I am not afraid of forking.

This is gettin good!!

Haven't seen threats like this in a while... But then again I stopped visiting the ANN section.

After the Poloniex attack I have a feeling that it's over now. Considering someone just executed a cyberattack on a legit American company, it's probably going to derail this whole drama.

Either BCX made a huge error and was behind the attack and made it known publicly.

OR

Someone knew that imitating BCX and attacking Poloniex publicly would be enough to potentially get US law enforcement involved. Which would be an incredibly smart play to at least buy a good amount of time and force BCX to cool down for at least the short term.

Unless Poloniex has evidence that it was the attack was clearly not orchestrated by BCX, even if he's actually innocent(quite possible) he would still be viewed as a suspect regardless putting him under scrutiny in the short term.

I have no affiliation with Monero or any CN currencies but I think that's probably how it's going to play out. Funny thing is that it's also possible that BCX going through with the attack would actually benefit XMR in the long run, as many have speculated. So this might not actually be the best outcome for XMR. There are lots of unknowns at work here though, so this is all loose speculation at best.

I don't see any reason why BCX should attack Poloniex. The Poloniex attack might have been a smart move by the Monero team. In this way, they can scare BCX, any law intervention would put BCX on the suspect list. He may cool down a little and give MEW more time to figure something out.

I personally conclude MEW have found a hole in their system, and are trying to buy time to implement a fix, or the worst is the hole is not fixable, and they are trying to build evidence in case of the attack and reduce BCX's incentive to launch the attack.

I think he's just saying it could have been a smart chess move by someone with an interest in Monero to draw heat on BCX. No one is going to be making any real accusations here of course. If for example, this gets the FBI involved and they start to take a look at the situation, there's no doubt that we would likely see a chilling effect here on the drama.

Whatever happened to bitlane the internet detective? New account?

I think it is a punishable crime to attach a website or a service?

Since the MEW is also established today, I may quote the relevant part of what we believe is the right way to handle these.


These are the behavior that we acknowledge to be crimes. They are condemned.

MEW does not however have legal or practical jurisdiction to prosecute crimes against MEW or its members, except by other members who have bound themselves to such arbitration by joining MEW.

If actual crimes are committed against us, MEW may apply to outside LEO. After all, their purpose is to find and punish criminals, whereas MEW can effectively only find and expose them. In some cases exposing may not be enough. If we choose not to apply, the reason is more practical than ideological. LEO's do not have a great track record in solving cybercrimes in an equitable way.

So that nobody reads between the lines: It is absolutely too early to even suspect MEW of using dirty tricks, we currently have no such capability nor interest and if something happens now or later to anyone, it can in no way be our fault, because we do not do such things. We much like to remain the leader in fair altcoins and overall fair play, and since we are in no way all-in in this coin and have considerable resources outside of it, we can take much provocation, if someone thinks provoking us is wise and pays off.

How much time until BCX's bluff is called?



What if it turns out there was no challenge to begin with?