"Response to recent attacks" => proceeds to not respond in any capacity to legitimate concerns and instead acts as though they can just be ignored by attacking the integrity of those whose voiced said concerns.
It should read "Deflection of recent attacks" instead.
This reminds me of what Paycoin did. The "too big, too connected to scam" angle.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I read across the Smith and Crown: Matt Chwierut review.
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1. There is not enough information to conclusively judge Dai’s character, but his involvement in Bitbay and his attempt to hide it casts a shadow on his credibility.
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Given the high-profile third-party backing, it is unlikely Qtum is a scam.3. Qtum should improve its transparency, open up its Slack or explain why signups were stopped, and release some form of code or demonstration product.
4. Interested parties should ignore several red herrings in this issue: PwC’s involvement, Dai’s multiple names, and Caspal’s Rubik’s cube record.
5. The community should not expect this to be a fully decentralized project at launch.
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I guess Matt never heard of Josh Garza (GAWMiners) and Uncle Stu (Cantor Fitzgerald - Wallstreet investing).
For those wanting to read about the ongoing saga (lawsuit stage) they can read more at -
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/gaw-josh-garza-discussion-paycoin-xpy-xpyio-ion-ionomy-always-make-money-857670TLDR: Wallstreet investor funnels money into very large cloudming operation.
This is just one example of where
money or backers do not equal trust or competency to complete projects.
Then we get this from Jordon.
I'd just like to remind everyone how fast misinformation can spread at the hands of a vocal few that do no vetting of the validity of the information other than to support their own viewpoint. For a much more serious instance of this, look back at what happened with
the boston bomber witchhunt. There is a reason journalism is a job and these trolls aren't causing actual news (I mean really, don't you think the media these days would love to run with "scam company wants to raise millions of dollars"!?). Typos happen, especially in weird chinese names, hell according to my debit card I'm actually "Jordon Earls", and according to some sites online I'm actually "Jordan Earlz". Good thing Gleb didn't find that or I'd be the next scammer not using his real name. I'm not going to try to turn the trolls to our favor, that'd be about as likely as a diehard Trump supporter being convinced to vote for Hillary or vice-versa. But all of you quieter non-trolls, remember that these people are only going to post the info they find that support their skewed viewpoint, and not the info they find that proves it wrong.
Which is complete with hyperbole comparisons built with all the emotional trappings.
They call us the trolls Personally I don't feel Jordan is a scammer, yet he's probably the one with the cleanest record as a background bug hunter.
Hence why the team had him post a reply... no matter how ridiculous.
Then the official response from the Qtum page...
Cool. Boring and it shows us the next move to try the ICO somewhere else like it was mentioned.
At least it didn't involve threats of suing or dead animals through the post like Garza