Well now that you indirectly brought me into this (and are implying a conspiracy of some sort), I'll have to go back and re-read this entire thread, because honestly at this point I have no idea what exactly happened.  I do remember getting the initial impression that LFC_Bitcoin had engaged in some low-level shenanigans, but sentiment among some of the members posting in this thread seem to indicate that it was worse than that.

Just for the record, I've got a cycle in my avatar but nobody has tried to sway my opinion on this drama in any way.  I ended up tuning it all out until about five minutes ago when I read several of the most recent posts here.  The fact that the "cyclers" happen to be agreeing with one another doesn't surprise me at all.  That's usually been the case on other matters from what I've seen, but I don't think there's anything going on behind the scenes if that's what you think.

I need a TL;DR.  If anyone wants to write an unbiased one that succinctly explains what has transpired with LFC_Bitcoin and the hack and everything else, I would be happy to give merits generously for anything useful until I've been brought up to speed.  This would be a perfect use of the merit system.