Jeez, I can't believe some of the idiotic remarks being made here. Now people are suspect because their english is too GOOD ? Roll Eyes

Quote from: DemetriusAstroBlack on March 29, 2014, 05:54:43 PM

How many history lessons are we going to get from Icelanders over and over again about their economy?

Apparently as many as it takes to get it through the thick heads of some morally grandstanding retards that they don't have a problem with the way the coin was managed.

Quote from: alyssa85 on March 29, 2014, 06:10:46 PM

So the idea that Icelanders are poor things, worse victims than everywhere else is quite wrong. And the idea that they are a special case and should be given free money and it's not their fault for being too lazy to do some mining on an old computer... words fail. This is not like mining bitcoin, there was so little difficulty that anyone could have done it if they wanted to.

Look - if you don't want to trust your government to defend your currency, and want to create an alternative, you have to do the defending yourself. Just being passive and expecting everything to be done for you, foreign people to mine it for you, foreign people to develop it, foreign people to secure the blockchain, people in panama to do airdrops ... come on! This is not how the world works.

That's some peice of twisted logic you've got there by any standards. You make it sound like there was an altruistic element to the initial investment that went into Auroracoin.

Don't kid yourself.

People got rich off Aurora and it wasn't the ones who are getting it for free. If they ever make anything it will be because their economy did the hard work of giving it enough network effect to have some real value.