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Title: 2012-09-27 Bitcoin 'Pirate' Scandal: SEC Steps In
Post by: n8rwJeTt8TrrLKPa55eU on September 27, 2012, 02:27:59 PM
UK Telegraph

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/willardfoxton2/100007836/bitcoin-pirate-scandal-sec-steps-in-amid-allegations-that-the-whole-thing-was-a-ponzi-scheme/


Title: Re: 2012-09-27 Bitcoin 'Pirate' Scandal: SEC Steps In
Post by: FreeMoney on September 27, 2012, 02:39:06 PM
Major claims are completely unsupported. SEC? How do you know? 500000BTC? How do you know?

Who is this guy, it looks like he just reads the spec subforum (seems like a poster really).


Title: Re: 2012-09-27 Bitcoin 'Pirate' Scandal: SEC Steps In
Post by: Akka on September 27, 2012, 02:59:09 PM
Great, just read all the Twitter messages on this article:

  • http://twitter.com/brokenbottleboy/status/251305361808703489 --> Excellent piece from @willardfoxton on suspicions that Bitcoin was a Ponzi scheme all along http://t.co/IhGjI5zg
  • http://twitter.com/alice_emily/status/251307696958091265 --> The latest on the whole "Is BitCoin a Ponzi scheme" saga http://t.co/Q3459PGj
  • http://twitter.com/S2R_Solutions/status/251311050450956288 --> SEC investigating whether the whole Bitcoin thing was a Ponzi scheme. http://t.co/qk6nPT5O

Are people really that stupid? Most of them seem to not understand the difference between a currency and a ponzi in a currency.

Day by day I loose a little bit more of my faith in humanity.


Title: Re: 2012-09-27 Bitcoin 'Pirate' Scandal: SEC Steps In
Post by: proudhon on September 27, 2012, 03:55:40 PM
Maybe I should create a ponzi scheme using apples so I can prove that apples are a ponzi scheme...hmmm


Title: Re: 2012-09-27 Bitcoin 'Pirate' Scandal: SEC Steps In
Post by: justusranvier on September 27, 2012, 04:16:31 PM
Are people really that stupid? Most of them seem to not understand the difference between a currency and a ponzi in a currency.
You can't trust anything you read on the Internet as being the genuine opinion of a real person. There are entire industries designed around the business of creating fake buzz via astroturfing various social networks.