Quote from: megashira1 on July 01, 2014, 01:42:55 PM

Quote from: Fernandez on July 01, 2014, 08:31:18 AM

Quote from: sfinder on June 30, 2014, 10:23:11 PM

there are going to be 5 snapshot on PTS in the next couple weeks and PTS price will go to the moon due to AGS donation is ending in 18 days

Sadly none of these will get you any Bitshares (the main one) as it has already been quietly distributed.

Keep pumping to dump your PTS on unsuspecting newcomers.

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When he says BitShares he is referring to BitShares X, the Bank & Exchange DAC. https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=12.0
I actually agree with him that it has the potential to be the biggest.

That was allocated as I've mention many times on 28/02/2014. However it was done anything but quietly

They had up to that stage, probably even now, one of the longest, most public IPO's. It was advertised from November 2013 and only allocated at the end of Feb 2014. If you look at http://www1.agsexplorer.com/ and zoom into the last few weeks of February you can see that just via BitShares AGS it was generating circa 150 BTC in investment a day + the equivalent value in BitShares-PTS donations. Also for example, The BitShares forum has over 5000 members. Counterparty & Mastercoin only have 600+ and 300+, respectively by comparison. (I own a decent amount of XCP though, but very little MSC.)

But of course the poster is free to offer his perspective. As for his second assertion

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Keep pumping to dump your PTS on unsuspecting newcomers.

I think you might be able to pump/hype some low market CAP crypto-currency via a thread I guess. But BitShares-PTS is a $7 Million CAP and though I think it's a tightly wound spring, the only thing that will move the price in any meaningful way is significant BitShares progress/releases imo. You can look at it's price history here, it's probably one of the most stable, least volatile/pumpable out there, for the last 3 months, https://coinmarketcap.com/pts_90.html

But of course with some posters it's catch 22

They either think you're 'pumping' something too much or if they miss it, they will feel you didn't do enough promoting and are therefore 'quietly distributing' it. But of course I do concede that while the title of thread will generate more interest it is also asking for some heat.

But the last time I can remember being this excited and confident about something was actually Bitcoin, I was and still am a big gold bug. I used to post actively on a precious metals forum that has an absolutely great bunch of guys, but as I'm sure you're aware they can be pretty sceptical and negative about Bitcoin, 'It's not 'real' money

' but I was so confident and excited I started this thread on 19/03/2013 http://www.pmbug.com/forum/f4/bitcoin-discussion-2207/

My first post was related to Cyprus bank confiscations -

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I think regardless of your views on BC's as an alternative currency, it's pretty clear that people in southern Europe are realizing their bank deposits are at risk in a big way. So I believe the likelihood of Southern Europeans moving 600 million dollars in BC's this month > than the likelihood of a major event happening that destroys the price of BC's this month.

In the next post in the same thread I wrote,

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I ask myself in this world with trillions of dollars of bank deposits under threat how much money could I see moving into a digital currency that is in principal decentralized, anonymous, and can't be artificially inflated beyond it's current construct. I can easily see more than 10 billion dollars going in there this year. Which would mean the price could easily increase 10-15 fold.

Both those predictions that I was confident enough to put about Bitcoin on a precious metals forum, - That Cyprus confiscations would be great for Bitcoin and that $10 Billion could go into Bitcoin into 2013 turned out to be pretty good.

So I while the pumpy nature of a price speculation thread will generate some heat, you can look at my post history, and see this is the first time I've started a thread promoting something and it's only because I'm as confident and excited about BitShares now as I was about Bitcoin in March 2013.