Quote from: oliveforever on September 23, 2014, 11:10:26 AM

Quote from: smooth on September 23, 2014, 11:02:26 AM

Quote from: oliveforever on September 23, 2014, 10:43:57 AM

Quote from: Oscilson on September 23, 2014, 09:40:06 AM

I think it is a punishable crime to attach a website or a service?

Market manipulation and stock fraud are also crimes.

WTF?!

Predictions, even wild and stupid ones are not market manipulation or fraud. (Also coins are not stocks, a relatively minor, but not entirely insignificant point.)

Also, even if you weren't completely clueless on the above points, how would this relate at all to a DDoS on a business?

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Quote from: rpietila on September 23, 2014, 09:39:43 AM

Quote from: ed_teech on September 23, 2014, 09:27:59 AM

Maybe there is a third person involved, trying to profit and buy cheap.

This aspect should not be forgotten. Basically, the price of 1 XMR was 361-366 before the attack. Before the debacle, it actually was around 400. Using these as a baseline, just evaluate what is the % risk that Monero suffers from the attack, and how much, or is there even the chance to emerge out stronger.

DDOS supposeduly impacted the price of XMR.
Well guess what, It works both ways.

He has made announcements on trollbox the price will spike shortly due to a 4 minute phone call he is having, added large buy walls only to pull them away and lie about the future prices based on nothing but fantasy on occasions- he claimed 1 Monero will be few thousand dollars, Just like he claimed BTC will be worth 1 million dollars. Both are lies only told to bring suckers in. He cash out long before. One is driving the price up, the other driving the price down, both are criminal

Many people do these type of things for a living. Everyone should take any information from any source with a grain of salt and consider the motivations behind each actor. I'm not saying rpietila specifically has done anything wrong and I'm definitely not making any specific accusations here at all. I have no idea, but it shouldn't matter who it is. It could be anyone, and I'm speaking in a general sense here. Also, for what it's worth I'm pretty sure that rpietila's intentions are generally good.

It's not illegal and it's not necessarily immoral. It really depends on the context. This whole crypto universe is similar to a game. There are winners and losers. The best thing we can do as a community is try to educate people and help newer people take a more skeptical conservative approach to speculating in cryptocurrencies.

edit: I should add this before anyone misinterprets what I'm saying: I'm close to positive that rpietila had nothing to do with the attack on Polo and I would bet money that he was not involved.

The post is just meant to be about the 'big names' in crypto in general, and how many people are able to make money using their influence.