Quote from: slapper on October 07, 2014, 11:49:24 PM

Quote from: smooth on October 07, 2014, 11:10:21 PM

Quote from: slapper on October 07, 2014, 10:15:57 PM

It would make sense if you guys came up with the tech and the hard work. You didn't. You paid cryptographers (gmaxwell ?) to vet the whitepaper, which is your only contribution to date.

First off that's wrong. There is a lot of hard work we've done, some of that is still in progress (database and GUI), some of it is deployed. There are several of our own "whitepapers" in addition to the review of the cryptonote whitepaper (also please don't assume by my silence that I'm agreeing or disagreeing with your speculation about who did the review, because I'm not).

I don't like the pay-per-review model. That whole thing should be done in community spirit. It would have a lot more meaning to "our own whitepapers".

Not sure what you are saying. Cryptonote didn't pay us to review their whitepaper, we did it because we thought it needed to be done, and released it to the community. Likewise with our reviews of their code.

We've also released our own documents (which I quote as "whitepapers" because that term is thrown around so much in the cryptocoin world as be nearly meaningless) and anyone who wants to review them is free to do so.

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It is not a waste. You don't represent the entire factions on either side nor does anyone. The mentality everywhere has been to eliminate BBR (you would know this if you spent time in the right places). I don't trust a majority of the vocal people on any side.

Fair enough. I can speak only for myself, and occasional for the Monero core team but never for all Monero supporters.

One thought though. The more you perpetuate the model of the coins as being in mortal conflict, the more what you describe will continue and even increase. It is possible to fan the flames, even if unintentionally. I fail to see how that can help BBR.