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January 27, 2014, 08:14:55 PM

This is actually really good news. Charlie was not an asset to the bitcoin community. It was a shame that the winklevoss ever got involved with him but I'm glad they shut down bitinstant when they found out.

While I'm not going to sell bitcoins just because of this, I do think this is terrible news. A person has just been put in jail, on bogus "trading with some people, who might have been trading with some other people, who might have been selling plants to people" charges. Seeing certain individuals in Bitcoin community dump the guy, just because he's "not an asset" or something, is making me sad and angry. I would guess you and me are sort of "not an asset" types either, even more so than Charlie. So what, does it mean we deserve to be locked up?

We don't know that. If they don't have explicit proofs of him being part of organized crime group then it's certainly stupid arrest and his lawyers would deal with it pretty easily.

But maybe they have that proof and are not stupid to do it without it. I don't know guy, so I certainly won't take his corner just like that.