Quote from: Kanine Awe on January 17, 2023, 05:46:58 AM

This thread is for educational purposes and for you to stop acting like idiots!

Good luck!

While this is a very nice (and kind /s) invitation to be wise, educate yourself, act with honor and so on, I could not refrain from staring at the very educative name of the topic:

Quote from: Mahirap on January 19, 2023, 03:31:39 PM

Op for one particular post or activity you have accused the whole community. Lol Grin

While having to agree with OP, as it's normal, after all, that if someone did something wrong once -- then certainly everybody does it (again, /s) -- still, topic's title brought me back the interesting ideas of another iconic figure of the forum:

So it seems that, somehow, three years later after wolwoo ~~spoke the truth~~ acted like the village idiot, someone else reaches same conclusion about the forum being a mafia clan. That makes sense, doesn't it?

The only thing that I don't understand is how and why OP chose that particular thread, which is also a very old one. There are so many other ones which could be presented as proof for the forum being part of mafia:

Quote from: xtraelv on July 24, 2018, 09:06:42 AM

Knightmb (Michael Brown)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4547124.0
knightmb on bitcointalk -went from owning 371,067.36 BTC to being jailed for Mitt Romney extortion.
Involved with bitcoin early on. One of bitcoins largest whales. Obtained the bitcoin in curious circumstancesv

Pirateat40 (Trendon Shavers)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4464504.0
Bitcoin Savings and Trust and Pirateat40 on Bitcointalk (PONZI)
More that 146,000 bitcoins were collected.

silkroad & altoid (Ross Ulbricht)
Silkroad and Altoid were both accounts tied to Ross Ulbricht and subject to a DOJ subpoena
Silkroad Founder jailed for running a darkweb drug market
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4437773.0

MagicalTux (Mark Karpeles)
Founder of hacked exchange MtGox,
Police suspect in Silkroad (never proven)
Hosted the bitcointalk on his servers and reviewed the code after the first bitcointalk hack.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412667.0 (Mt Gox story)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4405796.0 (Bitcointalk hacks and vandalism)

WME (Alexander Vinnik)
Bitcointalk user WME was identified as Vinnick when he made this post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=85977.msg1037908#msg1037908
http://archive.is/6cFcY
Other online activities by the same user account are alledged to link it to the hack on MtGox.
Investigations by Wizsec, a group of bitcoin security specialists, had identified Vinnik as the owner of the wallets into which the stolen bitcoins had been transferred, many of which were sold on BTC-e.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4412667.0

Cablepair (Tom)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=79637.msg1157524#msg1157524
Cablepair took a lot of orders for the bASIC miner and when the BTC priced spiked he started paying back USD valued refunds. More mining issues here: Mining equipment scams, shams and failed deliveries.

escrow.ms (Pankaj Bharadwaj)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1359877.msg13840774#msg13840774
Following a report in the India Times Escrow.ms got removed from the DT list.
The arrest was for credit card cloning and then converting it to bitcoin to launder and distribute the stolen funds.

Master-p
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1306301.msg13376914#msg13376914
Master-p scamming people When Escrow goes bad.

Goat / El Cabron (Chaang Noi)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622250.0;all
VIP accounts can change their username. Goat renamed his account El Cabron.
Goat attacking theymos
Goat versus the forum administrator.... check out the cool signature....
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=622250.msg7030081#msg7030081

Needless to say, the most recent scam -- yogg stealing the funds of Cold Key cards - My Cold Keys Just Got Swiped! All Halving Sets!!

Practically, while we have cases of hundreds, even thousands of BTC stolen, OP comes here pointing out a 4 BTC scam?!