This is a bit ridiculous. I don't like the reptilian (rpietilian), and I wouldn't want to break bread with the icebreaker either, but cmon, Monero is one of, if not the most, solid altcoins out there.
Here is a post by Greg Maxwell saying Monero is the only altcoin he owns:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinxt/comments/3vmwtb/what_if_any_incentives_are_there_for_longterm/cxoyxsuWhy? Because, "What monero I own is because it has integrated stealth address like behavior that make it possible for me to have a public donation address without losing privacy..."
Here is a link to a commit on the Monero github repo by Bitcoin Core lead maintainer Wladimir Van Der Laan:
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commits?author=laanwjHere is a tweet from Peter Todd saying Monero is "genuine crypto":
https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/622022840330682368So are you saying that Greg Maxwell, Wladimir Van Der Laan, and Peter Todd, all Bitcoin Core developers, are all shills pushing a scam? A bunch of Bitcoin Core developers who apparently hold (to them) trivial amounts of Monero are "shilling" for Monero? Really? Can you name a single other altcoin that more than one Bitcoin Core developer has expressed support for?
gmax and peter todd don't see monero as a threat to bitcoin so that's why they hate on
but push monero.