I was offered $550 to say that "Ripple is a Scam." - page 6.

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Quote from: charleshoskinson on May 22, 2013, 12:32:27 AM

This honestly doesn't make any sense at all. Why would anyone try to discredit ripple? This community isn't filled with low info retards. They would just be wasting an enormous amount of money.

i read most of the anti-Ripple posts in the many Ripple threads over the last several days and no one appeared to me to be a paid over the top anti-Rippler except for Shadow of Harbinger and obviously Tradefortress.

most of our criticisms of Ripple are based on hard facts, imo.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on May 22, 2013, 12:25:18 AM

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Quote from: cypherdoc on May 22, 2013, 12:06:31 AM

i criticize Ripple b/c i honestly think the economic assumptions behind the Ripple concept are highly dubious and will fail. i've never been approached nor accepted any bribe money to be anti-Ripple.

i never signed up for any XRP b/c i never believed in the concept. yes, i have BTC but that doesn't influence my opinion at all.

what also pushed me to become vocal about this in just the last few days is the fact that Ripple has been spamming the Discussion Forum with anti-Bitcoin threads and trying to steal Bitcoiners away to Ripple in what i view as a zero sum game.

otoh, OT + BM appears to be a promising combination built on the same principles that Bitcoin was and i will look at their platform with enthusiasm.

But Cypherdoc would you say its a scam for 5BTC

money wouldn't affect my decision one way or the other.

I knew you were gonna say that!

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Quote from: oakpacific on May 22, 2013, 12:33:47 AM

Hmmm, interesting, why "GoWest" has to make it public by editing an old post in Feb.20 which apparently no one other than some archaeological fans will read?

He actually posted it as an article on his site too, apparently. I don't read his blog though so I found it by scrolling through the thread's first page.

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Hmmm, interesting, why "GoWest" has to make it public by editing an old post in Feb.20 which apparently no one other than some archaeological fans will read?

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This honestly doesn't make any sense at all. Why would anyone try to discredit ripple? This community isn't filled with low info retards. They would just be wasting an enormous amount of money.

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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on May 22, 2013, 12:20:10 AM

Quote from: cypherdoc on May 22, 2013, 12:06:31 AM

Ripple has been spamming the Discussion Forum with anti-Bitcoin threads

I'd love to read those. Can you provide a link?

..unless they cannot be proven to be from OpenCoin directly (which means they might be TradeFortress paying someone else to post them to make them look bad, you never know) in which case I don't care to read them. Otherwise I sure as hell do!

they all got moved en masse earlier today to Service thank gaud.

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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on May 22, 2013, 12:19:58 AM

Quote from: cypherdoc on May 22, 2013, 12:06:31 AM

i criticize Ripple b/c i honestly think the economic assumptions behind the Ripple concept are highly dubious and will fail. i've never been approached nor accepted any bribe money to be anti-Ripple.

i never signed up for any XRP b/c i never believed in the concept. yes, i have BTC but that doesn't influence my opinion at all.

what also pushed me to become vocal about this in just the last few days is the fact that Ripple has been spamming the Discussion Forum with anti-Bitcoin threads and trying to steal Bitcoiners away to Ripple in what i view as a zero sum game.

otoh, OT + BM appears to be a promising combination built on the same principles that Bitcoin was and i will look at their platform with enthusiasm.

But Cypherdoc would you say its a scam for 5BTC

money wouldn't affect my decision one way or the other.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on May 22, 2013, 12:06:31 AM

otoh, OT + BM appears to be a promising combination built on the same principles that Bitcoin was and i will look at their platform with enthusiasm.

What's this?

OpenTransactions + BitMessage
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-holy-grail-i-wish-i-could-kiss-the-author-of-bitmessage-on-his-face-212490

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Quote from: cypherdoc on May 22, 2013, 12:06:31 AM

Ripple has been spamming the Discussion Forum with anti-Bitcoin threads

I'd love to read those. Can you provide a link?

..unless they cannot be proven to be from OpenCoin directly (which means they might be TradeFortress paying someone else to post them to make them look bad, you never know) in which case I don't care to read them. Otherwise I sure as hell do!

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Quote from: cypherdoc on May 22, 2013, 12:06:31 AM

i criticize Ripple b/c i honestly think the economic assumptions behind the Ripple concept are highly dubious and will fail. i've never been approached nor accepted any bribe money to be anti-Ripple.

i never signed up for any XRP b/c i never believed in the concept. yes, i have BTC but that doesn't influence my opinion at all.

what also pushed me to become vocal about this in just the last few days is the fact that Ripple has been spamming the Discussion Forum with anti-Bitcoin threads and trying to steal Bitcoiners away to Ripple in what i view as a zero sum game.

otoh, OT + BM appears to be a promising combination built on the same principles that Bitcoin was and i will look at their platform with enthusiasm.

But Cypherdoc would you say its a scam for 5BTC

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Pay me $550.. I can edit my post to say whatever you want to say too.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on May 22, 2013, 12:06:31 AM

otoh, OT + BM appears to be a promising combination built on the same principles that Bitcoin was and i will look at their platform with enthusiasm.

What's this?

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i criticize Ripple b/c i honestly think the economic assumptions behind the Ripple concept are highly dubious and will fail. i've never been approached nor accepted any bribe money to be anti-Ripple.

i never signed up for any XRP b/c i never believed in the concept. yes, i have BTC but that doesn't influence my opinion at all.

what also pushed me to become vocal about this in just the last few days is the fact that Ripple has been spamming the Discussion Forum with anti-Bitcoin threads and trying to steal Bitcoiners away to Ripple in what i view as a zero sum game.

otoh, OT + BM appears to be a promising combination built on the same principles that Bitcoin was and i will look at their platform with enthusiasm.

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