Quote from: Paul Revere on June 20, 2015, 05:59:27 PM

Quote from: Revelation on June 20, 2015, 05:41:59 PM

http://bitcoinist.net/interview-economics-professor-bitcoin-problems/

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Sergio: Can you elaborate a bit about the last paragraph? Where does Bitcoin have a problem or where do you see the problems?

Chris: For me the first issue is that Bitcoin has a very big image problem. Bitcoin has been and is currently being rocked left and right by scammers and frauds. The first big fraud/hacking scam was Mt. Gox, that drew the attention of the general media. This generated a huge negative image with a lot of people and scared a lot of investors away from Bitcoin. After that the image of Bitcoin got repaired a bit but then Josh Garza and his scamming practices came along.

And guess who is commenting on this article ... the muggle of all the muggles Vik.

And the scams keep sprouting from the corpse of Garza's GAW/Paycoin scam. The latest one is what appears to be a direct clone of Paycoin and it's "CAF" model, called BitStone. It is mainly being run by Dr. Keith Harville , aka "Whocares" here and on HT, now using several sock puppets on this forum. You would think he could buy a couple of decent shills with all of those fancy rocks he says he has. Here is the latest:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1088486.220 Archive: https://archive.is/hqXrV
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1088486.msg11669248;topicseen#msg11669248 Archive: https://archive.is/PLPXn

That is some pretty lame ass shill trolling. They are making the devs and the coin look worse with every post.

They have changed their minds apparently:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1088486.msg11670368#msg11670368

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After talking with a few well respected people in the Crypto Community and hearing the important points they have made - The BitStone Team is going to reevaluate the overall foundation of the coin, and business model and relaunch this coin at a later time.