Good question. Maybe a page showing various leaderboards such as most upvoted posters, categories, etc. or something would be interesting. For now you just have to find them by finding an interesting post and then clicking on the poster's name.

Actually TPTB already gave his idea which was to do an actual startup software company for JAMBOX with transparent founder and key developer identities on linkedin, etc., use legal crowdfunding and legal, qualified investors (there are some of those even here in crypto land you know?)

Good idea, bad idea, I don't know, but it was definitely an idea.

I don't see anything wrong with contract work even for an ICO though, but it's easy for that to be a bit of a sham. A contract worker should be paid to do specific work as a truly independent contractor. As long as that is reality of the relationship and not a wink-wink relationship, I see nothing wrong with it. The guy needs money, I wouldn't shit on his ability to work for a living.

That said, I agree with something HONCHO posted earlier which is that TPTB should really leave crypto (as a profession) and get a job doing the kind of software work he can be very well paid for and doesn't violate any laws (and then, if he wants, like many of us, pursue crypto as a hobby). It's his call though, following his passion even though it is hard to make money in crypto without some sort of scamming or association with scamming is understandable.

Makes sense. john-connor = risto.

Exactly. 60k coins way back when is not directly comparable with 500k coins much later. As I've pointed out before during the "let's ban digging" discussion, diggers are already being diluted by letting their CLAMs stay undug for so long, and it gets worse and worse for them as time goes on.

Now if someone had dug 500k during (or immediately after) the lottery era, then indeed 60k would have been worth a lot less in future staking, but that isn't what happened.

Um, we haven't even seen or heard from AP in months here I don't think. How you think we have any say of what or where he posts is beyond me.

EDIT: My mistake, he posted one pic here a few days ago, but before that it has been over a month. I have no idea what he's been busy with.

The level of security is unknowable. You can't measure it in hashes or whatever, as long as miners are able to collude, and that's facilitated by having high miner concentration. All of which is somewhat unknowable to an extent, but doesn't look great.

That's not really so clear. Getting coins earlier under PoS is worth more than getting the same number of coins later, because of compounded staking. Someone who exploited the lottery gaining hypothetically 30% of the coin supply then in existence and then continuously staked would have a lot of coins now. I have no idea whether either happened.

Because neither the core developers nor, I think, most of the rest of us in the ecosystem want to rely on a (bus factor one, BTW) Vitalik to change PoW immediately.

That said, choosing among the least bad options is not always easy. I agree with the comments about ASIC mining being bad, but I'm not sure what is least bad.

To provide a bit of background, shen and moneromooo (and I think hyc) have been collaborating on getting shen's ringct cryptography library merged with the Monero wallet and daemon. It's something warptangent was preparing to work on previously, so there had to be a bit of a transition. That has now started to bear fruit in the form of commits.

You haven't answered how blocking a port is a train wreck. Your node stops working so you either change the port setting or download an update. Did port blocking kill Bittorrent?

...but with the Blockchain...and decentralized expense reports.

Yes, you are right there is a lot of noise that is best ignored.

That's true of short term price swings too (unless you are or are trying to be a highly-skilled trader competing with other traders).

No such link has been provided, consider him debunked.

Read more carefully. I don't have a cabal, and you can't prove otherwise, so again you are making the same baseless claims i.e. smear tactic.

I agree, but the average Joe is not using crypto today, and won't for some time to come. This seems like a simple change that any coin can make if and when needed. If I recall correctly, Bittorrent used to use a fixed port and when that port started getting blocked, clients changed to a random port. Port blocking didn't kill Bittorrent, so claiming that Vcash is the only coin that ISPs can't kill by blocking a port seems like a bit of hype to me.

No, only the bad actors I happen to notice.


I'm not surprised at all, just pointing out that you and the creator of this thread have no evidence. When you have no evidence and make things up, that is not "pushing back and calling you out" it is a smear tactic (again TPTB as well as me in this case).

It would be simple to refute this by providing some evidence that I bribed TPTB to keep quiet.

Ceti, it is scumbags like you that create threads like this claiming that I bribed TPTB to keep quiet when I claim that I didn't, TPTB claims that I didn't, and the original poster has no evidence all contradicting either of us. It is nothing but a made up smear tactic, that that is quite pathetic.

So yes, someone has something to hide here, but it isn't us, it is the people creating threads like this, or like yours, that make a lot of bogus claims to attack people (such as the nonexistent "Monero marketing team") with no evidence.

False. Nothing was ever "reported" by him to us, and I haven't see anything anywhere from him about Monero bugs until after it was already public.

He didn't "save Monero." The issue with v2 blocks was discovered when it happened by moneromooo or luigi (I don't remember which) and we worked together along with fluffypony to deploy a fix. He's claiming credit for something he had nothing to do with.

You can't slander someone when your statements are correct, well documented, and relevant to their public actions. Evidence supporting my statements about him ripping off the Bitcoin code and falsely claiming credit for writing it himself are here (mostly quoting uninvolved third parties). The claim of slander is ridiculous.

If you can find some statement of mine that is incorrect let me know and I'll correct it.

Speculation thread != Monero. If you want to criticize me for my actions on the speculation thread, whether or not I agree with you, that is legitimate. If you want to criticize me for the actions of others, that is not legitimate.

Not everyone no, but some people are pieces of shit, and when they are I call them out and reference the evidence documenting it.

If you want a nice fun time gambling on nonsense, with no one being challenged (other than maybe some friendly ribbing) when they fuck up or held accountable for their own actions, stick with your Friday night poker game or office betting pool.

Good reply overall except for that part. I'm not "managing" any community, I'm part of one (actually many, some overlapping). I have no say over what people do, nor who supports Monero and what they say or do about it. People are responsible for their own actions.