On the side note, although Matthew scammed many people with his "bet", he didn't receive one satoshi out of it, so the damages are limited. But discussing this would be clearly off-topic here.
I didn't receive one Satoshi from Pirate's scam, does it follow that the damages are limited? Yes, Matthew made no profit from the damage he did. How does that show the damages are limited?
deliberately mis-managing another human's expectations about money makes a negative emotional impact on the victims. This is what Matt did, this is what Pirate did, this is what Vescudero is doing. Mis-managing expectations of many others in order for himself to profit greatly.
This is all too right.....and even formulated way to softly, how damaging it is for community spirit and the wherewithall of
Bitcon !
But : To remind you of the late Sir Alan Greenspan : Bubbles ( ponzis ) are not recognizable in advance, they got to be cleaned up afterwards !
Of course in FIAT world this is a blatant lie, but it applies to bitco
in.
Where are the efforts of the great Moderators of this forum to put scammer - tags on the PPT -operators, who are still "mismanaging human´s expectations"
helping to hide the ill - gotten interest of the ponzi -scams ? May I deduce that everybody watches out for the next one?...the same as false accusations have
no consequences and are greeted as evidence.....even if its just based on the limited ability to percieve the facts and the inability of nearly all the Super - Egos
to backpaddle, when getting their head handed back to them.
And so, as i love to put perceptions in the realm of reality, nobody is perfect

, would you mind, Sir Micon, to put up for otoh´s bet ?
Vescudero was (is) a useful service for me, as I earned his weekly interest in 15 min. after I took out a loan.
Thought of you as a bastion of honor or is your "justice" the last air-bag protecting the heroscammers of legitimate competition ?
Thanks Zyk
P.S. As long as i can´t see the same clean- up efforts made to prosecute the big profiteers as have been shown for MNW......
bitcoin.org is a typical case of frying the small - fish and let the bigo(tt)nes going on scott -free.....