Bitcoin Forum

Alternate cryptocurrencies => Altcoin Discussion => Topic started by: iAmAYacoin on May 12, 2013, 09:45:05 PM



Title: Fontas!
Post by: iAmAYacoin on May 12, 2013, 09:45:05 PM
https://twitter.com/fontase

Is this guy for real or is he just manipulating noobs and profiting from them?

Somebody has to lose in this whole deal, so who are the losers ?:)


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: Nolo on May 12, 2013, 09:46:51 PM

Somebody has to lose in this whole deal, so who are the losers ?:)

Those that do what he says.  He gets their coins.

Pretty simple scheme he has going.

1) He buys coins cheap prior to announcing his pump.
2) He announces what time his pump is going to be.
3) Dumbasses flock to that coin and buy it up, thus driving the price up.
4) He immediately dumps all of his cheap coins on top of the dumbasses, thus dropping the price like a rock.
5) He profits, they lose. 


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: Come-from-Beyond on May 12, 2013, 09:47:30 PM
Quote
Fontas ‏@fontase 30th April
It would be a majestic plan. Buy the 700k LTC Wall, use market power to pump price to $6+, sell slowly, and make myself a millionaire.

So it's BS.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: iAmAYacoin on May 12, 2013, 09:47:38 PM
So why do people still listen to him?


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: Nolo on May 12, 2013, 09:48:49 PM
So why do people still listen to him?

Why do people do half the things they do?  They're suckers for easy money. 


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: iAmAYacoin on May 12, 2013, 09:49:57 PM
So basically, doing the exact opposite of what fontas announces should make you profit a bit.
Aah, but sometimes I guess he changes his strategy :D


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: Nolo on May 12, 2013, 09:51:35 PM
So basically, doing the exact opposite of what fontas announces should make you profit a bit.
Aah, but sometimes I guess he changes his strategy :D

Well the problem is, he's already driven up to price of the coins a little bit, by his buying activity before he even announces the coin.  So he is always guaranteed to win as long as he sells early and people continue to listen to him. 

So in theory, yes you could profit a little bit, by doing the opposite of what he says, but at some point even you would lose that, because he's starting to even lose respect among the hurr durrs.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: tom_o on May 12, 2013, 10:08:41 PM
So basically, doing the exact opposite of what fontas announces should make you profit a bit.
Aah, but sometimes I guess he changes his strategy :D

Well the problem is, he's already driven up to price of the coins a little bit, by his buying activity before he even announces the coin.  So he is always guaranteed to win as long as he sells early and people continue to listen to him. 

So in theory, yes you could profit a little bit, by doing the opposite of what he says, but at some point even you would lose that, because he's starting to even lose respect among the hurr durrs.

First few were very profitable if you weren't greedy.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: wesleyrbk on May 12, 2013, 10:13:27 PM
You can make some profit if you are early and not too greedy.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: eskick on May 12, 2013, 10:16:32 PM
https://twitter.com/fontase

Is this guy for real or is he just manipulating noobs and profiting from them?

Somebody has to lose in this whole deal, so who are the losers ?:)

he is a clown, people who appear to idolize him are:

1. Trolls who like the entertainment.

2. His fake aliases.

3. small majority of people who by chance made some money.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: saudibull on May 12, 2013, 10:18:06 PM
- Just ignore everything to do with him -


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: xibeijan on May 12, 2013, 10:25:25 PM
- Just ignore everything to do with him -

Good advice on this topic.  Avoid him.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: skull88 on May 12, 2013, 10:33:10 PM
I don't think a few people listening to him will do anything to the price, and I don't think he has enough money to change the price.
So basically, he's just telling everybody he pumped the price when a coin went up and telling he dumped a coin when it goes down, everybody actually can do this, I don't think enough people take this serious enough to matter anything.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: Petr1fied on May 12, 2013, 11:09:13 PM
As the price rises due to the noobs buying he'll be building sell walls in increments so that when the price does tank it breaks through all his sell walls each in turn and he makes a nice tidy profit leaving the noobs holding the can.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: ruggedman_dan on May 17, 2013, 03:11:25 AM
ALL HAIL KING FONTAS. ;D


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: kooke on May 17, 2013, 03:21:23 AM
I don't think a few people listening to him will do anything to the price, and I don't think he has enough money to change the price.
So basically, he's just telling everybody he pumped the price when a coin went up and telling he dumped a coin when it goes down, everybody actually can do this, I don't think enough people take this serious enough to matter anything.

He did actually execute several pumps that he would announce beforehand. He would create hype and make a huge buy wall for the coin he was pumping, then people would start buying it driving the price up, and he would remove his buy orders. Finally, he'd dump his hoard of coins causing the price to drop but still being worth a lot higher than it was. Haven't seen him do any pumps since he did DVC a few weeks ago.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: champbronc2 on May 17, 2013, 03:23:38 AM
I think you guys are missing the point.

Fontas' pumps are real because they happen. It doesn't matter if he does it, or the noobs do it. You can profit off the noobs, and he does have influence.

If you are quick enough you can make money from Fontas' rumors.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: Twerka on May 17, 2013, 03:33:37 AM
Last times people trolled fontas, when announced the NVC pump everybody did the opposite and sold: the price fall to half. I'm sure he lost a lot fo coins that day.


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: Kinetic915 on May 17, 2013, 03:39:16 AM
i saw this and lawled


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: jonptl on May 17, 2013, 04:14:50 AM
Its pure market manipulation. If this happened in the real world, he could be charged and jailed


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: KillaGT on May 17, 2013, 04:52:24 AM
it's always the same with this guy. He's got the luck that some idiots follow him and fall for the fact that he tested someday earlier one coin he will later anounce to be pumped. These idiots think that there will be some more huge pumpaction because they see green candles on this coin produced earlier by fontas. Now they drive the price higher and fontas dumps all the crap in them. He annouces on his twitter account a total success of the pump and a dumping time (fastest dumping announce was like i remember no 10 minutes after his pumping announce) On that point i stopped reading his twitter crap =D


Title: Re: Fontas!
Post by: tom_o on May 17, 2013, 08:26:29 AM
it's always the same with this guy. He's got the luck that some idiots follow him and fall for the fact that he tested someday earlier one coin he will later anounce to be pumped. These idiots think that there will be some more huge pumpaction because they see green candles on this coin produced earlier by fontas. Now they drive the price higher and fontas dumps all the crap in them. He annouces on his twitter account a total success of the pump and a dumping time (fastest dumping announce was like i remember no 10 minutes after his pumping announce) On that point i stopped reading his twitter crap =D

Just dump on the way up and dont be greedy, easy!