Author Topic: NuBits is structured like a Ponzi Scheme [BLOG POST]  (Read 29378 times)

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I want to urge you to take this down as quickly as possible, because I believe it will greatly hurt us.

1) The original Nubits is a ponzi thread in our forums resulted in us looking very bad, and then looking really really dumb later on while BTS went down and NuShares went up.

2) There have been/soon will be modifications to NuBits to allow supply to also be burned if needed.  This was the missing piece of their puzzle and makes it not a ponzi anymore.  (It makes it more similar to bitUSD, though obviously there are differences).


I see this as yet another move by us that shoots us in the foot and gives us bad PR and drives away investors.

PLEASE stop attacking NuBits like this.  Attacking our competitor in this way makes us look very, very stupid.

Its painful to watch the PR blunders continue.
Thanks.

Professional PR suggestion :

Change title to "What is Nubits?"
Delete the word "ponzi" from all over the article .
Compare them to those centralized banks .
Predict what their downfall would be .
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I will revise it. 
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PLEASE stop attacking NuBits like this.  Attacking our competitor in this way makes us look very, very stupid.


NuBits and any other crypto. We should focus on BitShares only. Even though I believe this wasn't written with a bad intention, people won't care and will see it as an attack. We shouldn't really go out like "BitShares is better than X and Y", we should just focus on our development and later on do the marketing and let the product speak by itself. But only everything is ready. It's too soon to go out like that on the other projects.
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Seriously, please take this down before bitcointalk goes back up and someone links to this and everyone hates on us again.
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I want to urge you to take this down as quickly as possible, because I believe it will greatly hurt us.

1) The original Nubits is a ponzi thread in our forums resulted in us looking very bad, and then looking really really dumb later on while BTS went down and NuShares went up.

2) There have been/soon will be modifications to NuBits to allow supply to also be burned if needed.  This was the missing piece of their puzzle and makes it not a ponzi anymore.  (It makes it more similar to bitUSD, though obviously there are differences).


I see this as yet another move by us that shoots us in the foot and gives us bad PR and drives away investors.

PLEASE stop attacking NuBits like this.  Attacking our competitor in this way makes us look very, very stupid.

Its painful to watch the PR blunders continue.
Thanks.
« Last Edit: January 13, 2015, 05:50:49 pm by Ander »
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I think ponzi scheme is different from a doom-to-fail-project-from-the-start  ......

Nubits maybe the latter due to the mode . But ponzi means intention to defraud .
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Stan better stop everything and camp fulltime at BTCtalk now.

The Peercoin community is big and fairly mature and this looks like an attack on them. Its not going to go down well and will probably hurt us. Still, if we can get our army in full force and get big discussions going it will introduce BitUSD to a larger audience who might be interested in a safe heaven with Bitcoin collapsing.

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I think you could have explained it fairly (as you do) without using the Ponzi label (which is unnecessarily sensationalist). To me, that implies fraud beyond the design of NuBots. It imputes some dishonest intentions. I'd prefer to believe that the NuBots people are honest, even if it's a flawed design that relies on IOUs. Aside from that criticism, the article is well-written.

Agreed.

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I think you could have explained it fairly (as you do) without using the Ponzi label (which is unnecessarily sensationalist). To me, that implies fraud beyond the design of NuBots. It imputes some dishonest intentions. I'd prefer to believe that the NuBots people are honest, even if it's a flawed design that relies on IOUs. Aside from that criticism, the article is well-written.

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http://bytemaster.bitshares.org/article/2015/01/13/NuBits-is-a-Ponzi-Scheme/

The primary purpose of this post is to introduce anyone interested in NuBits to BitUSD with a clear comparison.

Edit by testz: Change subject to reflect blog subject, the link stay as is.
« Last Edit: January 15, 2015, 04:29:47 am by testz »
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