Quote from: freightjoe on February 13, 2018, 12:23:12 PM

"FUD" screams many in here - they are so afraid that negative news will further increase their losses on their Bitcoin "investment".

They desperately hope that by screaming "FUD" the price will magically be pumped again.

But what they call "FUD" is often just plain old truth and facts. And no amount of screaming will change reality.

Reality is that Bitcoin has proven beyond any doubt that it does not work as a currency.

You don't see the irony in talking about facts, reality and truth (they're not all the same things, by the way, possibly related but hardly necessarily correlating to each other!)... in a post completely devoid of facts. You can hate the guys who shout FUD as much as the guys who shout any of the terminology peppered across this forum, but if you're a player yourself, don't hate the game...

Quote from: Xavofat on February 13, 2018, 01:17:19 PM

IMO, FUD specifically refers to spreading false information deliberately with malicious intent (or at the very least being willfully ignorant of readily available correct information).

Malicious intent is difficult to gauge so it's hard to say that FUD is definitely prominent, but the blanket statement that it doesn't exist at all seems very disingenuous.

While I don't tend to use the term myself, if I was ever going to refer to anything as "FUD" it would most likely be your posts, due to your willful ignorance of various obnective aspects of BTC. If you look through your history of created threads, you'll find that some of your threads have been corrected by a variety of people, and you have repeatedly attempted to ignore or offhand their points.

Yeah, I think actual FUD is a lot more complex than the shouts of "scam" or "crash" or "bloodbath". You can spread panic easily with clickbait, but not the deep-lying fear and uncertainty that takes a lot of documenting to build. I also don't necessarily see that information is false or true... any data can be analysed into a number of various takes, positive, negative and neutral.

Take any data you want. Daily charts? The recent Congress hearing on crypto. A hundred analysts could come up with a hundred different possible interpretations. Not necessarily false (or true), just adjusted to the statement they want to make.

Few people take raw data and then form a statement from objective analysis. They already know what they want to believe, and seek validation in the data.