"Sure, we told you there's a loaded gun we can't wait to use. But you gotta understand, we were just playing with ya! Perhaps if you started actively helping us make money, we would stop threatening to murder you and your partner. It's only fair, you know?"

You're assuming he's still in a U.S. timezone.

https://twitter.com/gawceo/status/550138396128346112 (from Dec 31): The XPY 2015 PayCoin Convention! http://xpy15.com/

It's still on, right? Anyone have the date? Anyone?

"MrCEO" is Garza; this is common knowledge and not denied anywhere. He renamed himself from GAWCEO in his ongoing bid to distance himself from the GAW brand.

Josh launches "Mineral" and immediately a powerful DDoS against BCT is started. Probably just a convenient coincidence.

Hashtalker reacts:

It's getting harder and harder to tell bona-fide hashtalkers from pure trolls.

I don't know if there's any affiliation between CCN and BTCFeed (probably not), but jdebunt, their most prolific writer, has also written for CCN.

I think that would be problematic. If I were a scammer running CoinStand, I would say sure, mr. journalist, here's an account for you. And then I'd make damn sure you got everything you ordered, same-day delivery and heck, I'd include a small chocolate in the package just for good measure. I would make sure you were overwhelmingly impressed. It would literally be bribing you into writing a positive review. It wouldn't cost me more than a few thousand dollars anyway. The review comes out, Paycoin price shoots to the moon, and I cash out my premine.

You probably wouldn't be such a tool, however. You'd write about how you got the goods but that you're aware that Josh might have given you super-high priority. You would probably even write about the chocolate and how you thought that was over the top and actually made you more suspicious. You would probably donate the goods you received to charity just to lessen the "he got bribed" accusations. But it would still be a positive review, and as a scammer, that's great for me. I just need the price higher, so i need journalists on my side, and CryptoCoinsNews aren't onboard anymore.

So I still have to say that I cannot imagine a good outcome of your post. But again, not a journalist.

I interpreted it as implied. "If it could help to rebuild the trust", you said. A negative review wouldn't help rebuild trust. And it seemed strange to me that you would offer Josh to write something for him specifically to help rebuild trust in his project. I took it as implied that you wouldn't write the review unless Josh thought it would help to rebuild trust.

I guess it's just investigative journalism though. I'm not a journalist myself, so I'm not familiar with how you guys work. Sorry about this.

Ah, it was just an ingenious trap to get closer to Josh. I didn't understand that at first. Sorry for exposing it then. I honestly don't want a fight. Hope I didn't ruin a scoop for BTCFeed.

That's good to hear, but doesn't change the fact that at least one of your most prolific writers is a Paycoin shill who declared his lack of journalistic integrity and his willingness to use your site for pure shilling purposes. Not only do you have writers like that, but those writers are also seemingly unaware of the policy you proudly announce on this forum against writing about Paycoin. The kindest possible interpretation is that you don't have a very good grip on your own site. The less kind interpretations I will not enumerate, but I find them easier to believe.

Are you serious? Just this Friday, one of your most prolific writers offered Garza to write a positive review of CoinStand on BTCFeed "to rebuild the trust".

PayCoin Foundation¹ and Adam Matlack under investigation. http://coinfire.io/2015/03/25/paycoin-foundation-adam-matlack-under-us-investigation/

¹ Not actually a Foundation

The paycoin subreddit has been shut down hours after paycoiners realized people make skeptical posts there.

Also, http://talk.paycoin.com/ is down.

He also says the prime controller was sold to "TeamPaycoin", and that he will sign it over to Joe. I guess it's becoming clear that "TeamPaycoin" is the name Josh uses for projects he doesn't want to be publicly associated with himself or with GAW. Everybody's asking who "TeamPaycoin" is – it's Josh.

MrCoins tells it like it is:


Yes, poor Josh :-( All he did was post a series of cryptic messages about "next week", and now he has to deal with speculative expectations. Truly inhumane.

Coupled with his signature smiley and a lazy typo.

Mistakes where made

They're not on Cloudflare anymore. They're now directly on DigitalOcean.

Neste meetup i Oslo blir 1. mai: http://www.meetup.com/Oslo-Bitcoin-Meetup/events/220753353/

Det er jo en fridag, så jeg håper å kunne ta turen selv :-)