Quote from: TheMage on January 18, 2015, 02:03:09 AM

Quote from: CoinFire on January 18, 2015, 01:57:16 AM

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http://paycoins.biz/paycoin/announcement-sources-say-josh-garza-is-still-speaking-at-tnabc/

Breaking Announcement:

We have just confirmed from a source from the TNABC Josh Garza will be speaking at the TNABC Miami
conference.
Josh will be speaking on Jan. 18th, at 11 am eastern time in the Main hall.
It seems the reports on Josh not speaking and cancelling his appearance are false.

No, that's the mining panel. Homero did not follow through with his Q&A on the main stage that he was supposed to do today. Anything concerning anything else but mining I'm sure will not be answered ie: all his lies and false promises. I think Hashlets are relevant for that section though.

From CoinTelegraph...:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113314/last-minute-tnabc-changes-garza-cancels-robot-roger-ver-and-more

"...Josh Garza, the embattled CEO of GAW miners, has canceled his speech and Q&A session without giving a concrete reason to the organizers of TNABC. Concerns over crowd reaction have been cited as the most likely reason for his cancellation, as many in the community are accusing Garza of misleading investors with his altcoin, Paycoin....

Garza is still scheduled to take part in the mining panel, but he will not be giving his stand-alone speech or the Q&A session... "

ZiG

Well shit, who predicted this first? I think we all pretty much did the day it was announced right? Huh

Not sure who was first, but it looks like Ian from CoinTelegraph was right after all.

Quote from: torelle on January 18, 2015, 01:06:19 AM

Quote from: CoinFire on January 18, 2015, 12:55:29 AM

Quote from: torelle on January 18, 2015, 12:50:07 AM

Moe Levin, Eric Vorhees and the general TNBC is going to get massive Backfire if Josh Garza doesn't end up doing this Q&A right (If at all).

Because even if they do a Q&A, they seem to be sending mixed messages, scrambling communications as to where and what and who and when this Q&A is... If you do not want your enemy to know where you are going to be, you send out false/mixed/misleading messages.

So the only people at the end of it attending the Q&A will be the hardcore HT GAWites that trail him like glue and never let him out of their sight. No one else will even know where it is.

This is a complete mockery.

I'll certainly be honest that if the Q&A doesn't happen in an honest and transparent way but rather some controlled system I'll be sure we won't be accepting any advertising or supporting, covering or helping Moe or TNBC in the future.

We will spend our hard-earned dollars on other more honest conferences etc.

Exactly. They had weeks to organise this Q&A. And they did this just to appease people into not boycotting the TNBC. Now if they do not have a Q&A, or if it is a sham of a Q&A, there is going to be a lot of flak to come.

Josh will probably end up saying "It's not my fault the Q&A didn't happen. The organisers didn't tell me anything, I was just as lost as you guys". And Moe will say "We didn't have room for Josh's Q&A and left it to him to organise one, but he didn't"

There is going to be a lot of BS flowing after this.

Is that really Moe's fault? I mean I have no idea how it actually went down, but how could Moe possibly force Mr.Garza to speak/do Q&A if he doesn't want to? Looks like he wanted a 5PM time slot, if there is no room available what were the organizers supposed to do?

Again, no idea what the actual story is/was, and I really hope someone will spill it soon, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is exactly what Mr.Garza wanted - get rid of the Q&A and blame the organizers.

Yes, Moe could have done the right thing. He didn't.

Sadly, I am sure that it will be a blame game but many offered to more than make up for the fees paid by Garza. I know of one major VC personally who offered to pay whatever it would have taken to bail Moe out of this situation. Moe decided to hype up this Q&A and get even more people to buy tickets and rode the train of publicity from this situation instead of doing the right thing.

Honestly, this entire situation is pathetic.

This is what Bitcoin has become? Powerful individuals that skirt responsibilities and play the blame game all the while laughing to the bank? And im not just talking about Mr Garza here either.

I have been thinking about this for a while now and the nonsense going on industry wide has reached a point that screams for something to be done ASAP. I believe it may be time to throw my own resources in to the ring and unlike some of these children trying to use their short-sighted cult-like greed to manipulate the crypto arena, I and others of similar mindset/value system will simply facilitate an industry consortium made up of VETTED and trustworthy entities who believe there is a place for ethical business professionals and mining hobbyists alike and have no issues with transparency and complying with all established + emerging regulatory affairs. It's not hard and in the long run will benefit everyone.

@TheMage
You wanna truly change an industry with others and myself? If so, let's talk. Cool

Scott-