Quote from: tabali tigi on August 08, 2016, 12:05:48 PM

"Famous scammers" go to jail in the United States.

Stop being ridiculous with this nonsense.

If you have never accomplished, built, or done anything in your life, and you call Bryce a scammer, you're the worst kind of parasite.

The people that hide behind anonymity and slander people's names with the shout of "scammer", YOU are the ones preventing cryptocurrency from going mainstream.

YOU are the reason "real people" want nothing to do with crypto.

Stop "warning people" with all your bullshit, because at the end of the day you're nothing but shitty character assassins. If you lost money from DAO or Ethereum because you didn't do your due diligence and threw your money at a 19 year old coder, that is your fault for being stupid. If you have no ability to tell what is a "good project", and just judge based on the crowd, stop calling yourself an "investor", because you're nothing but a "gambler".

I get so sick of seeing this slanderous bullshit.

Chris

CSO
Bitland Global

See, I personally am very carefully with the word scammer. And there is no reason to take this personal but if the guys behind this want to do an ICO they also should be able to explain some things.

And please ask yourself how this looks and please forget for some minutes that you are a friend/partner of B.W.:

1. ICO without escrow

2. ICO not even ended yet, but already spending money

3. The claim that it's "impossible" to buy > 50% of the supply, no matter how much money --> usually the case if the team (most likely including some backers) owns > 50%

4. It seems as if the initial plan was to do this anon:

"During the boot- strapping phase these individ- uals wish to remain anonymous as to encourage community in- volvement in the development of the protocol as opposed
to establishing governance around personalities, as this has led to crisis in both Bitcoin and Ethereum."
http://tao.network/InvestorsHandbook.pdf

Until post 8 in this thread with the question who is behind this there were just rumors.

5. Bryce Weiner says in this thread that this is his first own project, while the official account said this in the other thread after rumors about Weiner popped up:

"Bryce helped us in developing the project to fruition and we appreciate his efforts and enthusiasm in bringing this project to the attention of his friends in the community."
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1543866.msg15550724#msg15550724

6. The whole design doesn't seem to fit to the high promises -- it's PoS plus x11 - and most likely a centralized chain (if they own >50%)

7. Nothing in the github: https://github.com/taoblockchain

That is what somebody sees right now even if the name Bryce Weiner is new to him and without any prejudices.

Or, let's say it this way: If you wouldn't be a friend/partner of him because of Bitland, but just a normal Investor. Why would you say this is a buy? You wouldn't be concerned about those points?