Something Smells Mighty Fishy Over There...
So, the Netcoins contest has drawn to a close and the final votes are in. As an unexpected turn of events during the last few hours, INS coin shifted past Verge to then blast into the heavens there after. Thousands upon thousands of INS votes poured in until by some hideous miracle, they caught up to and surpassed Steem. Therefore alas, we lost out at the penultimate hour. Well, superficially anyways...
IT WAS A FIX! You trying to tell me that some steel-clad knights in shining armour came galloping to the rescue of INS at the eleventh hour? I mean, in a period of 50 minutes, 3,000 votes were inexplicably cast out of nowhere! It smells worse than a month old tuna sandwich and reeks to the heavens of pure bullshit. Sure, I see some people skirting around telling it like it really is, but I think I'll just point out the glaring elephant in the room wearing a pink leotard and bow tie. Whereas the stream of votes coming in support of Steem had a consistent flow throughout, Verge and INS were an amalgamation of scattered "block votes", plain and simple. It remains to be seen how the final tally will be counted and verified, but the actual victor is clear as day to me. Call me biased (which I obviously am) but there's a tonne of evidence to back up what I say.
Another thing that I'd like to mention (which I lightly touched upon in my previous post) was the surprise of some at how little the community actually bandied together in support of this contest. Given the sheer amount of accounts floating around out there, surely we should have been way ahead from the get go. Whilst I understand that statement to some degree, did anyone else notice how the other contenders were doing? I believe there were over one hundred other applicants, but feel free to correct me on that. Dash was one of them, receiving a poultry few hundred votes. Yes, "that" Dash! Electroneum (which I'm also currently invested in) only managed to garner a few hundred too. In fact, it was only Verge, INS and Steem that gained any real traction and given the dubious nature of proceedings mentioned in the last paragraph, I reckon we all ought to be pretty proud of our overall final placings.
I guess it's just human nature to see the negative before the positive. I'm like that too, to some extent. But in regards to the run we just had in this contest, it's a huge success in the context of comparison to the competition we were up against. In addition, bear in mind that the whole Steem blockchain is still a work-in-progress. When general sentiment in the crypto space turns around and we got SMT's up and running, the picture will change overnight. I've seen it before in December 2017 going into January 2018 and I'm sure I'll be see it again.
Stay optimistic, try and consider the "good" in these landmark achievements for Steem and wait for the inevitable unlocking of an unbelievably awesome future for this blockchain. :)
I am 100% sure that it is a Vote Farm activity: https://www.votesfactory.com/buy-ip-votes/
So, one can buy 10000 votes with unique IP within 24-96 hrs along with 24 hours customer support and live chat. It will take only $1260 to win a $30K contest and name for coin.
At the end of day, we can't fight a vote farm with another vote farm. Both VERGE and PACCoin backed down from their strategy. INS took advantages of the weekend break from Netcoins scrutiny.
Damn! That's unreal! I had no idea about such things! Well, everything can be rigged then, right? Bloody INS... :(
I was transfixed and had my finger on refresh for the last 3 hours. Total bollocks, I mean seriously. They came from nowhere. But who was cheating? Was it a fiddle by Netcoin because they just don't like us? I hope they do the right thing and provide some audited results and show some transparency.
It might transpire we still win however so I will await the final result before really getting stuck into them.
As for Verge, have you seen how many twitter followers they have? A damn site more than us and where were Steem inc? Barely a tweet. Im really pissed off.....Lets see what this week brings.
A blockchain for buying groceries direct..I mean.....where do I sign up?
Lol, I know, mate. To me, it is clear as day something was up. I saw how many twitter followers Verge has so it's quite commendable we beat them, but INS? I'm still quietly hoping for the win. :)
I agree, there was a whole bunch of stuff that was fishy about this whole saga.
Sporadic voting for the other coins (didn't help either that folk here were saying that they had just voted for the "4th" time today - so we're no saints!).
Also, I must confess that I had never heard of netcoins - Coinbase would have been a whole different thing - so it seemed to be as much about advertising themselves as the coins...
Finally, I wonder whether seeking to promote steem as a currency for atms etc can be a good thing long term? Sure, promotion can only be a good thing, but steem is much more than a currency. It's a platform.
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I was always under the impression that this was more a show of communal Steemian power than a tangible business prospect on the table. So, even if it doesn't work out that way, I'm still happy with what's been achieved from a community standpoint. :)
Yeah, agreed. It was good to see the community mobilise like that.
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While we wait for the final tally, I am still here wondering what is INS! At least I have heard of Verge before and with Steem are in the Top 100 in Market Cap. I doubt Netcoins will want to be involved with a coin like INS when it seems to have no brand or liquidity elsewhere. I guess we will see...
"Nobody" I've since asked about INS has heard of it, lol. That in itself speaks volumes, lol. You make a great point too about Netcoins adopting INS. :)
Well at least netcoins now has over 3000 valid emails from steem users to sell to their third party vendors, so the real winner in all of this was netcoins. One of the reasons that there may not have been as much support for this from steemians is because of the email issue, me I used my junk email address to vote, junk email because almost every received email ends up in the junk folder. I took the time before voting to read the terms of service and the privacy policy, and they did state that email addresses could be shared with third party vendors.
I see. That sucks a little, I guess. Well, let's see how "fair" the tallying up of votes turns out to be when the final winner is declared. Or does it even matter at this stage?
I am just one of those that are sceptical about this type of big thing, those that promise the moon, look to the past on steemit at bellyrubbank, and a couple of other scams that people fell for. I do not know very much at all about crypto coins and trading or even how to buy and sell, but what they were are offering are they really capable of carrying out their promise? And the second place finish of 30,000 dollar advertising, that is nothing, that is not even a 20 second national radio spot commercial, it sounds like a lot of money, but it will not do the second place finisher any good whatsoever. But at least it does tell @ned how many people will blindly follow his lead if it turns out to be nothing more than a telemarketing type scam, or publisher clearinghouse type scam. I voted like I said, but I never thought it would go anywhere.
I agree @ezzy. Something is off with that. A few hours before it ended, maybe 8 hours left I voted for Steem. We were only about 100 votes behind Verge. I checked it about 2 hours later and we were 100 votes above. I don't even remember where INS was at that time. I don't think they were even close. Then when I check it when there was an hour left, INS was WAY above Steem by at least a 1000 and Verge look like they gave up as they were a few thousand behind. I was like "Wait...What?! Huh? Oh that has to be rigged" unless INS was like oh right voting, EVERYONE vote then BAM!, every single super responsive INS investor spammed like mad in the last couple hours.
Yeah, it's just not feasible that they could garner so much support at the end and so fast. It has to be a fix so will also be very interesting to see how Netcoins handles the situation from here on.
Must have been the Russians? Tsk, they just can't stop vote rigging, can they? ;-)
Lol, at this point, I'm open to anything. :)
I'm really curious to find out how INS managed to get such a large amount of votes in such a small period of time. It does smell fishy.
Yeah. Will be interesting what the "real" final result will be, buddy.
Blame HF20. So many people were unable to use the platform after the hardfork, that they simply haven't used the platform for four weeks. And if they haven't logged in, they won't have seen the posts asking people to vote.
There was always going to be a downside with the "we don't need those redfishes" attitude. Well, steem did need them for this contest, but they had been chased away.
Wow, that's a while 'nother debate, my friend! I understand there was some dissention about HF20, but the way I see it, this was more a very early example of the power of a united Steem community. Taking some dubious fradulent tactics into consideration, I believe we still won the contest. :)
Perhaps, there is a mechanic deal with it.
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