Quote from: gmaxwell on May 26, 2015, 06:55:09 AM

Quote from: Quickseller on May 26, 2015, 03:18:03 AM

Looking at TF on his face, he appears to be very honorable and to be someone that is very ethical.

uhh. I'm wondering what bizarre reality distortion field you've been hanging around. First time I saw him there was some kerfufflel because he was selling stolen login credentials. Then there was the exploitation of the rotten-ripple flaw in the design of the ripple system and a number of other other small scams (e.g. safecoin) it was clear to many that he was bad news before the inputs.io thing went explosively tits up.

My days here started after the inputs incident, shortly after I joined he started what most people thought was trolling. His trust ratings do not reflect those other small scams and as a result I was not aware of them (I believe you though). I have heard that there were rumors of him doing white hat hacking (with reasonable disclosure) and would then attempt to hack the same sites in a black hat way later on.

My impression of him prior to inputs was that he was highly trusted (enough for people to trust him with collectively thousands of Bitcoin) (bear in mind that I was not around to witness what he was doing prior to inputs), and somewhat of a security "expert" (I have seen comments that say something along the lines of that he didn't follow his preaching when it came to security). I have seen him argue for the ethical thing a number of times since inputs, one specifically that comes to mind was him trying to get people to stop advertising for dicebitco.in after they scammed. I also saw him pay people for when they were advertising his signature months after the inputs incident from what he claimed were his own funds.

I was under the understanding that he had taken steps to conceal his identity when he was engaging in some of the small controversy prior to inputs and that there was not 100% proof he was behind some of his transgressions (I still believe it was him though).

I am curious to know why more people didn't try to warn others about entrusting TF with such large amounts of money if it was so obvious that TF was such bad news.