Having been there -and angrily antagonizing IE's in many of his enterprises, especially in his attempt at community manipulation of the market-, I happen to strongly disagree: IE's promotion's of BC MADE it and took it all the way to 95k. Logically when he took off, the coin suffered because of The Black Hand squeezing every single potential profit from investors.
I don't like most of what IE does -20% and pushing it- but he does good stuff promoting coins. I don't care for his irascible attitude and diva-like heated reactions who happen to hurt people including himself, but he made BC, everyone knows that.
I must add that I so strongly disagree with him not returning the donations for laziness that for that he has been included in THE WALL OF SHAME.
To Caesar's what's Caesar's....
I strongly disagree with IE as the sole reason for taking BC to 95K. He contributed, but there were other people involved. How about making sure BC had no hidden premine or PoS actually worked. Everyone takes those things for granted. You shouldn't be talking about this in a Vericoin thread.