just before release literally about 1 day I was given final source for Dirac which at that time it was horribly broken so quickly fixed all the errors regen merkle(all nighter) and it was on the pools for release but Bryce(dev) did not run nodes or do any work he just caused issues and drama, me and other of devs talked about it and decided not to carry/maintain that coin and it was dropped ~4-5 months after release
I think it did avoid more issues as he was trying to setup some type of err scheme and saying it was key part of that plan which sounded much like a P&D, he does still claim to be the dev so left no room for a community take over it will
not be rejoining my pools and I personally will not work with it ever again!
all my work that was done was free including running nodes I never asked or expected any type of payment from Bryce
but my clauses for any coin joining the merge are simple
1. work together no infighting
2. no scam/schemes
3. contribute to the network(s)
what I got from it was stress, more costs, insults, and accusations that I was not telling the truth when I blew the whistle on what he was doing behind the scenes
you can still setup your own private merge mine pool and mine whatever you want see
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