Quote from: jd1959 on November 07, 2014, 08:37:46 PM

Hi guys
the only one I see here with no Balls is TROLL-A-TROLL. Come on use your real ID. Other than that let the fun continue. Free speech rules. I don't give a flying f**K about price as I didn't invest anything I can't afford to

lose. If you don't like what's happening with VRC then sell and move on. Continuous trashing of Dev's is not going to get us anywhere. Respect yourself and respect others.

Jon Wink

As far as opinions go, yours is as valid as anyone else's -in this free environment, that is-.

But to be fair I don't believe any "trashing" of devs is going on here... unless, of course, you presume that they have any talents beyond what they have showed. They had quite frankly admitted that, techwise, this is it. Admitting it is VERY POSITIVE, because that puts the project opened up for outside contributions, such as the one James is in the process of bringing.

Now the problem here is a bit more on the personality side. These guys obviously -but they will not admit to it- have no idea of how to promote a coin with the intention of reaching some kind of real-life adoption. And they are not open to solution by people that do either. THAT is the problem of Vericoin. That's why I refer to them, humorously, as the Stooges. Because, like that wonderfully funny trio, these guys have absolutely no idea of what they are doing... as utterly proven with the misdeeds of the past, moolah, visa, etc.

Consequently, we are here, on a waiting period, at the whim of James who is driving VRC towards a point of no return, towards "the Dark Side" as it were. We all have read about the actions of yesterday and the announcement of more to come by different agencies of the US government, sending Defcom to jail and announcing that many more arrests are forthcoming in a determined effort to clean house in crypto land. And cleaning house they will. Is the direction that James has put Vericoin in the proper one, the most beneficial one for the future of the project? I have to admit that, as the FIRST supporter of James' involvement in Vericoin, I son't know at the moment. When I utterly and without doubt supported it, I was sure -as it happened- that the price would at least double if James came in. It did. I also had great expectations as to what new, cutting edge, technology James would bring to Vericoin -not that I believe the project need anything in that regard, mind you-. What I did not foresee -how could I?- was that James would bring the disparate of an idea that is for Vericoin to provide decentralized cloud storage, something that will put Vericoin, instantly, as the target of the Feds and as far away as any project can be from regulation and a CLEAN image. As such, I believe it is a horrible idea and totally damaging to the future of Vericoin. The market agrees with me, as you can clearly see, selling, immediately, even a rebound of 40%.

In other words, Vericoin has become a kleenex, so to speak, that James will use and throw away -or have it thrown away by the Feds-. There's no future, none, in the direction that we are following now. And the purpose of this open and free thread is, precisely, I believe, to wave the red flag. The Stooges, contrary to what some may believe, have James in their hands, NOT the other way around: James wants anonymity at all costs, the kind of anonymity only the Stooges can provide because everyone else in Alts is tainted, no exceptions (and in danger of going to jail in many cases). And he needs a "clean" face for SuperNET, so the Stooges can write their own ticket regarding James. They can easily veto the peregrine project of cloud storage and insist on some CLEAN alternative that will not put Vericoin in flagrante delicto and therefore condemned to be closed (and probably prosecuted) sooner rather than later.

Additionally, our dear stooges have to protect their resumes and they shouldn't allow to ever be associated with anything as shady as a decentralized cloud storage. One is already working for Microsoft and the other two hopefully will have long careers in science... It is NOT WORTH IT guys. Even if down the line there's some reward that no one can foresee and that the market, not just me and others, are negating.

The case is stated. Only here, where it cannot be deleted. And, whatever you choose to believe, it is by far the most constructive post that anyone, on any forum, has ever written.

Finally, if the stooges were to take things in their own hands and insist on a clean ticket to the supernet, I don't know how the market would react, I'm guessing very positively, but I do know how I would react: By buying a significant amount of coins at current or even slightly higher prices... not that it would be of any major significance since it would be a moderate investment, but that would be the extent of my support in that particular scenario. I am quite sure many other people also would.