You've yet to demonstrate a single piece of evidence that it wasn't a mistake. Besides, if Evan were a scammer he would have cashed out last May rather than quit his job and commit full-time to Dash, developing innovation after innovation.
The "instamine" couldn't have happened without massive amounts of interest from the mining community and existing code in the litecoin code base that limited the difficultly increases. Your assertion that this whole thing is a scam and not simply a mistake requires that:
- Evan knew about the flaw buried in the Litecoin codebase and knew he could exploit it by throwing massive amounts of hash at it
- Evan had an enormous GPU mining farm, and GPU mining software for X11 ready to go even though he had only created X11 the weekend before (verifiable by Github)
- No one else on planet earth mined the coin the first 24 hours (which is clearly false given the popularity of the thread and comments from known miners)
- Evan suddenly had a change of heart and within 48 hours, while working a full-time job, had coded a fix and pushed it out to the community
- After successfully scamming the community and instamining the coin, he failed to cash out all the coin he had accumulated, preferring instead to hold the coin until others discovered what had happened (e.g., the volume of coin that had been created) since SURELY it would be worth more then
- And finally, decided instead to quit his job, devote his life to Dash, and pump out innovation after innovation to keep the "scam" going
- And, oops, there's actual innovation going on here, so technically it's no longer a scam! Damn you Evan!!!
The assertion that it was a mistake requires that:
- Evan didn't know that the Litecoin code, which he'd just started working with, limited the difficulty adjustment too much
- Evan pushed out a fix as quickly as he could
- Evan went on to creating practical and innovative solutions to bitcoin's major flaws
1) The simpler explanation is almost always the right one
2) I don't know at what point your assertion becomes unplausible - probably after the second bullet - but it becomes downright laughable by the fourth or fifth
3) It doesn't even matter at this point... even IF it started out as a scam (which it clearly didn't), it is now an innovative cryptocurrency with more innovation and ambitious roadmap as any coin out there, it has a massive and engaged community, it has self-governance that will outlive Evan, it has an entire TEAM of salaried programmers (funded by the blockchain... mind blown!)... need I go on?
You are the laughing stock of this thread, and in the process you are shunning your LARGEST POTENTIAL INVESTOR BASE... other altcoiners interested in investing in anonymity technology. Had you and your developers come here with the attitude of "hey, how can we work together to bring awareness to the anonymity issue?" or treated us as colleagues or even treated us with a modicum of respect, I for one would probably be an investor in Monero, too (even though I'd have to learn to use your coin which 1.5 years in still doesn't have a promised wallet). But you and the developers continue to demonstrate that you are petty, childish, impish, disrespectful douche bags that spend more time on the Dash thread trolling than on programming your own coin. An OSX wallet would do more for your coin's value than all the trolling in the world here.
