this will be my last post here
I lied
I didn't plan for such an absurd attack on my last post.
Bye. You say money was the third reason you got into crypto but the social implications still apply and yet you have sold up your mining hardware, a few old GPU's it seems, so that you got out with a profit. That says more that you got into it primarily to make as much money as you could and when it never turned out to be as good as expected you got out regardless of social implications or other reasons that supposedly got you into it.
I'm not sure how you've come to the conclusion that I primarily got into it to make as much money as I could, or how you know what my expectations about profit were?
I got into cryptos right before the litecoin price surge, so it was still questionable if I would make enough to pay for the hardware I bought, so please don't accuse me of something you have no proof of one way or another.
I got into it as I said because I was interested in the actual bitcoin protocol. How much talk do you see here about Merkle hashes for example? Could you give a brief technical explanation?
What is a HW error? What causes it and what are it's implications? No one seems to talk about those sorts of thing here, in fact I ended up reading CGminer's source to find the answer. Understanding things like these are more interesting than yet another scam coin or multipool to me, that's the main reason I've left, small profit, lots of heat and noise are other reasons.
Regardless of social implications? What?
I got into cryptos first because of interest in the protocol and social implications
I was interested in the social implications. I learned a lot about them, as much as I wanted to. I've moved on to other interests and projects.
Saying others had a get rich quick mentality yet you flocked with them. That was your interest as well, most displeasing. Putting your efforts solely into obvious scam coins to try and make as much as possible instead of making existing coin networks stronger.
Yes, I did mine scam coins, and I'm just as guilty as anyone else. However I didn't get into cryptos for that reason, and I knew it wasn't sustainable. Also how do you know that I solely put my effort into scam coins?
People are trying to claim money back and are taking legal action and your several large comments, on this page alone, help nothing.
OK, how did your large comment help "people trying to claim money back and are taking legal action"? Also I only posted on this page, my first comment was a possible scenario of what happened, from there I was attacked twice, now three times.
As I said, I hope there's justice for those who lost money. But with a scam it takes two to tango. Instead of solely blaming Alpha, I only said it might be worthwhile to ask what they could have done to avoid being scammed. Those that don't understand this *do* need help.
For someone who has done nothing you speak with great authority!
What exactly have you done???
I didn't see you saying anything before they brought out pre orders, so why you feel the need to pipe in now it has gone badly is bad form. Glad you've hung up your soap box as well as your couple of old extra GPU's as like you say there are very few who seem interested in innovation or change. I understand
You're right I didn't say anything, although my initial thoughts were: yes there will be Scrypt ASICs, but I didn't have much faith in Alpha.
I have a very naive idea about hardware designed, having design some very basic circuits in VHDL (I can substantiate that with code). So I knew from a technical standpoint that Scrypt ASICs were possible, and almost certainly coming.
In the kind of community I imagined before I got involved, I figured most would know more than I do about FPGAs/ASICs. But if you look back to the first pages of this thread it's clear that very few have any idea, and were posting based on rumors and gut feelings. Kind of like you how made lots of assumptions about my motives and actions based on nothing but emotions.
