There's nothing unusual about keeping depositor funds aggregated in trust accounts as long as those funds are kept in different accounts than the organisation's operating funds - banks and other financial institutions do it, as do real estate agents, lawyers, stockbrokers and other businesses which hold money on behalf of their customers.  If a business is going to use depositor funds for unauthorised purposes, it's probably going to do so no matter how those funds are being held. 

Customers don't have access to the records needed to determine whether the total number of Bitcoins which should be in the depositor trust account are actually there, so it's really a question of how much faith people are willing to place in the unregulated businesses with whom they deposit their money/Bitcoins.  Obviously it's possible to skim Bitcoins from the customer accounts either to trade for profit and return them, or to simply cash them in to ease cash flow problems.  There's no point pretending that risk doesn't exist.  If it's a risk you choose to take, you do so fully aware that you may have little recourse if things go wrong.

Yes folks, lets give this man and his men all your information regarding this situation in a private place where it can be fucked with to no end.

Sarcasm.

Keep this shit public please.

Or whatever, keep giving all your information to one "trusted" private source.  I mean, why not, this is obviously not a scam, because forum posts say it is not

I am not here to help you scam people.  But if you have a lot of information on them and you can't figure a way to do something with that information, then you sir, fail.

You can easily use the people's information around you to your benefit, friends, family, etc.  It is the fact that you don't (I hope) that separates you from the scammers

Information is powerful when used in powerful ways.

Also the sky is blue.

I am in disbelief you made that reply and/or that it was legit, or maybe I am just confused (more so than normal)

Are you seriously, on a forum about a private anarcho-libertarian currency, full of free-market loving libertarians, saying that "a private organization is not a great thing???"


Isn't the whole point of capitalism to "take advantage of things?" Currencies, and especially USD and EUR, are in trouble, and Bitcoin stepped in to take advantage of things. Or are you against the idea of "profiting from disaster?"


As for Matthew, and, I can't believe I am saying this, but maybe you should take a lesson from MagicalTux of MtGox: When people accuse you and troll you, just ignore them, keeping your answers as professional as possible, and only to few succinct explanations on how things are going (with an occasional jab at the troll, maybe, but OCCASIONAL!)
Though I do admit, feeding trolls can be fun and addictive