I mean, I'm grasping at straws here... but from the looks of it he created what appears to be a classic Ponzi/pyramid scheme in the form of a virtual game? If so, who involved didn't see that collapsing one day?
I remember when he started it. I trolled and I trolled. And no one listened. I think they saw it as a way of bootstrapping an economy. But right, a blind man could have seen it coming.

I like how
smooth starts off that thread by casually stating that rpietila owes them all >500 BTC in unpaid debts.

Really guys? Ya'll gave him >$3M worth of BTC and he gave you back nothing but a virtual IOU? And no one ever considered this guy could have been a con artist from day 1 on this very forum?