PS: Harcore voluntarist here......
Me also. Pretty sure same is true with smooth and iamnotback....
Hi, just a few thoughts. I was given the link to this thread by a steemit user, because I had told him how mad I was and that I was about to go to the German authorities and the press, if I was presented with solid evidence of a scam or fraudulent behavior...... my line for fraud is pretty fat red and rather easy to step on. You don`t even have to cross it. .......because nothing MWD64 has presented so far contains a single shred of evidence regarding Steemit......
No offense MWD64, I really appreciate what seems to be good intentions, but you`ll have to put up some more facts.
I don't have a lot of "proof" either, just evidence and gut feeling. I'm usually right about that too. Unfortunately, I can't tell what will be a winner (if I could, I'd be rich), but I can usually spot the losers. Have a good track record with that.
But for something more than gut feeling go through the last week of this guy's Twitter and read his page-by-page analysis of the Steem white paper:
https://twitter.com/Tone_LLTI also like Jeff Berwick and got to know him a little at Anarchapulco. He might not have a flawless character (not that I noticed anything unusual), but I think he`s honest......
I've met him in person too. He's likely fun to have a beer with, HOWEVER. Libertarians let people get away with so much shit.
If Jeff did the shit he appears to do with other people's money, and did it in the outlaw biker world instead of the liberty world, he'd be buried alive in the desert in an oil barrel.
If he did it in the street drug trade he'd get capped in an alley.
I'm not talking about the $200 bucks he owes me (though that wouldn't stand either) but I'm talking large sums. Like people's life savings.
If he behaved like he has to libertarians but did it in
actual finance worlds, he'd be either in prison, or no one would ever deal with him again. Yet here is everyone saying "Jeff is on to something new! He's got such a good track record with money! (he doesn't). Let's jump on his new thing again!
I mean, just the fact that he pretends to be a millionaire but when I ask for the few hundred he owes me, he says he's "practiculy broke" and pays me 2/3 of what he owes me. Jesus.
There was simply too much chatter of "centralized power", "scam", "dan`s big ego", "steem dumping", "bitshare buddies bailout", "envy" and bad behavior even among whales" etc etc etc., so it got me worried, because I had actually turned into a "True Believer"......
It's hard to say what Steem is. The makers of it have layered it in so many wrappings of whatever. They say that's part of the mechanism. I say it's to obscure its true nature.
Regardless, I predict than within about 9 months Steem and Steemit will either:
--be bought out by Facebook or Google and nothing people like about it now will remain, and every non-whale will feel cheated.
--be exposed as a Ponzi and the principles will be headed to prison
--will be exposed as a CIA plot to keep anarchists busy chasing digital nickles.
--The least horrible outcome will be this: it turns out to not be a scam, won't be out of business, but will be the shittiest site in the world. Because the pay model encourages click-bait.
Imagine a social network that has a hundred million articles with spam-email titles like Berwick's "I made 15,000 dollars in a day in my underwear!" or whatever.
MWD
(I'm not anon, three smart clicks and you'd have my full name.)
