Quote from: suchmoon on October 04, 2015, 03:48:03 PM

Quote from: cryptodevil on October 04, 2015, 09:31:49 AM

Quote from: suchmoon on October 04, 2015, 07:50:27 AM

Quote from: cryptodevil on October 04, 2015, 07:27:09 AM

Where did you see that it was used by 'many people' but nowhere was it mentioned it is a criminal fraud?

Numerous post-GAW forums for example. Such as these:

https://hashclub.org/topic/91
https://btclendtalk.org/topic/408
https://paycointalk.org/topic/83

So after all this time is nobody mentioning the fact it is a proven fraud? Surely they can't be that . . .oh, nevermind.

They are mentioning some "troubles" and even uttering the "scam" word occasionally, but many still clinging to a hope or trying to rationalize the "events". Much like here except the ratio of shills is significantly higher over there.

Then there are people who took loans to invest in scrypt.cc. You've heard of kapetan I think, he was organizing a lawsuit against Marcello, not sure where that went but I'd guess - nowhere.

It definitely takes a certain mindset, re: continuing to cling to false hopes and rationalize these events to mean things other than what they are, ie, a fraud from the beginning. It's the same mindset that gave Joshie his following in the first place, a mindset that's willing to ignore facts and logic and cling to baseless statements like "Paycoin will always be $20" and "We just added 350 Gh/s for our private investors, that will undoubtedly improve our mining luck." While I do think a significant portion of the defenders are paid shills, there are unfortunately some die-hard believers just as there were with GAW. Sad thing is, the old maxim of "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is" applies as much or moreso in crypto than other areas of life.