Josh mentioned, specifically, Walmart, Amazon, and possibly Target
This specific quote seems to have been in one of the comments, because if you search it in Google it continues with
"Josh mentioned, specifically, Walmart, Amazon, and possibly Target and Macy's as partners of this coin. Why are we seeing nothing of these..."
So someone called him out and that comment was likely deleted.
Good idea. If we do the same with the other snippet we get, also conveniently deleted:
Nov 4, 2014 - I did however get the info ahead of time so I could verify it before I published. He has also under NDA given me access to info so I could report ...
So since the article is about the merchants adopting his coin and him stating they are on board, the person that holds the key to this all is the journalist who got info ahead of time in order to verify before being published. Is it correct? Or is it in the second part under NDA but the same thing.
This simple confirmation seems to bother them immensely that they have gone and are going to such great lengths to sanitize even comment sections of articles about it.
We can of course still throw in to the fray, the absolute disappointment expressed by his own people upon learning that there were no direct relationships and you cannot spend paycoin in the stores:
https://hashtalk.org/topic/16399/some-thoughts-on-merchant-adoptionso you dont have amazon, walmart and target lined up to accept hashcoin, bummer
So, basically, there is no big merchant adoption like the one that has been advertised.
As an end user, I was already under the assumption that major merchant adoption was in place by previous statements. It now looks to be very different in scope. I would just caution to be very careful in wording you commitments towards your Customer base. Misleading statements will break the trust barrier and it is hard win those folks back into the circle.
hmmm...I thought you had big merchants ready to go and I thought you had purchased a better name than Hashcoin...im kinda confused at this point...