How do you know MNW and Pirate aren't in cahoots? Perhaps the actions MNW took gave time to pirate to take care of his own personal obligations first during the initial chaos. Why couldn't this be the case?
That... would be too scammy of a thing to do even for Matthew
Do you know him? Does anyone know him - for fucking real? Didn't some of these PPT guys actually meet Trendon in LV? Or was that total bullshit, too?
From my interactions with him over the course of the year, Matthew never struck me as a rude, inconsiderate asshole (pirate definitely did). At most Matthew was always a somewhat insane weirdo with a severe lack of maturity, and excessive trolling tendencies. I may be wrong, but his character definitely did not fit the profile of someone who would team up with Pirate to purposefully rob people like that (I'm still of the opinion that he chickened out on the bet or something, which is different from basically premeditated theft.)
You are probably right, Rassah. In the back of my mind though this whole thing seems orchestrated. I'm not really familiar with this history like some of you are - has MNW been involved with any other BTC companies that have ripped off/ran away with btc?
I mean seriously, it would have been real easy for pirate to contact MNW (young and easily manipulated) and offer him 1000 BTC for him to make an ass of himself and keep the charade going. MNW gains 1000 coins and loses his rep - he knows (or thinks) that this will never come back to haunt him because people already think he is an idiot.
Pirate, in the meantime, is able to liquidate his holdings and get out while MNW is trying to subdue the rest of the large redemption's. Like I said, I have no dog in this race, but if I did, I would definitely be checking out MNW just as much as Trendon.
*** this is all, IMO ***