After some long and hard thought weighing the pros and cons of continuing on attempting to be any kind of a movement in finding out what happened with MyBitcoin, at the advice of my colleagues and good friends I have decided to officially remove it from our list of priorities completely.
Growing up from a family highly involved in law enforcement, personally having worked on a task force for the past 3 years here in Korea as an investigator for academic fraud and drug trafficking, and having worked since childhood with security and law enforcement for IT/network security, it is difficult for me think that given tremendous evidence of foul play, the owner of MyBitcoin could get away scott-free. This, not any greed or 'grab for funds' was the main reasoning behind involving myself and one of my newest, most promising, and arguably most useful organizations in an attempt at investigating the matters that surround it.
I obviously made a large erorr in judgement when it came to the willingness of the community to band together for the common good, and also hadn't expected that such a viscious and vile response would be given to any one person trying to organize anything (or as it has been referred to, "taking charge").
The problem does not lie in my inabilities to financially support such an investigation from competent and willing individuals who are experts in doing so, nor is it in the general lack of evidence people have provided (which as a side note has caused me to lose some serious faith in the community as awhole) in an effort to band together. The problem lies in my original mistake of claiming this to be an effort of the UABB, which is in fact not cut out to handle such an activity under its own business model.
Due to my mistake, the UABB now suffers a loss of reputation, individuals shouting 'scam', and people thinking it's just a shell to 'grab some funds'. This is disasterously wrong and the opposite of what the intention of the UABB is. The UABB is an extremely useful tool for helping to create a better, safer and happier Bitcoin community. It may not be finished to everyone's likings yet, it may in fact still have a hidden WHOIS (WHOCARES) and it may in fact still have a few bugs in the code that I will fix on my own no doubt-- but that doesn't make it any less of a useful, important service to the community.
For this reason and this reason alone, I regret to say that I will be ending any further official participation in the investigations, if there ever will be any, and am no longer attempting to organizer or contribute (I'll still contribute personally, but in a much quieter way) and apologize to anyone who may have gotten the wrong idea as to what the true nature and intentions of the UABB are in fact.
For those of you who have already signed up for the UABB, are already emailing me daily asking when it will be ready, and those who have already inquired about the terms for accreditation, the site is expected to be finished by the end of the week. I have asked for some more help as I can long handle all of these projects on my own (I am the sole web developer, and write everything by hand in Notepad++, hence the time delays).
I feel this is not only a step in the right direction for me personally, professionally and towards the community, but that it will free the UABB of any liabilities that may have existed to my poor judgement. My apology is also extended to those working with me who I may have upset.
To a brighter future, a new UABB, and a less hateful community-- for all.
Matthew N. Wright
What I get out of this. Is that since you can't help people under the cover of this made up group, you wont' help at all?
Proven scam?
Or were your intentions not fully to help?
