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Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

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Re: Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

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Rich-kid sociopath slimeball is trying purposely to disrupt a burgeoning digital currency. Nothing to see here, move along, etc.

I want to get mad at you for talking trash, but it's obvious you've had issues with me for a while. Why don't you just let it go? We've never met before and you really don't know anything about me.

Re: Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

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The question is, is he really buying? Or just saying he is, as an experiment to see the effect on the incredibly unstable bitcoin market?

yes, that is exactly what he is doing.

Aren't all transactions public? Would anyone like to look up and check to see if the transactions he's mentioned have actually happened?

Re: Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, that is exactly what he is doing.

Aren't all transactions public? Would anyone like to look up and check to see if the transactions he's mentioned have actually happened?

http://www.bitcoinmonitor.com/ has a nice visualization of this data.

Re: Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

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post #4

Rich-kid sociopath slimeball is trying purposely to disrupt a burgeoning digital currency. Nothing to see here, move along, etc.

I want to get mad at you for talking trash, but it's obvious you've had issues with me for a while. Why don't you just let it go? We've never met before and you really don't know anything about me.

You threatened me with the handgun that you said you had in your manhattan apartment, stalked me, publicized my profiles on various websites in an IRC channel ostensibly about programming, violated (plagiarized) the intellectual property of some nice people I'm rather fond of, lied about the former and continue to do so and to top it all off...

...keep trying to play the nice guy act because now you have some skin in the reputation game because of your nodejitsu thing.

No, I'm not going anywhere. People deserve to know what a scumbag you are, especially if they're going to be doing business with you. They can make their own decisions after they have the facts.

N.B. His behavior against me was triggered by my calling him out for not apologizing for plagiarizing code.

Re: Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to get mad at you for talking trash, but it's obvious you've had issues with me for a while. Why don't you just let it go? We've never met before and you really don't know anything about me.

You threatened me with the handgun that you said you had in your manhattan apartment, stalked me, publicized my profiles on various websites in an IRC channel ostensibly about programming, violated (plagiarized) the intellectual property of some nice people I'm rather fond of, lied about the former and continue to do so and to top it all off... ...keep trying to play the nice guy act because now you have some skin in…

AHAHAHA! Hilarious troll. Now I remember why we had to ask you to leave the #node.js irc room.

Re: Marak Squires trying to hack bitcoin economy. Currently at 5800 coins (Twitter)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You threatened me with the handgun that you said you had in your manhattan apartment, stalked me, publicized my profiles on various websites in an IRC channel ostensibly about programming, violated (plagiarized) the intellectual property of some nice people I'm rather fond of, lied about the former and continue to do so and to top it all off... ...keep trying to play the nice guy act because now you have some skin in…

AHAHAHA! Hilarious troll. Now I remember why we had to ask you to leave the #node.js irc room.

No one asked me to leave, and there was certainly no "we" involved.

At the time you were dox'ing me, I was busy (getting ready to take a trip to SE Asia IIRC), and mostly absent. When I saw what was going on in my logs, I left of my own choice, no one said anything to me except for a couple members of the community that told me what you were doing.

Anybody (what few I did) that I spoke to about the incident were quite perturbed by your behavior.

I don't think you're actually capable of understanding how inappropriate and erratic you were acting.

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