PXC was not a scam. What it was is a series of failures. This I admit.
The problem is that too much was on the shoulders of one coder, and we got too excited with promoting stuff that wasn't ready to be launched yet in the first place. The Devs made promises for the next thing before the previous one was running well.
It's incompetence and over-enthousiasm, not pre-meditated scamming. Everyone lost money, most of all the dev team, MaGNeT and myself.
I've been doing a lot of soul-searching the last few days... taking a very critical look at my behaviour. Am I a scammer ? Did I lie ? Did i twist the truth for my own benefit ?
There were times, especially in the beginning, that I suggested people buy PXC. So yes, I was guilty of pumping.
I soon realized that was wrong and stopped it, and I became the PXC community leader. I set some communication guidelines for our team ( MaGNeT, Nawazish1, Torzsy, JeanCool ) with rule number one being : Do NOT tell people to buy PXC. No pumping in any way.
Did I ever lie ? No. I believed what I said.
I believed we'd have a fully functioning poker site, casino and exchange. I got too excited, and kept giving the benefit of the doubt to John whom I spoke a couple of times a week.
When you have a friendship with someone and they keep telling you plans about how great things are going to be, realistic sounding plans, you tend to believe them.
Maybe I won't be so quick to get my hopes up in the future.
I was always honest and tried my best to help people who had any pxc-related issues. I'm sure all the people I've had PM conversations with over the last few months will agree with me on that.
I stayed polite and friendly even to the most unfriendly and disrespectful people. So my conscience is clear.
Now if only I could work up the guts to admit to my wife that I lost 3k EU of our money
I feel like shit that I spend so much time and money on a coin that has crashed and burned. But nobody forced me to buy it.
I have nobody to blame but myself. This goes for angry people who feel like they have been scammed as well. While I am truly sorry that some of you have lost money, it's your own fault. That's how it goes with investments... sometimes you make money, sometimes you lose. Such is life.
For those who still hold PXC, all is not yet lost. I'm gauging the potential right now of rebooting PXC. Like the mythical animal, maybe it really can be reborn out of it's ashes. If we do re-launch, it's going to be very different from how it was. For one, there will be total transparency.
Note : ignoring trolls and attackers completely, was my idea. My goal was always to focus on building something, staying positive, and don't be dragged into the cynicism that runs wild on these forums.
I've seen some really cool and creative, positive people ( John Mangliaviti for example !) get completely burned out by responding to crap from people like NWO, LaudaM, and ten others. I've been on the internet for the last 20 years and I've never seen a place that's as bad as this subforum. A lot of frustrated, angry people here ! I hope those guys have some nice things in their lives too, but if they behave like that consistantly on a forum then they're probably very unhappy people in real life too. It's sad actually.
TLDR : No scam, just fail. But there is still hope.
