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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: No need for a symbol. BTC is fine. People build friendly 'nugh interfaces with BTC << yeahy but then how would
vessenes' scam ring issue "press releases" about things and stuff ?
mircea_popescu: well this has been the objection since day one,
vessenes is just using it as a piggybank
mircea_popescu: incredible the lengths to which they go to hide
vessenes's multiple fraudulet activities from teh general public.
mircea_popescu: check out
vessenes being a complete and utter fucktard
mircea_popescu: as karpeles found out through bitter experience, as
vessenes will, etc.
mircea_popescu: and spend the proceeds on lobbying for having
vessenes appointed submarine captain in the vietnamese fleet ?
ThickAsThieves: some notables that will be in Amsterdam: Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn, Jinyoung Lee Englund (that snakey twitter liar hackathon canceller), Matonis, Marco Santori (self-proclaimed bitcoin lawyer), Jeff Garzi, BitPay, Coinbase, Nic Cary, Electrum, Armory, BitAngels, Circle, Bloomberg, NY Times, Mastercoin, Ripple (like 4 dudes!), eToro, Coindesk, ZipZap, Xapo, Erik Voorhees,
Vessenes, The
mircea_popescu: so who's going to show up to whatever derpy conference the
vessenes merry band of scammers is organising and ask him how much did karpeles pay him to promote his scam ?
mircea_popescu: at least shrem had the minimal decency to admit he's wrong.
vessenes will have to go to prison,
dexX7: "To the chagrin of the less confrontational, I plan to attack. And in putting my personal and professional reputation on the line, I will attack ruthlessly, from the front, and (figuratively) shoot to kill. By Monday, I expect that either: a)
Vessenes and Matonis resign gracefully from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, ..."
mircea_popescu: decimation: So apparently MP thinks the whole thing was an insider scam run mostly be
Vessenes. << if by "thing" you mean "Bitcoin Foundation", then yes.
decimation: So apparently MP thinks the whole thing was an insider scam run mostly be
Vessenes. It's sad that the early history of bitcoin occulted by such villainy.
cazalla: you know why i hate
vessenes mircea_popescu: kinda the only reason i like
vessenes. he's so fucking dumb.
Apocalyptic: <ThickAsThieves> when will they catch Ver on something? // I'm waiting for
Vessenes mircea_popescu: not particularly accidental that they vouched for the bfl scam, not happenstance that they still are covering for
vessenes' frauds
mircea_popescu: meanwhile got kicked out of the bitcoin scamdation (which he foolishly helped create) by the sort of backroom politicking
vessenes lives for.
benkay: get in touch with
vessenes kakobrekla: also >Mr.
Vessenes, who signed the bankruptcy petition, couldn't be reached for comment. Alydian's bankruptcy attorney also couldn't be reached. A spokeswoman for the Bitcoin Foundation declined to comment.
kakobrekla: >Alydian said in court papers that it owes $600,000 to CoinLab Inc. It also listed $3 million in debt to New Zealand's XRay Holdings LLC and $40,000 in debt to Mr.
Vessenes.
ozbot: Fireside chat with Shakil Khan, Charlie Shrem & Peter
Vessenes - YouTube
kleeck_: That Peter
Vessenes, four WHOPPING hours! :)
Graet: i thought Peter
Vessenes was deposed
ThickAsThieves: “It’s supervolatile, so I’d tell people to go slow,” said Peter
Vessenes, chairman and executive director of the Bitcoin Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes the currency. “Never hold more bitcoins than you’re prepared to lose.”
bitcoinbust: peter
vessenes should step in to stabalize the market
mircea_popescu:
vessenes is famous for sauyiong all sorts of things and never carrying through
bitcoinbust: im confused to what peter
vessenes does? is he a bitcoin developer?
Chaang-Noi: he Bitcoin Foundation’s chairman, Peter
Vessenes, who runs Seattle-based CoinLab, says he hugged Voorhees and others from Panama when he saw them at Bitcoin 2013 in San Jose, the foundation’s inaugural US conference, attended by 1,300 people. “They are great entrepreneurs,” says
Vessenes, “they have beautiful women follow them wherever they go, they are well dressed. All I wanted them to do was have a sane approach to US regulatory policy.
pigeons: bruce wagner had a conference, we had the intersangro one with nefario, the last one was sponsered by
vessenes and now matthew n wright
kakobrekla: omg this
vessenes guy "bankers are here wooohoo"
kakobrekla: 1. BITCOIN 2013 - DAY1 - Peter
Vessenes of Bitcoin Foundation
mircea_popescu: not really any customers, they just got the seething ego of
vessenes whom i've trashed to all shit and publicly humiliated for three lifetimes.
maximian: Peter
Vessenes: "I want to do what's right for bitcoin!" <launches $75M lawsuit against largest exchange>
mircea_popescu: Lyspooner actually it's
vessenes' little scam to try and float a little coin
pigeons: the second one from
Vessenes mircea_popescu: the impersonal you i mean. the little
vessenes group, bfl, mtgox, what have you in there.