As for IE, I put him on THE WALL OF SHAME for his peculiar handling of the so called Wall Street event, which I opposed completely from the get go. The guy does very idiotic things on account of his uncontrolable ego and his victim complex by which there are always excuses that impede him to assume responsibility for what he does -or allows others to do, on his name- wrong. But I have to call it like it is and, although a public manipulator -quite different from scummy Bob and Ryan or Prometheus or others like those-, he has no scammed anyone. I don't give a fuck about the guy, too many character flaws, but what's true is true. And I don't give a fuck either about you or anyone else putting any or all credibility on me, up to you and up yours, actually, in your particular instance. But the trail is there for the interested parties to follow and decide.
You acted your usual stupid self, for weeks, while you were being told -by me and others- why this was an obvious scam. It doesn't matter. In true IE fashion, you choose to blame how I said it for you to not believe it. More power to you and I hope you loss in direct proportion with the lesson you have been taught. More are coming, I am pretty sure.
Of course I remember SPA. You or others, hopefully saved some money by not investing on such display of incompetence, fully denounced by me from the get go, in both Spanish and English. It is posted here, anyone can check it. It is still a monument of incompetence that will never be worth shit. Like you.
As for the KNC miner, that idea went off the wall the moment I found out that company was associated with an individual accused of pedophilia in the US, but it was a good idea at the time... if only they delivered on their promises, which I don't believe they did BUT have done in the past and made a small fortune for those who did similar things to the proposed acquisition. Was anything wrong or shady in any way on that?
The fact that you claim the stupid Wall St. event was even a notable blip in the history of IE says everything it needs to. How about the unfilled orders for cards? Yes, he eventually filled the first batch... but he collected from many more than that. How about XLB - basically all of it (oh, was that because
you were posting all over the place how that was
legit - at least until it clearly wasn't). Thankfully, I didn't fall for that crap at all! As far as the KNC Miners... uh, long before that they had a history of failing to fill orders, pushing delivery, shipping units that had already been used (by them)... and it was all out in the open there. Granted they were better than BFL... but only
just.
You know the reason everyone thinks you're IE - because, like him, you only go on your FUD crusades when it's something you're not in on personally. Otherwise you're alternatively a cheerleader or quiet as a mouse.
Oh and sorry, I lost practically nothing - so actually the lessons and entertainment it's provided have been nothing but pure profit on all sides. After the returns trading the FUD/euphoria waves, I was down to less than .75BTC of the 2.5BTC I invested... which that 2M BAY basically covered. Disappointed?
This is all just a game that will end up going no where, but it is a
very interesting socioeconomic experiment, wouldn't you agree?
You think and do what you want, I am not here to tell you what you should think, but I think in this case Barabbas should be the last person to be attacked. Actually Barabbas articulated first the main characteristics of this scam. For the full disclosure, I have quite a lot disagreements with him on logistical and technical topics, but he is normally correct on development, business and organizational issues - even if he is IE, Lady Gaga or Wayne Rooney (which it the most unlikely scenario ... but on that note I am off because Manchester United-Livepool is just starting)
LOL. I just love tweaking Barabbas because I think he's entertaining. It has nothing to do with him being right or wrong - and I've now stated numerous times that
he was 100% right about this(as were you). I just think he's a waste of air in general simply because of the way he goes about things. Remember XLB? I do and on that I was Barabbas (I just didn't go posting FUD and screaming about it all the time). I said it was crap, warned others to either trade it as a scam or stay far away... all while he was doing cartwheels up IE's ass and telling people it was going to the moon. At least until it worked out exactly the same as BAY did - except IE was the 'Bob', Barabbas was the one posting rabidly in support of it, and that time it was the dev & his goons that got pissed and dumped in
their faces (at least that's what they claim happened... I have my own suspicions as to who dumped first actually).
Basically, I type very fast - and he does as well I assume... so it's fun to get him to head off into long, fuming rants screaming at me about something or another... and he seems to really get off on it too.
(I'm sure I'll have some great literature to read in response to
this as well when I get back into the office).
This entire site, and for the most part cryptocurrency in general, is completely full of dreamers, scammers, idiots, trolls, and self-proclaimed messiahs (with most of us - myself included of course - filling more than one of those roles, depending on the circumstances). Oh yeah, and a very tiny handful of people actually doing
work - some honest, most not so much. Regardless, it's great entertainment and a pleasant distraction from my real work.
I never paid for any BTC, so everything I throw it at - whether it works out or doesn't - is gravy. To me the
goal is to see the ideas occur and come to fruition... which doesn't come for free, and isn't without risks... and sometimes you get innovation from very unlikely sources in my experience (who knows... maybe even in this instance).
I don't believe that BTC is any better or different - it's almost totally moved by corruption and greed (not completely of course, but still predominantly). I think the alts are worse in most ways... but we often benefit from questionable innovation. Without the porn industry, private video recording and playback would have been almost completely prevented by the MPAA. Without piracy, we wouldn't have seen such great open source development go into codecs/optimization and streaming technology for both audio and video. The same research that created the atom bomb also created clean(ish) power and cancer treatments (of course, it also
caused many of those cancers, so maybe that one is a zero-sum game).
Whether you like it or not, financing the Dark Web is, by far, one of the most significant roles BTC plays currently - and has been ever since it started being worth more than a dollar. Not saying that's
bad - just saying it's not a neighborhood you should be surprised to find populated largely by criminals.
PS - Enjoy your football and have a pint for me - should be a good one I think.