Look, I am not trying to "win" any argument here, I am simply defending myself and our team against the accusations you have made.

Yes, we knew whales were becoming a problem, but it definitely wasn't "several months" before we started implementing doing something about it.

There was no abuse of the algorithm, if you are trying to say that because someone had a large amount of cloud services that enabled a large hash rate is abusing the algo, then I am sorry, but every other coin out there is being abused.

We could not simply ban people who had high hashrates, I mean damn, I even wrote guides on how to use free credit from providers to maximise ARO earnings, so am I also guilty of abusing the algo?

I just don't see where this is now getting you, what you possibly want to gain. What's done is done, there are a very few people that aren't happy with the time it took for us as a team to -

1. Come up with a fair solution to combat large cloud miners.

2. Decide whether to make it a community vote or not

3. Maintain decentralisation

4. Conduct a vote between council members at a time when the vast majority was online (not easy to do due to different time zones)

5. Re-write the code to allow for a fairer distribution of ARO through CPU, GPU and Masternodes

6. Test that code to make it as bug free as possible on the testnet

7. Write guides for setting up masternodes

8. Create scripts for setting up nodes and masternodes to make it simple for those who have no knowledge of Unix based OS

9. Fork the block chain and implement the new code

10. Iron out the bugs that slipped through (which was done pretty much in 24 hours)

11. Try and keep everyone happy with regards to Mercatox and their node issues

This is just the main things we had to deal with. We are a small team, that works very hard, for free, we gained nothing by so called not acting. We did our best, in a time that was completely and utterly hectic.

By and large, the community is very happy, discord proves this.

I think it's time to move on from past scenarios and just look forward to a bright future with ARO