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Re: [POLL] Does EVAN DUFFIELD regret instamining DRK/DASH at 100x emission?
by
smooth
on 01/05/2015, 02:05:20 UTC

Do you regret releasing a scam miner for the monero launch? Do you regret not taking more time to actually evaluate the code of the coin you took over or did you profit greatly from the scam as well? I wonder if you regret those actions.

Your upset because you dev a coin that is not doing well compared to its competitors. Instead of actually competing, you decide to sling mud.

Smooth, why didn't you re-release Monero once you found out about the scam miner? Also, do you regret the scam miner? I'ts just a simple question, as simple as the one asked in this OP.

He can say that he doesn't regret it, because officially it was TFT who started Monero. By having his confederate (or alter ego?) do the deed, Smooth has removed himself from overt blame. Relaunch it? No, because then all of his scammed coins would disappear.

There was no significant number of scammed coins at all. The mining proceeded at the usual slow pace, with a large number of people mining and posting on the thread. Even if I were TFT (of course I'm not, and had nothing to do with him, and no one credibly believes that I am), I wouldn't have gotten much.

As for the claim that somehow people getting 1-2 blocks per day was an indication of malfeasance, think about the numbers. There are 1440 blocks per day. If a computer gets 1-2 blocks per day that is something like 1000 desktops mining it, which isn't many at all, considering the dozens of people posting about mining on the thread and miners using server farms and cloud nodes (one large cloud nodes was equal to roughly 4 desktops). That's the normal amount you would expect. So again, this is evidence against any (significant) scam mining actually going on, not in favor.