These posts explain why Bryce did what he did, as described by previous developers that have worked with him in the past. Basically, he can't write code of his own and has a long-standing history of stealing the work of others and passing it off as his own. He also has no shame when it comes to manipulating social media to exact vengeance on those who have crossed him. I'm sure he has an excuse as to why all of his critics are wrong and he is a saint.
He only broke code Bryce did not make any coins imho especially a Blake based coin he does not even seem to be able to compile coin wallets atm
most if not all the working code and compiled wallets for his coins seem to be done by other devs wonder why
you can see from the github commits I was the fool who fixed and got Dirac working and also ran all the nodes and merged mined it on my pools but I am working on other projects namely the mmo games and Bryce did not like that as I would not do anymore work on coins and would not setup a merged pool on demand which resulted in him getting very abusive to me via DM and email which you can see some of that here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9527356I never asked for any type of payment for any thing I have done with Blake based coin projects and I also really dislike the premine and ipo/ico crap that is also far too common if anyone wants to send coins to a dev because they have actually done some work great but these other schemes should be avoided as there is not any proof a dev will produce results after they have x% of a coin they claim to be the dev of or a big bag of BTC
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Note: Market price does not equal results or development as they are far to easy to manipulate and is often the way these scam coins are hyped
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory Edit:
Another thing I know for sure is that Bryce uses multiple accounts both here and on twitter (both haters and lovers which is kind of weird)
it would not surprise me if he setup an account just so he could say it was not him after paying someone to make the coin for him
I'll go and do it myself. If I can't do it I'll pay someone to do it.
I am still not happy with the xdq code its got bugs and issues and Bryce cant be bothered to updated the code with even the simplest update *checkpoints
I will never work with Bryce again after the way he treated me he can apologize all he likes it does not change that he is a bully to work with and for an open source project there is nothing that will entice me to work with people like that including fake apologies, BTC or Fiat currency its not going to happen ever he burned his bridges with me and the other blake eco devs!
Bryce Weiner
26 May
to me
You're creating a de facto closed source ecosystem.
Nice job. You're everything crypto was created to fight against.
Bryce Weiner
26 May
to me
I'll go and do it myself. If I can't do it I'll pay someone to do it.
If I sound disappointed it is because I am.
BlueDragon747
26 May
to Bryce
I am not doing it for you
Bryce Weiner
26 May
to me
You're not doing it for anyone but yourself.
I'll take all the attention away from your ecosystem.
It's that simple.
BlueDragon747
26 May
to Bryce
you are welcome to do as you wish
Bryce Weiner
26 May
to me
As are we all.
Good luck.
Bryce Weiner
26 May
to me
I've never allowed anyone to hold my coins hostage.
I'll be hard forking off of BLC as soon as possible.
You can remove Dirac if you wish, but then I'll tell the world it's because you want total control over a closed source system and refuse to allow coin devs to setup their own pools.
I wanted you to know what's coming because I felt I owed you at least that much.
I am sorry we could not work together, but I will not work with wannabe tyrants.
Sincerely,
all my code is on Github as it always was and others have setup pools both public and private and I have helped them but thats not same as doing it for them
Bryce Weiner
26 May
to me
Sorry if I made a mistake about the code not being open source.
Bryce Weiner
26 May
to me
I'm trying to make money so we can all profit
I am simply disappointed and quite frankly if you don't wish to work with us anymore that's just fine.
I have a reputation to uphold for ethical behavior.
"us" is that meaning Blocktech because this at the time was from his Blocktech email Oops guess there is no "us" now
Bryce Weiner
12 Jun
to me
Hahahaha... Get the fuck over yourself.
I did you a courtesy. If you want me to just say your networks are fucked up on Twitter I can do that.
THEN I'll setup my pools. Tee hee hee.
I don't need to spend money wasting resources when I can waste yours... that is... until your network fucks up like it has.
Bryce Weiner
12 Jun
to me
See how that works?
getting me to do all the work on xdq and trying to force me to setup a merge pool for Bryce because he can't and won't do it himself is certainly not a courtesy imho
Bryce has a screwed up way of thinking about ethics go work with him yourself and dont take my word on it!
atm I am stuck with running the nodes for xdq and maintaining it on the merged pools and it sucks
Exactly , we will never work with Bryce again, not for all the tea in china or all the btc in satoshi's hoarde.
ive seen those e mails with full headers and more detail.
i don't care how many fake forum accounts or fake twitter accounts come out to be his friend or pretend to be his enemy, Bryce is a waste of time , I will never ever acknowledge him or anything he is involved with again.
And no matter how many of you people running multiple accounts come out of the woodwork is no difference to me (or to Bluedragon obviously)
From what I've seen Bryce the Weiner is involved in scam after scam.
But here's the thing which people don't get. The guy is totally incompetent as a coder. Last year he was asking around for advice how to compile a wallet in windows. The guy is an idiot at programming and he's a bigger idiot at things like economics. I have corrected him so many times regarding elementary issues, on twitter and he just deletes his tweets and lies about everything.
So I have to wonder how such an incompetent idiot is everywhere and gets so much credit when he knows nothing?
More to follow.