Quote from: the_darkness on May 07, 2014, 04:58:00 PM

Is there a reason you're so personally invested in this? Monero is less than a month old and has been maintained by a loosely-affiliated group of developers, not some kind of internet cabal. That's the source of the disorganization that seems to bother you (e.g. the change in name, domain, etc.).

Right now there is obviously either an optimized miner or some kind of botnet on the network. If someone has inspected the Cryptonote source and used their abilities (programming, financial, or otherwise) to gain an advantage it sucks for the rest of us but is not an insta-mine. That's just the way the world works. Someone else is better at something and they get ahead. I think it's pretty naive to think that people won't try to gain an inside advantage if they can. Although it's nice for people to share crypto mining resources (e.g. cgminer, sgminer, guiminer, Noodledoodle's code fork) there is no moral obligation that they do so. Ultimately if something is unfair we're free to choose not to participate. Whoever has dramatically increased the hash runs the risk of alienating their potential future buyers if they shut everyone else out of the game, but we'll have to wait and see if that happens.

That's the beauty of it. Abusers get punished by abused people's free will.

People thinking otherwise are, IMHO, stuck in a dictatorial worldview where they think they have no choice.
Bytecoin was 80% premine. Choice was to either complain and follow (cursing the darkness) or create a fair fork (lighting up a candle) - Same thing happened two years ago with Tenebrix (or Ixcoin even earlier), by the way.
TFT chose to light up a candle (after that, he had a kind of management that pissed off enough people to make him ostracized, but that's another matter).

Guys, you are free. But freedom stops when you stop using it.