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I already went down this path. The info WAS on the original talk.mastercoin forum but posts and info from that forum are not important enough to archive at the NEW forum. I laid out the means, motive, and opportunity for robby to have created counterparty. I felt that the best evidence was the mastercoind that he created in python had disappeared at around the same time that the counterpartyd created in python appeared. I'd link to this info but....

Roby responded with a you are crazy and have lost your mind post (actually I believe his exact quote was my accusations were not founded in reality).
.....No big deal really as I have lost my mind lots of times.....

And then he wished MSC success.

So there you have it. Straight from Roby's mouth, he says he is not phantomphreak and wishes msc well.

Really it is beside the point, which is why I never pressed it. Counterparty apparently is not going any where and the dev (who ever he is) does seem devoted. Seeing as how both groups have similar goals, as an end user who wants to be able to use these advanced features, competition is the best thing for us.

I've even wondered if counterparty was a plan from the beginning to test various ideas of msc out. A long sighted individual might have come to the conclusion that a clone was inevitable. Why not just control it from the beginning, like Sun Tzu (the Art of War general) would have? Alot of MSC ideas are and continue to be theory. A good strategy might have been to let counterparty make some of the mistakes or advancements before deciding on inclusion.

The main problem though for all the bickering is that the msc devs no longer include the public in their musings. We little people are left with our own speculations in place of being able to follow the entertainment that has been the development of mastercoin. With counterparty at least the public feels like it can be a part of it. MSC just hands us a piece of bread (updates) every few days, letting us know that it will be THEY who control the conversation. Thats hardly entertaining at all in my opinion and it forces me to just keep checking back every few weeks as opposed to reading up everyday. (This might account for the volume)

That and dev speed is a little lacking. (Cause the things I originally invested in msc for still won't be around for many many months) It's like waiting for that last hobbit movie.

Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
-Sun Tzu, the Art of War