WSJ article:
[Suspicious link removed]j.com/moneybeat/2014/03/07/lakota-indian-promotes-new-digital-currency-mazacoin/
Anyway, we need to ratchet down the enthusiasm a bit.
Here is the relevant statement:
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post said mazacoin had been adopted as the Lakota currency. It has not been officially endorsed by the council.
The upside is this, when it does get endorsed, then it will go gang busters.
Yeah you may have to wait a lifetime in vain for that. Devs went silent on their 2 twitter feeds.
Also on the official forum you find this disturbing statement:
"Are you guys associated with any of the american indian groups? For example the Assembly of First Nations or American Indian Movement?"
The AIM movement is currently not a fan of MazaCoin. Because the developers (myself included) are white. They believe it to be a "white man's scam" at this point. As for First Nations there may be more sympathy there, but so far they are silent.
http://cryptominers.freeforums.org/getting-associates-t26.htmlAlso, it would seem Payu is not even a member of Lakota and
Forbes claimed that Harris was a member of the tribe, however, there is no one on the rolls named Payu Harris or Payu Kimitsu.
http://www.indianz.com/News/2014/012781.asp Confirmation on Twitter from the same author
https://twitter.com/BEcoffeyNSwkly/status/442316016803004416also
Attempts by Native Sun News to contact Harris went unanswered and an interview request was declined by Harris earlier in this year.
on top of this someone claimed Payu claimed he's Northern Cheyenne not Lakota. Why didn't he create a coin for for the Cheyenne?
Doesn't this all sound like BS to you?
It seems to me that he is trying to get maza out to the Lakota by telling a few white lies.
It also seems that some do not trust this coin as they think "the white man is going to double cross them again", shame, but I do not blame them considering their history, the white man has done them wrong for centuries, and that had bread a lot of miss trust.
But they need to know they are on the verge of something truly spectacular, they could be the the first sovereign nation to get out from these central bankers that have done so much harm to the planet over the last 300 years. We need to let them know that the rest of the world is watching in anticipation, we even have given over 50% or the coins wealth to them (a bargain if you ask me), they have been chosen to be the first nation to start a currency revolution that is on side of good for all humanity, they really need to know this. We need people to get this message across to them.
"The white man is on their side", in fact every colour is on their side.