So, many of you have been following my investigation into , the betting scandal and the various other accounts he seems to be running.
It's been an interesting 24 hours and I feel we've learned a few new things.
Most importantly, we've learned that when an anonymous internet scammer is accused and cornered, he'll wriggle and twist and basically do anything to avoid looking guilty.
Perhaps most shockingly, he and his proxies are flagging my comments to try and hide my reasonable refutations to his claims.
Luckily other posters have spotted this:
Are these actions of an innocent man?
Now I have a confession to make. It looks like I've made a mistake with my upvotes. I did assume I bet at 100%. It looks like I've sometimes been making the posting bets at 10%. I assume I must have done this just after getting over 500 Steem and suddenly being given a vote slider to play with. I apologise for not being more accurate with this. I'm not a 'techie' at all and 'the blockchain' mystifies me.
To clarify: I take ownership of the fact that I was wrong about my upvotes being all at 100%
However this mistake makes no difference at all to the majority of the payouts. These bets were valid according to the rules. And now is attempting to push the narrative that the rules were always that one must bet over a certain percentage. He seems to have convinced a few credulous souls. But not everyone is so gullible.
Here are the stated rules from when I began playing. For the majority of the games I played these remained the rules.
As you can see ALL bets were legal.
Currently is trying to control the narrative relating to what he's actually accused of. Sadly, as my previous post detailed, it seems to be far worse than just 'mistakes' with his pay outs.
Extremely concerning is the different accounts which he seems to be involved with.
Whilst initially taking care to appear separate from these two betting accounts with interactions like this:
He has now essentially admitted that he was running these two sock puppets. I tried to talk to him about it in a private chat.
But of course he ignored me and I was forced to bring my concerns to the attention of the community.
Many other posters have voiced(publicly and privately) their concerns about what else this person is involved with. For obvious reasons I won't list all the accusations here but...
He seems to control @Steemprentice And he seems very closely tied with . Interestingly
seems very closely tied with
, running various promotions together.
It was when I brought the connection up to that my posts were flagged. Then another account attacked my position. After telling me to STFU he offered to pay me to remove my post.
Now guess which account often delivers the coins for taskmanager.... Yep, you guessed it.
Funny coincidence eh?
Further concerns:
when I asked, quote innocently, who runs @crowdsourcedwhale, look who answered:
Methinks the lady doth protest too much.... Or perhaps not. I can't be totally sure. But why is he involved?
And, heaver forbid, there's even a link to potential witness account which I've been told is his as well.
Is any of this certain?
No.
Could it be a group working together?
Yes.
Most importantly, is it worrying that someone as dissimulating and unrepentant as might be funneling money from newbies to himself in many many various different way AND setting himself up as a witness?
Yes, very.
Please feel free to discuss reasonably below. All mistakes made herein are my own