Quote from: spacegoat on April 01, 2013, 01:51:21 AM

Quote from: mjosephs on April 01, 2013, 01:07:15 AM

Quote from: Pangia on March 31, 2013, 02:40:29 PM

I have a question regarding the bolded statement -- The guy "running the company" isn't the guy who was convicted of mail fraud.

Actually he was running the company. As soon as it became known who he was and what he'd done they quickly arranged to transfer the CEO title to somebody else. Go ahead, look it up.

could we get the facts here please?
assman are you BFL? if you are congratulations on making so much money on everybody.

if not could we be a bit more considerate and stop spreading misleading information? please. its just like why man? unless you are BFL why muddy up the facts?

I think ahss man is just really set on getting his jalapeno

I hope he does get his jalapeno for all our sakes.
because I just invested a bunch of money into bitcoin and I would like to see it grow not disappear.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=110805.0

No, i don't work for BFL. It just gets frustrating seeing the same misinformation and wild speculation posted day after day, and then dips like Pangia or whatever it calls itself trying to come off as some pseudo-intellectual-psychobabbling-hypothetical-pedophile-situation-crafting snob just add to the annoyance factor.

There's two choices regarding BFL:

1) invest and hope for the best
2) don't invest and use your funds elsewhere

either choice, people need to do some research, read informed threads and not fear-mongering farktardery, and make a decision based on their own fact-finding (or lack of facts) that they are comfortable with.

As I said earlier, everything about bitcoin is a risk, a gamble. The blockchain is the only stable constant in the bitcoin universe, everything else is speculation and guesswork. Will it go up? Will it go down? Will BFL deliver? Will another ASIC vendor pop up that's legit and can ship product? WHO KNOWS? Nobody knows. All we can do is gather as much info as we can, and then make our best guesses.

These boards are a farking endless goldmine of info, links, "get started" threads, etc, yet day after day we have people like Pangia polluting them with Psych101 B.S., questions being asked over and over again because new people are too lazy or too dumb to use the search function effectively (and if they're too dumb to use a search function, they haven't a hope in hell of understanding bitcoin or the economy surrounding it).

While new people can only post in Newbies, they have FULL READ ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE FRAKKING FORUM STRUCTURE. The 4hr online requirement could EASILY be filled reading helpful and informative threads about bitcoin, mining, etc. But no, we get day after day of "can i mine with my laptop's NVidia POS card?" and "Hey, what kind of GPU mining rig should I build today?"

So yeah, I'm an ass. I'm an ass who spent WEEKS reading and watching and learning before diving in, yet every day new people show up looking to be spoon fed everything about bitcoin.

I certainly do not claim to know all there is to know about bitcoin. Far from it. Hell, I haven't even taken the time to learn how to do PGP authentication/signatures etc yet. When I decide it's important for me to do it, I'll go look it up and figure it out. I sure won't expect someone to hold my hand and walk me through the entire "how to PGP" process.

There ya go.