Topic: 2015 - YOUR ALL GETTING SCAMMED!! (Read 1460 times)

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I see a lot more mature discussion around here than a year ago. If you discount all the address spam then the actual amount of threads with real substance to them is around 3-4 times more than it was a year ago. The amount of real developers in the space has improved as well and the general knowledge of people on the forums into how Blockchains actually work has also improved.

Even some of the scam threads I highlighted, more of that is attention seeking and you can see some very good discussion on economics, particularly in the NXT, Nubits and Bitshares scam threads where the developers and community members discuss the criticism's openly.

I think it helps to give an idea of where the CryptoCurrency space is heading and general sentiment. One thing is for sure though, people love scam threads.

NxT was the first to be scammin' in 2013 and it continues to this day.  Jeff Garzik, Bitcoin Developer, has said the scams / thefts in NxT are probable inside jobs.  Is there a backdoor switch in Belarus / France / Netherlands?

Quiet's not how I remember January of last year. There was nothing but endless giveaway threads 24/7 with hundreds of addresses posted in each. Only the most popular giveaway stood a chance of remaining bumped to the top of the first page for a few hours. If you tried to start a normal thread it was lost in the noise and five pages back within half an hour.

The mods were forced to ban giveaway threads after January because it was completely out of control.

Uhhh...you do know what board this thread is on?

Don't forget other alcoin like litecoin we can see it's just based on bitcoin price/125  .

Myself, I read it as a rough gauge of sentiment around here. Remember how awful the general mood was in early 2009? That, actually, was the time to start buying stocks. Simple contrarian analysis: 1) People broadcast what they've already done, because they want you to join them; 2) Sentiment usually goes overboard.

1) says that when "everyone" is bullish, "everyone" has already bought. Mutatis mutandis for "everyone" bearish. Add 2) and you've got a basic ready-to-go contrarian model.

Of course, it's not as easy as it looks. Buying when sentiment is gloomy is a great way to rattle your nerves. The contrarian model actually said that the best time to start buying stocks was at the beginning of November 2008. Doing so meant riding through the final panic in Feb-Mar of '09.

Contariwise, selling when "everyone" is bullish inevitably means selling too soon - and feeling like a complete idiot as the market keeps going up and up. That's because there's an MLMish side to every bull market blow-off where new money comes in and listens to "everyone." With the gloom comes normally strong hands being worn down and throwing their hands in.

Fact is, simple evergreen strategies keep on working because all of them are psychologically costly. In a very real sense, you're compensated for taking pain and learning how to act "inhumanly".

Thanks for starting this topic. It confirms my hunch that the sentiment around here is pretty depressed/angry.


BTW: one reliable aspect of a bear market is declining volume and interest. Have you noticed that it's much easier to catch up on the goings-on around here than it was in March of last year? IOW, have you seen the topic and post count declining along with Bitcoin & most alts?

Oh wow, so many replies!

But then wouldn't this thread be proof then that negative interest garners more interest than posting something positive?

For example, I saw multiple threads from the same person asking who wants to get involved in working on some projects and ideas for fun. He got about 2 or 3 posts on each of the threads he posted before it got drowned out by other threads. I posted a thread with a title saying everyone's getting scammed and I got 20 replies in a couple hours which says to me that people like drama more than actually working on the tech itself.

Bitcointalk, they come for the tech but stay for the drama.

sadly the altcoin scene was always full of scams. and with the recent hit to the bitcoin price so many users turn to altcoins

hahahahaha!

Not all are scam.
Check NakamotoDark

yeah. that's cos a lot of people were scammed and were tricked into buying/holding pump and dump coins.  there was a time when a person could make thousands of usd a night trading coins that were pumped and then dumping at the right time.

now these army of bag holders are making it their hobby to call everything a scam, even the legit projects.  but i don't blame them.  it's not like their rich and have the money to lose... i bet some of them even "invested" their hard earned life savings.  

it sucks but that's life.  the predator and the prey.

the easiest people in the world to scam are the get rich quick crowd, so no mystery why 99% of this section are scams.

What else is new   People like to get scammed it seems, just like cryptodouble, how many idiots depposited, just because of greed....

All POW coins feature that steady decline in common. Since most have that silly high inflation of 10% (Bitcoin) or 30% (Litecoin) each year. Notation follows that.

What happens if Bitcoin has finally died? If a pegged to Urea shitcoin floats up on top of the wreckage debries, I will emotionally break down for sure.

Crypto was plagued with so many scams even in 2014 and that's not going to change in 2015.

I know that's why I'm saying what I'm saying.

Bitcoin hits $50. Everyone would come to crypto to cover their loss. As a result crypto would become scamland.

What do you think would happen once investors start losing money? Will they keep investing or will they quit?

If there is 1% crypto that's legit..there are 1000 more that're plain scam and that's not good for technology as a whole.

lol

read my post again. no shill here. I only report what I see