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February 08, 2014, 10:45:40 AM


A new breed of sleazy, scummy, greedy, callous, and overall emotionally immature people have come into the game to try to get an edge.

While I'm not looking for a personal fight here, I must say: I seem to recall that you ran an online gambling den.  That's hardly qualification to start criticising others' morals and motivations.

As a rule, professional traders have not entered the bitcoin space.
Supposition and I would argue untrue.  The market is being manipulated but not by a few posters on forums but by skilled traders IMHO.

Unfortunately the unpleasant side effect of these FUD spreaders is that real intelligent conversation and debate is relegated to the sidelines of this forum.

Most of the people able to have this type of dialogue have left already.
Please, don't kid yourself.  I joined here in 2011 and lurked for months.  The conversation was not much different from now: the trolls trolled, the intelligent debated, the windbags blew.

Sure, if Bitcoin went to 10k next month, that would be awesome

Eternity is awesome, infinity is awesome, for some God is awesome.  The price of BTC is not, nor never will be, awesome.

The desperation of FUD spreaders is sad imo. To do that professionally as some here do, you really have to have a mindset of trying to manipulate and take advantage of people. And its all short term thinking. This type of behavior is not something that creates long term wealth. And the personalities that tend to behave this way are also the ones that tend to not care about their long term finances anyway. Make today, spend tomorrow.

Again, you seem to be making huge leaps about other people's morals and motivations as well as under-estimating the ability of the readership here to form their own opinions and make their own decisions.  Someone less charitable than I may call that arrogant.

Nice talking and take care.

I ran a gambling den? Lol. I owned for a short time a fully licensed online poker company. Way before it was illegal - by US law - to do so. I sold it.  Hardly nefarious. Actually created a few jobs for people in Costa Rica and was a fun experience overall. If you met my brother and I who ran it, I think you would laugh at the dark seedy ideas you are trying to paint. I like a good game of poker. Is that worse than liking cigars? Probably better for your health.

As for the way this forum has changed since the price shot to $1000, you can say it was always this way. It was not.