Comments on: Trendon Shavers aka Pirateat40 indicted

By: And Gavin moves on to the dark side. The Bitcoin project is officially hijacked on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.

Mon, 06 Jan 2020 23:50:35 +0000

[...] to prop up that crap and what's worse - with no visible benefit whatsoever. To cherry the cake, the recent SEC lawsuit in Texas clearly shows they've failed utterly in their only stated goal, as they've clearly not been [...]

By: Vexare

Vexare — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 11:11:18 +0000

By: /s/ Jessica B. Magee
JESSICA B. MAGEE
Lead Attorney

Oh god what done.

in the sense there’s a chatlog somewhere in which the pirate guy was dicking about “manipulating the price” and the collection of forum muppets was going “oooo do that again daddy!!1″. Pretty lulzy.

If I recall correctly, the US is currently jailing teenagers because they wrote "I'm gonna burn the city" on Facebook or similar. So shit is nao serious.

By: Mircea Popescu

Mircea Popescu — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:18:12 +0000

@anon Hm. It could be the online docket lags a little. I guess we'll see in a few days. Two weeks tops.

@Stanislav Datskovskiy I suppose you're pretty close to the money. It's not about personas however, it's about trying to create a legal precedent to rest this otherwise laughable notion of "BTC currency" on. Tyler, Texas probably seems like just the place to do it, but there's going to be a little more to it than just that.

By: Stanislav Datskovskiy

Stanislav Datskovskiy — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:18:11 +0000

The empire and its kangaroo courts couldn't care less about punishing Ponzi idiocy or avenging the tears of chumps.

The much simpler reality is that a 'BTC persona' needs to go down, with loud - public - tar and feathers.

To establish precedent. Not specifically of the legal kind, but for the media orchestra that will provide the necessary background music for what follows.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 03:17:06 +0000

You might have fallen for a sham. E.D. Tex. is somewhat in the news in patent litigation these days as the go-to court for dubious claims as they tend to side with the plaintiff (they also have a judge that forbade Microsoft from importing or selling XML capable MS Word). Nevertheless, there's no case on their docket involving a Trevor Shavers, and their last SEC case is a decade old.