I saved this from a Voat user back in October 2020, back when Kape made some other big news (I don't recall what it was):
Alright, where to start...
Kape technologies, previously known as CrossRider founded by Koby Menachemi, ex spy from unit 8200.
"Unit 8200 (Hebrew: יחידה 8200, Yehida Shmoneh-Matayim) is an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit responsible for collecting signal intelligence (SIGINT) and code decryption. It also appears in military publications as the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps and is sometimes referred to as Israeli SIGINT National Unit (ISNU)."
A lot more info here, both the article & comments are relevant. Notice the owner of PIA being the on the top.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21679682
Now PIA pre acquisition :
Known to sponsor servers for projects such as Snoonet (Reddit IRC), FreeNode, and much more.
https://freenode.net/ <--- Get back to that at the end.
They also aquired projects they only started as sponsors for, ie :
What they said in 2018 :
What happened in 2019 :
Hmmm...
What other projects and people are under PIA ?
Well, there's Karpeles lab
https://www.cnet.com/news/mt-gox-bitcoin-exchange-former-ceo-karpeles-lands-new-job/
The Mt Gox (member them ?) CEO was hired as CTO despite his criminal conviction in Japan.
Ok, so now on to Voat.
In the past XX months we went from Putt keeping us informed of his work & being very active in the community. X months ago a first wave of ddos, Putt still being himself. X months ago a 2nd wave of ddos, the "Now Hiring" followed by the "Where We Find Ourselves" post and nothing more.
Redacted -
Now for the interesting bit. Out of the blue a goat discovered an inactive page, https://voat .co/about. The regular page is https://voat .co/content/about. The 2 important things are on the bottom of that page, what's the contact email & who owns the Voat mascot?
<Hello@edon.garden> & Edon ---> http://Edon.Garden
That name has been in the code for some time now, at least X months. The "new" contact email's domain was registered in March & updated mid June.
Guess who's chaperoning that project ?
Imperial Family, the new London Trust Media, post merger with Kape Technologies.
So... shady as fuck (((Kape))) buys PIA (LTM), they rebrand as Imperial Family and suddenly Edon appears as one of their projects. The inactive page links to the same site, it's in the code & Putt is MIA.
Oh I remember now-- It had something to do with PuttItOut, who was the CEO of Voat. Lotta shady behind-the-scenes stuff went on with an angel investor that Putt alluded to, but couldn't say. Maybe another previous goat could chime in because I didn't document or even keep track of the whole thing. A lot of people thought Putt sold out. I personally think that every man has his price, and sometimes that price is his reputation or his family.
The implication is that Kape's holding company was the angel investor of Voat, and was privy to anything being discussed between members on the site (DMs), and had tremendous influence in moderation. And could say "oy vey shut it down" any time they wanted.
PIA was Voat's angel investor. They eventually breached their contract with Putt by unilaterally ceasing funding. Putt wasnt willing to sue them for breach of contract, funded Voat himself for a bit, then shutdown the site.
I doubt there was need of an investor to old voat.co.
@daskapitalist claimed : "PIA was Voat's angel investor"
Voat.co needed no outside funding, and Bitcoin hoard was the proven reason
In 2017 voat.co was down to their last 61 million US dollars provable via a bitcoin history wallet tool :
voat.co's two BTC wallets (posted by puttitout in past):
" 1PhBpbED6uEnrvy5s9F9axBZbK8fWAeZdc"
" 3NZvuAk3Csf1UP1KCmzN9dhiXTwvhTgr9k"
They're both deposit addresses to the same bitcoin wallet. You can check that for yourself here: https://www.walletexplorer.com If you search that wallet back to around this time or a little before, the lies become apparent. Here's just before that time.. https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/00000014ea8b260f?page=279670
See?
This shows voat had over 14,000 bitcoin in this wallet just before puttitout announcement of NOT SEEKING ANY MORE DONATIONS. Now, that 14,000 bitcoin not as much money as it would be today, at that time bitcoin was worth over $4,400 a piece. So, that’s still over 61 million dollars. They could have funded the next 20 years of voat for $780,000, if they were really paying over 6k a month, and not even put a dent in that.
With 61 million shown in that link , (over $600 million in 2021 coins), supposedly voat.co could get rid of cloudflare and use BitMitigate back then. But maybe the 61 million dollars was fed payments to voat.co to NOT stop using cloudflare ?
NOTE : those two wallet IDs are REAL and tracking sites for wallets showed that puttitout rarely took much out of his BTC wallets.
puttitout took his money and ran. There were no 'investors' other than the 2016-2017 bitcoin megatreasure given to voat.co
If puttitout merely TRANSFERRED his 14,000 BTC to a third cold coin wallet address, and in Aug 30 2021 at $48,108.10, for Sept 14th 2021 its $46,500.67) :
https://finance.yahoo.com/cryptocurrencies
$48,108.10 * 14,000 BTC for voat.co is $673,513,400 !!
over 600 MILLION DOLLARS!!!!
Puttitouts bitcoins from 2017 are worth this week, $673,513,400.00 !
HOLY FUCK!!!
He spent some before today obviously.
MORE wallets very briefly used on voat.co donation pages!:
voat.co's two additional very briefly used BTC wallets:
38 btc 2015 -- 1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY https://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/2f50f67c6956988b?page=232
$48,108.10 * 38 BTC on wallet #3 for voat.co is $1,828,107.80 Aug 2021 !!
55 btc 2015-09-23 19:07:45 -- 1BFqer7P9qqqiirbC63KqxfuZYXxk6RrBZ https://www.walletexplorer.com/address/1BFqer7P9qqqiirbC63KqxfuZYXxk6RrBZ
$48,108.10 * 55 BTC on wallet #4 for voat.co is $2,645,945.50 Aug 2021 !!
So in addition to PuttitOuts 2017 BTC now worth $673,513,400, you would add those other two lesser used official voat.co holdings.
$673,513,400 + $2,645,945.50 + $1,828,107.80 = a shit ton of money transferred from in Voat.co's 3 wallets.
No wonder puttitout took down his donation page, and also said no ads ever needed for voat.co.
AOU needs a cold BTC or Monero wallet on this site NOW! (monero not traceable as easy)
The coins went into voat.co at a humble value, but puttitout BTC holdings went exponential nose bleed valuation, when the coins went up.
Disclaimer : there is a 20% chance voat.co 61 million dollars (proven by me) in 2017 was not all voat.co owned, and in a wallet called a "mycelium shared hot wallet", but only a RETARD would have voat users be directed to keep storing into a shared online hot wallet. But its still a 20% chance, if he was a crypto newb. Also there is a 1% chance that www.walletexplorer.com is incorrectly assigning forensics. 1%. The failure is because of the logic used to track money in this paper by Reid and Harrigan : https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/49195/how-does-walletexplorer-know-which-wallets-belong-to-whom
So TLDR, Putt jewed us and left? Thanks for all that info-- I had thought that Putt was a better man than that, but once again it all comes down to the love of money. Damn shame.
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