The tone of this is such that I don't think rational discussion is likely, but I'd like to respond to one or two specific things.
Thank you very much for taking the time to finally answer publicly. I am so sorry you don't like the tone, but we have being having a rational discussion without you for long. Ah, by the way, I don't like the fact that you answer here after more than a month of my post either. And I don't like that you answered only a couple of points either, and of course avoid the main ones. Anyway the increasingly argumentative tone was intentional to invite you to answer, and as you see it worked.
I have not asked for more money. As a matter of fact, upon learning that some people were talking about a new "donation drive" based on the misguided idea that more money can somehow increase my output, I asked them to either call it off, or direct any raised money towards either finding more developers or marketing or other efforts. At no point have I made any request for more money, and in fact I have in the last days suggested that we should reduce the staking donations I'm receiving and use some of that to fund bounties to get more people working on the project. Many people have witnessed these discussions in Discord in the last days so I don't think there is much ambiguity here.
I can think of only a few explanations for your comment above. (1) you legitimately misunderstood something I said (though I don't think I said anything that could be intepreted this way). (2) somebody impersonating me on Discord is trying to get some donations for themselves (I didn't find any evidence for this so I don't think it's the case). (3) you are making this up, or willfully misrepresenting something I said.
You deleted the message, so I'll stop on this one. You can now say I made it up, as I have no proof. Glad to see that the only point I clearly said I can't prove because you deleted the message took most of your attention.
2) I have read some people saying that jbg integrated Tor in SpectreCoin. That's not true. Again the code has the truth: the first TOR integration has been done by lulworm in January 2017.
I've never claimed this, and I have no control over claims made by random anonymous Internet strangers that I've probably never even spoken to.
And, if you read the sentence you quoted again, I haven't said you claimed that either. But your shillers keep saying that, so I am telling them the truth.
I've checked, and none of the addresses you have mentioned (other than the donation address) are in my control. They are almost certainly exchanges' addresses which obviously receive many coins from many people.
Working on this project is becoming increasingly demoralising and difficult considering that there is almost zero reward, and constant accusations that even if ignored cause significant stress, but I hope that the tone will improve once I am able to show some results.
So you are sending most of the donations to SdsaXSYCksJcW18AJ6HcG1ZwgFKcU7WYrr, which has 232k XSPECs received, it's clearly *NOT* an exchange address and it's also not in your control?
And the fact that you say it's zero reward, you keep intelligently saying something that can't be proved. You are smart enough to know that this kind of discussions go nowhere, but you keep saying it. You could be a big holder, or linked to big holders (see Mandica) and these 2 new excuses (it's not rewarding, need to hire a new developer) could be good excuses to exit. Now you could find a random developer, give him the code and say to everyone you are tired and enjoy the money.
To summarise for you:
- Where is 1.4 code? More than a month after your promise:
https://imgur.com/a/BHF5s- How on Earth have you mixed up 1.4 code with stealth staking? How long is it taking you to cherry pick a few commits?
- Why after almost a week you still don't know how much work is left to finish 1.4? And after 3 weeks of announcing that 1.4 was on time for the end of February?
- Why have you lied in 1.3.5 release notes saying you implemented "Automatic ring size determination for stealth transactions"?
- Why have you lied about your software development experience? After our private chat, where you were of course trying to minimise the mistake ("everyone exaggerates experience") I had a recognized loyal member of your community telling me that you told him you have 25 years of dev experience, and you are in your 20s. This was not exaggerating, this was lying.
- Do you think it's realistic saying that learning a code base, a few library updates, UI fixes, CI and ability to send money to developer is enough work for 9 months for 1 developer (plus one developer for 6 months)?
- Where is Bryce work? Can you show his 6 months worth of development? Maybe to your community longstanding members?
- What do you have to say about 3 independent reviews of your code (this thread you are reading, but also
here and
here) where we all agree you are not working full time? Can you give us some proofs of the contrary? Also some people from your community agrees on this.
- Why are you talking about "zero reward" from XSPEC? The donation address in control by you received so far ~100k XSPECs, which in my opinion is a very good deal for what optimistically seems a part time job for you.
- Why are you sending most of the donations to SdsaXSYCksJcW18AJ6HcG1ZwgFKcU7WYrr? That address has 232k coins received and it's linked with addresses holding milions of coins which are clearly not exchange addresses.
- Are you planning to exit soon?
- How many coins does Mandica hold?
Let's see if you respond to these instead.