...impose on you a little further by asking you to share your logic behind why we should still distrust Coinreturn (at least, any more so than any other crypto platform/system/environment where we give our money to strangers).
You should
not give your bitcoin to strangers. No more than you should give cash to every passerby who promises to make you rich.
Let's pursue this analogy a bit further:
You insist on handing over your cash to strangers in the street. When I suggest this might not be the wisest course of action, you demand proof of you being scammed. Because "the onus is on [me]."
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~Happy investing
You can't invest without giving your money to strangers. Whatever makes them
not strangers IRL would be on the path to regulation and/or antithetical to crypto (failing that, at least antithetical to the regulation you seemed to dislike so much above). The guys at Coinreturn are no less and no more strangers to me and you than the exchanges, mining pools and the very decentralized network itself. At the end of the day, if you're in this game, you will have your money in the hands of strangers at some point, or else why have it at all?
Frankly, I don't give a shit about this particular project because it's not even close to being the biggest part of my portfolio (in line with diversifying via risk-reward), and if it tanks or Tom and Jeff split, then I was wrong and what you seem to perceive as my "crusade" ends there, but I, too, am all about trying to represent as much of what I consider to be the truth as I can to all who listen, and as far as I can tell, you haven't offered much other than "they could scam us, therefore they will scam us". (Again, that's reasonable considering the cost, but we're past that point in the argument). It's great that people like you exist and offer criticism so that we all hash it out now and then and remain vigilant (I'm being sincere there), but I personally want them to have a fair shake as they've been, if nothing else, civil and prompt in their dealings with us thus far.
As an aside, kudos to Tom (or Jeff?) for that remark bout how this kind of dialogue is necessary, even when it's critical of one's self. If you really are scamming me, at least you're playing it straight.