That would be a sham dev, not a scam dev. Can't really scam anyone unless products and/or money are exchanged.

If someone sells me a Justin Beiber CD and tells me it's Death Metal, then they scammed me. If Justin Beiber tells me he's playing guitar for a Death Metal band, then he's a sham, or phony, or liar--but he'd need to sell me tickets to his pop concert or to a Metal show that doesn't exist for it to be a scam.

Do you see the difference?

As for your not-so-subtle attack on TPTB_need_war, he's working on something, has proved that he excels at analyzing complex systems, and has a deeper than most here understanding of math, so some of his bravado is warranted, though whether he finishes his current project or how much of an impact it makes remains to be seen. But given you've kept to your noob namesake and have perpetually backed a poorly built coin, you are hardly in a position to judge, unless you aren't a noob trader and are actually a long standing troll with a long standing agenda of criticizing anyone who criticizes the alt project you are backing--then you'd be the sham, and the equivalent of a bad actor prating on the stage with the same tired lines and 2-dimensial character development.

Yeah, you should open that up--at least it will be a discussion and not a bunch of links to dashers circle jerking around effigies of Evan.

Looks like dashers gamed the system, but should they have all the fun?

The whole idea that you can't criticize a coin for a bad launch or bad design is absurd. Look at the Bitcoin threads and you'll see devs, critics, investors, and speculators all trying to figure out the good and bad of Bitcoin's design. My guess is that if the alt coin section became one big circle jerk of hype and moon promises, that no one serious would stick around--it would be just speculators looking to jump from one pump to another.

Anyways,  I'll let you get back to your positive "Monero, you mad bro?" thread.

You mean people aren't just cutting most of these costs out by using Amazon hosting services? Also, these costs (as usual) skip the fact that 30% of the current coins were mined in two days at minimal costs, so not taking that as a factor in the centralization we are discussing is plain old ignoring the facts that matter most. We can see that Bitcoin's early adopters were replaced by the Chinese, who through competition, won mining power--with dash we have to make assumptions, and a lot of them, in order to assume that it is or isn't being redistributed through competition. I'd assume not--since it makes a lot more sense to hold the initial cheap coins and get a 10-50% APR. But my guess is you are assuming that people use OSPEC for hosting nodes and sold their coins without rebuying at lower costs--I would call this "the strategically incompetent redistribution plan" or "after the fact rationalization of best distribution."

What you seem to be skipping here is that competition for cheaper electricity and hardware costs may or may not result in you getting your reinvestment back--AFAIK, Bitcoin has proved that early miners lost that competition to Chinese miners. With a coin like dash that uses a paynode scheme, all you need to do is keep reinvesting and you are guaranteed a greater percent of the stake--unless of course you can attack other node operators to lower the masternode count and increase the ROI%--which gives you the problem of having an inefficient system bent on cannibalizing resources.  

Did you ever congratulate them when Monero was paired with coins on Poloniex?

I bet she plays football as well Evan designs coins.

Still waiting.....

I can't remember, but I think you inspired this thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1430839.msg14509987#msg14509987

And I'm sure that perpetual motion machine you just bought will work forever.  

What I said was "You can't market bad design out of a coin."

You can't market bad design out of a coin.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1443867.0

I get the need for the all powerful d20, but can we add a point accrual system? A way to bank points to spend when there is an especially important roll. Or even a way to bank/spend points prior to a roll? Probably not realistic to implement ATM, but as the game becomes more automated it might make a nice addition.

My guess is no dasher will answer these questions with just the numbers filled in--they will attempt to skew and spin, but never answer in a straight forward and direct manner (if at all).

Questions:

How many dash were mined in the first two hours?

How many xmr were mined in the first two hours?

How many dash were mined in the first two days?

How many xmr were mined in the first two days?

How many dash were mined in first two months?

How many xmr were mined in first two months?

How much emissions were cut from dash's total supply?

How much emissions were cut from xmr's total supply?

Do the early mining totals potentially affect dash's power centralization (yes/no)? And if so, to what potential degree?

Do the early mining totals potentially affect xmr's power centralization (yes/no)? And if so, to what potential degree?

How quickly Alex forgets--must have dementia or something. 

My father was a genius (he was a code breaker during WWII and into the Korean War) and my mother was a schizophrenic, and while my father's logic skill set and knowledge base were vastly superior to my Mother's, she regularly won arguments by using emotional triggers to get him out of his game--that education has served me well for BCT (don't let the them anger or frustrate you with the same invalidated points over and over again or attempt to steal the narrative, but find creative and efficient ways to bolster the important points, and when they just hand you one, well....).

I wonder if Alex was a king in a previous life--maybe King of Epirus? 

Again, you're conflating metadata that requires your OSPEC to be on point and the network you are interacting with not to leek information with Monero's technology--so this is like blaming a car company for traffic accidents caused by the absence of a stop sign. The car company can only do so much, but in dash's case they forgot the airbags and brakes.