Raphy (Bitfinex founder) has stayed away from bitcointalk.org since december 2017.
I guess his lawyers told him that was the best? And unlike Elon Musk he listened.
Ah, of course he removed the part where he told everyone his name (before he made bitfinex and anyone knew who he was), he deleted every post about his ponzi Unclescrooge 1-week deposit program at 2%/week,
BUT he could not delete the thread HAHA. So basically you see his account start a thread with no message, but you can still see some of what he said in people quotes. Anyway, there's screenshot of it all, the internet never forgets.
Also, on his linkedin, he has distanced himself from Bitfinex. According to his linkedin he quit finex in May 2015 (Tether began being traded on bitfinex in 2015), and since then has been "self-employed" and nothing but a mere investor in bitfinex.
"After a successful launch of Bitfinex, I continued to work as a developer for the platform as well as other clients until the beginning of 2017, then onto some personal projects."
Remember:
Nov 2017 Bitfinex runs away from the USA. They won't service US residents.
Jan 2018 U.S. Regulators Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether.
Jun 2018 Phil Potter resigns from Bitfinex “As Bitfinex pivots away from the U.S., I felt that, as a U.S. person, it was time for me to rethink my position as a member of the executive team,”
April 2019 Tether gets sued, exchanges get leaked. The CEO admits that funds have been frozen
- Somewhere in between raphy has erased every trace that incriminated him and distanced himself as much as possible from Bitfinex "I was just a developer working on the technical aspects" I cracked up when I read this. Poor Raphy, didn't his lawyers tell him? In french law screenshots from the internet can be used as proof... (he is from Lyon, France) Maybe he is going to try his luck with another country's law thought, except the only law that matters will be guantanamo law.
What a humble man, usually people try to make it look like they run the show and exagerate their involvement, but Raphel, no he is not one of those, all he did for Bitfinex was help them debug the platform code. Did I tell you he learned alot about Ruby on Rails while helping Bitfinex? Poor Raphy, he was just a little guy helping out the big boys.
"I was just a coder" - Raphael Nicolle