xmrscott here. ocminer, just want to say you did the right thing in informing the greater crypto community and didn't really do anything that would make for unethical disclosure. The hack was already ongoing and impacting users by the hacker(s) not really including tx in the blocks and depriving honest miners of money.

Withholding the info you found to the public would have only left users and miners in the dark as to why things were happening, but it wouldn't have stopped the hack itself (although ironically for however brief a window it seems your announcement gave the hacker(s) pause). Worst case some other people figure out the more technical aspects of the exploit because it's more known and now multiple hackers are fighting over control of the blockchain instead of one which arguably isn't worse for end users or miners because the net effect is the same. On the flipside making it more known also means people who want to save a shitcoin that lies about the privacy and security it provides now know what the problem is and can help a dev incapable of doing basic multiplication.

The only situation where it would have made sense to not publicly disclose IMO is if you found the exploit yourself, but no one was executing on it yet.

Again, please do not let a crappy dev deter you from future public disclosure should there be any active exploits in the wild you see; we as a crypto community need people to call out issues like this.