Originally Posted by
Brandon Matthews
That will not be too hard. I am the great I am! In other words, I am crfceo.
It seems my pal Hartlieb thinks he has won something by telling the world my real name. Brandon Matthews is and will continue to be my pen name, whether or not I continue to write at SiriusBuzz. I know Tyler expressed some concerns about people knowing who I really am, and I'm sure my days here at SiriusBuzz are numbered. Is zero a number?
The story goes like this. I have been invested in Sirius stock since 2003. On and off, but have followed the stock, sector and related sectors for the better part of 6 years. I was in fact a licensed broker at the time that I began posting on the message board, and my specialty was technical analysis. More specifically, point & figure.
Over the years, I posted as CRFCEO on the Yahoo boards, and took on the bashers with sound facts that I always backed up with links. No one was more transparent than I when it came to reasoning. I became one of the board guru's, albeit by accident.
During the merger process, it became a warzone on the yahoo boards. I started a little blog called Sirius news & rumors where I would post news pertaining to Sirius so that anyone could go to one place and find all of the days news without searching feverishly throughout the internet.
Tyler noticed my articles and after conferring with Charles, they agreed to bring me on board and in a sense merge the two sites. I say in a sense because my blog was more of a news dump site and obviously the lesser of the 2 sites.
I registered a new domain name (satwaves.com) under my real name. Their were certain people at the time whom I expected were under the employ of the NAB, who conducted a whois search of that domain and publicized my real name, address and phone number, putting myself and my family in danger. My children could not answer the phone. Death threats were left our answering machine. That's when I came up with a pen name: Brandon Matthews.
Michael Hartlieb knows this, and yet he chose to publicize this information despite our conversation just a few days ago, on his website.
Personally, part of me is glad he did it. It has been so hard being a multiple personality disorder victim without actually being one. Different passwords and different emails, etc.
So there it is. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.