Quote from: toknormal on May 06, 2015, 08:31:17 AM

Quote from: generalizethis on May 06, 2015, 07:46:26 AM

it wasn't until Gmaxwell (and Toshi too?) decimated your understanding on cryptocurrencies

Really ? LoL

Well, I'm happy to leave that interpretation to anyone who cares to check out the history. Suffice to say, the glee with which yourself and co-horts jumped on that little episode about sums up the depth of your contribution to this whole debate.

The point being made was that encryption was never a significant part of cryptocurrencies which still stands.

Ever heard of creating a "straw man" ? You should have because it's something you excel at. It means addressing the argument that the other side isn't making to draw attention away from the one that it is.

In the quoted thread the evaded point is the one I just made above regarding encryption. In this thread your straw man is the validity or otherwise of Dash's instamine as opposed to the extent to which has market viability independently of its launch. The reason you need to create straw men is simple - your case would be dead in the water if you had to address the relevant point since we've now had a year's worth of open trading, attacks and trolling on Dash during which time the 'instamine' has been promoted to almost hysterical levels and during which time it's done nothing but gain value since it's post May 2014 correction.

The reasons for that are well documented, here and everywhere else, but broadly speaking amount to the fact that people do not care how they get their hands on cryptocurrency assets - whether through mining or markets - as long as they can get them, and get them for what they perceive to be a competitive cost, again whether that be a mining cost or a monetary one.

Your arguments are bogus, as are your straw men, as are your technical appraisals regarding the use of cryptographic obfuscation in the public blockchain. Fortunately everyone can see it except a of your fellow deluded space cadets who follow the same short-circuted logic regarding monetary properties and what makes money work on an electronic platform.

Thanks for using a strawman to disprove my strawmen. Grin

Let's keep this simple:

--I just mentioned that my memory is of you getting rekt by many people over that comment and didn't relent from your wrongheaded notion until Gmax set you straight. Nice that you've corrected yourself, but I didn't have a strawman engaged in that exchange, didn't bother to get into the debate outside of asking for an explanation AFAIK, and certainly don't think you showed anyone up but yourself in that exchange. I think you mis-remember.

(So that's one strawman gone)

--This thread, right here, the one we are posting on and you're accusing me of using strawmen on to detract Dash isn't a poll on does the instamine matter; it's a poll on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1034864.540 So do you think Evan did it on purpose and how do you think he feels about it now?

(So now you know who's detracting the thread)

--The whole argument that the instamine label sticking will destroy Dash is not a strawman invented by me, you just stuck it there and used it to dismiss arguments i wasn't even making in the post you were replying to:

Quote from: generalizethis on May 06, 2015, 07:46:26 AM

Quote from: toknormal on May 06, 2015, 07:30:46 AM

Quote from: ðºÞæ on May 06, 2015, 05:55:11 AM

Oh dear me

There's nothing 'oh dear' about it other than the fact that the best you can do is lift 2 out of context posts from over 3300.

I had happily traded on Gox and did feel some sympathy for them before all the shenanigans started to emerge. Check the date on that post please.

The second post should read "Encryption has never been a significant part of cryptocurrency" which I corrected a few posts later.

P.S.......

When you get to 3000 let me know and we'll see how consistent you are Cheesy

A few posts later.... How do you define a few? The few I read are still as convoluted as when I first read them. As I remember it, it wasn't until Gmaxwell (and Toshi too?) decimated your understanding on cryptocurrencies that you backtracked into awkward rephrasings of common words used throughout the cryptocurrency space in a vain (both meanings) attempt to save face.

^(No strawman)

--The instamine is a fact. Now it becomes a question on how you interpret it. I interpret it as a tactic for an initial gain that failed to take into account a longer strategy of sustained growth, and since that failure, we've had more tactics thrown at the problem (buzz word features, name changes, incentive apparatus), but none of this has warranted forgetting that there are staunchly ethical, moral, and principled individuals who will never invest in something that has a shady past or leadership. This is not a strawman, this is my opinion. You don't have to like it or agree with it, but it just doesn't go away because you mutter Monero or strawman or whatever tactic seems easiest today. I'm starting to see that Evan attracts people like himself--good luck with that.