Buying a 2k mining rig might be the only thing stupider than trusting an anonymous person on the internet to "invest" in when they have given zero clue about how they are going to make money.
Actually, it's the same wrongheaded thinking...if you were to tell someone who has no idea about bitcoins a quick summary like this:
"Did you know that you can mine bitcoins with your computer and then sell them for money? Yeah, all you have to do is run this program and when you get enough coins you can sell them."
That sounds like a 'scam' to just about any average person, but we know that it is one way to make money. Most people don't know or need to know the small details of how bitcoins work or why people are willing to trade them for USD and other currencies - they just do.
By the logic being put forth by most of the people here, bitcoin should have to be regulated by the SEC and have some kind of backing from a "real bank" to be "legit". Most people don't even know who wrote the bitcoin program in the first place or why, yet millions upon millions are willing to use it as a currency.
Does knowing 'how' matter if you make money? No, it doesn't.
Does knowing details or having the address to some business reduce or eliminate the chance that it is a scam, while one that prefers anonymity is more likely to be a scam? No, mtgox is a perfect example of this.
It's not about "me me me," it's about common sense. I've sat here for years and watched people with your hare brained logic lose all their money to obvious scams. If someone isn't willing to give you the basic information of how they are going to invest your money the odds of them losing it or stealing it are much much higher. Sorry for pointing that out.
The days of just holding out your hands for "investments" and stealing money from a bunch of rubes are over.
No fool deserves to be rich, so if they are scammed out of their money they either learn from their mistakes or stick to eating ramen for dinner. It's not your place to chime in with baseless claims about a business or investment telling people not to invest because you think it is a scam when you have no evidence to that fact.
I don't lose money, I can spot a scam quite easily on my own, without wannabe "do gooders" like you neffing threads with sanctimonious tripe about how you know what's good and what's not.
Nobody is forcing anyone here to participate with any business or investment being posted. That is the INDIVIDUAL'S DECISION ALONE. And if you do not have actual verifiable evidence that something is a scam, you have no business making such accusations.
It is very likely that you are probably a shill for a bank or government trying to cast aspersions and make it seem like most bitcoin related stuff is "just a scam". Let me point to obama's wall st bailout, where after the banks duped investors into buying bad mortgage debt they got bailed out on the taxpayers' time for their misdeeds.
Let's get over the myth that more information = more legitimacy. Take the risk, or don't. It's your choice. Your chance to lose is always present, so you do not risk more than you are willing or able to lose. That's it.
