas.  All this time trying to expose a scam for the better of the crypto community as a whole but it turns out WE are the ones doing the most damage to it!

https://i.imgur.com/3zoeGQ6.jpg

I agree that post was stupid as fuck but still... anyway here's the thread.

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32275/be-wary-of-bctalk-users-damaging-crypto/3

"bad for crypto"

what a jerk off!

[owlcatz]

Not sure if this comedy has been captured:

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader

https://web.archive.org/web/20150221190021/https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader


I wouldn't consider myself a digital currency expert, but its my understanding that there's nobody who can make something bitcoin-official (being distributed and decentralized and all). Seems like some HT folks, and possibly GAWCEO, have a fundamental misunderstanding of BTC.

Could be wrong . . .

Lol.. Looks like gawceo is shadow banned... wtf...

[AntiTroll]

CoinFire is not ran by an individual named Mike Johnson nor does the owner of CoinFire work for the SEC. The reason mjohnsonbtc does not exist anywhere on the internet prior to September 2014 is because it's a trolling account. Mike Johnson is a pseudonym and the actual name of the individual that ownes BitCoin is Raymond Angel. See information on Raymond Angel below:  

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/raymond-angel
https://angel.co/startupguy
https://www.facebook.com/raymond.g.angel?pnref=friends.search
http://ray.vc/ (no longer active)
https://startupgenome.co/raymond-angel

Cheers

[zanza]

Not sure if this comedy has been captured:

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader

https://web.archive.org/web/20150221190021/https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader


I wouldn't consider myself a digital currency expert, but its my understanding that there's nobody who can make something bitcoin-official (being distributed and decentralized and all). Seems like some HT folks, and possibly GAWCEO, have a fundamental misunderstanding of BTC.

Could be wrong . . .

Lol.. Looks like gawceo is shadow banned... wtf...

https://i.imgur.com/HAos7qj.jpg

or just his post history was wiped

[owlcatz]

CoinFire is not ran by an individual named Mike Johnson nor does the owner of CoinFire work for the SEC. The reason mjohnsonbtc does not exist anywhere on the internet prior to September 2014 is because it's a trolling account. Mike Johnson is a pseudonym and the actual name of the individual that ownes BitCoin is Raymond Angel. See information on Raymond Angel below:  

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/raymond-angel
https://angel.co/startupguy
https://www.facebook.com/raymond.g.angel?pnref=friends.search
http://ray.vc/ (no longer active)
https://startupgenome.co/raymond-angel

Cheers

Nice try, but troll harder, gaw-shill.

Edit - No one ever claimed Mike worked for the SEC, get a clue "FUDster"... 

[skinnyboy]

Not sure if this comedy has been captured:

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader

https://web.archive.org/web/20150221190021/https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader


I wouldn't consider myself a digital currency expert, but its my understanding that there's nobody who can make something bitcoin-official (being distributed and decentralized and all). Seems like some HT folks, and possibly GAWCEO, have a fundamental misunderstanding of BTC.

Could be wrong . . .

Not sure if you caught the sarcasm I believe was intended by the OP of that thread...

[Paul Revere]

Turns out WE are the bad guys fellas.  All this time trying to expose a scam for the better of the crypto community as a whole but it turns out WE are the ones doing the most damage to it!



I agree that post was stupid as fuck but still... anyway here's the thread.

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32275/be-wary-of-bctalk-users-damaging-crypto/3

"bad for crypto"

what a jerk off!

The best part is that the person posting this idiocy is a 15 year old child. Literally. And the morons on HT eat this completely idiotic shit up. They will believe ANYTHING except reality, which of course is that they got suckered in by a two bit heartless dirtbag con-man and taken to the cleaners.

[strangerdanger101]

Not sure if this comedy has been captured:

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader

https://web.archive.org/web/20150221190021/https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader


I wouldn't consider myself a digital currency expert, but its my understanding that there's nobody who can make something bitcoin-official (being distributed and decentralized and all). Seems like some HT folks, and possibly GAWCEO, have a fundamental misunderstanding of BTC.

Could be wrong . . .

Lol.. Looks like gawceo is shadow banned... wtf...

https://i.imgur.com/HAos7qj.jpg

Oh thats rich

[gawneedstobestopped]

Not sure if this comedy has been captured:

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader

https://web.archive.org/web/20150221190021/https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader


I wouldn't consider myself a digital currency expert, but its my understanding that there's nobody who can make something bitcoin-official (being distributed and decentralized and all). Seems like some HT folks, and possibly GAWCEO, have a fundamental misunderstanding of BTC.

Could be wrong . . .

Lol.. Looks like gawceo is shadow banned... wtf...

or just his post history was wiped

I really hope some archived his post history... He's trying to destroy records that will be used against him.

[KC6TTR]

Interesting news:
Technology that looks A LOT like Mr. Garza's purchased HTML injection (aka Man-in-the-Middle Attack) patent junk has been found in Lenovo laptops and Leo Laporte is on national radio RIGHT NOW bashing the technology plus Lenovo. Maybe Garza or one of his cronies licensed the tech off to Superfish - as we all know Garza could never do this much damage on his own... then again... hmmmm.

Superfish Intercept - more info
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/

Note: MAKE NO MISTAKE, this is NOT AD-WARE. This is MALWARE!

Scott-

[gawneedstobestopped]

CoinFire is not ran by an individual named Mike Johnson nor does the owner of CoinFire work for the SEC. The reason mjohnsonbtc does not exist anywhere on the internet prior to September 2014 is because it's a trolling account. Mike Johnson is a pseudonym and the actual name of the individual that ownes BitCoin is Raymond Angel. See information on Raymond Angel below:  

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/raymond-angel
https://angel.co/startupguy
https://www.facebook.com/raymond.g.angel?pnref=friends.search
http://ray.vc/ (no longer active)
https://startupgenome.co/raymond-angel

Cheers

Convenient timing for you to show up and attempt misdirection in this thread. Should I just assume you are probably Josh Garza himself? How's the weather in Belgium? Is Stuart Fraser blowing up your phone about the claims you made about Cantor forecasting the coin to $60 by June? How about the fact that you lied to "investors" in your emails to generate revenue?

Stay tuned for more goodies from the desk of the CEO!

[AntiTroll]

what if mike johnson isn't who we think he is? What if the owner of coinfire actually works for the SEC?

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ifLCnyQEAH4J:https://twitter.com/mjohnsonbtc/status/513985493050982401+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

twitter says he's in Washington DC.

Why does mjohnsonbtc/coinfiremike not exist anywhere on the internet prior to september 2014? I can understand that maybe coinfire was created in late 2014, but surely the owner/founder had some internet presence before then?

also, wtf is this? http://mike.ml/

He's gotta be ex sec or prosecutor. He's got many many connections and reports sec news. Homero ganza is extra fucked. Coinfire basically confirmed my suspicions earlier. This is good though, even more credible. I just hope coinbrief discloses any xpy holdings if needed .

It is amazing the connections you can make in college if you are social and try to hang out with diverse crowds and you date a lot

social butterflies like yourself usually have more than 24 facebook friends... unless of course "mike johnson" isn't your real name

Totally my real name but I reset my social media account to no longer be tied with my former Facebook profile. It is important to me that sources aren't compromised under any circumstances so I have taken steps to silo off my life.

I really wanted to write, it was something I was extremely passionate about for a long time before starting Coin Fire and I always figured I'd try to do everything right up front that I could. I've made some mistakes and some days I wish I hadn't full on deleted versus deactivating my old Facebook profile.... then I realize how much more productive I am without status updates and pictures of friends who have started families and feel the need to share constant kid pictures

Surely you can see how it seems as if everything that you report just so happens to also coincide around GAW releases, announcements, etc. and drives free traffic to them. Whether it is hashlets, PayBase, CC purchases/Stripe, to now giving him a "see, look at what's going on" Honors Program excuse days after he dropped seeds of doubt about some issues.

So let's examine some facts:
Everything you report has some kind of plausible deniability on Josh's end.
There's nothing "concrete", ever.
You keep saying there's more.
You didn't exist on the internet before this summer.

Sound familiar? Sounds exactly like GAW's business model to me. Everything you "report" sends and stirs up more traffic than that scamming piece of shit deserves.

Sorry but it all seems a little too convenient to me.

I understand your concerns but we've reported on a plethora of other topics outside of GAW. We reported extensively on SEC involvement with 2.0 companies, we reported extensively on the BFL raid and subsequent court movements, we've reported on things such as Coinjelly, we've reported on a wide range of merchant acceptance and other topics.

It isn't fair to say that Coin Fire covers only GAW things. We've reported on a large selection of items and the GAW posts are no where near the biggest traffic drivers for us.

A lot of people have asked for more transparency and I think we've done a great job of balancing source confidence and documents. We've published a commitment to sharing our editorial and contributor bibles on GitHub, we've shared how we vet sources and really tried to bring some transparency to the space.

We don't take money for articles, we have fully disclosed a large number of things that many of our peers in tech journalism haven't (not bitcoin specific) and have been working to even a greater level of accountability and responsibility. Things take time, we are a small team, we have a limited budget and I was not a journalist by trade prior to this so it will take some learning as well.

We are working pretty hard and diligently to bring ALL of the cryptocurrency news that we can. We don't publish things that are widely reported when possible, we try to keep it to mostly original pieces and we have a large number of stories in the works that aren't GAW related. Some of these stories are in the third or fourth month of investigation and we want to make sure we get everything right.

We are going to keep reporting on the topics that we receive and vet information on, the topics that our readers have asked for and the stories we feel are the most newsworthy. I hate saying keep watching because it seems like an empty promise but we have kept our promises and published materials as we can previously and will keep doing so in the future.

I'm long on reporting the news because I've discovered this is something I am truly passionate about and a space where some disruption is always good

I am not totally convinced that you're not an SEC employee. Someone with such a passion for crypto and bitcoin doesn't just show up 6 months ago and start throwing haymakers saying you've got an SEC source. Not trying to be rude here, but why would the SEC leak information to CoinFire? I can understand if you were the wallstreet journal, but some guy at the SEC is going to risk his job to satisfy the need of a tiny news website that most of the world hasn't ever heard of?

CoinFire is not ran by an individual named Mike Johnson nor does the owner of CoinFire work for the SEC. The reason mjohnsonbtc does not exist anywhere on the internet prior to September 2014 is because it's a trolling account. Mike Johnson is a pseudonym and the actual name of the individual that ownes BitCoin is Raymond Angel. See information on Raymond Angel below: 

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/raymond-angel
https://angel.co/startupguy
https://www.facebook.com/raymond.g.angel?pnref=friends.search
http://ray.vc/ (no longer active)
https://startupgenome.co/raymond-angel

Cheers

[Mr Felt]

Not sure if this comedy has been captured:

https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader

https://web.archive.org/web/20150221190021/https://hashtalk.org/topic/32280/pray-for-the-leader


I wouldn't consider myself a digital currency expert, but its my understanding that there's nobody who can make something bitcoin-official (being distributed and decentralized and all). Seems like some HT folks, and possibly GAWCEO, have a fundamental misunderstanding of BTC.

Could be wrong . . .

Not sure if you caught the sarcasm I believe was intended by the OP of that thread...

Yep.  More about the totality of comments.

[owlcatz]

CoinFire is not ran by an individual named Mike Johnson nor does the owner of CoinFire work for the SEC. The reason mjohnsonbtc does not exist anywhere on the internet prior to September 2014 is because it's a trolling account. Mike Johnson is a pseudonym and the actual name of the individual that ownes BitCoin is Raymond Angel. See information on Raymond Angel below:  

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/raymond-angel
https://angel.co/startupguy
https://www.facebook.com/raymond.g.angel?pnref=friends.search
http://ray.vc/ (no longer active)
https://startupgenome.co/raymond-angel

Cheers

Oh wait. you just did..  

[jimmothy]

CoinFire is not ran by an individual named Mike Johnson nor does the owner of CoinFire work for the SEC. The reason mjohnsonbtc does not exist anywhere on the internet prior to September 2014 is because it's a trolling account. Mike Johnson is a pseudonym and the actual name of the individual that ownes BitCoin is Raymond Angel. See information on Raymond Angel below: 

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/raymond-angel
https://angel.co/startupguy
https://www.facebook.com/raymond.g.angel?pnref=friends.search
http://ray.vc/ (no longer active)
https://startupgenome.co/raymond-angel

Cheers

AntiTroll is not actually an antitroll at all. He's just a plain old troll!

Here's what my in depth sleuthing has uncovered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092115/
https://www.facebook.com/trollofficial
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Trolls

In all seriousness, if you want people to take your "leaks" seriously, try including some evidence to back up your claim.

[rawbot]

 Irrelevant crap dragged up from February 4th to try to divert this discussion

Just ignore this prick.  Could even be Garza himself.

[strangerdanger101]

Let us hold hands and pray for the dear leader, that his escape be swift and his profits large.

[Mr Felt]

WARNING - a little off topic, but tangentially related.

Can someone tell me, still very much a tech noob, what the significance is of the term "lion" or names containing "Lee" or "Leo" (including homophones like "Leigh" or parts of names ("Cleo," as a made up example)).  In my sleuthing, I'm seeing an uncanny amount of usernames w/ Lee, Leo, etc. in the twitter followers (and other social media) of some of the most unscrupulous appearing individuals in digital currency.

IMHO, this is not a coincidence (maybe it is, maybe its a figment of my imagination), but I haven't been interested tech/computers in a substantial way but for a year and half or so and lack some of the foundational knowledge to know what's going on.

From the hacker dictionary:

lion food /n./

[IBM] Middle management or HQ staff (or, by extension, administrative drones in general). From an old joke about two lions who, escaping from the zoo, split up to increase their chances but agree to meet after 2 months. When they finally meet, one is skinny and the other overweight. The thin one says: "How did you manage? I ate a human just once and they turned out a small army to chase me -- guns, nets, it was terrible. Since then I've been reduced to eating mice, insects, even grass." The fat one replies: "Well, I hid near an IBM office and ate a manager a day. And nobody even noticed!"

http://www.outpost9.com/reference/jargon/jargon_27.html#SEC34

Look at these mods here: http://www.reddit.com/r/lionporn/

Very interested to read what others think and whether there is something to this.

EDIT - Very aware of seeing patterns where none may exist, totally accept that I might be crazy.  I just don't see the Lee/Lion thing in other areas, just tech/digital currency/scammers.