And finally, I don't think PB Mining, Hashprofit, or Hashie.co were obvious ponzis. Hashprofit was a gold sponsor of the Bitcoin Conference in Saint Petersburg and Hashie.co had a close relationship with AMHash (which as you said, is owned by ASICMiner and is therefore likely to be legitimate). If it was so obvious that these sites were ponzis then news sites such as CoinTelegraph would have steered clear away them. Cryptory, on the other hand, was an obvious ponzi disguised as a cloud mining firm and they were rightfully ignored because of it:
Could you explain this part? If I were to start a ponzi i wouldn't want it to be obvious. Sites like PB, Hashie, Lunamine and other succeeded because they weren't obvious.
If hashie had close relations to AMhash shouldn't AMhash share responsibility for the losses?
News sites in the crypto world base a lot of articles on tips, I doubt they thoroughly research every company, they just interview people and if those people are liars the lies get passed along.