I guess this is where the conspiracy theories come from, said conspiracies being that theymos and cyrus take control of some accounts in order to sell them or something along the lines. I think that is nonsense considering theymos is loaded with bitcoins from being an early miner so he is set for life, cyrus is probably in good standing too.

At the same time, the fact that they are bitcoin whales also make it understandable that they wouldn't spend too much time managing the forum, but this isn't a justification to leave people in a desperate endless wait, ignoring signed bitcoin addresses as definitive proof (if that proof is going to be ignored, then what's the point? that is what bitcoin is about, verifying, and verifying takes just a minute, something that Staff could be doing speeding up the process and cleaning up the meta section as all the lost password threads get solved. As people get desperate they bump their own threads, so the queue keeps growing and everyone is self bumping these growing threads, eventually the entire meta section will be people wanting to get their passes recovered.