Quote from: smooth on August 22, 2014, 03:17:25 PM

Quote from: Anotheranonlol on August 22, 2014, 02:33:53 PM

half of all supply mined within a year.. seriously?

You better check your math.

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TFT was the one who added the 'feature' (bug) to change it from 120s to 60s which caused it's own set of problems. It since hasn't been corrected. It's one of the reasons you saw so many orphans- verification is expensive, that wasn't optimized, neither was the daemon, etc all CN coins had problems but XMR had issues even more so with introduction of 60s block. When XMR was hijacked from TFT, the new devs made no effort to fix his questionable changes, Those params were left the way they were, despite there being arguments against them they were left to stay . Why even choose it? why keep it.

Because some changes are more risky and disruptive than others, and need to done with greater care and planning. Some of the changes you mentioned, such as not being optimized, were fixed relatively quickly. Others will be fixed in due time, and obviously the experience so far shows that the coin can do quite well, thank you, despite not having changes that you apparently don't fully understand pushed out too quickly.

(Good) software development is hard, okay? Are you actually a software developer in any way? Because frankly you sound pretty ignorant about this, even if you make some other good points from time to time.

Hi,

"You better check your math." < numbers may be rough, I'll correct it and apologize. could you post the exact figure?

It's easy to understand (good) development is hard. I'm addressing this constant argument about any other coin with the exception of Monero being rushed. Monero was the one launched without changes initially. Changes which were 'To be fixed in future" - Of course there have been changes, it's plain to see. and of course there will be changes in future, some of which take longer. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

What is wrong is this notion perpuated by monero zealots that XMR is perfectly allowed to have hiccups or flaws, because they can fix some of those in the future, yet any other coin can't have hiccups because that's not okay and that means they've rushed. I mean BBR was the one which took longer to release (BBR made some fairly large changes to a greater magnitude than XMR) Somehow in that case, BBR is the one that rushed! How does that even make sense.

Whenever I come here and get jumped by these various beleibers wearing I heart monero t-shirts who are plainly in love with this supposed soon-to-be silver to btc's gold. (I know there was one before, but this one is shinier) I feel like i'm getting a pillow over my mouth and telling me to shh, you can't fight it..

You can even consider some of the changes implemented by other coins as stopgap solutions. While XMR supporters go wild and rejoice that they haven't taken half-measures, and plan to do everything in one go. The other coin can potentially fix it in one go too, and still enjoy the benefits the stopgaps might have afforded them.
during the meantime.

I also know XMR will do perfectly well, in it's current incarnation, it's apparent. Doesn't even matter the specific reasons why it Will- it will do so regardless of criticism levied against it

You know yourself some of the params associated with XMR cannot and will not be changed. It was a decision that was made once and now we're stuck with it.

To answer your question; re: am i a software developer - It's not my occupation. stopped needing to work about 3 years ago, hopefully will continue that for next 60-70 years, if i live that long Grin

. I certainly wouldn't do it for fun.
But I've developed some software, so I guess that makes me a software developer in some way? also I wrote a HTML page once but i messed up on the img tags. I'll come clean and say i'm not that good with computer to be truthful. but welcome to be educated.

Questions for you: 1) Do you consider the emission curve of XMR to be preferable to the one chosen by BBR 2) do you consider the 60s block time to be optimal, or would you preferred it to have been changed?