I asked a question as I was seeking some more info before I bought, but it would have been lost in all the irrelevant drama, if you keep your chatter to relevant topics it will be easier to bring in new people. it is a moderated topic, the moderator can delete all of his posts

These are very good. I'm not sure if I like the first or second one better. And guys, when do you think we should pick a winner? Maybe a few more days until submission deadline?

Can the people that have been scammed, and with all the fraud that's been committed can 'we' the community sue the devs and bter?

Anyone know law?

I feel the need to post this because it's something I am passionate about. I got into cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin) in mid-2011 because I knew it was the future of finance. I have not had feelings about a technology like this since the early days of the WWW when everyone was trying to discredit that and say that it would never be anything. I knew then that the WWW was going to change all of our lives, just like I know now that cryptocurrency is going to do the same thing on perhaps even a bigger scale.

With that said, cryptocurrency in recent months has made me sad for humanity. It's so sad and pathetic to see countless people, human beings just like me and you, yapping at each other like animals and becoming absolutely disgusting creatures because of greed and power fantasies. Cryptocurrency was supposed to, in my mind, free us from the burdens of money and usher us into a new era of society where we are no longer controlled and manipulated by the money we have in our pockets or in our bank accounts.

Instead, what has happened is quite the opposite and it makes me almost sick to my stomach to see how a few numbers on a screen can turn people into actual monsters. I invested in BitBay because I wanted to support a project for decentralized marketplaces, something that I think is necessary for our emerging global, Internet-based society. For similar reasons I am also invested in NEM, as you can see from my signature. Of course, I also still hold Bitcoin because it is the top dog of cryptocurrency at the moment, but I am always looking to the future.

I hope that the sheer volume of human garbage that has populated this thread and this project does not deter David and his partners from delivering what he has promised. I would love to see a working decentralized marketplace with items from around the world that I can purchase without having to go through any other medium. That's all I care about. I don't care about 10 satoshis here or there... it's SO irrelevant in the grand scheme of what we are witnessing. (Some of) you people are so caught up in making a few hundred dollars that you can't even see the potential implications for this disruptive technology. It makes me sad that a few hundred dollars can not only do this to people, but also that it can potentially bring such a promising technology to its knees.

tl;dr I really hate money and the greed that it perpetuates.