Monero Ninja Launch:

There were multiple threads started in the wrong place so the dev team could benefit before most even knew it had been launched. The Monero ANN thread is not the original ANN thread which is a immediate red flag. Some say the original name (Bitmonero/BMR/MRO) was changed (monero/xmr) to cover up the launch issues and association with the original monero scam developer named "thankful_for_today". He was an anonymous dev and was "supposedly" kicked out, but he could have just changed his name to something like "groove" or "puffypony" and continued.

Quote from: tacotime on April 25, 2014, 12:51:35 AM

Quote from: sussex on April 25, 2014, 12:50:32 AM

How many threads does this coin need? Huh

One in the right place, apparently Grin

Monero Cripplemine:

At least 6-7% of the total supply affected (Possibly 10-15%)
1.37 million plus monero mined with optimized miners while scam dev team led by thankful_for_today pushed a crippled miner on everyone else.

Quote from: smooth on November 20, 2015, 12:36:04 AM

Months 2-3 total coins mined was 1.37 million.

Minting Money with Monero ... and CPU vector intrinsics
August 28, 2014
"The original developers deliberately crippled the miner."
https://da-data.blogspot.de/2014/08/minting-money-with-monero-and-cpu.html

Monero Fastmine:

The monero cripplemine was bad but the fastmine is where the most unfair distribution took place.
Monero has a highly inflationary emission curve where around half the coins were mined in the first year and will have "Roughly 86% mined in 4 years".
By comparison, Bitcoin is almost 7 years old and only has 75% mined. It will take them another 4+ years to get to monero's 86%.
So it will take BTC & LTC 11+ years to get to ~86% mined and monero only 4 years. It will take DASH another 20 years to get to 86%.

Quote from: MasterMined710 on August 28, 2016, 03:06:13 AM

monero had ~750,000 coins mined the first 4 weeks (btc ~210,000) which is way faster than normal

i think a cripplemined fastmine best describes monero.

They knew it was a problem but did nothing......
[BMR] BitMonero emission curve change (proposal)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=585480.0

[ANN][MRO] Monero - an anonymous coin based on CryptoNote technology
"It was said that this coin had a mining reward schedule similar to bitcoin. In fact it is twice as fast as intended, even even a bit more than twice as fast as bitcoin.
If you acquired your coins on the basis of the advertised reward schedule, you would be disappointed, and rightfully so, as more coins come to into existence more quickly than you were led to believe." smooth
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=582080.0

Incentivised by the massive amount of fastmined coins spilling out, the coin was heavily Botnet mined....
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=583449.msg7771469#msg7771469
See also: Monero Stealth miner issue

The fastmine experiment has caused other serious issues that are all starting to add up....
Monero [XMR] block reward plummets below 3 XMR per block
March 28, 2019
Indeed sustained low block rewards will be a challenge.. AFAIK no cryptocurrency has entered this new « state » It seems Monero might be the first one. My anxiety level will be high in 2021:)"
https://ambcrypto.com/monero-xmr-block-reward-plummets-below-3-xmr-per-block/

Unveiling the truth over the major Monero scam
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=755840.0

Dash's privacy feature has never been broken - Turns out Monero's privacy feature has never really worked to begin with
https://www.reddit.com/r/dashpay/comments/65fz68/dashs_privacy_feature_has_never_been_broken_turns/

Press reports on monero privacy issues and other dangerous bugs:

Monero Privacy Protections Arent as Strong as They Seem | WIRED 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/monero-privacy/

Monero [XMR] Privacy Protection May Be Deficient - 2018
https://globalcoinreport.com/monero-xmrs-privacy-protection-may-be-deficient/

Monero has some real issues! 2018
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688416

Monero Transactions History Can Be Revealed and Exposed: Research
https://cointelegraph.com/news/monero-transactions-history-can-be-revealed-and-exposed-research

CryptoNote Currency Bug Allowed Creation of Unlimited Number of Coins
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/cryptonote-currency-bug-allowed-creation-unlimited-number-coins/

Disclosure of a Major Bug in CryptoNote Based Currencies
Posted by: luigi1111 and Riccardo "fluffypony" Spagni
May 17, 2017
https://getmonero.org/2017/05/17/disclosure-of-a-major-bug-in-cryptonote-based-currencies.html

Warning: Every CryptoNote/Monero transaction in history will be retroactively exposed
https://steemit.com/cryptonote/@macrochip/warning-every-cryptonote-monero-transaction-in-history-will-be-retroactively-exposed

Fundamental monero security flaw, Chain Split attack
What chain splits mean for Monero - 2018
https://youtu.be/TlVsMTeT_nE

It Turns Out Moneros Privacy Coin Wasnt So Private After All
By Robert Johnson on August 2, 2018
Reports out today highlight yet another security vulnerability within Monero XMR, a cryptocurrency designed for optimum privacy. Now we already know of the associations between Monero and malicious mining, but this marks another example of how XMR traders and investors have been put at risk, simply due to the markup of the currency.
https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2018/08/it-turns-out-moneros-privacy-coin-wasnt-so-private-after-all/

US DEA ACTUALLY WANTS CRIMINALS TO KEEP USING BITCOIN
Speaking about altcoins, specifically Monero and Zcash, whose privacy-focused technology has likewise come in for flack from naysayers, Infante said that even these were not beyond the DEAs radar.
We still have ways of tracking them, she added.
https://bitcoinist.com/dea-wants-criminals-use-bitcoin/

On-chain tracking of Monero and other Cryptonotes 2019
Final nail in the coffin of Monero privacy
https://medium.com/@crypto_ryo/on-chain-tracking-of-monero-and-other-cryptonotes-e0afc6752527

FloodXMR: Low-cost transaction flooding attack with Moneros bulletproof protocol 2019
The attacker could potentially trace nearly 50% of inputs at a cost of less than $2,000.
https://www.ccn.com/vitalik-buterin-eyes-research-on-privacy-coin-moneros-traceability
https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/455.pdf

A well-respected cryptographer released a tool called http://www.monerolink.com, where you can link all transactions from 2014-2016 with 100% (due to blockchain timing analysis apparently), and all transactions from 2016-2017 are linkable with a probabilistic distribution dependent on mixin size. So they have a table on the site, 1 mixin transactions are linkable 86% of the time, 10+ mixin transactions are linkable 22% of the time.
Monero has since fixed this bug going forward, but if you used monero on a Dark Net Market between 2014-2017, BEWARE!

Devs disclose critical XMR-burning bug in Monero wallets 2018
Hackers could have tricked exchanges into giving up their XMR
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2018/09/25/monero-burning-vulnerability/

Monero security flaw couldve seen XMR stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges 7-4-2019
Devs have just disclosed nine scary bugs in Monero code
https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/07/04/monero-cryptocurrency-security-flaw-bug-hackerone-disclosure-hack/

DISCLAIMER:
I am a DASH fan and I do not deny a conflict of interest. Nevertheless I endeavor to be factual and I suggest that readers consider the facts, check the facts, reach your own conclusions about what happened and how it matters today, and finally to avoid the temptation to attack the person stating the facts or the coin(s) with which he might be associated Grin

EDIT: add disclaimer, various typos, writing cleanups, reformatting, add references.

They drew first blood. This thread was Creatively inspired by...
Why the darkcoin/dash/dashpay instamine matters
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=999886.0

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Quote from: smooth on April 14, 2016, 03:30:28 AM

Quote from: MasterMined710 on April 14, 2016, 03:27:06 AM

Quote from: smooth on April 14, 2016, 01:24:37 AM

LOL that you think anyone cares or is ever going to care about MasterMined710's made up terms.

By contrast (and indicating how pointless this troll thread is), I didn't make up the term "instamine". There are multiple threads calling out the massive DRK instamine scam before I even knew what the hell a DRK was.

the term "instamine" was created or at least spread by some monero supporters on another website where they were promoting monero over Darkcoin/DASH.
the term "fastmine" has been around for a while too and like instamine there is no exact meaning. fastmine refers to coins that had a lot of coins unfairly mined in the first few weeks, months or years. it could also apply to coins where all the coins were mined in the first few days or weeks and then they switched to POS mining.
monero is a fastmine, i did not make up that term.
if you want to say DASH is a instamine then that's fair too.

i may have been the first to coin the term "cripplemine" but it is a accurate description of what happened with the monero crippled miner scam early on.

Really now?

Quote from: IloveAnonCoin on April 07, 2014, 09:56:55 AM

Topic: SCAM Darkcoin instamine 2 millions DRKs (50% of darkcoin in circulation)

Monero didn't even exist yet.

Or, earlier, the first known XCoin/Darkcoin/Dash instamine accusation:

This even earlier comment should help with your 'noobness':

Quote from: TBCM on December 08, 2013, 11:21:57 PM

Quote from: teresaejunior on December 08, 2013, 11:16:15 PM

Sorry for my noobness, but I hear many coins being accused of instamining, but I couldn't figure it out with a dictionary, google search, etc.

Please, what does it mean and how does it affect the coin in the long term (consider I invested in a certain coin being accused as such).

Thank you!

When a coin is born, if the initial difficulty to get a block is too low, you can get a ton of coins (blocks) really fast if you get in early. The coin is instantly mined.

Similarly, when a coin is mined to almost completion in a very short period of time some people consider it's been instamined as well.

like i said, iloveanoncoin is/was a anoncoin (ANC) (Edit: and monero) dude who used to troll Darkcoin (DASH) back in the day when we we're seen as competitors. EDIT: and the website where it was spread was cryptome, monero trolls used to link to it all the time.

there is no concrete definition of instamine but i would support both of TBCM's different definitions of what a instamine is. i would say that by his definition DASH would be a "accidental instamine" though, a bug in the code that was fixed.
that's different from coins that are specifically designed to have a "instamine".
look, i think we agree, i already said i think it's fair to call DASH a instamine but to be completely accurate it would be a "accidental instamine".

not sure how we got so far off topic in this "monero" cripplemined (intentionally not accidentally) and fastmine (intentionally not accidentally) thread but we need to stay on topic. DASH is not the topic of this thread, if you would like to start another thread i would be glad to discuss DASH. thanks