Sunday, 30 April 2017

Famous Bitcoiners who left crypto

I was thinking of a compilation of people who left crypto for various reasons.

  • Satoshi Nakamoto: Disappeared after Gavin went to the CIA. Might be still amongst us.
  • Mike Hearn: Whiny ragequitted after didn't get his way to fork Bitcoin. Went to work for too big to fail banks.
  • Laszlo Hanyecz: ???
  • The guy who sent the pizzas to Hanyecz: ???
  • Amir Taaki: Left to fight ISIS, currently in house arrest.
  • Cody Wilson: ??? Was he ever involved more than a public face for DarkWallet?
  • Ross Ulbricht: Went to prison for being DPR.
  • Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR): May not Ross Ulbricht was the only one, so some might be still amongst us.
  • Variety Jones: Went to prison for being the right hand of DPR.
  • Guy who ate his hat: Passed away.
  • Hal Finney: Passed away.
  • Thomas Jiřikovský: Went to prison for being the owner of the exit scammed Sheep Marketplace.
  • Verto: Exit scammed with the Evolution Marketplace, he was the owner. Might be still amongst us.
  • Kimble: Exit scammed with the Evolution Marketplace, he was the right hand of Verto. Might be still amongst us.
  • Jeremy Allaire: Went blockchaintard. (Got nowhere with that) Circle also dropped Bitcoin?
  • Peter Thiel: Some Trump thing.
  • Josh Garza (GAW/Paycoin) - Currently plead guilty for fraud.
  • Mark Karpeles: Went to prison for MtGox. Came out, still tweeting sometimes.
  • Big Vern: Exit scammed Cryptsy. Did he flew?
  • Ryan Kennedy (Mintpal): Prison for rape.
  • Trendon Shavers (Pirate@40): Went to prison.
  • James DeAngelo: He figured out mining centralization is going to be a huge problem, but at the time nobody wanted to listen to him, so he left.
  • Jared Kenna (TradeHill): Now runs 20 Mission, a startup incubator and now also a brewery.
  • Chaang Noi (Goat): ???

Who else?



Submitted April 30, 2017 at 12:38AM by nopara73 http://bit.ly/2oXt5NL

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