Regardless of what I believe, telling "total bullshit because that creates new money" is wrong, if you care about that sort of thing.
Sustaining Bitcoin's price by lying to investors is fraud, no matter how you couch that.
Fraud? It's not fraud to tell someone you believe the value of Bitcoin is going to double or triple or whatever unless you attach a timeframe and profit from it personally. Being generally positive is just believing in Bitcoin.
But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about this:
I like the continuous to the moon talk even if it is total bullshit because that creates new money.
That's right. It's advertizing. You mean you people don't realize you are running a continuous Bitcoin advertisement? You know negative ads sell just like positive ones. That just sells the opposite outcome. People love Andreas because he sells a constant positive image of Bitcoin. People here are just as likely to sell a negative one. They may be telling what they honestly believe about the short term but it still can be a self fulling prophesy.
With a name like "QuestionAuthority," I sorta assumed that you tried for a moral highground. Justifications along the lines of "if it's OK for selling used cars, it's fine for selling Bitcoin" are absurd. Even from purely pragmatic standpoint. When there's so much ideology and politics in the mix, lying backfires.
Just like your bluff 500BTC bet backfired--you were called on it, and had to do a lulzy backpeddle. Not a win.
*I do not love Andreas or any shills, for that matter. We're not selling timeshares. We're trying to change the world.
And you're lying still. You challenged a user to a bet, and, after he accepted, you claimed that anything less than 500BTC was "not interesting" enough for you.
Only after being called out by multiple users did you admit to bluffing.
Own it before digging yourself in further.
