I was excited to see if Arise could pull off what they were trying to pull off. I wanted so much for this to be for real, and thanks to blockchain tech, your post about altering the way I think, and just a positive feeling about the way this tech could move the world, I believed they could do it. Then I read an article on Reddit by someone who did some serious due diligence to show Arise did not seem legitimate and I was mad. And though I was not mad at @stan, I felt sad that an old guy got duped....and for that I am sorry. @stan is a very smart man and was a wonderful advocate of blockchain and I am sorry to see him go. I wish him the best.
As for me, I hope this helps me NOT make assumptions about others when I don't know a thing about them other than what they show publicly.
Here is a tweet from Bitshares twitter yesterday that most people (including me) seemed not to know: