Quote from: lobat999 on June 18, 2020, 11:36:27 PM

Quote from: Oasisman on June 18, 2020, 08:27:08 PM

Quote from: yupi84crypto on June 17, 2020, 02:12:28 PM

Hopefully the crimes committed by Russ Medlin
do not have a bad influence on the world of cryptocurrency.

No, it won't. The article you provide clearly stated that this guy Medlin deceived his victims into believing of such profitable Bitcoin mining ponzi scheme. I don't find anything that would affect the image of cryptocurrency.
Anyway, this guy really loves committing crime. I don't know how does he sleep at night knowing that he's been always hiding from authorities, committing a number of serious crimes.

I beg to disagree! We cannot deny the fact that in one way or the other, it had already tainted the public perception of cryptocurrencies in general and that is why we cannot blame people for being reluctant to join the crypto bandwagon!

I believe that up to this day, there are still many scams in progress that are related to crypto and that we as crypto enthusiasts should unite in fighting these types of scams from bad actors if we aspire crypto mass adoption. Imho.

Every bad publicity really reflects on bitcoin, tainted it's name and people start to look at it negatively. However, we can also look at the bright side, just like in this pandemic, there are a lot of donations to help people thru bitcoin and other crypto. As for the bad actor here, this is a serious offence and should be dealt harshly as well.