Certainly agree! Also, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

I like seeing this union between the good cryptonote coins, we'll all win in the end, good job.

Sounds about as fishy as you can get r.e that message from 'big vern'

In fact its pretty much an exact copy of a twitter scam thats been happening over the past week where known crypto twitter users are having their accounts copied.

That account is then asking people for 1 btc to join a pump group and promising them their 1btc entry fee back when they leave.

In fact I'd go as far as to hang my head out and say that is certainly not big vern asking for that 1btc. Happy to be proved wrong but I'd bet 10btc that if the boolberry guy looks closer at the big vern twitter account it will have an l instead of an i in bigvern. i.e. @blgvern.

If you guys want some top kek, check out the structure fire in bitcoin land because of even a mistaken possibility that Satoshi's coins might be moving. 
 
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3frn1d/satoshis_coins_have_not_moved_blockchaininfo_is

Selling any XMR is simply not in the cards for me. There is no way I can justify it. The reality is that, as I mentioned before, there is an ever widening gap between the "official" binary releases that are over eight months old and the current Monero code on github https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero. The difference in performance is literally night and day. Not to count in the sheer number of commits and other less obvious but criticality important improvements to the code. A lot has changed since the days of below 0.001 XMR/XBT; however this is far from obvious. I take the point of view that the market has not priced this in yet due in a large part to the choices in operating systems made by many of the market participants.  

Did you compile on Windows 7 or on GNU/Linux in order to generate a Windows 7 executable? Big difference! I am not saying that one cannot compile Monero on Windows 7, I am saying that for a moderately tech savvy person it is way simpler to just install Ubuntu GNU/Linux and compile on Ubuntu than to find and install all the software that is required to successfully compile Monero on Windows 7.

Edit: Can one compile Monero on an IPad or would the DRM get in the way? Yet it is simple to trade Monero using an iPad.

Actually it's mostly just copy/paste from the README, and certainly much faster than installing Linux (if you don't have it already).

msys64 but like luigi said it was basically a noob-proof copy&paste from the README.

Shit, OK.  Last Linux post this time, for real for real.  
  
I just read about Tails on Wikipedia.  That would seem to be the best Distro for Monero paranoids, right?  
  
Wait, I'm a huge goober.  I just realized that's a 32-bit OS, right?    
  
That means I can't compile and run Monero, since it requires a 64-bit machine, right?.  BAH HUMBUG.  I'll just have to wait it looks like until the database work is done and a 32-bit version is released, or I'll have to bump up to a 64-bit laptop.  
  

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double edit: Ahhhh, I'm a moron.  The processor is a Intel® Celeron® Processor N2840 which is 64-bit.  I had no idea they made 64-bit processors under the Celeron name.  Wow.  Ok, I guess I *am* in business.  Cool!