Bitcoin Baron is a skiddie, hacker, mad man, homophobe, and troll who who was sentenced to 20 months in prison for launching DDoS attacks against the city of Madison, Wisconsin —attacks which caused delays and outages to various municipality services, including its 911 emergency call center. The DDoS attacks took place between March 9 and March 14, 2015. He also launched DDoS attacks against News2Share.com, a user-generated video-based news portal, on two different occasions, demanding they feature one of his self-made hacker "call for arms" videos.