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:
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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:


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:

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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)


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


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.

The guy is trolling threads constantly while he cloned bytecoin and tries to sell it as innovation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 you 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.

smooth surely unethical and unprofessional that he trolling competitors thread instead of developing his own coin, worse is that his own coin being neglected as he invest in other coin. i wonder how monero holder can accept this

EDIT : Im selling my monero coin now, at least i still got profit. seeing this i fear monero will reach its lowest price.