Stable cryptocurrency prices = bad.  (unless there is one pegged to USD for example)

Considering BTC is at ¹/₅^th of its ATH they probably need better marketing more than we do;)

Seriously, though, adoption comes with maturity. We're a baby - just a year old - and there are many amazing projects by members of the community that are just getting going. From a core team perspective...we're not marketers, and we have no skill in that space, so you won't see us burning time and energy on an AdWords campaign. Of course, as the Forum Funding System draws closer to completion it's a good time to remember that marketing and all these other peripheral projects will soon be able to be pitched and funded through that.

An interesting use for a private cryptocurrency (Monero) is election fundraising.

essentially, anyone in the world can influence the upcoming US 2016 election.

hillary likes

Probably because of the ample evidence he has provided that they are not 100% legit?

IMO: It is rather 'unethical' to still have Bytecoin listed and traded. Any decent exchange should terminate all activities around scam coins - such as BCN. The same of course applies to coinmarketcap, etc.

Will you need to get put in prison for the testing phase?   

As TPTB continue their schemes, all of humanity will soon find itself in a prison economy.

No, if the Monero volume is fake (and I suspect it is) then it must still go. It's even more reason to remove it, in fact, as it would be unconscionable to let it skew Monero's trade volume with fake trades.

It's going just fine, in the last month we've had 230 commits (I'm only responsible for 42 of those), with 39 491 new lines of code.


It's still ongoing, and yes there is. The staff and my co-founders know the release date.


A very supportive and beautiful wife, the luxury of being able to spend a large portion of my time on projects of my choosing, and really good coffee.


I don't control anyone. I don't tell Tom Winget what games he should play, or any of the Monero Research Lab researchers where they must have supper. What smooth does, what the rest of the core team do, what any of the Monero contributors do, is entirely up to them. Nobody "came to a decision" about any course of action, we've just independently identified obvious scams and spoken out about it. If I was a scammer I'd expect people to do the same; thus when I've been accused of being a scammer I've been able to defend myself.


Nonsense - I've called out everything from the Seedcoin fund nonsense to the Alpha Technologies scam to the insanity of Brock Pierce titling himself as "the godfather of Bitcoin" when he's done absolutely nothing. I went to the Bitcoin Africa conference last week, and called out every single idiotic presenter shilling their product when they should've been talking on their topic (the exception being Lorien Gamaroff's presentation on smart grids, who was excellent overall and intuitively "got" the issues with consumer education and mixed consumer messages for BTC, as well as Erik Wilgenhof Plante who gave a very clear and well-researched talk on the state of BTC regulations around the globe).