So a few things. BlueMeanie is a well-known troll in crypto. If you look at his twitter profile it is just him either making fun of bitcoin or attacking people in crypto for no good reason.

I am hesitant to even respond to him, because that is how he gets his kicks. He follows people around the internet with his pants around his ankles and his dick in his hand, and when they turn around to respond to his stupid ass, he starts jerking it.

But, there is some pretty harsh accusations here, so I'll address them real quick, but then I have to go do some actual work.

(1) On Carlos, I didn't mention it in my medium piece because its already public knowledge and Carlos was on the run for years. He fooled a lot of people. For everything bad CoinTelegraph did, they didn't hire him knowing his past, he was using a fake name. None of us knew he was wanted until the day he got arrested.

So what does any of that have to do with CoinTelegraph's ownership or funding? It doesn't. The dude is in jail, likely for the rest of his life. He doesn't write for CoinTelegraph any longer. I don't see how that is important to the question of "who owns CoinTelegraph?"

(2) I never participated in any harassment of Bluemeanie, I talked ot him once on Skype to ask him for evidence about his accusations against NXT, but after realizing he was just a troll, I left him alone and moved on. I have never written about him, I didn't edit the one article that CoinTelegraph did write on him, and I have no idea why he thinks I am part of some grand conspiracy against him.

(3) I never participated in any kind of scam with NXT. I don't own any significant amount of any cryptocurrency besides Bitcoin. My NXT holdings topped out at around 20 bucks. I generally don't buy the altcoins I write about for two reasons: One, they are too risky, you need to depend on Bitcoin to succeed and then on top of that you also need the alt to succeed. And Two, I don't want any conflicts of interest. I normally only purchase a small amount ot test the system. Usually that is five or ten bucks. In the case of NXT it was a little higher because I wanted to test their asset exchange and so I wanted more to spread around, but it never was above 20 bucks.

Besides, people shouldn't take investment advice from my articles and I never presented them as such. My background is in Tech writing and I talk about them in a way that (hopefully) bridges the understanding from expert to layman.

Every time I wrote about NXT, I did it because I had a legitimate interest in their technology. CoinTelegraph never encouraged me to write about NXT. That isn't to say that they haven't collaborated together, I know there was a public contest they were a part of, but by that time they had stopped trusting me.

But, plenty of other crypto sites and journalists have ALSO written about NXT because their technology is interesting. Bluemeanie must have once felt this way because he was once an active member of their forum. That's where he became infamous, he has been a member of their forum since May 2014 and has over 600 posts there. His public NXT account 11274042109288826540 has had more that a million NXT pass through it. Yet I'm the one who participated in a ponzi scheme when I've never owned more than USD $20 in NXT.

On the BTER.com hack, I talked to NXT and I talked to BTER. The only person left to talk to was the hacker, and he wasn't going to speak to me. So I published that article with the best information I could find at the time.

I am no friend of BTER and heavily attacked them for the BitBay scandal, which I covered.

In any case, you'll notice he never posted a single shred of evidence to back up his ridiculous claims.

I was never rolling in money from cointelegraph. I doubt I ever made more than 8/hr working there. Writing is not a lucrative venture, especially when you start refusing to write copy as I did.

I don't know if he ever raised the question to me a year ago or not, but the fact of the matter is, I am poor as shit, and I wasn't in a position where I could throw away my only job. I'm sure Bluemeanie can just quit his job whenever he wants, what with 1million NXT stashed somewhere, but I can't. And besides, I don't normally respond to trolls who go around throwing false accusations.

As for me quitting now that it is going down. Well, I have chatlogs that can prove I was planning this for a while. In fact, the art you see on the medium post was originally going to be used on Cointelegraph's website itself, and I had it made up long before that post came out, but I decided that'd would have been too mean.

From what I have been told, pay has been coming on time ever since my madbitcoins interview. I don't buy the narrative that they are broke, they have just sucked money out of it and kept it for themselves. But now that they know what can happen when you treat your writers badly, I think (hope) they are wising up.

In any case, if you bothered to even look at my posting history, you'll notice that I hardly wrote for them anymore anyway. So their financial situation didn't really affect mine.

But, I do have a book deal, and the better thing for my career would have been to simply suck it up and promote it once it came out.

I didn't work at CoinTelegraph for years. I've worked there for 1.5 years.

Bluemeanie just wants attention. He had not talked to me in probably a year, maybe a little less, but he had hardly been hounding me with questions about CT. He just noticed that I was getting some attention, and decided he could maybe bring the spotlight on himself once again.

So, while Bluemeanie is talkign about me so much, lets talk a bit about him.

Here is his most recent tweet, where he says he wants bitcoin to die.

https://twitter.com/BlueMeanie4/status/633472014825590785

and here he is, at the UROSE Conference (Urocoin) promoting Polychains SPOW, a non existent technology he was pushing at said conference.

Urocoin, if you are unaware, was a known scam that claimed to be a new revolutionary way to buy and sell Urea, a fertilizer. It was promoted as something to help third world farmers. Uro coin was supposed to be pegged to Urea.

It never came out and never had a chance of ever working, but they took a ton of investments from people and made a ton of money. Its creator Bohan Huang is now missing, its site is down and its foundation hasn't made a peep in months. People lost thousands of dollars in Uro.

Here is Bluemeanie talking at the Urocoin conference. He is credited as the creator of the non-existent technology that helped scam untold thousands of dollars out of investors who thought they were investing in something that would help poor third world farmers.

https://twitter.com/DanDarkPill/status/527568566015774720/photo/1

What is your connection with Urocoin, Josh?

As for if I "knew i was working for cointelegraph or not" That was the most confusing and bizarre conversation I have ever had (if you can call interacting with bluemeanie a conversation). He accused me of taking money from NXT, I said I don't take payment for articles, meaning i don't take the kind of payments he was talking about, and then he took that tweet out of context and said that I claimed not to be paid at all for my articles.

It was a pretty pathetic attempt to defame me and to this day I'm still not sure what he was accusing me of when he said I wasn't sure if I worked for CoinTelegraph or not.

I don't think I have ever written about Jl777 in an article, and quite honestly, I wouldn't buy his securities either. But you know who did back in the day? Bluemeanie.

https://nxtforum.org/nxtventures/nxtautodac-all-of-bluemeanie%27s-automated-profit-making-blockchain-companies/msg22103/#msg22103

My only connection to NXT is occasionally asking their unofficial press dude questions, as journalists tend to do, and a few posts on their forums asking questions of their community.

So, I guess, just take it as you will.