I'm getting mad ...... I WANT TO BUY !!!
actually, back in the day, i used to do it all_the_time with my newsletter. never a problem.
Zero-conf transactions did make some sense for worthless things like your newsletter, but those days are behind us after half a decade or working on trying to fill 1MB blocks so a market could develop.
during that time period, price went from $4 to $266.
I was making the augment that BTC might be a good long term bet and doing so free of charge from $5-ish down to $2-ish as you might recall (though I shut my mouth at the bottom because I don't want to be a perma-pumper who loses people money. Especially those who cannot afford it.)
guess if i was telling my subs to buy or sell?
I don't know what you told your subs, and never cared much. You seem to have told everyone else to buy with both hands all the while the price was going from $1100 -> $200 or whatever. I made it a point (and still do) to not sell under $600 and got some up in the 4-figure range. If you were telling your subs to do as I did, great. Maybe you were telling them buy Hashfast or whatever? I was totally outside the loop on that one and to this day I don't even know what that is/was or that you were pumping it (if indeed you were.) Whatever it was it doesn't sound like it worked out all that great.