He's definitely real, we had done some small-scale colocation together before GAW came around.  I wouldn't be surprised if he was left in charge, but last month he was denying being second in command.  There's also plenty of pics of him at the Miami expo with Josh

He also is the owner of Leaserig, so there was definitely a vested interest in the POW phase of XPY considering that it sold out all the rental sites for a whole week

"Yawn, heard it all before, stop creating new threads about it..." 

https://hashtalk.org/topic/31591/premined-test-coins-are-on-the-exchanges-why/9

https://archive.today/88gxv

It's becoming pretty obvious that GAW is paying expenses by selling premined and illictly mined XPY. Aside from a few stray miners they can sell, it's their only source of revenue.

So, is this thing now too complicated for an episode of American Greed or NPR Marketplace? Do you think they'll be able to explain the crypto scam, especially selling a premine, to normal viewers? Not providing a floor and lying about merchant support are pretty easy to explain, but it's hard to explain what's happening now without some knowledge of crypto.

"So they have a staker that creates coins, well everybody can create coins, but theirs creates a LOT of coins, and the coins from one of those addresses were supposed to go to a burn address, but they didn't, and this is in addition to the first block award..." None of that makes a lick of sense unless you have a working knowledge of the technology.

I'm sure it's possible to wrap this is into an example using other financial instruments, e.g. trading options or whatever. I just don't think this rural telecom giant is big enough news for any mainstream media, not yet anyway.

I fear Anita_Hanjaab is about to be tossed off the site

https://hashtalk.org/topic/31596

Heh thats cool

Anita also has made it to twitter - shes on there as @anita_hanjaab_

Is it scary that its the second "Anita Hanjaab" account on there?

I completely disagree. Remember when there was that bug that allowed users to see the balance of an arbitrary account? That gave us an idea of the scope of this thing, as it showed us the (at the time) millions of dollars worth of Paycoin held by consumers, and it's right in line with what those investigative report shows cover.

I don't mean to say there isn't a substantial amount of money involved (although the actual scope of that is debatable). I'm just thinking what would be the appeal of this story compared to let's say penny stock scams or other similar schemes that don't seem to attract media attention at all. Perhaps some "human interest" angle if there is one, e.g. someone getting foreclosed out of their house thanks to XPY "investments".

I assure you, the investigation is real

oh man