Quote from: repentance on September 02, 2012, 07:58:21 AM

Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on September 02, 2012, 07:29:04 AM

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=82560
Relevant? Has anyone heard from OP since?

hmm

"we know that even people who don't have a relationship with us are using it to launder."

"Pirate is a nice guy at heart, but he does business with some ugly people who I don't want coming back to me."

My bet is that it is Nakaska

Sounds like some dangerous territory...

https://twitter.com/nakaska

His last post was: You Can Quit But You Can't Give Up http://bit.ly/tT9RkZ

The bit.ly address is http://bryce.vc/post/13198157725/you-can-quit-but-you-cant-give-up

The author of post:

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I co-founded O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV) with my partners Tim O'Reilly and Mark Jacobsen. I invest in things most VCs won't. I don't wear blue shirts and khakis. I work in the city and live in the sticks. I own more bikes than cars and more skis than bikes. I have a wife and 5 kids that my world revolves around.

http://oatv.com/

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Seed stage investing sits between angels (who tend to commit $10k to $100k per company) and traditional venture capital ($3-$5M Series A investing along with the occasional Series B-D round).

Head on over to the above to read more, but back to Nakaska's Twitter account. I touched on this before, but possibly effed-up with that AMD stuff. Once again, I bring to your attention Intellinerds, but this time I followed the links (plural).

http://blog.intellinerds.com/post/3437693856/tripdiv-launch

When you click on TripDiv you arrive at (I want a BlowBob for this) https://mining.demo.nakaska.com/

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~Bruno~

You've lost me Phin. We already know that Zach Nakasa is one of the active officers of GPUMax, we didn't need the Twitter posts to establish that - it's part of the public record.

I'm not sure whether the true identity of ninjaat40 matters (although my best guess would be his brother Rylan - the family seems to be well established and would have more reason than anyone else to not want Trendon's activities coming back on them and would know about any change in his spending habits). Either the people who are really pissed off about pirate's scheme collapsing will report it to the US Attorney's Office (they seem to be the people who investigate and prosecute ponzis) and IRS and they'll ferret out any shady connections, or people will just gnash their teeth over this for a while before eventually moving on.

To be honest, I doubt that many people who lost money to pirate want his activities properly investigated - which means that what he was really doing and with whom will likely remain a mystery.

I expect nothing to come of it as has happened with all previous scams of this magnitude.