Bryan Micon's List of BTC Ponzi Schemes that should not be listed as "Lending"

[Raoul Duke]

Noticed not one of the main ponzi crew want to take the bet... As they say talk is cheap..

Pokes the hornets nest....

I will take the bet at odds inline with the market.

There is no market for bets.
You just like the sound of your voice. You're a coward, just like 99% of PonziTeam. Put your money where your mouth is.

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[Matthew N. Wright]

Noticed not one of the main ponzi crew want to take the bet... As they say talk is cheap..

Pokes the hornets nest....

I will take the bet at odds inline with the market.

There is no market for bets.
You just like the sound of your voice. You're a coward, just like 99% of PonziTeam. Put your money where your mouth is.

yep. Cowards on both sides.


Everyone who is "so sure" that it's a scam should jump on any opportunity to profit off of would be idiots who believe in it, no?

Likewise,

Everyone who is "so sure" that it's not scam should jump on any opportunity to profit off of would be idiots who don't believe in it, no?

[Vladimir]

Some people do not gamble, some have no money they can afford to lose. Most of those people are not even looking into this ponziness. If this is cowardice so be it. I would say however, you are just full of shit.

[Raoul Duke]

I have my bet made on Pirate. You, Vladimir, all you have is a big mouth.

[dust]

Noticed not one of the main ponzi crew want to take the bet... As they say talk is cheap..

Pokes the hornets nest....

I will take the bet at odds inline with the market.

There is no market for bets.
You just like the sound of your voice. You're a coward, just like 99% of PonziTeam. Put your money where your mouth is.

My 50BTC to your 125BTC? Escrow required. It is free money if you truly believe in pirate.

[Vladimir]

I have my bet made on Pirate. You, Vladimir, all you have is a big mouth.

And you have little brain.

[Raoul Duke]

Noticed not one of the main ponzi crew want to take the bet... As they say talk is cheap..

Pokes the hornets nest....

I will take the bet at odds inline with the market.

There is no market for bets.
You just like the sound of your voice. You're a coward, just like 99% of PonziTeam. Put your money where your mouth is.

My 50BTC to your 125BTC? Escrow required. It is free money if you truly believe in pirate.

Look at my reply above. And dude... 50 BTC? Really?

[Micon]

Noticed not one of the main ponzi crew want to take the bet... As they say talk is cheap..

Pokes the hornets nest....

I will take the bet at odds inline with the market.

There is no market for bets.
You just like the sound of your voice. You're a coward, just like 99% of PonziTeam. Put your money where your mouth is.

yep. Cowards on both sides.


Everyone who is "so sure" that it's a scam should jump on any opportunity to profit off of would be idiots who believe in it, no?

Likewise,

Everyone who is "so sure" that it's not scam should jump on any opportunity to profit off of would be idiots who don't believe in it, no?

obv max-bet the 100 BTC.  You are going to get killed on this 1 Matt!  that shit cray! 

[Micon]

Micon,

I was going to just tell you how GPUMAX works but this should be a lot more fun for everyone:

You should start a whole new thread about GPUMAX, probably over in the mining forum.  

Then we can all try to explain it to you and you can ignore everyone and just scream SCAM SCAM SCAM for another 50+ pages.

However, you may have to think up something new as you will have a harder time with the old worn out Ponzi angle this time since there are no deposits involved.

However, good news!  There are a lot of similarities to BS&T.  You can use these similarities to prove it must be a scam of some sort or another, since, as we all know, similarities always prove equivalence:

They are/were both run by the same person!
Both have/had a large very satisfied customer base!
Both have/had a waiting list of people begging to get accounts!
In both cases pirate has found a way to make money and you have not!
In both cases pirate wants to keep what he is doing to himself!
Both have/had a simple, yet effective, minimalistic web interface.
Both of them actually work/worked and produce great results.
In both cases the Bitcoin community is being used.  That is, they are not the end customer, just very well paid participants in the business.
In both cases the end customer is a huge mystery!

OK, that should be enough to get you going.  I will let you know of more proof as I find it.

See you over in the mining forum.

Flame on Micon!


Your friend, BurtW

I notice a distinct change in the tone of your posts.  I will be researching GPUMax next.  No, I'm not screaming "SCAM" quite yet - but when a guy running a huge ponzi is also running a huge mining something it's worth taking a quick look-see to make sure a scammer can't seize control of a bunch of hashing power all at once for some nefarious deed. 

Bitcoin is still extremely fragile and is too important to go unchecked at this stage.  Hashing power used to corrupt the block chain scares me much worse than stealing $1M+ from the community.

[RoloTonyBrownTown]

I think I'll just mention it again as it's just a  great opportunity to embarrass the shit out of you all.

Micons and drones,  put your money where your annoying, fat mouths are and get a free 10,000btc for your trouble:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101751.0

Can't wait to hear your lame excuses.

[Micon]

I think I'll just mention it again as it's just a  great opportunity to embarrass the shit out of you all.

Micons and drones,  put your money where your annoying, fat mouths are and get a free 10,000btc for your trouble:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101751.0

Can't wait to hear your lame excuses.

I just max-bet the 100 BTC.

so in picture form this is what I just did:

[Matthew N. Wright]

I think I'll just mention it again as it's just a  great opportunity to embarrass the shit out of you all.

Micons and drones,  put your money where your annoying, fat mouths are and get a free 10,000btc for your trouble:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101751.0

Can't wait to hear your lame excuses.

I just max-bet the 100 BTC.

so in picture form this is what I just did:

lol

[RoloTonyBrownTown]

Good Micon, well done.   At least you have the courage to back up your convictions.  If only the rest of your mob were the same

[Micon]

Matt I sort of just can't believe you are going to fire off so much BTC - almost feel bad in a way.

BTW in 3 weeks time BurtW will still be saying "wait for Pirate" with most of the community accepting the writing that will then be on the wall.  I expect the long stall has already started.  Pirateat40 wasn't one for posting much on these boards the past few months it seems - and I don't expect his post count to rise quickly in the near future.  

I feel a determination will be clear when this bet settles

[RoloTonyBrownTown]

Good Micon, well done.   At least you have the courage to back up your convictions.  If only the rest of your mob were the same

At this time next week, btc will be worth $0.01 after everyone sells off their payout.  He bet a dollar. :-)

Haha, good point

[Micon]

[roomservice]

[Micon]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101339.0

relevant, Pirateat40 in IRC chat logs

[Frankie]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101339.0

relevant, Pirateat40 in IRC chat logs

Thought experiment: how many coins would you have if you really borrowed at 7% weekly, but somehow profited at about 10% weekly after 10 months, and you had 500,000 in borrower accounts?

Would you have 30,000 coins (a measly 6% of his depositors money)? Well, no, you'd have more like 400,000 coins by now (assuming a steady compounded growth since November from only a couple thousand in deposits).  Hell, even if he only had a 1% edge over deposits, he would still have tens of thousands of more coins--even accounting for his deposits being initially very small.

But it's not surprising that he throws out such silly figures; he's always been tossing about incredible figures.

[Micon]

Frankie the language here is once again scam-central, letting the marks down easy, and stalling:

from 8/17:

[2012-08-17 16:15:10] <boonies4u> pirateat40: will you be daytrading with your own funds after this?
[2012-08-17 16:16:15] <pirateat40> boonies4u, Yes I hold personally over 30k BTC
[2012-08-17 16:16:45] <Azelphur> pirateat40: is that your personal or the total funds of BS&T?
[2012-08-17 16:17:57] <pirateat40> Azelphur, personally.  BST is over 500k BTC

IMO this is just random lies, look like a baller, boss, and no one asks him why not send back the 30k worth of BTC right now in his personal stash and wait for the "clients" and "unwinding" to send the rest?

[2012-08-17 16:18:55] <ErebusBat> pirateat40 does that mean we won't get the tell all we al lwant for some time ?
[2012-08-17 16:19:50] <pirateat40> ErebusBat, I've signed a contact to do a tell all with a company.  I'm sure you'll see it it soon enough.

lolz.  A tell all?  with a company no less? wow I'm impressed.  I heard they signed Don Deluise in 2009 to play Pirate but since his untimely death they are looking for a replacement and it will be an A&E special.  It's already in signed contract status with a company, so It's all good. Totally legit / start a bet thread on that too.

[2012-08-17 16:46:38] <pirateat40> Although delayed, no one needs to worry about getting coins back.
[2012-08-17 16:47:09] <pirateat40> what you should be talking about is what charity we donate to.
[2012-08-17 16:52:05] <pirateat40> It will be the community's choice, I'll just cast my opinion.

yes, no needs to worry about the guy holding $1M+ USD worth of bitcoin giving them back



and from today 8/20 holding all the bitcoins and having promised to start the payout process today he had few words:

(a few other posts of little substance / full text here:  http://www.bitbin.it/MKzYy6Bi  )

[2012-08-20 18:07:26] <pirateat40> Today is the start of a busy week guys, i'd love to answer all the 200 pm's but can't.  I'm around and you'll know when things start to move.
[2012-08-20 18:07:30] <pirateat40> pirate out