Quote from: Zer0Sum on November 26, 2016, 03:58:39 PM

Quote from: cryptohunter on November 26, 2016, 10:53:51 AM

However can anyone argue that technically it is not superior to many coins here? I know some knowledgeable people here question that zero time can scale well. But really it has way more going for it than many coins.

Seems the dev team although talented are not great with social skills so the community seems very small and there is no official thread on here.

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I think it's been demonstrated repeatedly that better tech on the margins accomplishes nothing...
It's all about creating a cult following which breaks through to real people (reddit a good proxy) and ignites a Dev network effect...
And today there are only 2 platforms in that game= Bitcoin and Ethereum (XMR might be a very distant 3rd).

Any one who designs an instant txn technology, names it "zero time", and doesn't explain that it just won't scale up, is either disingenuous or incapable of significant paradigm-busting invention/insight.

Lots of silly little technical improvements which change/fix nothing about the fact proof-of-work is doomed, do nothing to create a new market.

This is the hamster coin, for those who like to spin their wheels ending up with no meaningful progress in the end.

Hey that cartoonish face looks somewhat similar to the images I have seen of the Johnny.

What I think we (@smooth, myself, and other developers and technically capable people in the ecosystem) are saying is that if you are the real deal, then embrace the community by producing white papers that inspire the prominent and talented individuals to join your ecosystem. Produce meaningful innovation that impresses us and inspires us to look to you as an important contributor to the ecosystem.

In short, we see him as ripping off Bitcoin and basically adding nothing of great importance and then hyping up his wares and also acting like a sourpuss. And not being a team player and not producing anything significant enough to justify his maverick attitude. And being anonymous which IMO requires an uber level of talent to justify. Walk the talk, not just a bunch of silly performance refinements that don't really change anything significant. I think many in the Monero community suspected me to have similar deficiencies and I am hopefully about to demonstrate their appraisal was incorrect.

In short, here is a guy with moderate level skills trying to act like he is a Satoshi Nakamoto.

He appears to have come from prior experience working on BitTorrent clients or related. He may indeed be a talented developer, but talented developer != Satoshi Nakamoto. I can relate my own experience as an example of what I mean. I have near zero experience in network coding, so any developer who had worked on a BitTorrent client would trounce me in knowledge about networking. Yet I am writing a white paper to improve on proof-of-work and proof-of-stake. So where I lack specific skills in coding (although I am a strong polyglot coder), I may have talents in conceptual innovation which are important on the ecosystem scale. And quality networking coders can be hired/inspired to join.

Of course, we all could end up being incorrect. We are not omniscient. It is just the pattern of his activity that seems to indicate failure.