Quote from: BitcoinSkull on March 07, 2018, 07:26:15 PM

I really have no idea what you're going on about. JBG has never "mixed up" 1.4 code with Stealth Staking. Not sure what you even mean by that.

I thought you would have answered only on things you knew, like stated on your first sentence?

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- Why after almost a week jbg still does not 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?

If you were actually doing your research instead of camping BCT to spread FUD about XSPEC specifically (the reason you made this account), you'd see that JBG said this when asked:

Question: Not sure why have you mentioned bug fixing for 1.3, because like two weeks ago you said 1.4. is still expected end of February?

"Originally i was thinking i could pull a crazy week and get it done. I probably got a week to a week and a half behind working on v1.3 bugfixes and i thought i could pull long days for the rest of feb and get it done but life got in the way and i could pull no days for a while and right now i'm not really up to pulling long days. It will be over a week, just to make it clear that it's not imminent. Other than that, I don't think it's a good idea for me to give any indication right at this moment, because I need to take stock of what work remains and get a clear idea myself. I'll give an update as soon as I'm able."

He followed up and said a specific announcement about 1.4 will follow in the next few days.

You say I haven't done my research, but I have. I have read that message and it does not answer my question. Because:
1 - mid Feb jbg says it's looking good to release by the end of Feb. So he knows how much work is left and he had a plan to finish it.
2 - jbg disappears and comes back in March
3 - jbg says he needs 24h/48h hours to announce another release date. This simply means he doesn't know how much work is left.
4 - more than 48h later jbg says he's not going to say a release date as "it's not imminent". After more than 48h, he still does not know how much work is left.
5 - today jbg makes an announcement saying it will announce something about 1.4 soon. An announcement of an announcement. And he still does not know how much work is left.

Can you understand now why I am making the question? And why what he wrote and you reported doesn't answer this question at all?

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Why has jbg lied in 1.3.5 release notes saying he has implemented "Automatic ring size determination for stealth transactions"?

What? Automatic ring size determination for stealth transactions was included in the 1.3.4 update list that was bundled into 1.3.5 release.

I thought you would have answered only on things you knew, like stated on your first sentence?

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Why has jbg lied about his software development experience? After a private chat with him, where he was of course trying to minimise the mistake ("everyone exaggerates experience") I had a recognized loyal member of XSPEC community telling me that jbg told him he has 25 years of dev experience, and he is in his 20s. This was not exaggerating, this was lying.

JBG already responded to 20 years of dev experience claim, so now you've switched to "someone" now told you it was 25 years and hes in his 20's. Mandica, who knows more about JBG than you and google do, has verified that hes not in his twenties.

I perfectly know who he is and the date of his birthday, he's on his 20s. Mandica is lying. Again I thought you would have answered only on things you knew, like stated on your first sentence?

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Where is Bryce work? Can jbg show his 6 months worth of development? Maybe to some XSPEC community longstanding members?

JBG has already made it clear that Bryce's work will be shown when the time comes with a Ghostpaper and the code. An XSPEC community "longstanding member" isn't a merit for showing someone a game-changing proof of code to. Cheesy

Sure, if you are happy with that, I am happy.

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Does jbg think it's realistic to say 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)? What does jbg have to say about 3 independent reviews of his code (this thread you are reading, but also here and here) where we all agree he is not working full-time? Can jbg give us some proofs of the contrary? Also some people from XSPEC community agrees on this him.

Hahahaha, "independent reviews of his code". A random person on the internet who claims to be a software dev looking at a github repository is not as merited as you're making it out to be. Also, using the evidence YOU just provided, one of the threads states this:

It's true that it's a lot of library updating, but it's not like the developer only changed a handful of simple codelines, which preshpr1nce's thread makes it sound like.

The negative aspects for me when looking at the git repository are two things:
1. The developer is not good at commenting his commits, and even though the codebase was forked, he should also get better at commenting the code changes he makes
2. There were no commits after January 30st

However, the activity shown in the repository between December and January seems to show genuine efforts by a busy developer and the claims by preshpr1nce's post, while not being inherently wrong, seem to be largely exaggerated.

Soon JBG will only be rewarded through results-based payments from Staking Donations and then it will be up to a council to decide whether or not his changes and updates were worth the payment. Whether or not you think the 100k was worth the last few months of development work by JBG and Brycel is irrelevant because its all opinion based.

You haven't reported his response after. He's basically saying for him it's not a scam, but he agrees with me he's not working full time and he's exaggerating. After this, calling it scam or not is subjective.

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Why is jbg talking about "zero reward" from XSPEC? The donation address in control by him received so far ~100k XSPECs, which in my opinion is a very good deal for what optimistically seems a part time job for him.

Again, not sure what you're referring to here, but before JBG's leave of absence, they had not withdrawn any XSPEC from the donation address from until recently. Which was what I assume the "no reward comment" stemmed from.

I thought you would have answered only on things you knew, like stated on your first sentence? If you can't even check how much money the donation address has received and he already trasferred before replying, not worth discussing this one with you, I am wasting my time.

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Is jbg planning to exit soon?

If he is thats a decision only he can make and know. As of now it looks like hes helping to develop a solid core team of developers for the project so I'd say no for the immediate future.

I thought you would have answered only on things you knew, like stated on your first sentence?

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How many coins does Mandica hold?

Not sure where this comes into play, she was the original founder of the project so I assume she holds a decent amount of coins.

I thought you would have answered only on things you knew, like stated on your first sentence?

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I find it hilarious that in your original post you said:

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I already spent too much time on this and I need to move on

. For this reason I don't think I am going to reply.

Not only did you continue to respond to that thread, but you've now been a part of countless other threads while continuing to spread the same uncertainty and doubt that was the basis of your first thread. I find it laughable to claim that you have no horse in the race but yet you created a fresh account for the post and have continued to slam XSPEC since then. I appreciated the research in the first post but its clear that NOTHING is going to be good enough for you, or the other usual suspect fudders. My intentions are clear because I believe in the project, but what are yours? Huh

The reason I am replying, which I said also in other posts, is because of people like you, who are going around and talk without having the knowledge. It's just annoying. So if you want me here, please continue.

The other thing which is crazy to me is that people like you don't understand that I am doing your community a favor. You are now forced to create a more transparent workflow, which will be helpful for your community in the long run, if it lasts. Or jbg will run away with the money and the project will fail. In both cases, I am helping you. And if the first case happens and is done well, I am probably going to buy XSPEC.