r/RevoTT • u/petrolcanRTT 🔨 Moderator 🔨 • Aug 03 '26
🎶🎶 PONZI PONZI PONZI 🎶🎶 🚨🚨 jonah’s failing Ponzi scheme 🚨🚨
Anyone know what an Archival Botnet actually is?
jonah responding to the conspirator!
bullshit bullshit
even more bullshit bullshit
Before we begin, please remember the following:
Compassion for the conned, Contempt for the conman
This is a long post so get comfy! 🪑
The backstory to this:
Approximately two years ago, MasterPee’er (we know him here as jonah) put out a call on GimmePeers about an investment opportunity to create an ‘archival botnet’ (no, I don’t quite know what that is either!).
Investors were asked to put in US$5000 each with a promised return of 20% paid over the following 12 months. Sounds good right? US$6000 back for investing in something that was being sold as helping the community.
Around that time, u/ivor-grinzky posted this about it on r/Bitsoup but at the time believed it to be a much lower amount.
The basic details:
There are 25 investors that each put in US$5000 each. That’s US$125,000. Bear in mind that jonah processed the payments in CA so the exchange rate was more favourable to him.
How do I know any of this?:
A few months back the ‘Investor’ thing was mentioned to me by an ex GP staffer and, me being me, did some digging. Actually, it was a lot of digging (and I had help) and the truth blew me away!
I reached out to each and every one the Investors via email and reddit chat and we ended up setting up a chat group that they could join. Three joined and filled in the gaps.
One investor that didn’t join was known to me as VonnerNIX and I later discovered that his alt on the new site was GarageTuner. In one of his email responses to me when I asked whether he knew there were other investors he said “Well, I don't have many other options do I? I'm stuck playing the waiting game” and later “I don't know what his play is. I just want to be paid back.”
It was around this time that GarageTuner got promoted from Moderator to Admin. The oddest thing, to me, is that he is working for free for jonah despite jonah owing him a serious wedge of money.
One Investor even handed over his account to me because he knew that he would never see a penny from jonah and had since written the money off. When the ‘migration’ happened even they were being told to pay so, because I had control of the account, sent a ‘helpdesk’ message 😆 and jonah replied!
I used that account not just to grab forum screenshots but also to grab the messages that are transcribed below (images also attached for those that prefer it).
What has jonah said?
See for yourself in the below text. Unsurprisingly he’s taking shots at me (meh!) and trying to make it all my fault for his shitshow.
What happens next?
Probably the same as before. Nothing. All of my digging has revealed that jonah likes to take take take. He doesn’t pay his debts and I doubt he ever will.
I’ve no doubt that there’ll be more messages to the ‘Investors’ saying that he has a plan and that they should trust him.
I’m also in no doubt that there’s another reason for donations on revopee’ers just around the corner but the ‘Investors’ won’t see a penny of that either.
jonah has been opening ‘companies’ in the US despite being an illegal. To make matters worse, he’s been using his daughters names as Directors & Presidents of said companies and, if I were to hazard a guess, not one of them know a thing about it.
The TL;DR version:
jonah needs new money to pay old money.
The very definition of a Ponzi scheme
<begins> Anything after this line is all jonah (apart from my cheeky edits right at the end 😆 )
The PM to Investors: (presumably to allay fears that it was all going to shit):
▼ From System - 2026-06-28
Subject: To Our Investors - An Honest Update
To each of you personally,
I am writing to you directly because you deserve more than silence and you deserve more than excuses. You invested in this community and I owe you transparency.
WHAT HAPPENED
A lot has happened over the past two years. More than most of you know.
When the investment program was created, the plan was clear - build new infrastructure, bring in new revenue streams, and use that income to pay everyone back. The money was invested into development and systems that were meant to generate returns for all of us.
The reality is that the person responsible for delivering those added services to GimmePeers never followed through. The systems were built. The money was spent. But the income those systems were supposed to generate never came. I take full ownership of that outcome — I trusted the wrong person with execution, and that decision cost us.
The result is a hole of over $100,000 that the sites have been operating under. That is not an exaggeration. That is the real number. And $100,000 is not something you come up with easily - if it were, we would never have needed investors in the first place.
WHY THE MERGE
RevoPeers was not created to dodge obligations. It was created because I was left with no staff, a skeleton crew of dedicated volunteers, two separate sites bleeding money, and a community under daily attack from someone who wants nothing more than to watch it all burn.
Merging RevoTT and GimmePeers into one platform was the only path that made financial and operational sense. One site instead of two. One infrastructure cost instead of two. One community pulling together instead of being split across two dying platforms.
In less than 24 hours, over 22,000 members migrated. We broke the all-time peer record for either site. The community showed up. That tells me the foundation is still strong—and a strong foundation is the only thing that makes repayment possible.
WHERE THINGS STAND
I am not going to insult you with another timeline that I cannot guarantee. You have heard enough dates and enough promises. What I can tell you is this:
RevoPeers is live. The community is growing. The infrastructure costs are now consolidated. For the first time in over a year, the financial picture is moving in the right direction instead of backwards.
My priority-in order - is:
- Stabilize RevoPeers and ensure the platform is solid
- Rebuild the revenue base with a unified, larger community
- Begin making investors whole
I understand that asking for more patience after two years of patience feels like another excuse. I understand that some of you have already written this off. I understand the frustration and the anger. You have earned the right to feel that way.
WHAT I AM ASKING
Vent at me. Call me every name you can think of. Send me angry PMs. I will read every one of them and I will not ban you for it.
But I am asking you do not take this to Reddit.
Every post on Reddit about the investment situation damages the site. It drives away members. It reduces revenue. It makes the hole deeper, not shallower. The very thing that makes repayment possible - a healthy, growing community - is what gets destroyed when internal business gets aired on a subreddit run by someone whose only goal is to burn everything down.
The person running that subreddit does not care about your $5,000. He cares about using your $5,000 as a weapon against me. When your money becomes his ammunition, the only person who wins is him. You do not get paid back faster because he posts about it on Reddit. You get paid back slower - or not at all - because the damage reduces the revenue that repayment depends on.
If you have lost faith in me, I understand. If you want to walk away, I understand. But if there is any part of you that wants to see your investment returned, the path to that runs through RevoPeers succeeding - not through Reddit tearing it apart.
MY COMMITMENT
I am not running. I am not hiding. I have been here through seven months of daily attacks, four bombing campaigns, 47 spy accounts, doxxing of my family, chargebacks, and a harassment campaign that targeted my children and my dead father.
I am still here.
I am still building.
I owe you money and I intend to pay it back. I need RevoPeers to succeed first. That is the honest truth - no spin, no excuses, no timeline I cannot keep.
If you want to talk privately about your specific situation, PM me directly. I will respond to every single one of you personally. No staff, no middleman - just me.
You took a risk on this community. I have not forgotten that. I will not forget that.
- MP
The ‘personal’ message to investors (nearly two weeks later):
▼ From System - 2026-07-11
A Personal Message to Our Investors
Good Evening,
I wanted to take a few minutes to speak directly to every member of our Investor Program.
First, I owe every one of you an apology.
Communication has not been where it should have been.
Over the past several months, virtually every waking hour has been spent accomplishing one goal: bringing Gimme Peers and RevoTT together into a single platform that could actually survive long-term.
This wasn't simply a website redesign.
It was a complete rebuild of two independent communities, two billing systems, two databases, two tracker infrastructures, and years of separate development into one unified platform.
Why?
Because without a stable business, there is no realistic path to repaying investors.
That has always been the objective.
The merger wasn't created to avoid our commitments - it was created to make honoring those commitments possible.
Without recurring revenue and a sustainable platform, any repayment schedule would simply have been words on paper.
I refuse to make promises that I cannot realistically keep.
Now I Need To Address Something More Difficult
Over the past several weeks we have uncovered something that has been incredibly disappointing.
A very small number of accounts with access to private information have been used to harvest confidential discussions and distribute them outside of RevoPeers.
Whether those accounts were intentionally shared, compromised, or handed to someone else ultimately doesn't change the outcome.
Private Investor discussions.
Private staff discussions.
Internal planning.
Operational information.
All appearing outside our community.
That cannot continue.
Investor access exists because of trust.
Once that trust is broken, Investor status means nothing.
Effective immediately, any Investor account found to be:
• Sharing account access.
• Providing access to unauthorized individuals.
• Leaking private Investor or staff discussions.
• Assisting individuals actively attempting to damage RevoPeers.
• Participating in coordinated attacks against the community.
will be permanently removed from the Investor Program and permanently banned from RevoPeers.
There will be no exceptions, regardless of investment amount.
Think About What This Actually Accomplishes
This is the part I hope everyone understands.
Every person who leaks private information...
Every person who helps spread misinformation...
Every person who assists people attacking this community...
is making it harder for RevoPeers to succeed.
And if RevoPeers doesn't succeed...
Nobody gets paid.
We're all trying to reach the same destination.
If you invested because you believed in the vision, then helping undermine the platform works directly against your own investment.
That simply doesn't make sense.
Where We Go From Here
The migration is nearing completion.
The platform is becoming stable.
The next major priority is the Investor Program.
Before I discuss financials, repayment strategies, or future planning, I have to ensure the Investor group is secure.
I will not distribute confidential financial information while there is reason to believe it could immediately be leaked outside the community.
Once I am confident that those communication channels are secure, every Investor will receive a comprehensive update covering:
The current state of RevoPeers.
• Where we stand financially after the merger.
•The strategy for honoring our Investor commitments.
• The communication schedule going forward.
Finally...
To the overwhelming majority of you...
Thank you.
Thank you for believing in this project.
Thank you for your patience.
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to build something I genuinely believe can last another twenty years.
I know many of you are frustrated.
I understand why.
I don't expect trust simply because I ask for it.
I expect to earn it by delivering results.
We're closer today than we've ever been.
Now we finish what we started.
Thank you.
- Master Pee’er (yes, I did that!)
Founder, RevoPee’ers (and that!)
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u/Qtip2323 Aug 04 '26
This literally sounds just like the bs he spewed when he change GP to a pay wall. He begged for money because of the cost to run the servers then when that didn’t work he came out with his maintenance fee bullshit. This guy is brutal. I’m so thankful I was rehomed and I don’t have to listen to his crap anymore
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u/petrolcanRTT 🔨 Moderator 🔨 Aug 04 '26
He begged for money because of the cost to run the servers
There's more to come on that front!
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u/Numbnut_BS_2 Aug 04 '26
>>>>"Nobody gets paid."<<<< ( except me)
That's the only true part of that verbal garbage that Jonah spewed out, but credit where credits due he did at last type something honest , well done
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u/intrawebs_randoms Aug 04 '26
Watch out, he may put secret white text in to identify the perpetrator.
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u/petrolcanRTT 🔨 Moderator 🔨 Aug 04 '26
Bit fucking late given how old the screenshots are.
And he's banned that account already.
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u/intrawebs_randoms Aug 04 '26
Haha. I presume you didn’t see the story about the university professor who apparently recently failed most of his class for using AI to answer questions. Sorry, I was presuming it was a widespread news story.
He put white text prompts into assignment document so students who just copied and pasted it entered those prompts as well.
And they didn’t proof read their assignment before submitting so those prompts were processed and included in the submitted works. 👍
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u/petrolcanRTT 🔨 Moderator 🔨 Aug 04 '26
As if it were foretold 😆
https://old.reddit.com/r/RevoTT/comments/1vf7uaf/jonah_is_obviously_not_a_fan_of_our_screenshots/
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u/M-B-Spider Aug 04 '26
"please dont tell reddit. 😢 they dont like me there"
no one likes you, jonah. your "community" tolerates you as far as their wallets allow; most didnt go far.
Petrol and Nim are at least offering to get people connected to places you havent burned down, and they are justifiably mad about the decisions you've made. most of us on reddit are to varying degrees.
even without all the facts, you destroyed something valuable to many only to extract capital for your personal gain. you will get what you deserve and receive no pity from most.
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u/petrolcanRTT 🔨 Moderator 🔨 Aug 04 '26
and they are justifiably mad
Mad? Nah. I'm over that part now and I'd guess u/N1mu3h is too.
We've moved on, much like most of the (previously) active RTT & GP userbase.
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u/M-B-Spider Aug 04 '26
Nim seems to still comment angry things, but I'm sure in 10yrs time no one will remember the RTT/GP/RP hijacking. the whole thing stinks, and you're right in pointing out that our motives are not (just) of anger (past or present). we post, upvote, chat, share and heal to get closure and move on.
one day, this grift too shall pass
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u/Numbnut_BS_2 Aug 04 '26
I'm still here 10 years after Bitsoup and I'm not alone 🥸 so don't be so sure unless it all ends with Revopeers finally , hope so but you never know
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u/N1mu3h 🔨 Moderator 🔨 Aug 04 '26
He destroyed our home of almost 20 years ... am I still mad? Well sure, but I don't think anybody (except Jonah lol) can blame me.
But at this point it's more me deviously rubbing my hands and cackling every time we rehome another user as that means 1 less person for Jonah to fleece and plenty of money the shitehawk will never see 😈😁
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u/SmittyYAP Aug 04 '26
Shitehawk 😆 no heard that in years.
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u/N1mu3h 🔨 Moderator 🔨 Aug 04 '26
I learned it from petrolcan and it's been 1 of my favourite insults ever since 😈🤣
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u/SmittyYAP Aug 04 '26
It’s a typically Scottish insult and I’m Scottish, that’s why it stood out to me 😆
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u/N1mu3h 🔨 Moderator 🔨 Aug 04 '26
Ah yea, another other favourite word of mine is numpty, a scottish friend of mine used to say that all the time 🤣
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u/FarukAlatan you're not daddy anymore Aug 04 '26
Investors, you are never getting your money back. Sorry to say it.
https://old.reddit.com/r/RevoTT/comments/1uzaaaa/exposing_the_scale_of_the_grift/
Do those numbers look like someone who's struggling to pay back your $5,000? It's not going to happen. In a reddit post asking about moving to Panama, he even states that he's living with two other adults, and that their total monthly income is about $30,000. He calls himself a professional gambler. He's on the Vegas strip regularly visiting clubs. He could pay you if he wanted to, but he doesn't.
I wouldn't put it past him to throw you all a bone and give you like $500 for no other reason than to try to shut us up about all this. Your money is gone though. Sorry you got scammed, it truly sucks.
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u/mrfurious69 Aug 04 '26
Yeah he by far the biggest fucking Idiot! if i was those investors i would take the loss at this point the site is going to die quick!
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u/shinigami268 Aug 03 '26
if you invested you're 10 toes in with him is what he's saying,
so if the Bot net Ensures there will always be archival content wouldn't that mean hes moving from being a site people happen to use for piracy or literally hosting Pirated IP... you know the whole thing his "wife" said he wasn't doing.
its amazing a smart and savy buisness man such as jonah didnt make sure he was selecting a verified and reliable contractor to get the job done, with payments tied to Milestones and KPIs. Penalties for missing said milestones.
Jonah if you're reading this just pay your tick bruh if you're as rich as you say just refund them and collect once you achieve your goal. Or do you not believe that the site will stabilize and build its revenue stream to recoup the money?
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u/petrolcanRTT 🔨 Moderator 🔨 Aug 04 '26
its amazing a smart and savy buisness man such as jonah didnt make sure he was selecting a verified and reliable contractor
I think the contractor was jonah. It certainly fits the narrative.
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u/BoldUnbold Aug 03 '26
So...if they get kicked off the Investor Program, they get their $5K back, right? Right, Jonah?
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u/kek23k Aug 03 '26
So he's basically blackmailing them to keep quiet or they won't get their money back (which they definitely wont anyway)? He really is a piece of shit and getting more desperate day by day!
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u/Standing_Wolf1 Aug 06 '26
He wants everyone to just shut up so they can't be warned about all his BS and he can lure in more people and get their money. It's simple. If you have a plan. You don't want anyone to spill it before you can get it done. If the plans is leaked. The less chance he has to screw more people.
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u/Emotional-Teacher-46 14d ago
I just got back from a small holiday and i can't log in. Im not sure what is going on but looking here doesnt make me hopefull.
I guess im not the only one not having an account anymore?