What IPO scam? Most people bought their NEM stake between $5 to $50 and currently hold stake worth $1000 - $1500. People everyday on this forum lose 100s, 1000s and 10,000s to real IPO scams.
Only thing UtopianFuture did was pad fake popularity back in January (those accounts he made were later taken off the list). Nowhere as bad as it sounds. Every new coin / project has sockpuppets advertising it. You have to, since this forum moves so far and obscure coins go to page 5 within hours.
Please watch what you are saying and protecting. You appear to be the most vocal protecting the image of UP. I am not saying you cannot, but it doesn't give me comfort to know that one is fighting so much in the crowd for the causes of UP. Fact is, he did something that was wrong in the first place and we should not even defend that anymore, unless one also a a finger in the pie.
This is all water under the bridge and need no more discussions about. We should just continue moving along. The more we talk the more ugly discussions will shape up to be.
In any case, this is not a thread to continue all discussions about NEM as it has too much emotions in it. Let's not allow emotions cloud our mind. I have taken the liberty to start a new thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=650337Not protecting his image. Protecting his actions. Have you tried starting a coin on this website? Your coin on the announce section goes from page 1 to page 20, unless you bump it with sockpuppets like UtopianFuture did until NEM gained a community.
If it were my coin / project I would had done the same thing in a heart beat. You can argue what he did was dishonest but there are far worse crimes in crypto currencies, NxT's distribution and all the IPO scams are indicative of such.
There was a poll thread and close to under 50% was in favour of keeping UtopianFuture on. You may claim I am the most vocal but I am vocalizing for the silent big minority. So UtopianFuture padded NEM with fake popularity for awhile? Who cares.. what I care is that NEM has the best distribution of 3000 stakeholders, with taint analysis, and PoI innovation.
Protecting his actions? What for? He is history. Start a coin from page 1 to page 20? Which one? You got proof to say so? I'd like to see that.
The very basis of that statement above made by you makes me doubt your integrity in the first place. And please do not claim to speak for the silent majority if you have nothing to proof so. We live in a world of facts and figures to convince one another. Making statements like that make one feel that you are perhaps UP.
I rest my case, as I do not wish to be embroiled in this and as I said earlier, I don't wish to let emotions get the better of us. Whatever you are doing
now is not going to do good for the community. Really I am not sure whether you care about NEM moving forward as I don't see any relevance now in as far as what you are trying to say to the crowd.