And, he more recently offered to liquidate, and then kept, the assets he controlled from BTCINVESTors.
People (including me) try very hard to believe that scammers have the same ethics as us- that they're hard working entrepreneurs with a bum rap. But too often, they're just scammers.
I'm dealing with it now also IRL. Me and another party agreed to something in writing. Now they're like "well, we just don't want to pay you." :-(
I really am under the impression that certain people just lack a basic set of certain ethics! I really believe that. They just decide to break any promises they've made or disregard any social rule in order to gain more money.