He could have easily made a lot more money by e.g. announcing BE300 miners with <0.2W/GH/s performance and taking mass pre-orders (resellers would have bought them).
Exactly, if Friedcat wanted to disappear with a scam, he could have done a lot better.
Still not sure what is going on....
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Seriously the amount of money FC "scammed" is a drop in the ocean for AM. AMhash raised ~4200 btc and ~60% has been paid back so far so at most he'd be making off with 1700 btc.
Bitfountain holds at least 200k shares so they must have earned ~100k btc in dividends alone (0.5btc/share).
Now why would the guy who earned tens of thousands of btc legitimately want to scam people for a measly 1700 btc?