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Where is the theymos vs. Lauda ordeal from 2019? That was semi-private but still quite the scandal. 
What about that time you stole a bunch of coins from the people you were serving as escrow for? That was a pretty big deal.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4895354.0
Accusation is the exact opposite of the truth: Extremely dishonest.
Here is what happened:
- ICOs are bad. I have always said so, to the point of having a reputation for saying so.CoinNullius is a military-grade cryptocurrency with 100% anonymity consisting of just one coin cuz there's nothing else like it. Its blockchain is secretly hidden on the Net accessible by ONLY one person in the galaxy whose true identity is unknown. There will be no ICO in distributing fractions of CNUS cuz ICOs are bad, mmmkay.I have an easier solution: Dont ever do KYC. Avoid anything and everything which requires it. [...]
Ohyou said ICO. Well, those are scams which should be avoided, regardless.Paint Bitcoin with guilt-by-association in the mediahow often do you see Bitcoin and ICO mentioned in the same breath, discussed in the same article, when they are not even remotely related? - This one used escrow. Thank escrow that investors got back approximately 55% of their money, in accord with the upfront escrow terms. That figure would almost certainly have been exactly 0% without escrow. ← Nobody said this in mid-2018, and nobody was not here to say the obvious.
- Over a relatively short period of time from start to finish, too short for 201718-era dollar inflation to make a significant difference in this context, investors actually recovered a higher dollar value than they put in. Sure, they lost about 45% of their BTC; but in purchase-power terms, thanks to, thanks only to the protection of escrow, investors actually came out slightly better than break-even on that horrible clusterfork of a horrid ICO. Thank you, escrow.
- For escrow, it was a nightmare worst-case scenario: One party, the ICOers, spectacularly imploding in incompetence and mutual recriminations within the dev team, plus executive theft of the internal database, etc. The other party, the investors, understandably being... extremely concerned. Four-figure BTC on the line. Forum politicians and garden-variety trolls with ulterior motives taking an opportunity to grind an axe against Laudaspecifically Lauda, even though there were four persons doing this huge escrow together.
This is the case in which escrow discovers that they inadvertently agreed to handle ☢ radioactive, ☣ biohazardous toxic waste. 😿
Escrow handled it with military precision, brushed aside distractions, and worked hard to untangle the mess so as to get investors as much money back ASAP as there was remaining, per upfront escrow terms.
I hope that investors learned to listen to Nullius about ICOs.
I also hope that somebody said, Thank you, Lauda. (and minerjones, and Blazed, and coinpayments; but it was Lauda who got picked on and is getting picked on here, so I will pick on her, too.)
Escrow did their job; and it is reprehensible for anybody to blame escrow, the neutral third party who provided the protection that they had promised, instead of the people who pitched an ICO with grandiose promises, took a huge chunk of the money at the milestones agreed to in advance, and then promptly delivered nothing but yet another wretched ICO-meltdown drama.
One is punished best for ones virtues.
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 132
Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 132
- Virtue was the edit distance between your name and "Lauda". 
What, did the anti-Lauda crowd expect for Lauda to use witchcraft to return 100%, or even 1000% of the money to investors?
As I was initiated into a cryptic cult with rites of the goddess Hecate, the renowned paranormal researcher William Blake caught this photograph of Lauda shapeshifted to the form of a flying catbat:
The witch LAUDA
Identified Flying Object (IFO)
(Better than a UFO. Much better than an ICO.)
The witch LAUDA
Identified Flying Object (IFO)
(Better than a UFO. Much better than an ICO.)
It resolved itself, unless you want me to cast a couple of spells.
[1] Though I wonder why the attempt at burning me on a stake (by certain individuals),
Amazingly, the NVO thread is still ongoingand nemgun is still trying to rationalize this (!):
SCAM
your opinionBoldface added:
not my opinion. If you say you will do something and take peoples money to do it, but it ends up being a coke fueled nonsense party with NOTHING to show for the creditors except 50% of their money back. THAT is a scam. Over the course of NVO you burnt through nearly 10 million dollars WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT. That is the definition of scam.
Thank god for Lauda, and the escrow system on bitcointalk. If that didn't exist it would be even more of a scam. You all should be ashamed of your actions. It is obvious your theft left you with little life satisfaction and happiness, so it was all for nothing.
The 2017 craziness in the market was created because we all fell in love with crypto and the possibilities, but you and TON and whats his face did your part to ruin the possibilities and the optimism. All the ICO's did. I don't know what kind of weird shit you guys are in or strange people you hang out with, but I would trade no amount of money to live in your heads. Or your lives. Hungry ghosts.
Everyone gets what they deserve. If only for being human. Harm gets you harm. Good gets you good. What do you think you deserve?
Shame on you.
Thank god for Lauda, and the escrow system on bitcointalk. If that didn't exist it would be even more of a scam. You all should be ashamed of your actions. It is obvious your theft left you with little life satisfaction and happiness, so it was all for nothing.
The 2017 craziness in the market was created because we all fell in love with crypto and the possibilities, but you and TON and whats his face did your part to ruin the possibilities and the optimism. All the ICO's did. I don't know what kind of weird shit you guys are in or strange people you hang out with, but I would trade no amount of money to live in your heads. Or your lives. Hungry ghosts.
Everyone gets what they deserve. If only for being human. Harm gets you harm. Good gets you good. What do you think you deserve?
Shame on you.
Wow. Somebody did thank (god for) Lauda and the other escrows. I am now a tiny bit less cynical than I was a few minutes ago.