John Connor is the one with exploits, not me.
He says, as did you in 2014 when you were either making it up or confused by someone's noob math mistake.
But can you answer why Reptile King of Monero didn't have enough faith in you to risk 500 BTC
This was explained to you two years ago. Betting 500 XMR or why he openly admitted that exploits existed or why did he pay Anonymint if it was all bullshit.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he doesn't know much about the technology (nor would he disagree with that statement BTW)? Maybe he couldn't afford the risk even if he considered it a good bet. I really have no idea, nor do I care. You seem to labor under the misconception that he started the coin (he didn't; his initial interest came some time after launch) or that he bankrolled development (he didn't, although he contributed some money as did many others including myself), or that he is in charge (he's not even a part of the team who are custodians of the project, much less in charge of it).
But, really, you would have to ask him.
The payment to Anonymint was made by rpietila at my recommendation based on the fact that 'Mint found
some interesting theoretical (which they remain BTW) weaknesses in the privacy of the coin which satisfied the conditions of the bounty agreement, but did not coincide at all with the sort of exploits you claimed. And frankly both rpietila and I (as well as jl777) probably were less strict in considering whether the bounty had been satisfied given what we understood about 'Mint's financial situation. Sending him a few BTC for even looking at the problem seemed the least we can do. For what it is worth, crypto-zoidberg (dev of BBR) did not agree that 'Mint found anything significant and didn't pay. I can't criticize his decision as it was indeed a judgement call.
Are you still that hurt and in denial that Reptile didn't have faith in you?
See above.
But you might not want to make John Connor angry because you might be wrong yet again.
John-connor is a lying scammer who forked Bitcoin, obfuscated the code through a refactoring tool, falsely held it out (and to my knowledge still holds it out) as being written entirely from scratch. He's a meaningless worm, and I don't care what he says or whether is is angry.
If, against all appearances of him being yet another FUDseter in addition to being a lying scammer, he actually has Monero exploits, so be it. If he uses them, the bugs will probably get fixed, and if they can't be fixed then Monero doesn't deserve to survive anyway. Either way, c'est la vie.
