redsn0w leaving us

[Madness]

I was checking my signature compaigns thread till I've seen this from redsn0w answering to marcotheminer

Nothing of exceptional , I'm abandoning the "bitcoin world".

After checking his last posts , I've seen that he posted a goodbye thread on the Off-topic section https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=940383.msg10302949#msg10302949

I personally say to him good luck on whatever you are planning to do , and you will be missed indeed because he was very helpful member on this community and helped people all the time. peace mate 

Put whatever you think about that user here Iguess ? or whatever you want.

[Blazr]

They always come back eventually....

Best of luck redsn0w!

[funtotry]

You will be missed redsn0w. You were a great escrow, and I hope that the small mistake of the lost account email wasn't the factor making you leave.
I hope you do well in the non-bitcoin world!

[Welsh]

He has made the announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=940383.0

[koshgel]

Doesn't seem to be a reason?

Either way, good luck with things non-Bitcoin related 

[Quickseller]

Did he get banned?

[Blazr]

Did he get banned?

No, he got a life

[Quickseller]

Did he get banned?

No, he got a life

Well I think theymos let Matthew M Wright(?) - a person with an untrustworthy tag - say goodbye after getting banned

[Blazr]

Well I think theymos let Matthew M Wright(?) - a person with an untrustworthy tag - say goodbye after getting banned

I remember that, I can't remember the full details but I believe he was only half-banned, like banned from certain sections or something weird like that. Theymos didn't like MNW. I love how he never removed that untrustworthy tag after he removed scammer tags.

[Quickseller]

Well I think theymos let Matthew M Wright(?) - a person with an untrustworthy tag - say goodbye after getting banned

I remember that, I can't remember the full details but I believe he was only half-banned, like banned from certain sections or something weird like that. Theymos didn't like MNW.

All I know is that apparently he offered insurance on a ponzi, and when the ponzi imploded (who would ever guess this would happen) he was left with millions of dollars worth of liabilities. his last post says that he is still banned and cannot even reply to any posts, so it would appear that he was only temporarily unbanned so he could give his update for his repayment

[Quickseller]

Well I think theymos let Matthew M Wright(?) - a person with an untrustworthy tag - say goodbye after getting banned

I remember that, I can't remember the full details but I believe he was only half-banned, like banned from certain sections or something weird like that. Theymos didn't like MNW.

All I know is that apparently he offered insurance on a ponzi, and when the ponzi imploded (who would ever guess this would happen) he was left with millions of dollars worth of liabilities. his last post says that he is still banned and cannot even reply to any posts, so it would appear that he was only temporarily unbanned so he could give his update for his repayment

Pretty much. He made a 100,000BTC bet with the community that pirateat40 wouldn't default then claimed the bet was just a joke. He contacted everyone who made a bet and made a deal with most of them and paid out some money, and in the end theymos had to remove the scammer tag, but he replaced it with the untrustworthy one. Theymos was always banning/unbanning him over various things. MNW then later tried to "sue" theymos for the 10BTC he donated for the donator rank, which I notice he no longer has. He even posted some of theymos' dox online. Soon after that he was saying on Skype/Reddit that he had some weird ban put on him and that he couldn't browse from his IP even when logged out, though I don't know the validity of that claim.

Well the low point between his last post and 3 months prior was $66, so at a minimum he was making a $6.6 million bet that an obvious ponzi was not going to collapse. That is probably one of the stupidest things that anyone could ever possibly do. If he was actually engaged in litigation with theymos then it would make sense for theymos to disallow him from viewing the forum at all

[Quickseller]

Well the low point between his last post and 3 months prior was $66, so at a minimum he was making a $6.6 million bet that an obvious ponzi was not going to collapse. That is probably one of the stupidest things that anyone could ever possibly do. If he was actually engaged in litigation with theymos then it would make sense for theymos to disallow him from viewing the forum at all

It was $5, the bet happened way way back in August 2012 when pirate defaulted. It was $500,000 at the time, MNW had a bunch of BTC from Bitcoin Magazine so lots of peope thought it was a real bet and didn't try to get their BTC back from pirate. Pirateat40 was actually one of the most trusted people in the Bitcoin community based on his bitcoin-otc feedback, lots of people had met him in person and everyone knew where he lived. Lots of people actually believed he was a really good bitcoin day-trader and he wasn't going to default. It was chaos on the forums around that time especially since lots of people who had been borrowing money or running stocks or even running a wallet website or mining pool had been secretly investing user funds in pirateat40, so there was chaos on bitcointalk.

He's not actually suing theymos, lol, he threatened to sue him if he did not refund him $12k for his 10BTC donation which at the time of the donation was $50. There was a reddit thread about it. I guess theymos gave him back his $50 or something because he no longer has the donator rank.

Well technically a donation is a donation so I don't see any reason why theymos would be obligated to allow someone to keep a donator tag if there is some circumstance that made him want to revoke it.

I think it is very interesting to see how common it is for very trusted members end up as scammers here. It kind of makes me wary of trading out of fear that I will happen to trade with someone as soon as they turn scammer.

[haploid23]

Lets turn this thread from redsn0w into MathewNWright  


PS - Glad that guy is banned. I was MNW's first few PM's on the forum when he just joined in 2011. It was for a business deal, turned out to be an epic waste of time when I found out he was a sham.

[freedomno1]

Lets turn this thread from redsn0w into MathewNWright

Mission accomplished although I was wondering why that came up here
Anyways best of luck to you redsn0w

[shorena]

Lets turn this thread from redsn0w into MathewNWright

Mission accomplished although I was wondering why that came up here
Anyways best of luck to you redsn0w

tl;dr:

he banned?
no silly, he has life, just sayin good bye
but MNW said goodbuy after ban
*good old times*

[peligro]

Activity throughout the forum keeps dropping in response to the prices. We are going to see more exits soon.

[thebitcoinquiz.com]

I was checking my signature compaigns thread till I've seen this from redsn0w answering to marcotheminer

Nothing of exceptional , I'm abandoning the "bitcoin world".

After checking his last posts , I've seen that he posted a goodbye thread on the Off-topic section https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=940383.msg10302949#msg10302949

I personally say to him good luck on whatever you are planning to do , and you will be missed indeed because he was very helpful member on this community and helped people all the time. peace mate 

Put whatever you think about that user here Iguess ? or whatever you want.

I loved redsn0w. He was an awesome escrow until people started to put accusations of bad escrow handling on him. People were rude and that's why he is leaving.

[redsn0w]

I'm back , in these days I was "angry/mad"  but at the end  I know that I couldn't abandon the bitcoin world ( and obviously the bitcoin forum). Thanks for all the posts guys , you are awesome. Thanks for the support !

[Madness]

I'm back , in these days I was "angry/mad"  but at the end  I know that I couldn't abandon the bitcoin world ( and obviously the bitcoin forum). Thanks for all the posts guys , you are awesome. Thanks for the support !

Awesome ! It's really nice to get a member like you back to our forums .
I guess you should try to speak to Marcotheminer , he may put you back on the signature compaign and without having to go back to zero (I mean posts ) . Welcome back mate

~ Madness

[Superhitech]

I'm back , in these days I was "angry/mad"  but at the end  I know that I couldn't abandon the bitcoin world ( and obviously the bitcoin forum). Thanks for all the posts guys , you are awesome. Thanks for the support !

Great, good to see you back Don't let people put you down, you were a great escrow.