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Turns out that Core supporters are the Biggest Blockers of all! (Bitcoin Core, Charlie Shrem, Tuur Demeester and more)

Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:05 pm

Since there isn't enough drama in the Bitcoin space already, I thought I would add a bit more to it.

For those who don't know, I was the first investor in Bitinstant, and that is widely regarded as the first investment into a startup in the Bitcoin ecosystem ever. Charlie didn't manage the business well, and made numerous bad business decisions, only one of which was to openly sell Bitcoins to a dealer on the Silk Road. He was eventually arrested for it.

The short version of this story is that Charlie Shrem claimed he had no money when he was on his way to prison.
He asked me to loan him money so he could afford to hire someone with the prison selection process.
In the past I had loaned Bitinstant hundreds of thousands of dollars for liquidity float, but when it came time for him to pay me back he was full of excuses, and it was always impossible to get him to pay me back on time. Because of those past bad experiences with Charlie I had promised myself I would never loan him money again. This time I felt bad for him so I agreed because it was only $5,000 and I actually didn't expect that he would ever pay it back. I would have been just fine with that if he hadn't gone on a social media rampage undermining my own efforts with Bitcoin.com to promote the version of Bitcoin outlined in the Satoshi White paper.

I then asked him privately numerous times via email to pay me back.
He can say whatever he wants about the scaling debate, but he should pay me back the money he owes me.

One night I saw his support for the censorship supporting, Bitcoin choking Core roadmap, so I was extra fed up with the fact that he still hadn't repaid his debt to me, so I decided to comment on that fact with this tweet:

https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/891050550862561280

In the following tweet storm, we had this great comment from Charlie:
https://twitter.com/CharlieShrem/status ... 2168039424

This really pushed my buttons a bit more because I had been emailing him privately for months asking to be repaid, but he always had an excuse or delay tactic.
I pointed that out too:
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Notice that the date of the email was several months before I publicly called him out for it on twitter.
After I made a big deal out of it on Twitter, he eventually paid me, but then blocked me on twitter for my efforts:
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I just thought people should be aware of his juvenile behavior, so there it is.

P.S. This post was inspired by the fact thatI noticed on Reddit that BitcoinCore has blocked Jeff Garzic on Twitter for no reason at all.
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It is also worth noting that Core supporter Tuur Demeester also blocked me for pointing out that Charlie doesn't pay his bills on time. I suspect the real reason is that he disagrees with Satoshi's roadmap for scaling bitcoin, while I support it very publicly.
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Birds of a feather.....
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Re: Birds of a feather Block together. (Bitcoin Core, Charlie Shrem and Tuur Demeester)

Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:08 pm

Here is another example of a Core supporter blocking someone (me) for no reason at all:
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Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6 ... _anything/
(He later unblocked me)
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Re: Birds of a feather Block together. (Bitcoin Core, Charlie Shrem and Tuur Demeester)

Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:12 pm

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Re: Birds of a feather Block together. (Bitcoin Core, Charlie Shrem, Tuur Demeester and more)

Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:25 pm

I'm extra annoyed by this person.
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Previously he invited me to be on his youtube show to discuss the scaling debate.
I think it went similarly well for me like it has in past debates:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkbSrmsYJ9c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JarEszFY1WY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdyIJ-BUPaU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOIoWgBIpQY

The difference with his invitation was that rather than publishing the debate video, that only he had a copy of, he decided not to publish it, and even removed from his youtube channel a past interview that he had done with me that had thousands of views.
To me, this feels like a form of fraud. He invited me to have the debate with the understanding that it would be published on youtube. I spent my time to do it, and then he never released in on youtube.
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Re: Birds of a feather Block together. (Bitcoin Core, Charlie Shrem and Tuur Demeester)

Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:29 pm

Another example:

[snip image: Blockstream Twitter is blocking every Bitcoin Cash supporter. Are they using a bot?]

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6 ... y_bitcoin/
I've been posting quite a bit about my support of Bitcoin Cash on Twitter and @Blockstream hasn't blocked me.
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Re: Turns out that Core supporters are the Biggest Blockers of all! (Bitcoin Core, Charlie Shrem, Tuur Demeester and mor

Thu Aug 31, 2017 11:47 am

You have the economics of Bitcoin 2.0 (cash) down right. The high transaction fees for bitcoin core and slow confirmations will eventually make bitcoin 2.0 surpass bitcoin core in market capitalization.

Keep doing what you are doing and Bitcoin 2.0 will be the currency of the future where will pay for everything with it. The future that you originally envisioned for Bitcoin core.

I've shifted all my bitcoins to bitcoin 2.0 already

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Re: Turns out that Core supporters are the Biggest Blockers of all! (Bitcoin Core, Charlie Shrem, Tuur Demeester and mor

Thu Sep 07, 2017 11:17 pm

The truth has a way of coming out. The scaling debate has revealed the frauds in the bitcoin space. They are all puppets of Blockstream. Anyone paying attention can easily see the truth.

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