http://insidebitcoins.com/trendon-shavers-bitcoin-ponzi-schemer-charged-40-million-fine/
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something *may* be happening at BFL: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2gvnhm/butterfly_labs_bfl_raided_by_us_marshals_today/
Topic: Bryan Micon's List of BTC Ponzi Schemes that should not be listed as "Lending" (Read 119651 times)
September 19, 2014, 03:20:31 PM
January 14, 2013, 08:50:36 PM
Some people seems to dislike poker players. Most of the time they are fish at life and at the table.
Can you explain this proverb for me? It doesn't scan in english.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharp
OK, I assume the table is the poker table? Why would they play poker if they dislike poker players?
It's probably clear from this that I don't play poker, but it's relevant to my interest.
Thank you for that.
Anyway, this sentence is flawed. It was probably before my first coffee and my english is far from perfect.
Now you've explained it, it's perfectly comprehensible. The problem was with me, not you. 
January 14, 2013, 08:38:38 PM
Some people seems to dislike poker players. Most of the time they are fish at life and at the table.
Can you explain this proverb for me? It doesn't scan in english.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharp
OK, I assume the table is the poker table? Why would they play poker if they dislike poker players?
It's probably clear from this that I don't play poker, but it's relevant to my interest.
January 14, 2013, 08:31:49 PM
Some people seems to dislike poker players. Most of the time they are fish at life and at the table.
Can you explain this proverb for me? It doesn't scan in english.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharp
OK, I assume the table is the poker table? Why would they play poker if they dislike poker players?
It's probably clear from this that I don't play poker, but it's relevant to my interest.
January 14, 2013, 08:29:40 PM
Some people seems to dislike poker players. Most of the time they are fish at life and at the table.
Can you explain this proverb for me? It doesn't scan in english.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharp
January 14, 2013, 06:57:13 AM
Some people seems to dislike poker players. Most of the time they are fish at life and at the table.
Can you explain this proverb for me? It doesn't scan in english.
January 14, 2013, 06:56:00 AM
Some people seems to dislike poker players. Most of the time they are fish at life and at the table. It's even more hilarious when they fail to understand that it's possible to be a winner on the long run yet complain when they see people calling Bitcoin a scam or whatever.
January 14, 2013, 06:53:32 AM
If anyone would know this, it's a poker player. Not only is the whole game about lying and catching other people lying, …
Can't remember having lied or listened to lies while playing Poker.
January 14, 2013, 04:37:00 AM
BFL info incoming
mods maybe move to "scam accusations"
mods maybe move to "scam accusations"
November 24, 2012, 06:35:29 PM
That argument by the Starfish is pretty telling, actually. Admitting that it is possible for oneself to be scammed is the first step in avoiding scams.
The kind of person who gets scammed by a long con is the kind of person who has the arrogance to assume they're "too smart to get scammed." So when they do bite on the hook for something, whether it's something as ridiculous as a Nigerian 419 scam or something more sophisticated, their refusal to face the fact that they've been scammed encourages them to keep throwing bad money after good.
In short, the surest way to be scammed is to be sure that you're too smart to be scammed. It's also the surest way to keep getting scammed.
If anyone would know this, it's a poker player. Not only is the whole game about lying and catching other people lying, but the whole milieu is filled with degenerates and scammers of various kinds. If you couldn't spot them you wouldn't have money to keep playing poker for very long.
The kind of person who gets scammed by a long con is the kind of person who has the arrogance to assume they're "too smart to get scammed." So when they do bite on the hook for something, whether it's something as ridiculous as a Nigerian 419 scam or something more sophisticated, their refusal to face the fact that they've been scammed encourages them to keep throwing bad money after good.
In short, the surest way to be scammed is to be sure that you're too smart to be scammed. It's also the surest way to keep getting scammed.
If anyone would know this, it's a poker player. Not only is the whole game about lying and catching other people lying, but the whole milieu is filled with degenerates and scammers of various kinds. If you couldn't spot them you wouldn't have money to keep playing poker for very long.
+1
November 24, 2012, 06:32:55 PM
That argument by the Starfish is pretty telling, actually. Admitting that it is possible for oneself to be scammed is the first step in avoiding scams.
The kind of person who gets scammed by a long con is the kind of person who has the arrogance to assume they're "too smart to get scammed." So when they do bite on the hook for something, whether it's something as ridiculous as a Nigerian 419 scam or something more sophisticated, their refusal to face the fact that they've been scammed encourages them to keep throwing bad money after good.
In short, the surest way to be scammed is to be sure that you're too smart to be scammed. It's also the surest way to keep getting scammed.
If anyone would know this, it's a poker player. Not only is the whole game about lying and catching other people lying, but the whole milieu is filled with degenerates and scammers of various kinds. If you couldn't spot them you wouldn't have money to keep playing poker for very long.
The kind of person who gets scammed by a long con is the kind of person who has the arrogance to assume they're "too smart to get scammed." So when they do bite on the hook for something, whether it's something as ridiculous as a Nigerian 419 scam or something more sophisticated, their refusal to face the fact that they've been scammed encourages them to keep throwing bad money after good.
In short, the surest way to be scammed is to be sure that you're too smart to be scammed. It's also the surest way to keep getting scammed.
If anyone would know this, it's a poker player. Not only is the whole game about lying and catching other people lying, but the whole milieu is filled with degenerates and scammers of various kinds. If you couldn't spot them you wouldn't have money to keep playing poker for very long.
November 24, 2012, 06:32:23 PM
^ Patrickhartnett is a dumbass clearly LOL! 
Trouble is that many scammers are psychopaths, who sound extremely friendly or knowledgeable or authoritative, whatever it takes to get your money. Many of them are totally free of any inhibition to lie and manipulate.
It is a particular kind of low-life that I wish would not exist, but it does. Look at Bernard Madoff. He was well respected, even chairman of NASDAQ for a time, and a very nice person, many people said who knew him.
"Dumbass" would be a compliment for them. They are many times worse than any dumbass.
I don't think Patrick is a psychopath by any extent.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/5175189/Happy-helping-the-homeless
Naive, probably. Because of his naivete and rash promises, he's between a rock and a hard place in debt. He may be bankrupt or damn near it.
And Micon was right. I'm here to eat crow and apologize to you, Bryan. P.S. I saw you on smashboards you dirty bastard
November 24, 2012, 06:19:20 PM
^ Patrickhartnett is a dumbass clearly LOL!
Trouble is that many scammers are psychopaths, who sound extremely friendly or knowledgeable or authoritative, whatever it takes to get your money. Many of them are totally free of any inhibition to lie and manipulate.
It is a particular kind of low-life that I wish would not exist, but it does. Look at Bernard Madoff. He was well respected, even chairman of NASDAQ for a time, and a very nice person, many people said who knew him.
"Dumbass" would be a compliment for them. They are many times worse than any dumbass.
November 24, 2012, 05:42:19 PM
I am a 33 year old poker player.
I have been scammed and know how to spot scams.
I know most of you BTC kiddies are still very young.
I have been scammed and know how to spot scams.
I know most of you BTC kiddies are still very young.
I should take advice from a gambler? I think not.
You admit to have been taken in by scams, so obviously don't know how to spot them.
At 33, you are still very young. I'm not a "kiddie" and your presumption to insult the people on this board is rather foolish.
^ Patrickhartnett is a dumbass clearly LOL!
November 24, 2012, 04:45:30 PM
Good to know.
November 24, 2012, 04:39:39 PM
yes
November 24, 2012, 04:38:33 PM
It's funny to read through the early days of this thread with people attacking Micon for starting it, and noticing how many of them have since acquired "SCAMMER" tags, PatrickHarnett being merely the first to appear in the thread and start squawking.
Has PatrickHarnett finally got his official SCAMMER tag?
November 24, 2012, 02:47:58 PM
It's funny to read through the early days of this thread with people attacking Micon for starting it, and noticing how many of them have since acquired "SCAMMER" tags, PatrickHarnett being merely the first to appear in the thread and start squawking.
September 29, 2012, 07:55:21 PM
As wachtwoord said, an Islamic bank can't invest in a business if it doesn't know what it does with the money. This actually saved the Islamic banks from the last couple crises.
true
It would have saved many bitcoiners as well.
IBB is still here
Interest free banking in YOUR Interest September 29, 2012, 05:44:53 PM
As wachtwoord said, an Islamic bank can't invest in a business if it doesn't know what it does with the money. This actually saved the Islamic banks from the last couple crises.
true
It would have saved many bitcoiners as well.
IBB is still here
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