Guys, ABL is not the enemy...
Ags is what it is. If regulators decide it is a security then like sdice, we may have to pay $50k fine. Guess what: we have already paid that much in lawyer fees trying to maintain compliance.
No one is going to jail as no harm has been done. No fraud. At most a disagreement over interpretation of the law which we worked hard to comply with.
Now the real question is, since bm could so easily answer this question is whether Adam feels sorry for this drama. Does he, in retrospect, feel like maybe it would have been more effective and beneficial to everyone on the forums (including himself) to have made statements of the "shocking" dangers inherent in bitshares AGS first in private to ascertain Invictus' thoughts before bringin it so negligently to the forums?"
This would have been seen as far more genuine and benevolent path than completely bypassing the invictus team, and potentially scaring away newbies who came here after the conference...
If adam can agree with this assessment I think there is good reason to believe we can move forward in the knowledge of how to garner community support instead of becoming the target of anger and resentment.