Who was ripped off?
Everyone who was directly encouraged to panic sell on this thread and the Official ACtM thread by Micebreaker when he helped spread and
hype up the false WSJ news.
He didn't create the news but look how he hyped it up for his own ends it - here is just one example of how he helped create the big sell off and spread panic, before buying cheap shares off those he duped:
Lots of derisive, dismissive discussion about Lewis' disruptive $200 million Avalon investment ^here^ and in other posts.
It sure is easy to pat ourselves on the back and scoff at their ambitious, bleeding-edge 20nm roadmap.
Much less mentioned among the JV cheerleader crew is Cointerra's impending angel-funded full-custom 28nm chip.
Do you hear that creaking noise? That's the sound of our popsicle stand's plastic and particle board supports being crushed by Cointerra's tank treads.
Whistling past the graveyard isn't going to help us avoid being obsolete before Christmas.
I predict a wave of bankruptcies, consolidation/aquisitions, and mergers in the ASIC space as human/financial capital requirements to stay competitive begin overwhelming the garage inventor outfits.
and his very next post :
As things stand now, we're heading into a potential bloodbath.
Once he created this mess and lost ACtM investors a lot of money he can back on bragging he was the new JR and that he had made 20k USD.
Somehow I'm the JR Ewing of BTCTalk today....
I guess it comes with the territory, being a master artist working in the medium of controversy, with trolling as a chief tool in my belt.