Quote from: sidhujag on December 02, 2014, 06:20:15 AM

Hes always finding new ways to scare noobs into selling btc and buying his new coin whenever he creates it by paying a dev.. Dont mind him

Are we both talking about the same person? After almost a year of reading the guy's posts I'd like to think that I would have caught that.

Quote from: Este Nuno on December 02, 2014, 01:12:23 PM

Quote from: G2M on December 02, 2014, 01:37:02 AM

Seems that he's taken on a new orientation regarding cryptocurrencies in general though .. dark times.

Nah, he's always had that opinion more or less. It's just that as time passes some things he says look more likely than they did before. One example that I can think of that I dismissed was his view on tor being compromised. He gets some things right for sure, but there are a lot of other predictions that he makes that I consider unlikely but we'll have to wait and see. He seems to have a decent track record so far though so I guess it will be interesting to see how things work out. I highly doubt the whole 2015.75 thing but I think a lot of his general ideas wrt to government controlled digital money and what would happen to Bitcoin with all this regulation aren't too far off the mark at all.

He always seemed to have that view toward specifically bitcoin, but now seems to have come to the conclusion that no decentralized cryptocurrency can overtake bitcoin, because none of them can remain decentralized. Therefore logic would follow that he'd think cryptocurrencies are useless.

Just seems like a major change from before, he always seemed pretty confident that a scalable, anonymous, transaction free currency would overtake bitcoin .. but now seems to be not so confident that that is possible.

I just think it's dark times because he always seemed to be claiming to be working on something amazing, pretty sure he said it was a cryptocurrency .. and now he made the same statement in the post I linked that he seemed to be considering just going back to software developement .. like all hope for this was lost.

A lot of what I picked up about flaws in TOR .. i picked up from him. Was it confirmed compromised though? I didn't catch the article for that. His posts have personally been some of the most influential material I've come across to date on this board (and there's been a lot of stuff to sort through in the last year), and I have benefited greatly from the knowledge he shares.

Honestly, out of a group of people less than I can count on one hand, whose participation here I currently depend on to rationally return here day after day .. he's not the only one going through a crises of confidence right now. At least two others are bereft of faith in this, one seems to have left this board already, the other is planning on leaving soon. This doesn't even include all the other people whom I don't hold the same level or respect for, who are also experiencing the exact same feeling.

AM seems to have a different viewpoint than me currently on Monero, and crypto in general .. and I wish I could tell him what I see in a way that makes sense to him .. but I guess I just don't know exactly what it is, or just don't spend the time to properly put it into words .. but that's just fine. There's other people here.