The Monero XMR Scam Uncovered
1.2. How much is the fish? A weird fact
Come-from-Above has donated 5000 XMR for the XMR GUI wallet.
Based on XMR and BTC prices on July 19,
5000 XMR = 5000 * 0.00455 = 22.75 BTC
5000 XMR = 22.75 * 627 = $14,624
Can you even imagine somebody wanting the GUI wallet so badly that he donates $14,000? For an already available totally free software? Which runs on .NET and cannot be used without an ugly extension? While the market price of such a development would be way beyond $1,000, more like 1 BTC?
I'm not even sure which of the two explanations is worse. Try answering yourself:
Case 1: a whale donating $14k to a XMR wallet developer and buying hero accounts
Case 2: a shill account pretending to have donated $14k and buying hero accounts
As a side note, the GUI wallet developer Jojatekok has quite an interesting activity history. He's commenting only on XMR thread and is mainly supporting his wallet only. Doesn't he look more like a maintainer of GUI thread to help conceal that all GUI wallets are being developed by the core team with no 3rd party developers around the coin? I do not want to seem too obsessed with the conspiracy theories, but those things just don't add up.
1.2. How much is the fish? A weird fact
Come-from-Above has donated 5000 XMR for the XMR GUI wallet.
Based on XMR and BTC prices on July 19,
5000 XMR = 5000 * 0.00455 = 22.75 BTC
5000 XMR = 22.75 * 627 = $14,624
Can you even imagine somebody wanting the GUI wallet so badly that he donates $14,000? For an already available totally free software? Which runs on .NET and cannot be used without an ugly extension? While the market price of such a development would be way beyond $1,000, more like 1 BTC?
I'm not even sure which of the two explanations is worse. Try answering yourself:
Case 1: a whale donating $14k to a XMR wallet developer and buying hero accounts
Case 2: a shill account pretending to have donated $14k and buying hero accounts
As a side note, the GUI wallet developer Jojatekok has quite an interesting activity history. He's commenting only on XMR thread and is mainly supporting his wallet only. Doesn't he look more like a maintainer of GUI thread to help conceal that all GUI wallets are being developed by the core team with no 3rd party developers around the coin? I do not want to seem too obsessed with the conspiracy theories, but those things just don't add up.
I just came here to gladly declare that my BitcoinTalk account was primarily registered in order to participate in a bounty for an open-source GUI wallet.
If you are curious, one of my internet friends started teaching me how to program 3 or 4 years ago in VB.NET (I also have to admit that I had little experience with GML before). Last year, we switched to C# for its greater adoption rate and better performance. Now, I am 16 years old, and wanted to try out myself in developing software for a competition, and it turned out pretty well. I received a little more than 530 XMR for the effort, but still love to maintain the project (as much as Thomas Edison adored his own "baby", the phonograph). Also, there are currently 18 translations available for Monero Client .NET, so I would be doubtful about the lack of global interest. I'm a third-party developer who cares about the users and success of Monero.
As Fluffypony has already told you, I didn't know back then that Come-from-Above was a scammer, but if he is ever willing to send me 5000 XMR (even by mistake), I would donate all of it to the core development team.