Why? I always figured that the guy had a footprint in Bitcoin else why would he be here?
Or maybe just getting paid to troll people out, like all those evaporated permabears.
Not an uncommon line of thinking...for paranoid folks with not much connection to reality at least. I'd be pretty surprised if there were any paid trolls on this board at this time. I actually never got the sense from the guy ('silverbox' who I mistakenly was commenting about) that he was particularly against Bitcoin but more that he was not about to exit his PM positions in trade. Much like myself.
Hmmm....you have never heard about Edward50, or Nagle, or BTC Economist? Who had been bitcoin doomsayers since their first posts pretty soon after the June 2011 peak, but before shorting was an option,. They showed up each time when there was a crash, with carefully crafted posts to invoke fears, and vanished overnight when the market turned bullish, makes you wondering why they are in this forum in the first place, if they would never believe bitcoin would have a future?
If you think Bitcoin might be going somewhere you might want to obtain them. If you want to obtain them, you might want the price to be low. If you want the price to be low, you might try your hand at FUDing the shit out of them. I realize that this is a chain of reasoning which could throw a lot of people.
I always took that to be Nagle's game and I vaguely recall him admitting to have bought in at around $2.00 but could be remembering wrong. If so, nicely done Nagle. I figure Edward50 was somewhere in that category but not as good at it. Don't recall BTCEconomist. One way or another these are all probably sock puppets anyway and I suspect the folks are still among us.
