Quote from: SirHat on July 09, 2014, 11:33:02 AM

Quote from: odolvlobo on July 08, 2014, 05:53:26 PM

That people continue to send money to BFL is a failure of the Bitcoin community. We must strive as a community to prevent newbies from falling into BFL's trap. Whenever we see BFL mentioned, we must warn people to stay away. It is the only honorable action to take.

I personally haven't been involved with mining directly, but what gets me is that these guys (BFL and reps) are still attending all the high-end btc conferences (Bitcoin2014 amsterdam/ inside bitcoins hong kong being most recent) and giving endless publicity interviews etc.. why? What do they hope to achieve and who is even listening to them? Seems very deceptive to me, newbies beware indeed.

They hope to achieve more people prepaying for hardware that they'll never receive. Or receive many months or even a year or more after the fact.