Quote from: pineapple express on March 11, 2018, 03:51:55 PM

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Again! What is wrong with holding a currency for long term? Holding (or saving) is as legimate a 'use' as spending (if you can find anywhere to spend it), exchanging, or gambling on a bot or whatever else one wants to do

nothing wrong with holding. But if you bought currency just for hold, don't be a girl when you lose all your investments. It was your choice, your risks, your money, your life

You are quite right my risk, my bad decision. Stupid me. I took the roadmap of distributions at face value. Regardless of that I am allowed an opinion on the matter. It is only because I care that I am taking the time to have my say.

Quote from: Random-String-Symphony on March 11, 2018, 04:18:47 PM

He just copy/pasted this Medium post: https://medium.com/@Suirelav/byteball-whats-happening-march-2018-fcb915761999

OK thanks I wouldn't have known that.

Quote from: Random-String-Symphony on March 11, 2018, 04:18:47 PM

People call themselves investors, hence "so called". Receiving something for free doesn't make you an investor. Buying something for BTC or fiat that is given away for free doesn't make you an investor either. Still people insist they are investors. Holding a currency that noone uses yet isn't going to help adoption much, or is it?

It's indeed a dream, or vision if you will, of what Byteball could become in a few years. People are way too close minded to see what this can become and only think about short term (gains).
Once people stop having dreams it's time to shut the door and leave.

I don't really follow your argument about investors but I'll say this. The bytes that are given away for 'free', were also received by Tony for free. He didn't buy them. At the moment when they were generated they had no value. None. Not to take away from Tony's hard work and inspiration but that is the fact of it. Value came later in large part from the roadmap and peoples beliefs about what byteball might grow into. This is still the case and I subscribe that the value is decreasing now in large part because of the vision changing to a more centralised reality is being priced in and it has a lower value.

Imagine if some powerful dictator of bitcoin (which thankfully doesn't exist) deciding to add another 40% to the total number of bitcoins and instead of mining just pay them to hmself and decide how to spend them to increase the number of users? It doesn't sound good does it? The airdrops are a necessary evil to get out of the way so we can all get on with no longer giving a flying fuck about how they will be distributed because that will be history. He is not 'spending' them wisely he is giving every appearance of a dictator making bad decisions and not understanding why the network has value.

Call this girly whining if you want. Personally I think I deserve to have a seat on the board for telling it how it is.