Well I have to say that you choosing not to mine is not evidence of any launch problems whatsoever. Furthermore the lack of any concentration of mining output at the beginning means you could really have done this over any time period of a few months and still done pretty well (as noted earlier about mining profitability in those days).

In fact, if you were familiar with Cryptonote, you could have been mining Bytecoin, which was reasonably easy to do as well. There was no real time pressure to mess with that, you could have set it up at your leisure and been ready to mine (bit)Monero when it launched later. That's where most of the early Monero miners came from, I think. Certainly true in my case.


Certainly true, but I will say that other methods of launch and distribution are fraught with perils. While no launch or mining system is ever perfect, at least we have some idea how to do a decent (mining) launch now. The main improvement I would make now if launching a new coin is slow start (ramp up mining rewards from a very low base at launch to their normal level over over some period of months to perhaps 1-2 years).

I've already documented that the claim of daily anything is incorrect. I criticize fraudulent, unethical, technically-unsound, etc. projects when I see them and when it is relevant on the thread as particular false claims may appear (for example, when someone on the Dash thread claims that the community voted not to relaunch, which as far as I can tell is untrue, and is certainly undocumented).

However, as a result of this thread we have now agreed that posting a daily disclaimer on the Dash thread is a good safety measure. I'm not promising that I will always remember to do it personally. I apologize in advance for any new investors suckers who are harmed by me being too busy or forgetful, but I can't do it all myself.

I don't need an invitation, nor do I care one whit if I get one or not. Threads on an open forum are not by invitation. If you want to control the message and limit criticism, go elsewhere.

That is exactly why coins having moderated ANN threads or all or most conversation on promoter-controlled platforms is such a red flag. To its credit at least Dash has not adopted the former bad practice.

You do know that this is hurting you and your coins if you keep doing this? It's freedom of speech, but usually there's some self moderation to be considered.

I just counted a total of 29 posts from me on the Dash thread in the last four (not two) days. My count might be off by a few but not off by 21, and the actual two-day count is lower (I didn't count it). Stop rage-lying.

Prior to that there were no posts for a couple of days, then 2 posts there, one about an exchange with a London address using a mail forwarder and being located elsewhere and one about Poloniex implementing KYC, and then no posts for several days before that, and documented periods in the recent past with no posts whatsoever for several weeks.

You're off the rails.

12th of August it was 28 posts, i've seen lots from you since then.  If you thought I was lying, you had ample opportunity since then to prove me wrong.

It is a free market. He can do that if he wants.

The only valid (but subjective) complaint is whether people feel he is harping too much on others' rights to do various forms of not entirely transparent leverage or even (in his opinion are) half-arsed technologies.

I do agree with smooth's implied point that there are gradations of transparency. And his dealings seem to be on the more transparent side than for example those who actually lie about the emission curve. But I also think others have a point about launch is never 100% transparent and harping on other communities is for example myopic of the fact that DarkCoin helped to build the demand for anonymity which is why Monero has the market cap it does.

All of us stand on the shoulders of other events, even those which were "scammy".

I just my entire life hated wasting time on non-productive shit like fighting over who threw sand first. Better to move on. Even with my ex and losing my eye to some thugs, I just moved on. Even the husband who murdered my sister and got away without jail time and even called my mother on her birthday to tell her he remarried, both my mom and I moved on (although my mother and motherly instinct has suffered severe depression and compulsive disorder due to this loss).

Life is a box of chocolates. Keep sampling the next one.

Now let's go have some fun creating new stuff. I at age 50 am still like a kid with an erector set.    

See ya...

P.S. my mother said I am the only kid she knew who dissassembled all his toys instead of playing with them. I said, "mom that is playing with them". Maybe here I find some of my peers who were not my neighbors.

This is incorrect. Most fairly launched coins are not profitable to mine on AWS, at least beyond a very short initial low-difficulty period. AWS is generally several times more expensive than your own equipment, and there is no way mining economics can support that. It was an exception of Monero due to the newness of the technology and the high level of investor demand that it stayed profitable there for several months (even with public unoptimized miners).

Which was in part a function of Darkcoin popularizing anonymity, you are correct about that, but it was also in part a function of the fair and transparent launch, visible integrity of the team, etc. because that brought investors who had rejected Darkcoin, Bytecoin and others.


None of that matters if your own mining is profitable. Why does it matter if someone else makes more?


Agree. It did become popular and in turn popularize the idea that Bitcoin was not good enough. I think Bytecoin (on which development started before Darkcoin, but released after) or something else would likely have done that anyway, but you never know

Didn't you just argue a while back that it's wrong to make more?