he commanded 10% of their (laughable) anticipated profits
I refuse to believe to believe you aren't smart enough to understand the common practice of paying sales agents commission.
Your game of telephone keeps adding more extravagant disinformation to the source signal everyday.
All I can say is that if I had agreed to tout my record of buying at $2 and selling at $1000 then suggesting that I would think about starting to buy again half a year ago to convince people to sink funds into some enterprises which collapsed, I would cough up the 'commission' I received for doing so. No shit! I really think that I would. That's why all that I ever do is to explain to others what I am doing and why and never (iirc) suggest that others do the same. I also would not take a 'commission' for anything even if it were offered to me.
In other words, yes, I do understand the 'common practice of paying sales agents commissions'. I just think that most people who pay or are payed are fucking scumbags most of the time. Nothing I've seen dissuades me from characterizing cypherdoc as such. I've simply not studied Hashfast enough to make a determination one way of another, and have no compelling reason to do so.