You should have made it public when you use money for something not tell the community afterwards when someone spotted it, that you don't know what for the money was used.
By Pizpie's statement, any *amount* spent will be made public knowledge.
That's what blockchains do. Every transaction is public knowledge.
As for revealing what the amounts were spent on, the commitment Pizpie made is that funds will be used strictly for development and community growth.
- This is an ethical commitment, because, for example, I personally would not like my income to be public. I'd imagine that it would only be under exceptional circumstances that this would be ethically called for. I value my privacy as much as any of you do.
- The most frequent purpose of tracking a premine is to check that the dev doesn't dump it. Clearly Dan hasn't done this. So do we have further concerns?
- If the community would like to extend the tracking to identify every single expense, well, I guess we'd need to consider it, but I wouldn't be put in a comfortable position.
In short, no, it's not a joke.
Now if there's anyone in the community interested in tracking premine expenditures, by all means, let everyone know.
Sorry to be harsh and direct to the point but please stop twisting words, it is really starting to wear on us all. There have been several examples where you have done this in the past and it gives a terrible impression.
Anyway back to the topic at hand... I have no problem if the entire pre-mine was spent, you all have done a lot of work and deserve to be paid.
However it sure was implied that we would be informed and NOT via us having to monitor the blockchain 24/7. Again I don't care if you all were paid with it, actually you should be. But definitely left XC open to FUD in the way it was done.