Looks like the thugs in charge have stomped their little jackboots. Nice job on trashing the only voice that your little magazine had that did any good for promoting itself. Matthew is a character. Always has been, and if played true to the cards he's showing, he always will be. Anyone who took this bet seriously is a prize ass, and deserving of public humiliation. Coming on the heels of Bitscalper, Bitcoinica and pirate, it was only fitting that somebody call attention to the absolute pathetic lemming-like devotion to believing pure bullshit that has become the hallmark of bitcoin.
Hey kids? There is no free lunch. You cannot sustain 7% weekly returns. There is no economic perpetual motion money making machine that pulls bitcoins out of your ass for your amusement. Matthew's big crime was poking fun at you about it. Oh me oh my, what a terrible scoundrel he is. You have pirate raping your entire family to the tune of $5 million dollars, and you want to jump on the shit of the guy who poked a finger in your eye? Lame. You have the bitcoinica incompetents pissing in your drink and still being kowtowed to because they are going to be keynote speakers at this joke of a conference in London.
Get a fucking clue Bitcoin Community!!! Right the fuck now. All of these slick snake oil salesmen who have just invented the newest greatest thing that you should invest in are talking to you for one single reason only- to steal your funds.
Wierd to see this coming from you. You normally take a very hard line. Sure pirate is the bigger criminal. I'm sure people are after him too. But if Matthew had won, it would have been for about 1M dollars I think. Please remember the context where Vanderoy just made a real bet 50k USD and won. The original bet at 10k was not so out of line.
I did not bet or think he'd pay. Regardless that does not excuse him. We need zero tolerance for these people. Big or small.
I want to pay suppliers in bitcoin. How's that going to happen if they come to these forums and see this cr*p from what seems to be pivotal members of the community?