If someone faked an email from Satoshi endorsing their coin, wouldn't you say that is sad and pathetic also? What does the Bible say about he without sin should cast the first stone? Here's why:
Pathetic attempt to compare an obvious joke with an embarrassing and desperate attempt to market your own asset.
How is that an obvious joke?
Even you can't claim to be so gullible as even for one second actually thinking Satoshi sent a PM to him commending an altcoin lol.
So, no matter how you're trying to twist and turn it it was an obvious joke.
Here's his response--I didn't believe it, but he played it like a man caught and who was trying to pull one over (we do call you dashtards for a reason). And as long as we are handing out gullible cards, are you so gullible that you believe a dev would instamine 30% of a coin and it was accident? At least Oaxaca didn't try to spin the obvious when he got caught--he just brushed it off as if it wasn't a big deal. Maybe Evan could learn something.
It was less than two months ago when I did my research:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1077613.0 There are 1,800 active listed, but if you check the dates of the last transaction, you can see many are from months ago--before there was a list of holdings (1000+ meant active, but most weren't --more than half if I remember correctly), but now that and the hosting company's name is cut off--I'd like to think it was a reaction to my research--you don't want the suckers knowing too much about the going-ons.
I do like how you create a fake satoshi reply, dismiss the attack vector without any analysis, and misrepresent the real number of active nodes, but I don't expect research or formal arguments from dashers. If you don't think law enforcement would coerce or subpoena mn operators (you'd only need Evan or Otoh for million dash) or hosting companies to comply in orderto break up a pedophile-mining ring or a drug syndicate or human trafficking operation, then you haven't been paying attention with how well LEAs orchestrate international sting operations--though again, they would only need one or two whales and they'd have enough to undermine anonymity and it could be done by one domestic agency.
It's an attack vector and it won't disappear until you get rid of masternodes or find a better way for them to create anonymity.
1. "misrepresent the real number of active nodes"?
Distribution of 2866 (with 2616 unique IPs)
Dash Masternodes
(Summary by Country, unique IPs only)
Last check: Mon Jul 20 23:30:31 CEST 2015 V2
Client version: 110223
2. Let me get this straight...
Your interpretation of "snake oil" is an extremely far fetched attack vector? You want to DDOS 2,866 servers worldwide for an extended period of time without anybody noticing? You should be aware that there are no coins stored on these nodes. If a server goes down, it can be recreated on a different server (anywhere in the world) in a matter of minutes.
3. Faking Satoshi PMs.
Guilty. Whatever.