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81  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 03:54:46 AM
I suppose this thread turning into a Smooth-FUDgang-gangbang should have been expected with pointing out his attack techniques and recent AEON play...for anyone interested in Smooth's activities, just read the first page, and vote what you think.

I don't actually mind off topic stuff, it's a free world, and anyhow I trust people are smart enough to read between the lines and also do their own research - if they're not, that's their decision.
82  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 03:42:18 AM
You're not a critic smooth, you're a dev who posts 1000s of posts attacking his competitors with an admitted conflict of interest - just to clarify for you.  BTW, please try to stay on topic.

There is no topic, other than why you would create a bullshit topic, and the answer being that you are an unrepentant Dash troll conducting a smear campaign to try to intimidate critics of Dash into shutting up.

There is no evidence of any misconduct on my part, nor has there been any misconduct. No one other than butthurt called-out bullshitters and scammers has called for an investigation of me, nor has anyone offered a basis for one. It's typical forum trolling.

This by the way is the second hate thread Dashers have created for me. Did you do the other one too, or was that some other troll? I don't remember.



You're certainly entitled to your opinion.  Personally I don't agree, seems like the BCT community doesn't either:



83  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 03:30:43 AM
it's a free market

The free market includes the freedom to express ideas, including critical ones.

If everyone is so happy with everything about Dash, and continues to be happy about it, then you have nothing to worry about.

Trying to silence critics is not the way to go.



You're not a critic smooth, you're a dev who posts 1000s of posts attacking his competitors with an admitted conflict of interest - just to clarify for you.  BTW, please try to stay on topic.
84  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 03:12:08 AM
FYI to the readers, ^ the Monero gang have shown up...I have no interest in engaging in a FUD war with them, the point of this thread is to publish an investigation of Smooth, so I will stick to that.
85  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 03:11:10 AM
I have never seen you disclose your conflict of interest, and I remember that thread and don't remember that statement, and being an OP you could have just added that now.

If you weren't an unrepentant Dash troll conducting a smear campaign, you might have done some research on that:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150512022003/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=999886.0


Well it wasn't there when you started, and I remember calling you out for conflict of interest since May....

So I guess the people having to read your 1000's of 'scam' posts need to go to that thread to find it your admission o how you act in conflict of interest?
86  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 03:03:04 AM
On the topic of conflict of interest, Mr blobafett2 or blockafett or whatever the fuck you are calling yourself these days, listen carefully.

As a long time active and aggressive Dash supporter and investor you stand to gain if you can discredit me and the "competing" projects that I happen to be associated with. You especially stand to gain if you can muzzle me and then Dash supporters can then continue unchallenged scamming new investors victims by hiding the instamine or making false or irrelevant claims about it such as "the community voted not to relaunch" (see above) or "it doesn't matter because it was redistributed" (again, false even if true but actually false and false).

So if don't believe people with conflicts of interest should criticize others, then STFU and GTFO.  Or at least create a sock puppet or something when you are doing it so you don't look quite so catastrophically stupid.



I've always fully disclosed my interests, and also explained my reasons for posting this, so people have fair chance to make their own mind up. That's my whole point, you never do that, whether it's trying to discredit your larger competitors with 1000s of repetitive posts over long periods of time, or now quietly taking over your smaller competitors and building them up with no full disclosure of your conflicting interests with the communities involved - those kind of people are usually the scammers, hence this thread.

That's one of the worst bullshit arguments I've ever heard. First of all everyone knows who the fuck I am, especially on the Dash thread.

Second of all, let's look at my "why the darkcoin/dash instamine matters" thread, which I use as an archive of evidence against the Dash scam, and frequently link when commenting on the topic:

[DISCLAIMER: see disclaimer of conflict of interest at the bottom]

...

DISCLAIMER: I am a Monero core team member and I do not deny a conflict of interest. Nevertheless I endeavor to be factual and I suggest that readers consider the facts, check the facts, reach your own conclusions about what happened and how it matters today, and finally to avoid the temptation to attack the person stating the facts or the coin(s) with which he might be associated]

(the bold, by the way, is not added, it is in the original)

Which I might add was added very shortly (hours I believe, but I'm not positive, it might have been the next day) after I crated the thread, on my own initiative.

Spare us the concern trolling that people are being misled because they don't know who I am. Nonsense.

It's transparent and pathetic. The real explanation is that you are a Dash troll not only who wants to lash out at and (try to) intimidate honest community members, because the Dash scam can't survive and recruit new investors (especially the serious ones you need to actually get anywhere) unless honest critics are silenced, and the ugly history of the instamine, manipulation and insider self-dealing is buried.

Well it isn't going to work.

LOL at the "Let's ban smooth". You couldn't prove my case any more effectively if you tried.

I have never seen you disclose your conflict of interest, and I remember that thread and don't remember that statement, and being an OP you could have just added that now.

If you are going to start to admit your conflict of interest, that's a good thing coming out of this.

...Pretending that your attempts to discredit your competitors is for philanthropic reasons, however, is false, as I have shown above.
87  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 02:54:13 AM
As far as I can see smooth raises important issues and debates all who engage him with facts and reason and evidence.

I appreciate his efforts to educate people about scams.

The sentiment is good, to educate people about scams.

But the reality is, he is posting 1000's of "scam" posts on all of his major competitors, every day, for months.  

That is across the border from genuine concern to educate about scams, and into the territory of someone just attacking coins using well known techniques.  

And because he is a dev who attacks his competitors, the elephant in the room is that he is doing that to try to lower his competitor's price and raise his own.

People who want to expose scams will just make a single thread, or make their point a few times so the info is out there.  They don't keep repeatedly hammering the point thousands of times.  

I suggest you do a bit of research by checking his history, click back through some random pages, and you can see the scale of his effort to discredit his competitors.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13813;sa=showPosts

From my reading of it I would challenge anyone who as actually done the research to claim this is normal behavior with 'honest concern' for his competitor's communities or 'educating people about scams'............
88  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 02:45:40 AM
Lets petition to get this smooth dickwad banned..

Is it possible?  That would certainly be a win for 50% of BCT users with integrity that actually want to forward crypto with intelligent debate and ethical / professional coin teams.
89  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 02:43:03 AM
On the topic of conflict of interest, Mr blobafett2 or blockafett or whatever the fuck you are calling yourself these days, listen carefully.

As a long time active and aggressive Dash supporter and investor you stand to gain if you can discredit me and the "competing" projects that I happen to be associated with. You especially stand to gain if you can muzzle me and then Dash supporters can then continue unchallenged scamming new investors victims by hiding the instamine or making false or irrelevant claims about it such as "the community voted not to relaunch" (see above) or "it doesn't matter because it was redistributed" (again, false even if true but actually false and false).

So if don't believe people with conflicts of interest should criticize others, then STFU and GTFO.  Or at least create a sock puppet or something when you are doing it so you don't look quite so catastrophically stupid.



I've always fully disclosed my interests, and also explained my reasons for posting this, so people have fair chance to make their own mind up. That's my whole point, you never do that, whether it's trying to discredit your larger competitors with 1000s of repetitive posts over long periods of time, or now quietly taking over your smaller competitors and building them up with no full disclosure of your conflicting interests with the communities involved - you never disclose anything that an ethical person would do - those kind of people are usually the scammers, hence this thread.
90  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 02:27:26 AM

Professional trolls like Smooth are the biggest scumbags here...
Because they have enough in-depth knowledge to "appear" objective to n00bs...
And are experts are subtle fallacious reasoning that "appears" authoritative...
But their agendas are to impune and destroy the hard work of other Devs.

The Alt Forum has been effectively destroyed by Smooth and his Monero shills.

Keep exposing this c*cksucker... and I'll keep bumping this thread.



Something this forum has been getting wrong recently is lack of real rules. I believe in Liberty but Liberty is not Anarchy, society needs rules to function.

You can't get rid of newbie accounts easily (though you could make a minimum posting in a newbie section)

But what you can do is ban without mercy long term accounts that spread lies constantly.

This forum really needs to clean up this mess, this forum is getting a bad reputation.

I agree with that.

An easy thing to do with Smooth would be to catalog his literally 1000's of anti Dash posts in his long and tedious post history, which boil down to maybe just 5 or 6 criticisms he recycles.  That is obviously someone working to disrupt and discredit another coin way-over any normal level that could be excused as 'honest concern'.   And with his obvious vested interest as the Dev of a competitor and how he does this to all his larger competitors, you have to be pretty brave to claim he's innocently trying to help people.
91  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 02:23:28 AM
Oh so he posted specifically in a topic entitled "Dash is going nowhere"? 
 
Did he go to the official Dash topic and start unwantedly bashing Dash to its supporters?  No?
 
Because if not, I think you are being whiny and worried too much about the opinions of smooth and his activity. 
 
Perhaps you should pay the same attention to fixing the glaring (and unfixable) issues with the currencies you mention.  This topic is silly and needs to be moved to "Meta" at best, and removed entirely at worst.

No, Smooth posted about his latest theme of Dash "going nowhere" 28 times in the last 24 hrs on the Dash main thread, in tandem with the loudest evangelist of your coin, Icebreaker, who has been spamming the main Dash thread daily for weeks - it's becoming impossible to have any kind of conversation there due to their spam coming from people representing your community, take a look and scroll through a few pages:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=421615.msg12124438#msg12124438

Like you, Smooth also asked wanted censorship of my point, saying it was off-topic to point out the obvious motive of his attempts to crash all discussion of Dash on BCT.


Given that your post is off topic here on the Dash thread, I won't correct the many errors, but if you would like to post it someplace else I would be happy to. (Starting with, while I don't think people should invest in Dash except possibly as short term speculation, because I'm quite certain that its very ugly history dooms it longer term, i've told no one to invest in AEON or Monero and I generally advise against investing in speculative cryptocurrencies including all of these except with your "play money".)

After you delete your off-topic post I will be happy to delete this one as well.

It's on topic, because you are the dev of 2 Dash competitors, and you are coming here trying to say Dash is a scam on a daily basis.  I am pointing out how all your actions show a) you are totally unethical b) totally unprofessional c) positioning yourself nicely to be able to misuse your Monero position to pump your new coin and profit whilst screwing Monero investors.  The on-topic part is showing you have no reason to be here other than to try to play people to make more $, just like I think you are now playing AEON / Monero to make more $....Everything you are doing is what a scam dev looks like.

This is worth pointing out because it's obvious he is just on a mission to disrupt Dash, no dev will post 28 times a day on a competitor he thinks it's going nowhere, while his own thread is empty.

Then the other point is his involvement with AEON - why haven't Smooth's dual-interests now in Monero and Aeon been officially disclosed or where is this for both coins? (i.e. not in the OP...)  To what extent are the Monero community aware that Smooth is building-out Aeon with Monero and BBR features and with personal control of 2.5% of it's supply and whatever he has purchased, 2 very similar coins, with AEON volume on Bittrex today being $ 4,223 compared to Monero's $ 899? (using Bittrex because it's a reflection of the market demand when XMR & AEON are traded at the same exchange)

Without official disclosure of that, again it looks like he is concealing his conflicting interests.

Pegasus I get that you have your coin you support and Smooth has some involvement with it, but I am more concerned with Smooth personally than anything else, surely people can recognize his behaviour and see big problems - if nothing else, what about destroying the conversation on competitor coins main threads through repeating the same flash phrases to push people's buttons 100's of times over months, instead of an intelligent debate.

Regarding Smooth being a "dev" of your coin, looking at his github, less than 1% of commits are from him and nothing for the last 4 months - The idea of him earning the title "dev" there is pretty weak, is his main work is Aeon and he looks quite busy on that, his claim to being an Aeon dev looks a lot more valid.
92  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 13, 2015, 01:20:17 AM
Wow, smooth look at this!  
  
You earned your own dedicated troll account designed specifically to attack you.  
  
In case you are actually an impressionable drive-by lurker and are reading this topic, I urge you to realize the OP is a shill for Dash or Bytecoin, is butthurt figuratively and literally at Monero's open and honest development and is resorting to whining about his hurt feelings when one of the Monero developers calls out his favorite scams on being scams.  
  
Nothing to see here.  Your time would literally be better spent masturbating to .jpgs from 1995 that don't even fill up most of your screen anymore.  
  
Good luck and god speed.  
  
P.S. Can I get my own dedicated troll-attack account next?  I'm a huge narcissist so I'd love to read someone talking shit about me.

In the last 24 hours, Smooth has spammed 28 posts on the Dash thread about how he thinks "Dash is going nowhere".

On his main coin's thread in the same time, Smooth has posted nothing.  In fact, there are only 2 posts today.

So the first obvious question, why would a developer post on a competitors coins so many times, if he thinks it's going nowhere and bump their thread, leaving his own thread with only 2 posts for the whole day?  If the coin is going nowhere, what is the value in anyone pointing that out, let alone the core dev of a competitor?

Second question, as the dev of a competitor, he never mentions his massive conflict of interest because of his vested interest in the competitor coin he is representing, and the fact he is posting the same accusations more times than anyone else is posting about Dash.

I think these are fair questions and trying to sweep these concerns away doesn't really wash for anyone interested trying to keep crypto open, accountable, transparent and honest.

Saying I support Bytecoin is kindah ridiculous and I have a experience investigating scammers https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=824211.0.  If you don't agree, it would help to explain why, trying to undermine the credibility of a valid debate with feigned ridicule and hyperbole isn't going to work with me though, just so you are aware.
93  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX on: August 13, 2015, 01:00:04 AM
...

Thats awesome...I'm going to donate to dev donation wallet for that!  Wink  thats some funny shit right there!  LOL

Post a wallet address and I'll fire you off some DASH!  

Cheers BigR, i'm fine for that, but donating to genuine devs like here in Dash, is always a good idea Cheesy

EDIT: UdjinM6 for example, looks extremely busy Cheesy XsV4GHVKGTjQFvwB7c6mYsGV3Mxf7iser6
94  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [BCN] Bytecoin. Secure, private, untraceable since 2012 on: August 12, 2015, 10:40:57 PM
EDIT: It seems the closed source thing is a lie. https://github.com/amjuarez/bytecoin
Forking could be an option.

The GUI wallet is closed source.

The coin (without GUI wallet) has been forked like 30 times already, starting back in April last year when the community started to figure out what a joke this launch was.



 

Hi BCN community,

I am investigating Smooth as a developer who spends his entire day attacking his competitors, with 50 posts attacking 3 competitors today.  I am not here to assess the validity of any particular coin and I have never invested in BCN or know much about it apart from it was the original Cryptonote coin. 

Feel free to vote or provide any info on Smooth that might be relevant.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1151565.0
95  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: [BOUNTY] VNL - Vanillacoin - ZeroTime double-spend reward on: August 12, 2015, 10:38:40 PM

Hey blobafett2, did you actually look at VNL's copied code where they took Bitcoin's code, removed the attribution and copyright notices, slightly reformatted it, and claimed it was their own work?

Or is everything in altcoin land all about your personal vendetta against me, and you couldn't care less what scumbag behavior goes on, including blatantly ripping off Bitcoin?


I am not here to assess the validity of any particular coin.  I am investigating you, as a core dev who actively trolls all of his competitors, daily.
96  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: [BOUNTY] VNL - Vanillacoin - ZeroTime double-spend reward on: August 12, 2015, 10:29:44 PM
Is the Nick Szabo comment a joke, a guess, or for real?

He's been widely suspected as being Satoshi for years, its nothing new. I mean the similarities of Bitgold and BTC are uncanny.

Anyone could have read about bitgold and been inspired to create Bitcoin. It doesn't have to be Szabo.

I've been told by someone who seems to know something that Szabo isn't Satoshi. Take that for what it's worth (not much, as presented).

Personally I rate Szabo as a likely candidate to have been involved in some manner. Some recent developments make that more likely IMO. No I won't elaborate. Do your own research. (It does not involve "john-connor".)

Hi VNL community,

I did a tally of Smooth's attacks on his competitors today and notice him attacking VNL.

Attacking his competitors:

Dash thread: 26 posts (competing with the anon feature)
Vanilla threads: 20 posts (competing for Poloniex volume)
Bytecoin thread: 4 posts (competing "Anon coin")

Posting on his own threads:

AEON: 3 posts
Monero: 0 posts

Smooth's competitors attacking his coins on their threads:

Dash devs: 0 posts
Vanilla devs: 0 posts
Bytecoin devs: 0 posts

I made a thread to investigate Smooth after months of attacking his competitors and also attempting / succeeding to take over his competitors as developer,  please feel free to vote whether you think his actions are ethical / professional / not in conflict of interest.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1151565.0
97  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Is it true that Vanillacoin uses the BTC code? on: August 12, 2015, 10:27:10 PM
Copyright (c) 2009-2015 The Bitcoin Core developers

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


From Bitcoin^.
I'd call it copyright infringement.

It is copyright infringement.

It is also fraud to claim that you wrote all the code yourself when you did not.


Hi VNL community,

I did a tally of Smooth's attacks on his competitors today and notice him attacking VNL.

Attacking his competitors:

Dash thread: 26 posts (competing with the anon feature)
Vanilla threads: 20 posts (competing for Poloniex volume)
Bytecoin thread: 4 posts (competing "Anon coin")

Posting on his own threads:

AEON: 3 posts
Monero: 0 posts

Smooth's competitors attacking his coins on their threads:

Dash devs: 0 posts
Vanilla devs: 0 posts
Bytecoin devs: 0 posts

I made a thread to investigate Smooth after months of attacking his competitors and also attempting / succeeding to take over his competitors as developer,  please feel free to vote whether you think his actions are ethical / professional / not in conflict of interest.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1151565.0

98  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / XMR/AEON Developer Smooth Investigation on: August 12, 2015, 10:13:40 PM
This is the start of a thread where I will collate various research to enable us to document / investigate on the prolific trolling, attacking, and apparent insider dealing activities of the Monero/Aeon core dev known as Smooth (real identity unknown).

UPDATE 14th Aug 2015:
--------------------------------------------
In an aparent 'revenge attack' for my making a thread to look into Smooth's prolific attacks on his competitors and questions about potential conflict of interest in him building up a small competitor (Aeon) to his main coin (xmr), Smooth has now ramped up his attacks on Dash and has committed to leaving a 'warning' message on the main Dash thread each day, until the 'media' agreed to his demands:

The following message was drafted by generalizethis and submitted for open review and modification by Dash community member blockafett/blobafett2, or others, who did not offer any proposal for changes, and is therefore is considered a collaboratively-constructed fair disclosure statement.

public service announcement

Dash (formerly xcoin and darkcoin) had a significant fastmine over the first 48 hours of its existence (~2 million coins). These facts should not be glossed over by those seeking a fairly launched coin, so until the dash media reflects these facts, this warning will be posted every 24 hours on the BCT dash thread. This warning will not be posted when the media reflects these facts. For those seeking more information Monero Developer Smooth has created a thread with the pertinent facts: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=999886.0

It's also entirely false that I was involved in drafting that message (lol) and I never received any content for 'open review and modification'.

My response on the Dash thread:

Smooth/Icebreaker's goal is obviously to just keep repeating the same scam accusations in the hope some of it will stick which they have been trying for months now.  They are always taking about Dash (instead of Monero / Aeon) and as investors in a competitor their aspiration is to raise their valuation to 'be like Dash' by trying to turn the conversation here to the only issue they thought they could make a big deal out of, and make sure everyone keeps talking about that.

The fact that the Dash community and market came to a consensus on this 18 months ago and the team have been delivering market-leading features consistently since in a totally professional and ethical manner doesn't seem to matter to them and they obviously have no respect for the Dash community.

But it hasn't worked and Dash is still a leading top 5 alt with a strong community and a massive game-changing release around the corner, so now they are ramping it up by committing to post (lol) daily 'warning' messages here for users and hold the community hostage until the 'media' starts to 'accept' their financially-biased opinions, in other words, they are going full-tard.

I am documenting Smooth's attack activities (for all the competitors not just Dash) on this thread along with his latest insider-dealings between AEON/XMR: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1151565
-------------------------------------------

About this investigation thread:

The reason for me to care to start this today was Smooth's current spamming of the Dash thread (with 28 posts of the same repeated scam accusation just in one day), essentially destroying the existing conversation there about the usual Dash topics / coming V12 release etc.

I have observed Smooth over many months and it is my opinion that he is in total conflict of interest as well as probably the most unprofessional and unethical dev I have seen on BCT with going around attacking his competitors without disclosing his position to benefit financially from that, also manipulating different cryptonote projects to position himself to profit such as his recent takeover of AEON, amongst other sketchy activities, and i am creating this thread as a starting point to see what information can be put together to investigate this person.

To start off, here is an example of the kind of unethical behaviour Smooth is doing - 50 posts just today attacking his competition and only 3 posts on the coins he is developing himself, without once admitting his absolute conflict of interest, as the core dev of a direct competitor:

Example Day of forum attacks by Smooth (today, 12th Aug 2015)

Attacking his competitors:

Dash thread: 28 posts (competing with the anon feature)
Vanilla threads: 20 posts (competing for Poloniex volume)
Bytecoin thread: 4 posts (competing "Anon coin")

Posting on his own threads:

AEON: 3 posts
Monero: 0 posts

Smooth's competitors attacking his coins on any threads:

Dash devs: 0 posts
Vanilla devs: 0 posts
Bytecoin devs: 0 posts

And here is from when Smooth was spamming the Dash thread today and my reply with the current info I see problems with with what Smooth is doing that has a big conflict of interest (apart from trolling his competitors which obviously looks like he is trying to remove investors to own schemes)

The funny thing is, Smooth the Monero core-dev has now personally taken over Aeon development, a tiny-marketcap competitor to Monero with the same the Bytecoin features / codebase, and has acquired at least 2.5% of the supply, has done 2 releases in the last month, is working on a GUI, his OP is advertising AEON as "the next generation of anonymous cryptocurrency" with no mention of his Monero involvement, and AEON market cap is gaining fast with 4x the volume of Monero on Bittrex[/url] - while Monero hasn't released anything for 9 months.  Oh, and he spends the other half of his day providing unbiased "investment advice" to sell Dash and buy Monero (and now AEON Cheesy)

From an ethical perspective, here is a dev of one coin, taking over a smaller competitor and using his position from Monero to pump the price of AEON which he owns a huge stake in (as well as try to crash the threads of his larger competitors to disrupt their functioning and slander them for being scams).  

So what happens as AEON market cap grows closer to Moneros, and investors realize the Monero dev is doing more work on AEON than Monero, and they have the same features or AEON starts to get ahead?  And nothing is being mentioned on the Monero thread or the AEON OP, and the Monero community seems happy with this!!!  Huh

Then a later reply I made to Smooth again on the Dash thread:

...

...What I'm "up to" is I don't like unethical conduct...If this disgrace of a coin from the start didn't give me so much to criticize, I wouldn't be here criticizing it....

Unethical conduct FYI:

1. Spamming your competitors threads and repeating 1000 of times the same accusations of fraud taking place for months, without a single disclosure that with your Monero holdings, you stand to gain financially if people follow your investment advice and sell your competitors (and by implication buy your coin as the only alternative)

2. Claiming to be a developer of Monero when you are doing zero Monero development and instead using that title as a backdrop for the dozens of posts per day you are making to attack and bully your competition

3. Taking over development and acquiring a large stake in a smaller competitor (AEON) so you have investment in 2 competing interests of which you are centrally involved in both, in total conflict of interest

4. Disclosing nothing to your Monero community about your new investment and work in AEON meaning that they don't even have the opportunity to divest.  I guess that news comes later once the AEON market cap is a lot higher.

5. Not mentioning anywhere in the Aeon OP that you are a Monero dev with a potential conflict of interest in controlling 2 competing investments, zero full disclosure to investors of your real interests.

...ad nauseam

List of Smooth's development as a 'Core developer' of Monero since the project started:

https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits?author=iamsmooth

Nov 9, 2014 Change 6 lines of codes, temporary bug fix
Nov 11, 2014 Commented out 2 lines of code
March 5, 2015 4 lines to change a variable and add IF statement
March 5, 2015 Added 4 lines of code, in the form of a comment
March 6, 2015 Added one line of code (a checkpoint)
March 10, 2015 Changing a default value and an IF statement, 6 lines of code
Apr 5, 2015 4 lines of code and a comment
Apr 5, 2015 2 lines of code to handle a rounding
Apr 14, 2015 Remove a define, 1 line changed

There is a lot more info about Smooth's activities I will post later, this is just to start the discussion.

Full disclosure: I am (mainly) a Dash investor, I also used to have the account BlockaFett which I burned because it was taking up too much of my time arguing with Smooth posting over 1000 posts on various Dash threads over 5 months so I am not bothered to argue with him about the validity of any particular coin - because it's pointless, the market doesn't care, and investors on the whole decide on value, not guys arguing on a forum.  But I am back briefly because again he is posting 25 times today to crash the Dash thread accusing it of being a "scam" without posting once on his own thread, and denying conflict of interest - so here I am.  

Note to Monero community: I am not here to bash/judge Monero in any way, if I had my way, you would have kicked Smooth out long ago, calling him a Monero dev is a wild claim anyway because if you check his Github - he didn't do anything for Monero compared to the other devs: https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits?author=iamsmooth.  And his AEON play is frankly a disgrace to anyone in Monero if he's doing what I think he's doing, and if I am right then it helps Monero to make sure he doesn't play that off using AEON as I suspect he will.

If you have any info on Smooth being unethical / unprofessional / insider dealing / market manipulation / conflict of interest, PM me or post here.  I have a truck load that I never could be bothered to collate but I will do that here some time if people want me to.  I won't spend a lot of time on this for now, my only interest here is to expose someone I sincerely believe is a scammer who if goes unchecked, with his 50 posts a day attacking any coin with investors he thinks he can bate to his schemes, BCT will just descend to a giant cesspit.

99  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX on: August 12, 2015, 08:28:30 PM
maybe someone should contact smooth's forum(s) and have them gather some tips for a taxi back,
he looks to be too high of himself to be doing any riding of his own..
 


Smooth has posted 18 times on the Dash thread today alone. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=13813;sa=showPosts

...Whilst the Monero thread has only 1 post today, and that was from another user and about DogeCoinDark: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg12124988#msg12124988

Monero dev is posting on the dash thread 18 times in one day, about how Dash "is going nowhere", while his own thread is practically dead (one of them anyway).

I guess this shows that with characters like Smooth, they go where the money is.
100  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][DASH] Dash | First Anonymous Coin | Inventor of X11, DGW, Darksend and InstantX on: August 12, 2015, 08:20:37 PM
I can understand a lot of people invested time, efforts and money in other currencies (monero, bytecoin, litecoin, etc.) and they are so pissed of of Dash succeed. It happens all the time.

Do you remember when Monero rised from 0.5 to 0.6$ a week ago and they all went crazy of happyness? You should read the "speculation thread" of Monero to understand the behaviour of this community. It is really funny and you will understand what they are doing here.

Ah, the famous "they hate us for our success" defense!

Except, of course, that Dash isn't really going anywhere. Since February the price has been rangebound (pretty much the same as Monero FWIW). It is up from the lows late last year, but below the peaks of late last year, again pretty much the same as Monero, and a bunch of other coins (at least the ones that haven't completely died).

This fantasy that someone Dash is "taking off" is just that. It's stuck.


This game is not about "the price" it's about development for now. You know that and I know that. Do you see people here worried about our last drop? I think we all see the big picture here.

For some fun you have your "TrueCryptonaire" in your speculation drama thread Cheesy

For more info about what really matters in Dash please check:

https://dashtalk.org/forums/testing.53
https://dashtalk.org/forums/official-announcements.54

Well honestly good luck with the new release.

I do know that vertoe said that (paraphrasing) development was not really the focus of Dash, it was more about golden donkeys. He was inside, not me (and not you, right?), so I'm going to accept his judgement on that.

Nevertheless, if it advances the state of crypto that benefits all of us. I'm certainly open to good ideas from wherever they come.



^ any excuse for Smooth to post here, pretending to talk about something else, then some payload with one of maybe 6 quotes why investors should leave Dash he has posted literally 1000s of times, and by implication push investors to buy the alternatives Smooth is developing.  

Smooth, maybe it's time we move to the alt section, I think we should do a proper investigation into you full activities and web of non-disclosure of your real interests in all your attacks / "development" / investment advice you are giving 24/7?  
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