Quote from: cypherdoc on July 02, 2015, 06:17:36 PM

Quote from: practicaldreamer on July 02, 2015, 06:00:09 PM

Anyhow, back to the shilling business. It seems to me that the multi persona/account copying and pasting shill shenanigans could well and truly be ascribed, in the context of Bitcointalk.org, not to cypherdoc, but to TPTB/Anonymint, surely.

He has exhibited all of the characteristics that, to my mind, a successful shill would have at his disposal :- he has , for example, just enough knowledge in the field to hoodwink those among us who are suggestible and naive (but not enough knowledge to clearly and concisely contribute anything meaningful) ; he has multiple accounts (which are fairly easily recognisable) with which to endorse and give legitimacy to his own views ; he promises an alternative, a better alternative, a nirvana, a shangri la - but never delivers; but, most of all, his mission seems to be to implant doubt and create confusion.

A kind of crypto nihilist Pontius Pilate.

And, in truth, ultra conservative and reactionary. He has aptly named himself in his latest incarnation, TPTB. He, and they (the real TPTB that is) don't want a decentralised democratic store and mechanism by which to transfer value - they require a means by which they are able to stop the masses accessing their illegitemately horded stashes via taxation. They don't give a monkeys toss about the ordinary Jo being "his own banker" - for that is a privilege that the ordinary Jo (the "sheeple")hasn't earned.

Anthow, in the end I guess we all know that you judge a tree by its fruit - and in the context in which we are all operating this might best be ascertained by the strength of the argument. I mean, the strongest argument should carry the day - and who are we to judge wether that be put forward by someone with vested interests or not (ie. a shill) - would it, indeed, matter anyway ?

FWIW it seems to me that at present btc isn't seen as a threat precisely because of the limit on transactions - lift that limit and it becomes a serious player. I can see (I think) the arguments against lifting the block limit (centralisation), and the arguments for sc's etc - but I remain to be convinced.

thank you, thank you, thank you.

and i might add, he insults all of us in turn trying to create doubt in each and every one of us; w/o ever producing the promised coin.

notice the vision keeps changing too. at first it was Bitcoin will become the NWO currency which upon that achievement would then be used to rape us all in the doomsday scenario. then it morphed to "Monero might be a thing". then, while at first being dismissive of Blockstream and SC's, he is now saying SC's will enable his perfect coin and Bitcoin is doomed here in the present. also, his repeated claims to leave the thread to code. must be a bored coder. but of course tvbcof would latch on to him as his buddy. they're both doom and gloomer socialist types.

finally, the consistent message is that we're all doomed and nothing we do can stop that. except his coin that never shows up.

A year prior he was supposed to release his "coin" but instead worked with Monero and then suggested it isn't truly anon although he did contribute to the design discussion and perhaps not the coding, and now says Monero has fundemental flaws yet all the while still claims to have the design in his head ready to be wrapped up but IMO looking for a coder to create an alt coin with which he can do a nice P&D. His views keep changing based on latest bitcoin developments which he grasps on and either uses it to his advantage by saying it will "help" his new coin which never existed or never will exist or he says it will be the end of bitcoin because of this feature (or non existant feature ie: anon, and now "infinite" transaction speed). Let bygones be bygones and let us see what he may come up with, or disappear into the night.