Quote from: fluffypony on March 06, 2015, 07:56:16 PM

You're oversimplifying. Good cryptography requires formal proofs, not hand-waving and conjecture

And you (nor any of your Monero fudding cohorts) are not understanding the difference between academic research and practical implementation.

A "cryptographer" is not a coin developer (not even a Monero one) but someone who sits in a University lab for years developing cryptographic algorithms and writing research papers that get accepted by academic journals.

They may or may not be coders but you don't have to be a cryptographer to implement successful applications anymore than you need to be an aerodynamicist to fly a plane. In fact they are usually completely distinct disciplines. All coin technologies are based on published academic research of one kind or another (Darkcoin's is - see white paper on blind signatures) but you don't have to be the researcher to do the implementation - you do have to be a coder.

One of the reasons Monero never got off the ground is because it tried to base it's whole value offering on a piece of academic theory rather than trying to produce something of practical value. Anyone who's ever used it will discover that in about 10 seconds.

Consequently, since that's the only 'hammer' in your box then everything else has to be a nail - including having to make other coin devs the target of baseless accusations such as "lack of understanding" about cryptography.

It's cheap, unsupported nonsense of the most unimaginative kind but as long as you keep sticking to that line no-one else will have anything to worry about.