If he was indeed legitimate in his claims he should have handled himself in a far better fashion. All the signs point to him being a thief.
The site has been close for more than 2weeks and he posted 1message in 2weeks; the probability to get some money isn't zero but it is probably less than 5%
Everyone should read the first page of this thread. In addition to me warning people that this was a possibility, there is also one user who wanted to invest "a large amount" and then asked ED if he wanted to "sell the site other then take donations" (not sure what this means but may be misworded to sell the site and just take commissions). This user also has not posted on BCT in ~3 weeks, which seems to be 1-3 days after all of this going down.
Could be a giant coincidence, could be the two of them were in cahoots since the start, could be ED is telling the truth (yet is/has still acted extremely unethically), could be ED is looking for a scapegoat. Just seems...odd to me.
Very interesting
The truth is we don't know who really owned ED : the guy who wrote as ED on bitcointalk, someone else, a group of investors?