Quote from: Paul Revere on February 02, 2015, 06:19:48 PM

Quote from: msarro on February 02, 2015, 06:15:56 PM

Quote from: rokkyroad on February 02, 2015, 06:09:31 PM

OMG. They have a suicide thread at hashtalk now. Poor sobs.

https://hashtalk.org/topic/30882/having-suicidal-thoughts-please-read

I know! What kind of prick posts something like that! Wink

I predicted this about ~600 pages ago. It isn't just the money, it is that people feel like fools for having been sucked into something like this, especially the cult aspects of this whole scam. Add to that people getting their family and friends involved in this and people really will start jumping off of bridges.

Honestly, I want to try and put together some sort of brochure about "how not to get scammed in crypto" to hand out at some of the cons.

Warning signs - cult-like following, echo chambers, reliance on past performance as verification of legitimacy, etc.
When bitcoin-trader was going south, anyone who spoke up about things not adding up was silenced not only by douchebags like Michael Bradenberg and Rob Drover, but the community itself. People attacked anyone who spoke up. It's a gigantic warning sign that folks are high on koolaid.

When it eventually imploded, there were folks who had lost tens of thousands of dollars in the scam. There were folks talking about suicide because they lost so much, but worse, because they had actively gone after people who tried to warn them and inadvertently made other people lose out too. It was all kinds of messy.