AnonyMint Leaves the Altcoin Discussions

[somacoin]

I, AnonyMint, am posting in this forum for the final time. I've decided to embolded Theymos's (and his legion's) confidence in his authority over the crypto-currency community-at-large.

I'll try to minimize my words, because I know what most of us seek here is some combination of wealth and/or ideological decentralization of authority. For most probably the former, so talk is cheap.


When I first arrived on this scene in 2013, I wrote an essay Bitcoin : The Digital Kill Switch, which articulated my view that Bitcoin would morph over time into a 666 beast of centralized control. And by now I have been proven correct despite all the naysayers who ridiculed me along the way.

Along this journey since March 2013, I became interested in how we might improve crypto-currency to achieve the aims of both wealth generation and decentralization; and preventing the loss of decentralized privacy that we had historically with cash.

During that journey I discovered that every attempt I made to introduce my own creativity and effort was always attacked by some vested interest ranging from proof-of-work vested interests attacking any one who wants to fund research and development via token issuance, to on the other side the vested interests of ICOs and premines who ridicule every competing issuance.

I started off believing that anyone should be free to experiment with combinations of the distribution methods so as to fund the R&D and also to provide the wide distribution necessary for success of a crypto-currency. I was attacked for this Libertarian (minanarchist) stance by the Bitcoin and Monero communities and allowed myself to become convinced by the proof-of-work vested interests that if we could stomp out the ICOs and premines then we could get more of the ecosystems' funding moving towards R&D of merit. This was also easy to rationalize because of the risk of SEC enforcement action against any U.S. citizen issuing securities. I had to choose a side, because both sides are attacking. Throughout my career I always preferred win-win choices, but these don't exist in the political sprectrum of crypto-currency. Yet we observe nearly all the R&D funding in the ecosystem is being locked up by vested interests which are only making the problems of crypto-currency worse, e.g. Blockstream, Ethereum, DAO, etc..

This stifling situation threatens to plunge the original goals of crypto-currency into a clusterfucking of centralized control and wealth expropriation.

Well I finally woke up from my naivete. I have decided that there is nothing that words or political reputation can do to solve this delimma.

So without further waste of words, I wish you all farewell.


P.S. HONCHO is not AnonyMint. The mods have banned an innocent person and HONCHO can prove it, but that is neither here nor there relevant any more.

[From Above]

Damn, Shelᖚy, don t leave. Without you it s not even half the fun

~CfA~

[r0ach]

I give him 48 hours before he starts posting again.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

No disrespect meant, but I don't know who this guy is.  Can someone drop that knowledge briefly?   Also where did he originally post this?

And he's not the first one to quit like this and he makes a few good points and I don't blame him for leaving.

[smooth]

No disrespect meant, but I don't know who this guy is.  Can someone drop that knowledge briefly?   Also where did he originally post this?

And he's not the first one to quit like this and he makes a few good points and I don't blame him for leaving.

If you click the quoted post it goes to his netcash/vibes thread where he probably originally posted it, but it got deleted by forum mods.

As far is who he is, a smart but troubled guy who has been posting here prolifically for the past 3 years or so. You can find his past posts under AnonyMint, TPTB_need_war, and a few others.

[traumschiff]

I give him 48 hours before he starts posting again.

I fear this as well, but I hope this time he won't. My eyes are bleeding from all his vaporware advertising from the past year in every thread he took part in. It will never happen.

[YarkoL]

Any explanation why he's been banned, and why is it
any different this time?

[GetVisaCoin]

Any explanation why he's been banned, and why is it
any different this time?

I want to know too, why ban the guy

[From Above]

Any explanation why he's been banned, and why is it
any different this time?

I want to know too, why ban the guy

It doesn t make any sense.  He is one of the best assets to this forums.

I think it s because he might have attacked Theymos- but I don t have any info on that.

~CfA~

[stoat]

He'll be back.  He cant stay away the sad old twat

[stoat]

He'll be back.  He cant stay away the sad old twat

He's currently logged in with the sockpuppet1 account and reading here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=837451

I personally hope he won't go. I really like his posts, basically everything about it. It's definitely hot material to read. He's a refreshing oasis in a sea of stupidity!

Not really he just gets paid to bash everyhing that isnt monero.  Pretty pathetic really.

[Sark]

Please don't leave, I really could use an explanation for the Nash Equilibrium

[generalizethis]

He'll be back.  He cant stay away the sad old twat

He's currently logged in with the sockpuppet1 account and reading here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=837451

I personally hope he won't go. I really like his posts, basically everything about it. It's definitely hot material to read. He's a refreshing oasis in a sea of stupidity!

Not really he just gets paid to bash everyhing that isnt monero.  Pretty pathetic really.

TPTB_need_war pointed out a series of Monero's issues many times or do I hallucinate?

Please don't forget that he was allegedly bribed by smooth with 2.5 BTC earlier. That is pretty sad.

No, during the BCX incident, Anonymint/TPTB_need_war thought he found BCX's planned exploit and was supposed to get a bounty for that--that that turned out be something else, so smooth paid it out of his own pocket because he though it was the right thing to do.

If we can create spellcheck, can we create readcheck?

Doesn't come unexpected to be honest but still quite a SHOCKER

I like smooth. He has been very fair with me and helped me also. He even paid/donated  a few BTC one time to me.

´smooth´ is the anonymous front face and imperialist of the controversial Monero Club.

´AnonyMint/TPTB_need_war´ is an independent Cryptopioneer who is on the forefront of crypto auditing.


Evidently, smooth has deliberately bribed AnonyMint/TPTB_need_war in order to silence him on Monero's severe flaws.

LOL no. We offered him a bounty for identifying weaknesses in Monero in 2014*, which I paid him and he has written about on the forum many times since. Nothing has been kept secret.

Nice FUD though.

* This was in connection with the alleged coin-stealing vulnerability in the crypto BCX claimed to have, and which TPTB claimed to have found, but which turned out to be nonexistant FUD. What TPTB found had nothing to do with BCX but was still a valid contribution so I paid him anyway.

Yes smooth paid me out of his own pocket. I thought I had an agreement with Monero but I guess there isn't really any official "Monero" so it wasn't quite clear who would judge if I deserved any bounty. It was a mess.

And smooth out of the kindness of his own heart, paid me afair 2.5 BTC.

The BCX incident is difficult to explain. I thought I was helping and as smooth says I did find one insight, but in another way I unwittingly perhaps helped BCX short Monero or whatever he did. I am not really even clear what happened.

Any way smooth never bribed me. Smooth knows he doesn't own me. Lol. I flip him middle finger in PMs sometimes (rarely and almost always about the community he is managing). Seriously though, smooth is an ethical person.

Your issue with smooth is not his ethics. The issue is smooth believes in community very much. I just want to point out to smooth that a community of Linux developers is not the same animal as a community of gamblers who are not communing about coding.

Smooth and I would be happy campers in a forum of like-minded programmers talking tech shop.

My guess is Smooth seems to believe in enforcing ethics and creating a community for Monero. I think this is where the boundaries get blurred. It is not that smooth is incorrect in his logic. But there are different perspectives and feelings in play. And different vested interests and all valid from their own right. I think perhaps we just need to admit the altcoin arena is a Wild West that doesnt want a Sheriff.

Any way, he is free to do it his way. Smooth has very little influence over me. He has influence over me in terms of explaining realities in the altcoin scene that I wasn't focused on. But I also work through the logic on my own and eventually perhaps come to a different perspective over time.

[stoat]

So smooth paid tptb 2.5 btc and now they are best buds and monero only has "some issues".


Cool, let's move on there's clearly nothing dodgy going on here.

[YarkoL]

So smooth paid tptb 2.5 btc and now they are best buds and monero only has "some issues".

They might be buddies, but that does not mean
Anonymint has ever ceased pointing out problems with Monero.
For example he was quite merciless on the issue of blocksize adjustment.

Cool, let's move on there's clearly nothing dodgy going on here.

Yes let's, except for those who are suffering from
shortage of FUD

[r0ach]

Anonymint has called Smooth a friend one day and idiot the next day (or something along those lines), so it's more like a 50/50 split between pro and negative bias for Monero.  Why does every thread have a Monero conspiracy in it?  All the noobs think Smooth controls the altcoin markets HAHA.

[stoat]

Anonymint has called Smooth a friend one day and idiot the next day (or something along those lines), so it's more like a 50/50 split between pro and negative bias for Monero.  Why does every thread have a Monero conspiracy in it?  All the noobs think Smooth controls the altcoin markets HAHA.

Thats called throwing the occasional red herring in to throw people off the scent.

Tptb and monero in general are bent as a 9 bob note

[Wosterlee]

This forum deteriorates by the day. Eth shills, Monero shills, random stupid kids.

At least Anynomint showed some critical thinking, even though his replies were sometimes over-explanatory and far fetched.

He has a fresh mind, I will miss him.

[prettybuds]

This forum deteriorates by the day. Eth shills, Monero shills, random stupid kids.

At least Anynomint showed some critical thinking, even though his replies were sometimes over-explanatory and far fetched.

He has a fresh mind, I will miss him.

I agree. Damn this sucks. Why can't smooth, for instance, leave? That would actually make the forum better. Less hatred and constant attacking.

SHELBY don't go. We're lost here without some constructive thinking.

[Thenoticer]

Why is this post ban worthy? Why delete it? Can one of the mods please explain their reasoning?

I, AnonyMint, am posting in this forum for the final time. I've decided to embolded Theymos's (and his legion's) confidence in his authority over the crypto-currency community-at-large.

I'll try to minimize my words, because I know what most of us seek here is some combination of wealth and/or ideological decentralization of authority. For most probably the former, so talk is cheap.


When I first arrived on this scene in 2013, I wrote an essay Bitcoin : The Digital Kill Switch, which articulated my view that Bitcoin would morph over time into a 666 beast of centralized control. And by now I have been proven correct despite all the naysayers who ridiculed me along the way.

Along this journey since March 2013, I became interested in how we might improve crypto-currency to achieve the aims of both wealth generation and decentralization; and preventing the loss of decentralized privacy that we had historically with cash.

During that journey I discovered that every attempt I made to introduce my own creativity and effort was always attacked by some vested interest ranging from proof-of-work vested interests attacking any one who wants to fund research and development via token issuance, to on the other side the vested interests of ICOs and premines who ridicule every competing issuance.

I started off believing that anyone should be free to experiment with combinations of the distribution methods so as to fund the R&D and also to provide the wide distribution necessary for success of a crypto-currency. I was attacked for this Libertarian (minanarchist) stance by the Bitcoin and Monero communities and allowed myself to become convinced by the proof-of-work vested interests that if we could stomp out the ICOs and premines then we could get more of the ecosystems' funding moving towards R&D of merit. This was also easy to rationalize because of the risk of SEC enforcement action against any U.S. citizen issuing securities. I had to choose a side, because both sides are attacking. Throughout my career I always preferred win-win choices, but these don't exist in the political sprectrum of crypto-currency. Yet we observe nearly all the R&D funding in the ecosystem is being locked up by vested interests which are only making the problems of crypto-currency worse, e.g. Blockstream, Ethereum, DAO, etc..

This stifling situation threatens to plunge the original goals of crypto-currency into a clusterfucking of centralized control and wealth expropriation.

Well I finally woke up from my naivete. I have decided that there is nothing that words or political reputation can do to solve this delimma.

So without further waste of words, I wish you all farewell.


P.S. HONCHO is not AnonyMint. The mods have banned an innocent person and HONCHO can prove it, but that is neither here nor there relevant any more.