Lol... Go and FUD elsewhere.

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Mostly different developers and one ex-ICH developer.

how recent? i bought lux sp-mod #1 back in December, didn't receive the update.

After further review, there is a fairly simple explanation.

Bitcoin Maximalism

Bitcoin Maximalism is the belief that Bitcoin is in fact the One Coin To Rule Them All.  The "first mover advantage" is strong with this one.  Bitcoin was the first crypto currency to gain world wide attention.  According to this belief, all problems within Bitcoin can be solved either internally (block size debate) or as a supplementary feature (sidechains).  The true believers of Bitcoin Maximalism must use strategies of crush and absorb when better ideas come along.  This will maintain their position for as long as possible. There are VERY large stake holders that are betting on Bitcoin.

An excellent example of this problem solving is DASH.  There are inherent weaknesses in Bitcoin that have been revealed after field testing.  Transaction speed and fungibility are easy to point out.  DASH has implemented vast improvements in these (and other) areas that Bitcoin will find challenging to absorb.  Therefore, it must be crushed.

The Mods of this forum are true believers in Bitcoin Maximalism, and they have far and away the most popular crypto forum on the Internet.  Why not use the platform to your own advantage?  Some of the best and brighest minds in the industry freely post their ideas here.  This helps Bitcoin by getting free business intelligence.  Trolling on online forums is not new, and is even worse in some corners of the web.  People who have time and money invested in Altcoin A sometimes think that trolling Altcoin B will help A succeed.  This in turn starts all out war when Alcoin B attacks Altcoin C, who in turn attacks Altcoin A.  Ask yourself who stands to gain by this activity?  The Bitcoin Maximalists of course.  The term for the army of Monero trolls congregating here is "useful idiots".

What can be done?

The initial first-mover advantage will last for a period of time, only to be replaced by the "Fast Follower".  Ford Motor Company was the first mass produced manufacturer of cars.  Within a short time, General Motors was outselling them by offering something Ford would not.  By following a stragtegy of innovation, combined with focusing on getting the word out, DASH has an excellent chance of succeeding in the Digital Cash realm.

Wow rage quit? ^

It was an honest question. Seriously wow...

Personal attack for no reason.

They're not 90% people from XMR. Don't blame a coin you dislike for a few people who are part of its community and also happen to spit venom on other coins. It's just that they're the most noticeable.

Dig deeper me and Ice have had our disagreements over the years.

Your presumption just goes to show your lack of information or intentional ignorance.

Please look into both of our post histories and you will see most of what me and ICE have talked about we dont see eye to eye on.

Then people who support dash should not be able to spam their opinions too then right?

Just curious how some posts presenting facts are being deleted yet this ^ theory of paid "trolls" is obvious trash.

I don't agree with everything Adam does or says and the same goes with Ice but there are times when facts are being presented and it is ignored and called "trolling".

Yet this post above trolling people who have opposing views is allowed to be here with no problem?

Just because someone disagrees with you does not mean they are a "troll".

I think our thread is fine, there will be trolling in any popular project, I would be worried if there was not.  I don't think our official announcement thread should ever be moderated as we have nothing to hide. People that make it all the way into a crypto currency forum are smart people they should be able to judge the work we are doing and decide if they want to support the project or not.

The door goes both ways though, as if the thread was moderated there would likely be a ton of posts screaming about censorship instead. Although I do find the idea interesting, it would be possible to keep a saner atmosphere in the discussion.
In the meantime, the ignore-button is doing wonders

Donations. Same as selling software as "Donationware". Add the donations, subtract the expenses and put the result into your tax declaration.

Now that is a solid update. Exciting times! Thanks team.

I agree. I underestimated him for quite some time. I didn't expect in a million years that he would embark on such a prolonged, elaborate fraudulent scam. Charles Ponzi would be really proud of him.

I mean...

- Instamined 1.5 million coins in 8 hours
- Reduced the supply from 80M to 20M, making his bags 4x more valuable
- Implemented masternodes so he could put the instamine to work by taking a chunk from the miners' pockets
- Created the Darkcoin foundation so he can milk from coins from the people that think it actually means anything. 100 Dash per Lifetime Subscription.
- Implemented a decentralized budgeting system that works this way: A proposal is created, newbies vote it with their few masternodes and Evan comes with 1500 of his own to own the majority. Some of the proposals are really interesting, like : Up to 5000USD for a wordpress website, 5500USD for Public Awarness Campaign (huh ?), 3000 USD for the Core Team, because nobody wants to touch their masternode profits, and many more. Hehehe!

...and people still believe him.


and people still believe him

How much more public do you need the optimized miner by Wolf0?

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