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Thomas Hunt the host of the MadBitcoins show Will make a Steemit post on Thursday, a few hours before the Google Hangout which he will host with Tone Vays, and take questions from the post comments to be asked on the live show.
The AMA will not be a direct interaction on steemit, but rather a go between. Questions can be asked live when the show is taking place on YouTube. The Steemit post will allow people who can not be around when the show takes place to ask their questions in advance, and have them answered by Mr. Vays on the live Show. There will be links provided by
I wanted to provide Mr. Vays with an account that he can use on steemit for the AMA, but he insisted it be done through a neutral moderator. Which is fine, but I still hope that one day Tone Vays will accept my offer to make an account on steemit, and add his blogs to our blockchain, where he can access them freely and instantly any time.
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Why Tone Vays:
First let me introduce Mr. Tone Vays in his own words:
Short Bio (Used for Speaker Profiles):
Tone has been working on Wall Street for almost 10 years starting as a Risk Analyst at Bear Stearns and later becoming a VP at JP Morgan Chase in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. His expertise is in Economic Trends, Trading and Risk Analysis. Ever since getting involved in the Crypto Currency ecosystem in early 2013, he has been very active in spreading the relevance and importance of this technology as it helps promote economic freedom. He was formerly Head of Research at BraveNewCoin after previously writing about trading and economics at CoinTelegraph. Tone also maintains a personal blog LibertyLifeTrail focused on sound economics, privacy, free-thinking and adventurous travel. Tone holds a Masters Degree in Financial Engineering from Florida State University along with Bachelor Degrees in Mathematics and Geology.
Now let me tell you why I have chosen to invite Mr. Vays to do a steemit AMA, the answer will certainly surprise you:
- John Turturro
Yes, New York being my hometown, the first time I heard Tone Vays speak on YouTube, I thought John Turturro has chosen a new career. He so much reminded me of this scene from Do The Right Thing:
Tone Vays, deep down inside I think you wish you were a Steemian:
From the last few interviews he did, and I do listen to all of them, he has some misconceptions about Steemit. I do not believe for a minute Vays is a troll or harbors any grudges. But the straight out attack on Dan Larimer makes me wonder. I was surprised by him taking a role of "Scam Buster", I wish instead he created a blog with Fact Checking.
When you go into a debate with title like scam buster, you have already set yourself as an opponent who is not willing to admit he is wrong, and declared that you have chosen a side regardless of any fact finding. I would rather see Tone Vays fact checking instead with an open mind and willing to admit he is wrong like he said in this interview.
When the time is right, Tone Vays will Do The Right Thing. A lot of us who got introduced to bitcoin early have a hard time accepting the fact that in the future better tech is possible. Does Mr. Vays use silver and gold coins to pay for his coffee or any of his expenses! most likely he uses a paper currency called the US Dollar, although Gold is much better as a store of value it's not practical for use as an every day currency in our times.
When I looked at the first few altcoins I remembered something that Bill Gates had to go through before Microsoft launched Internet Explorer. Although Microsoft was the leading company at the time, the world wide web was new, Bill Gates was not convinced this technology will ever go anywhere. The story goes that some techies at Microsoft provided him a computer with Netscape Navigator and connected to the internet, he spent a few hours in his office surfing the world wide web. A few days later Microsoft acquired an infant company with an internet browser that was later renamed IE.
To me a bitcoin maximalist is someone who still uses gold coins as currency in real life, plays 8 bit Legend of Zelda on his collectible NES, and when things do not go right he is willing to blow air a few times in the cartridge thinking he fixed the bug.
The term is really self destructive, someone who was willing to adopt a new technology called the blockchain, and accept Bitcoin as a safe storage of value just a few short years ago, is now condemning anything new that may present a "better choice for a different purpose". So Bitcoin is great in so many ways, a breakthrough by all means. Can bitcoin store content on the blockchain? and serve it on demand? The answer is simply no.
If there is no room for anything other than Bitcoin, then there was no room for Microsoft when we had Apple. Are you still communicating with BBS boards, or are you using Twitter/Facebook/IRC/Slack... ?
Conclusion:
Tone Vays can call himself what ever he wants, a scam buster, a maximalist, Bitcoinist... but he as a public figure and speaker has to keep an open mind. For him to go to conferences and educate people about a "new" technology called the blockchain, he has to remember that he will be met by someone in the crowd that will call it a scam without checking any facts. That's why a public speaker needs to address facts not fiction and be very careful about throwing accusations without any material to support it. I am not defending Steemit by saying this, Steemit has issues, so does Bitcoin. It is not far ago that the only thing we heard from the anti Bitcoin evangelists was "Bitcoin is a scam, only used by Drug Dealers and Drug addicts".
Again I would like to invite you Mr. Tone Vays to experience Steemit first hand. Get a feel of having your words stored on a blockchain. You are not defending Bitcoin by dismissing any new tech and Eco system that is built around a blockchain, in fact you are doing quite the opposite by telling people a blockchain can only serve one purpose.
