Quote from: Entropy-uc on January 01, 2014, 01:42:35 AM

Quote from: gmaxwell on January 01, 2014, 12:00:33 AM

Quote from: Entropy-uc on December 31, 2013, 05:50:47 PM

Concerning yourself with the future actions of others is a waste of energy.

The future of others is also the future of Bitcoin.

If small independent miners keep losing their shirts on deals like this we'll end up in a case where only huge consolidated operations with captive manufacturing will be profitable. The end result would be an enormous centralization of hash-power which would undermine the security assumptions in Bitcoin, and result in the ultimate failure of the cryptocurrency... which wouldn't be in the interest of anyone currently mining or holding coins.

Besides, the future actions of others may include my friends and future friends. Not everything is about making a profit denominated in coins or dollars.

You really didn't care when it was BFL ripping people off, so what makes this different? Is it that you are one of the people that were deceived?

Don't get me wrong, I've been screaming about this for 18 months now. But I'm surprised to see this new attitude from you in particular.

If you want to improve things, as a mod you can easily have a positive impact. Abolish all discussion of hardware that hasn't shipped in volume to mining speculation.

+1 You think he would get the message. I don't think hypocrisy is a good thing intentional or not. No one could argue that BFL is somehow under the radar and it CLEAR without doubt even that BFL has done and is doing things are more or less 'illegal' and harmful to this community well beyond the current HF fiasco and it obviously begs the question why weigh in on HF and not BFL? That is simply a question that never seems to get answered.