The Bitcointalk 'community' has a gambling problem. It's usually not my style, but maybe the poor victims need to learn a lesson? The previous entire month was dominated by discussions about pirate this, pirate that, and the latest ways to make easy money.

If anything, MNW has done everyone a massive favour by "throwing a spanner in the works" and bringing attention to the fact that if you're here to gamble, you should go to effing rehab instead of meddling with Bitcoin. It's the idiots who keep getting robbed that give Bitcoin a bad name, not individuals like MNW. Now I don't even know the guy, but I feel compelled to stand for him because:
1) as I understand it, he didn't actually take anyone's money.
2) he seems to run a business, and I generally have far more respect for entrepreneurial types than gamblers,
3) he's clever enough to teach people in practical ways, including trolling, whereas most other people (including myself) just rant when we're right.
4)If the Bitcoin experiment is to thrive, it requires MORE entrepreneurs, and LESS idiot gamblers.