Talking about Angry Birds, what do you guys think of this one ?
Angry? LOL
I'm enjoying, you don't know how much, how you yourselves, out of sheer corruption, have sunk your most valuable possession in shit. The bad thing is the damage you have done to others ... which, in addition, you have prevented from enjoying the wonderful project that seduced them years ago.
Everything bad that happens to the Mnodes is little and totally deserved.
There are those (particularly from the monero community) who assert It was designed that way from the very beginning with the insta(fast)mine right at the project launch followed by the decision to lower the amount every to be created. This is where the scam tagline came from that plagued dash so much in the early years. To support dash you always had to have faith these events were honest mistakes not preplanned.
I do think dash had potential given its self financing to be a real force it has seemingly taken a different path.
It's possible. But I always give the benefit of the doubt ... and Duffield's approach, coupled with his insistence on Shared Mnodes, was splendid : respectful and with a vocation for collective collaboration and enrichment. At least in the public exhibitions and aspirations that the founder made of him.
About the thieves who corrupted it, there is no doubt. Fuck themselves ... well and deeply screwed.
Pity is the splendid broken dream for so many people who were stolen and marginalized from even the most elemental expression.
There is a very funny talk on youtube where Duffield expands on his explanations about Instamine / Premine. The calculating RTaylor, after snatching the microphone from him, tries not to return it despite Duffield's insistence ... and literally fixes his gaze so that he does not say a word ... and the other, appeases him with a gesture that - subjective - more it seems typical of the tranquility of someone who has acted without bad faith than that of a trickster who wants to hide the facts ... and he begins to give explanations spontaneously, totally transparent and typical of a daily and domestic matter, absolutely minor for him. Rtaylor, who is literally mortified as Duffield speaks, keeps trying to monopolize the narrative and drive it for closed justifications, which he eventually does.
In that talk, Duffield even gives an altruist solution and openly offered to hand over 80% of his Mnodes to the DAO. Which he obviously hasn't done ... but after his disappearance, what is clear is that Taylor's line of opacity and information programmed to the millimeter, skewed a, usually false and brimming with poisonous political correctness, supported in toxic and censoship garbage like DASH NEWS is what he has appropriated from DASH ... with the full acceptance and even imitation of those who have hijacked the DAO. That guy's DASH control is absolute and keeps all the DASH structure in the background that he wants ... and reserves important surprises, I have no doubt about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EG2km7GAmM&t=2834s[moderator's note: consecutive posts merged]