Quote from: wpalczynski on March 01, 2015, 02:20:28 PM

I guess some people do perceive him like that but the merits of the dev team will speak for themselves. He is not part of the dev team just a very vocal proponent.

Quote from: Mervyn_Pumpkinhead on March 01, 2015, 02:15:53 PM

Quote from: NotLambchop on March 01, 2015, 01:52:10 PM

Quote from: wpalczynski on March 01, 2015, 01:45:49 PM

This is known as the trolling thread. No one comes here for TA anymore but rather for the pictures and jokes. For TA we need to use a moderated thread. Risto had a good one a while back but its not active recently.
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He's pimping Monerooo now Cheesy

I think that Monero would do better, if he would publicly distance himself from it.
Everything starts looking like a shady scam if you find out that he is involved. To me, he represents most of the things that are wrong with bitcoin. He's like the personification of greed, dishonesty and corruption.

He should do Monero a favor and stop being a very vocal proponent then

Most of his endeavors end in a way, where other people involved will somehow lose their money and he will mysteriously be a little richer after that. And there's always others to blame for things to go down like that. Sometimes there are even bigger conspiracies against him, that make him look like a stereotypical con-man.

This is enough for me to stay away from Monero, even if the technical side is actually good. It's not just about the technical properties of the crypto, but also about the people who have proclaimed to have a big stake in the market. With some people, everything they touch just tends to turn to sh*t. It's usually practical to trust history and not make your bets on an assumption, that maybe this time things will be different.