Between December and January: UI changes, library updates and stake donations. You need to remember that jbg is on XSPEC from June. What happened between June and December? Nothing. He said he was working on 1.4, let's see when 1.4 is out if there are commits for that between June and March which takes into account 7 (Jun/March excluding Jan/Feb) months of development.
Do another check: check for any core changes on the blockchain logic, you'll not find any. Only UI changes and library updates, in 9 months of work full time, plus who knows what the other claimed developer is doing.
That is correct - there's however also a lot of commits regarding build system which indicate there is genuine work going into this in order to get the project up to date and workable - but it's definitely thin (not a full-time developer). The only changes to blockchain logic (wallet and miner) also seem - as you correctly point out - only related to donations. However, I don't see that it would be necessary for there to be more changes to this part of the code in order to rule out a scam. To me it doesn't look like scam - rather like a developer having taken over a project of someone else and stuff turns out to be a bit more tricky and take longer than expected (I agree that he probably also over-exaggerated in terms of how much time he invested into this code so far, but that also doesn't make it a scam automatically).
Also his real name is not the one you mentioned.
Interesting, why not just share it?
I and the rest of the xspec community know exactly what he was doing.....why not bother to read the newsletters in our BtCt oP?.....you're trying to hurt our project on purpose for some reason. I'd really like to know why.
If you do have this kind of insight, I guess you could do the community a great favour by sharing your knowledge and being more specific in terms of what has been done (technically) off-repository and how.
I do have to agree with gunner833 and preshpr1nce that those voices defending the project only resort to claiming that it is a good project and on track and that they have insider knowledge supporting this, but they don't share any supporting information and fail to specifically address the valid concerns that are presented quite clearly.
Thanks for analyzing it further. One point that I found difficult to pass over is not that ShadowCash is not a good coin. ShadowCash is a good coin. But who created it has left, and that's the value of the coin, not the coin itself which is almost 2 years old now, but who developed it. Now all the responsibility is on jbg, and everyone is investing because he's saying he's doing stealth staking and they think he can deliver.
Then you do a bit of research and you find out that:
- he lies about his experience (proved)
- he lies that he's working full time (you agree on this with me)
- he probably also lies that he's working with another developer (where is he? no changes and he did only a library upgrade on github, LOL)
- he's always late with his own set deadlines
- he claims on chat that he's thinking about implementing all the features in the crypto world (he mentioned: stealth staking (LOL), RingCT, hardware wallet integration, bulletproof, merging bitcoin core, cold staking, HD wallet, ...)
- he says that he's going to reveal 1.4 code to then clear doubts and he does not
- he has done only UI changes, library update and build system changes as you stated
and last but not least:
- he never changed anything on the core of the coin.
You then try to discuss these things, and you get assaulted by shillers (for example Beachguy answer above) who do not know anything about code and just come to randomly shill, instead of asking of why we think this way.
For his name not to be shared, he wants to be anonymous, so I respect his decision.