It's up ATM.

Where on earth are you getting margin trading of virgin altcoins?

Pics or it didn't happen.

What kind of absurd and intellectually dishonest answer is that?

I did raise a valid point, that for all your screeching about TBF you haven't actually got an alternative proposal. People would be far more likely to pay attention to the allegations you are making if you also have a viable alternative that they can get behind.

Shouting for the downfall of an existing system without being able to offer up anything to replace it is juvenile.

Besides which, how about you learn some fucking self-control with your shitty attitude and you might get somewhere with this, otherwise you're just a deranged psycho on the interwebz spouting off conspiracy theories and telling anyone who doesn't simply '+1' you that they're assholes and to fuck off.

You may have valid points to make but I can assure you that none of them are going to be heard above the noise of your disconcerting rage.

Oh, and there was me thinking that Bitcoin is meant to be owned by, well, everybody who uses it.

Apparently seniority based on your posting count at this forum is the rule. My bad.

BTW, telling people to just STFU when they raise a valid a point is real fucking mature. Well done OP, a masterful thread, superbly crafted with your reasoned assertions and rebuttals.

Wow, you really haven't done any research about Iceland at all, have you?

Actually I don't have any of these coins, never did.

You do realise, right, that simply shouting angry things at anybody who is questioning the validity of your claims, automatically voids your assertions?

That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence. Critical thinking 101.

I never said that these things were going to be done, I merely pointed out that they could easily be done given Iceland's unique situation.

You, on the other hand, are just screaming insults at everybody and making bold. yet unsupported, assertions about how things are not going to be done because they are just words on a screen.

Dude, why are you so angry?

Iceland is a country with a highly educated population with a very high proportion of internet users.

<>300K people being sent a mailshot letter that is going to give them free money is not likely to be ignored and is extremely doable, think about how much shit comes through your mom's letterbox every day.

Along with a bunch of more well-known crypto-folk who appear to be part of the air-drop process that is planned, such as:

Joe, you missed the point, you are claiming something in the subject line of this thread that you're not supporting with evidence.

Worse still, you did it in CAPS with a shit-ton of exclamation marks at the end. Unforgivable.

OP, how about you come to us with a solution instead of a problem?

Fiat finance is populated by assholes in jobs they're not qualified to do effectively, being paid vast amounts by other assholes who are board-members of companies that survive by being told what to do by highly-paid management consultants.

As for crypto-currency, we are legion, but we are fringe and we are fucked without people willing to strap on a tie and speak corporate bullshit to persuade people who are afraid of losing their privileged positions by making decisions from left-field, that they should adopt Bitcoin as a means of payment or trade.

You don't have to like anyone from TBF, but you do have to offer up some sort of alternative solution to how we get boots on the ground in places that aren't simply coffee-shops and groovy online retailers with a liberal bent, if you want anybody to get behind your protestations.

""We’ve gone through 100 years of imposed poverty. That’s the fight we’re having," he says. "What we’re trying to do with MazaCoin is just spark something to get us out of this cycle of victimhood."

Pretty sobering stuff when compared to a bunch of privileged whining crypto day-traders on the internet all declaring that this currency is either a scam or it will make them a gazillionaire.

Impoverished places can create their own currency without needing everybody to be online or even own a computer:

http://brixtonpound.org/ - keeps funds local to the community that needs it to help prevent outflow of money from large-chain supermarkets etc.

Whilst the jury is still out on the viability of this particular cryptocoin project, the sheer number of prejudiced and outright ignorant comments about the native American people, often by first-world American people, speaks volumes about the continuing problem of racism in society.

Now now, I think you might be making a hell of a leap there. The reason why Aurora and Mazacoin *might* do really well is that they are addressing a particular need of their communities. Simply labelling a coin 'e-[fiat currency name]' does not a community currency make.

*looks for 'ignore' link next to barryzand's useless contributions*
*click*

Ahhhh, do you smell that? It seems far less assholey around here now.

Well that was certainly a useful contribution to the discussion, thanks. Do you often feel compelled to piss on people from your ivory tower?

As i said of Aurora coin, just before it shot vertically into the stratosphere, leaving me on the ground absent any coin, these targeted currencies, where there is a real-world community of people it is created for, have the potential to really make a massive difference to them and, in the long term, to the wider peer-to-peer cryptocurrency world.

So long as they are implemented properly, of course.

I think most people were willing to give the young dev a chance to correct this problem but as more time passes with no communication whatsoever, the greater the suspicion that something is rotten in Denmark, no, Norway.

If he is reading this thread, I'd have one word of advice for him:

Even if everything is going/has gone to shit and you don't know how to handle this situation, ask for help. There are people on this forum who know that helping a failing exchange fix its problems is far better than yet another mainstream news report about yet another failed exchange.

The longer you leave this without communicating, the greater the groundswell of opinion that you are intentionally defrauding people.

Talk.

Oh. My. God.!!!!1!111!!!!!

I just logged on to my Cryptostocks account and . . .

and . . .

my SBFS shares are still there!!!111!!!!!1! Why?!!!!!! Why?!!!!!!You promised that none of our stuff was safe. You promised.

Damn you all, damn you all to heck!

Now I have to carry on knowing that little piece of my ass is still sitting there on that plate, mocking me, mocking my noobish decision to jump in before properly researching those scumbags at Scharmbeck and their insider cohorts responsible for promoting their scammy 'prize' offer.

The horror.
The horror.

Well thanks for your valuable contribution to the discussion.

For those who have actually got something worthwhile to contribute to this conversation, whilst I have absolutely no connection to this coin whatsoever, I would like to highlight that one of its biggest plus points, as far as the residents of Iceland are concerned, is that it would allow for financial transactions outside the current, restrictive, capital controls.

Properly implemented, this coin could potentially serve as one of the most disruptive financial technologies ever. Whilst Bitcoin et al. are constantly trying to encourage global adoption and use of the technology, an altcoin specifically applicable to a small country with Iceland's financial issues, could be incredibly powerful a demonstration of cryptocurrency's capabilities.

With that in mind, however, I would still be somewhat reluctant to assert only positive an outcome as the predicted result.

Well aren't you Big Billy Bad-Ass! You must be the life and soul of the party scene, amirite?

Don't worry, we won't bother asking around, some of us have better things to do than spend our days posting questions about whether a douche-canoe has behaved like a douche-canoe in the past too.

L&K

No it is not 'On CNN', it is a self-penned IReport and a badly written one at that.

Shame on you for trying to scam noobs into panic-buying.