There are multiple sources that claim that Putt and or Atko received several hundred bitcoin over the years.
Just some random examples:
https://voat.co/v/whatever/4170016/26900137
https://ruqqus.com/+DumpsterFire/post/5yn6/voat-will-no-longer-exist-after/knpj
https://voat.co/v/politics/4170917/26907901
https://12bytes.org/reddit-like-free-speech-platform-voat-co-announces-x-mas-shutdown/
To be fair, there is some opposition as well, even though I could only find one person denying it:
https://voat.co/v/whatever/4171043
I haven't had Twitter fact check either so let's try to do it ourselves?
If that is genuinely true it's something that needs to be addressed. Circumstantial evidence that implies it might be true is Putts complete lack of willingness to accept donations. He has enough money to be set for life and is just looking for an excuse to shut Voat down. He is not even willing to pass the data base (all posts, threads and user data) to someone else so we can continue.
Voat is neither Putt nor Atko, Voat is its users and I'm surprised the fact that Putt is destroying that to live more comfortably on his own with possibly millions doesn't have people angrier.
Some people say Putt "owes us nothing" and that smells like reddit faggotry. If somebody creates a subreddit, gets lucky and hundreds of thousands join to form and shape the subreddit, even possibly donate millions to the subreddit creator he sure as fuck has a responsibility.
If he is not up to the task he shouldn't have accepted donations or passed the torch to someone else in time not go like "I'm gonna close this in 4 days, here is an announcement that attempts to be funny about it. Oh, and ignore the millions I (possibly) got from you, goy."
That destroys Voat and its community. Probably only a few percent will go to Poal, some to Phuck, Ruqqus, club penguin. The fact that there are so many Voat and reddit clones will heavily split this community.
Atko aka Atif Colo and Putt aka Justin Chastain should have to justify themselves.
- not accepting donations
- not willing to preserve the user base/threads and give it to someone else
- possibly running away with millions in donations from the founding days
This all seems way too fishy and people are just letting it happen. Instead they joke with Puttit about dick pics and even have a "thank you Puttit" thread? What?
Voat isn't Putt, it's the community of users and in my opinion it's time Putt answers some unpleasant questions.
CaptainJake ago
I did receive Bitcoin as donation years ago when it was worth next to nothing and it is all long since gone used to keep this place afloat back then. I'm no millionaire, I'm a fairly recent graduate just trying to make a living and now it's time for me to move on.
ColinKelley ago
Yeh. Sure. Of course we believe you, The original Putt sold this site to your (Jewish) "organization" many months ago and you just kept using his handle. You are not the original Putt. The rumor that rings true to me is that Mossad offered him much more than the site was worth, and threatened to kill him if he didn't sell. So he sold out and kept his mouth shut. We know what is going on. And we know who the real enemy is. Shalome
CaptainJake ago
Wrong.
mikenigger ago
And did you look at my argument and how fucking stupid your allegation actually is?
canipost ago
You answered within seconds of this thread appearing.
Are you actively looking for threads like this? You seem to spam your argument and it looks like you are personally invested.
You posted 2 btc addresses. Just because you can prove that niggers didn't loot 2 stores doesn't prove that they never looted other stores or store their stolen sneakers somewhere else.
Especially because it's trivial to store btc on another address. Disproving or proving the matter takes a lot more. Something I am not able to do because, despite lurking Voat ever since fatpeoplehate was banned on reddit, I never paid attention to this.
Older Voat users could chime that remember all the btc donation addresses and then we can go from there. It's reasonable to be distrustful and the fact that you get angry about it is weird.
mikenigger ago
Feel free to dig through archives and bring up more official BTC addresses, assuming there are more, but at this point there is nothing supporting your claim.
Blockchain shows you the total received to an address, there are no mental gymnastics required here, whether the address is part of a larger wallet is irrelevant because only the posted addresses are used by donators, what's so hard to follow about that?
If you can't grasp the concept of addresses sharing a wallet then you can't be helped.
fullAss ago
If you want to keep pushing this, figure out how they have no money to run the site after receiving 7.7 BTC. It's $1500 a month or so.
Hipsterrr ago
my favorite part is the fact that Putt vanished for months and then shows up and says this.
shitty admins.
ruck_feddit ago
Yep. Popped in after 2 months to say goodnight.
Hipsterrr ago
you on any other alts right now? I've been shown notabug.io and poal.co.
not sure which I'll ultimately end up with for now, but something tells me this isn't the end.
ruck_feddit ago
I signed up for poal 2 years ago. It's where I check when voat goes down for days on end. I do have accounts, at least by now, on all the other ones you've heard on here.
Poal was never bad, just dead. That's already changing.
Phuks is a major ghost town. A ghost county. I don't see it changing much in the last day.
Ruqqus maybe, but it needs some voat culture. I know how that sounds!
Notabug makes me sick to use, but that's the extent of my opinion.
I've made some comments and saw others testing the niggerfaggot waters.
Hipsterrr ago
I agree about notabug, the layout is just awful.
I think poal is gonna be the place to go for now