Quote from: Kuriso on September 19, 2014, 12:40:54 AM

Quote from: smooth on September 19, 2014, 12:09:37 AM

Quote from: Kuriso on September 18, 2014, 11:59:01 PM

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...I think David was going to be staying at his castle for a while. I'm not sure if that is still the plan...

If its no secret, why does smooth act like he doesn't know what's going on?

Because I don't particularly pay attention to where people live nor their day jobs (you know we all have day jobs of sorts right?), and also because, as I said, the plan was a bit on-again off-again for a while, and at this very moment (aside from what has been said on this thread) I really have no idea what he is doing (nor do I particularly care, other than being friendly with David and generally supporting his decisions about how to live his own life).

David is a very intelligent and independent-minded person, and I have no doubt he can keep his living arrangements and day job (if he is indeed working for Risto, which I don't know) separate from his role on the Monero team. And even if he can't 100% do that, he's only 1/7 of the team, so any (entirely hypothetical) undue influence is extremely muted.

And on top of that, I don't really think Risto is a bad guy anyway. He simply seems to support the coin. I guess maybe its hard for you to believe that the coin has sincere supporters, but it does. He appears to be one of them.

There is nothing here, it is simply more FUD and smear tactics.

I guess I could of worded that a bit differently. I was only trying to show Nekomata that David and Risto working together is not common knowledge for everyone. I didn't know it until he said that in the trollbox.

David may be intelligent and independent-minded person. Never said he wasn't. But having no doubt about what he can and cannot do carries very little weight here. You have no control over the situation and in no way can you speak to the certainty of this. Neither can I. I'm only expressing my concern about the control he tries to put on the monero market and having someone closely tied to monero working for you is not a good situation.

I never really said he was a bad guy either but he does more than simply try to support a coin. You have no idea what I believe therefore you have no room to comment on my beliefs of sincere supporters.

Let's keep this simple. If David is working with Risto and living in his castle I couldn't care less. If you think that being the case is going to make any real difference to people thinking critically about the value of the coin and the success of the project, then we will simply have to agree to disagree.

If we do indeed disagree, I'd suggest you should get out of this FUD echo chamber a bit more and talk to some real people. Find out what they really think is important or not important about open source projects when they aren't obsessed with playing "shit on the other altcoin" game that is so popular here.

I've talked to a lot of people about Monero who cared enough to examine it in detail and ask me critical questions, sometimes many such questions. Some decided they didn't like it at all, some decided they did. Not once can I think of did the question of Risto's (non) involvement come up, except in public posts on this forum. Obviously those are playing to an audience. Whether you are doing that deliberately or just caught up in the "shit on other altcoins" game, I have no idea, but either way you are doing it.