Confirmation that I am who I say I am.
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Yes I copied the Ghostcoin source, as I the original Whitecoin dev also made Ghostcoin. I also made some 30 other coins.
For clarification I was until not long ago a freelance coin maker, making coins for myself and other paying parties.
I charged a standard rate of 1BTC or 50% of the premine to make these coins and promised a 24hr turnaround.
When contacted by a community member to make Whitecoin the original set of specs not only did not make sense, were very bad. Since I was unable to contact the member until 2 hours prelaunch I was pressed for time.
Originally they wanted it cloned off blackcoin. When I started to clone it I left the premine to the end and realized that nHeight had not been used to calculate POW rewards, so rather than going through and changing POW, I just quickly copied over the specs to Ghostcoin. With a limited amount of time, I did what I could.
The main mistake made was I used the Blackcoin POS min and max heights. This for some reason actually disabled POS.
When this was bought to my attention, the Whitecoin project was basically extorted from my self and other member by Monzongo, who threatened to destroy the network and claimed it as his own. In the best interest of blackmail and I extortion I handed over the passwords etc.
Then news came Whitecoin had broken. This actually came as I launched another coin for a customer and since recently being extorted from Whitecoin I had no interest in fixing or working for Monzongo.
But in less than 20 minutes, while releasing another coin I wrote a patch and passed it on and washed my hands dry.
For the next 5 days the Whitecoin "new"dev team consisting of Mindfox and Crypto West could not tune the patch I wrote originally that ended up being the POS patch. Since "no one"could fix it the price grew for the complete patch for the POS fix. This then ended up with Monzongo publicly offering on Skype a 5BTC bounty for the patch. 2 hours later I pushed the commits to github as the stupid dicks forgot to change the github password after the account was extorted.
For 2 weeks I waiting for the 5BTC payment and received nothing but promises of funds (5BTC) from Monzongo. As this point I posted a few earlier threads threatening to expose the truth. This fell on deaf ears with Monzongo threatening me in PM's to watch out.
After weeks of bickering I called a truce with Monzongo and walked away.
At this point some 8 weeks after the patch I still received nothing. Most other developers know this and will not touch Whitecoin until all development funds are paid.
To rub salt into the wound, crypto donations collected where sent to Crypt West and Mindfox who actually did nothing vs paying the bounty for the patch which was promised but never delivered.
Hope this clears things up.
I don't know the whole story on this, but I do know that you were trying to fix it while I already debugged it and announced my findings in the skype group-chat, where I was laughed at, cursed and even accused of not knowing what I'm saying.
Regarding the 5 days, here's where you're wrong. I debugged and announced my findings in one day time. Since then, I wanted to make it work correctly, since someone (I wonder who that could be) left the hard coded sync checkpoints from another coin (yes, ghostcoin) and the wallet was going nuts when trying to re-download the chain.
Also, from what I saw in that skype group-chat, you wanted some btcs payment for your so-called "patch", when I already released screenshots of my test wallet staking and was preparing to make a public test with it, to make sure that everything will work out just fine.
There is so much story behind this and I'm glad you brought it up.
I have records of irc chat where I recall Mogonzo offering to pay for work done and it being politely refused.
Along the lines of "I'm only to happy to promote interdev intercoin co-operation".
So my recollection of history is different to you.