These are all really good points. Everyone knows that Monero had scam code built into it, its no secret. This is similar to the launch issues that Dash had, except there is no proof of a intentional scam like Monero.
There is no proof of intentional scamming in Monero, at all. The crippled mining code came from Bytecoin, not Monero, to deceive people about their 82% premine scam. That was the whole reason Monero was launched in the first place.
There is no proof anyone connected to Monero (including the original dev who launched it), ever even
looked at that code, so how can you have intention to do anything without looking at the code (much less writing it)? Maybe he had that intention, maybe he didn't. Either way, no proof.
When it comes to proof on these things, the closest we can get is a pretty strong circumstantial case that the reason Evan repeatedly deceived people about the launch time was in order to reduce participation and get a bigger piece of the massive instamine (especially the first hour).
You're reaching for anything to deflect the focus away from Evan instamining Dash. Do you think he regrets it?
If smooth is out to be a white knight of crypto and protect users from intentional scams, why hasn't he started a campaign against Monero? Maybe this whole campaign against Dash is not only to bring investors into XMR, but also to draw attention away from his own coins shady history.
There's no white knight campaign. I don't even care if investors lose their money, they're adults, that's their business. It's unfortunate when noobs get scared because it might scare them away from crypto, but mostly instamines and misleading people about launch times and other such scams just piss me off. I wonder how Evan feels about it though. I'm guessing he feels a little differently, since he's the one who did that.