Quote from: Dorkie on February 12, 2018, 09:48:38 AM

I am sorry to say this, but you are quite............. not smart.

1. A scam that is longer term will be harder to operate.
2. A scam that is shorter term will be easier to operate.
3. Bitconnect was not operated to be short-term.

Go meditate on the 3 points above until you reach enlightenment.

Update:
I believe they are not eyeing for $10 mil.
I suspect they are eyeing for multi hundreds of million to a few billion.

If you are okay with selling one hype after another is fine and dandy (ref: Populous), that's your preference.
If you are okay with absolutely no selling of any hype whatsoever is fine and dandy (ref: Veritaseum), that's okay too.
It shows that you do not have a firm stance in this.
But I personally prefer a project that does not sell one hype after another.

You guys are giving Steve Nico too much of a doubt.
It's not like you guys would give others the same level of treatment.
I see only bias in your thought process.

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The easiest ICO scam is to raise funds and then disappear with the funds. Nico did not do this.

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I disagree.

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I am sorry to say this, but you are quite............. not smart.

1. A scam that is longer term will be harder to operate.
2. A scam that is shorter term will be easier to operate.
3. Bitconnect was not operated to be short-term.

Go meditate on the 3 points above until you reach enlightenment.

While you're sitting at your computer thinking about how smart you are, why don't YOU go meditate on your own contradiction?

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I believe they are not eyeing for $10 mil.
I suspect they are eyeing for multi hundreds of million to a few billion.

Give Nico a little credit. Again, in this day and age, how would one steal $100M or more in a high profile way such as this and manage to live it up somewhere fairly pleasant? I don't think it can be done. The *best* someone like Nico could do is take a few million, buy a modest home in some semi-rural South American town or some island and live out the rest of his life without working. No one can pull of the kind of scam you're talking about and actually enjoy the money with mansions, fancy cars, yachts, etc.

See, it seems you don't want to use the logic that you're such a big fan of and look at the big picture.

It's not enough to take a few elements of doubt and create a whole narrative about fraud and scams unless the other pieces of the puzzle fit. If PPT is a scam it is a well thought out one. Scams in general are pretty simple in concept, but to pull one off you need not only to execute the scam itself but engineer an exit and a way to enjoy the spoils. No one has yet to propose a viable theory for the scam itself (since it's clear $10M+ wasn't "enough" or the exit). Meditate on that.