Quote from: smooth on October 03, 2014, 10:44:11 PM

Quote from: TheFascistMind on October 03, 2014, 10:38:19 PM

One person's FUD is another person's eureka instigator.

I'm waiting for that to happen even once. Then I will be convinced.

Some Bitcoin devs thought selfish mining was FUD.

Quote from: TheFascistMind on October 03, 2014, 09:46:21 PM

I understand you want BCX to walk them through an attack with more details, but you know even most very smart Bitcoin devs didn't think selfish mining was real after the white paper was published until they went and built simulations to disprove it and ended up proving it.

Quote from: smooth on October 03, 2014, 10:44:11 PM

In this space the reasonable a priori belief is that FUD is just FUD.

That does not mean it can't be reevaluated in light of new evidence, but without evidence, no, and without reevaluation the a priori remains rationally useful.

Irrational.

FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) is the reality because you don't know how vulnerable XMR is or is not. Thus it is healthy and should be priced in. Controlling information flow to prevent credible FUD dissemination is very unhealthy and prevents Antifragility. Note I am distinguishing credible and rational discussion of concepts from pure chicken little noise from n00bs.

http://unheresy.com/Information%20Is%20Alive.html#Knowledge_Anneals

Quote from: myself, who ever I am

Knowledge Anneals

Unsophisticated thinkers have an incorrect understanding of knowledge creation, idolizing a well-structured top-down sparkling academic cathedral of vastly superior theoretical minds. Rather knowledge primary spawns from accretive learning due to unexpected random chaotic fitness created from multitudes of random path dependencies that can only exist in the bottom-up free market. Top-down systems are inherently fragile because they overcommit to egregious error (link to Taleb's simplest summary of the math).

Note I traded emails with Taleb and it seemed he basically concurred.

Quote from: smooth on October 03, 2014, 10:44:11 PM

The code is open to all eyeballs, just as is Linux. Github, including developer's forks on github are open. Discussions on #monero-dev and other suitable channels are also open.

There is nothing being hidden, but we await actionable competently analyzed information. So far there has been none.

If the XMR code wasn't a shitload of C and written in some higher-level language such as Scala, I would enjoy coding it. Sorry I don't use C any more except for the optimized smallish portion of a code base. I wrote 10s of 1000s of lines of assembly and C code in the 1980s. Enough of that.

http://copute.com/img/types.png

I sat on the developer IRC for a while and I see mostly talk about the nitty gritty details about the source code. Sorry I am a high-level thinker. And thus I also like to code in high-level paradigms.