Re: TradeFortress is a scammer.

I would not accept a BoA balance equal to a Citibank's balance if the nearest BoA atm is a hour's drive away compared to 5 minutes, for example.

This is why you're a douchebag.

YOU don't have to accept BOA and Citibank equally. But if you trust BOA - THEY trust Citibank - and thus you can end up with money from someone trusting Citibank.

Get it dumbass? (probably not)

What Ripple does is let you TAKE RESPONSIBILITY for these trust relationships in a finer and more detailed way. However, that's harder to do when a jerk-off like you is misleading people into thinking you're "going to send them BTC on Ripple" when they don't even understand what Ripple is.

You're a fucking scammer - you misled people to perpetrate a fraud. That's a fact. Whether the moderators want to do the right thing or not is irrelevant.

geeeeez, if a forum troll can wreak such havoc then ripple doesn't seem to be that much of a system, does it?

Using the credibility Tradefortress gained on Bitcointalk to dupe newbies in a system they don't understand, isn't creating havoc for Ripple. It is however a good illustration of how the Bitcoin folks here have become so cult-like that they can't even acknowledge when one of their own is defrauding people.

If you've shown a child that they can put their hand near the bottom of a vacuum cleaner and the suction makes them laugh, do you use that trust to have the child put their hand near the bottom of a lawn mower because it too can be pushed around and so you can mislead the child into thinking the two items are similar? When the child's hand and fingers get cut off, does that mean that if lawn mowers can wreak such havok then they must not be useful tools like vacuum cleaners? Or does it mean the person that put the child's hand under the lawn mower is a piece of shit?

I'll go with the latter.