Theymos
- Aka Michael Marquardt
- Came into scrutiny for potential mishandling of $1 million of entrusted forum donations, censorship of Bitcoin Xt, an alternate client, and the blanket banning of the posting of his own personal information on bitcointalk, while allowing the personal information of others to be freely posted.
- Controls r/Bitcoin where he censors heavily. Here is Theymos’s post defending his policies, including the now infamous line “If 90% of /r/Bitcoin users find these policies to be intolerable, then I want these 90% of /r/Bitcoin users to leave”.
- Is notorious for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars to develop new forums’ software and never releasing anything
- Wrote the first block explorer, blockexplorer.com, but does not operate it anymore
- Controls bitcoin.org
- Controls bitcoin wiki (which is heavily censored, and which is therefor also the reason this one is created)
- Bitcointalk, administrator & owner
- r/bitcoin moderator
- Proposed two possible soft forks with the goal of destroying Satoshi’s btc’s
- From Bitcoin.com (11-2019):
"The owner of r/bitcoin, bitcointalk.org, and the en.bitcoin.it/ (Wiki) page, Theymos is a well known character in the crypto space. Theymos has been involved with Bitcoin since the very early days and in recent years he’s been accused of mass censorship. The censorship accusations derived from the scaling debate and there’s lots of evidence that suggests Theymos and other r/bitcoin moderators repeatedly blocked all discussions that were for increasing the block size.
No one knows how Theymos accumulated so much power with all the bitcoin websites under his thumb. Prior to 2011, there were four r/bitcoin moderators and the owner u/Atlaslgo (now deleted), was wholeheartedly against the censorship of free speech. On July 19, 2011, the Bitcoin community at the time got very upset that Atlaslgo had planned to sell r/bitcoin and he was convinced to give it to the bitcointalk.org owner Theymos. The anonymous r/bitcoin owner Theymos still operates the same Bitcoin-centric web portals to this very day."
