The only thing that Evan was guilty of is being excited, enthusiastic, and lacking foresight about what he was doing. You have to understand the timing as well. This was a time when several coins were hitting the market every day. Evan was excited about his creation and wanted to launch as soon as possible. His enthusiasm can be seen in the post you quoted.
Thank you for sharing your opinion, however.
Thank you for answering. That's an explanation that seems plausible. Fair enough.
Even if he was so excited and enthusiastic about launching it, as a smart guy, he should have known that his decision will be followed by consequences.
Maybe it was because of his lack of foresight, but don't you see the troubling implications if that conclusion was right?
The facts are in the threads. It does not matter how they try to discredit the people that display the facts. It can not change the facts.
Then after all of his excitement caused him to
1. launch before he said he would
2. launch with no windows wallets (every other dev launched with them and was called out for a scammer if they did not)
3. mined it all up at 10x speed anyone else could after they "fixed it"
4. he then got so excited that he slashed the minting back by 75% so he magnified his mistakes in mining up huge amounts of the coin to super super huge
If you read the threads it is all there in black and white. These are facts that have been thrashed out 100X
this taoway or taoofsaatoshi even brough all these facts to light around 2 years ago.
How ever they twist and excuse any other coin would be called a scam for doing all of this and so will dash.
Dash=scam darkcoin =scam xcoin = scam.
Look at the polls conducted on this board. Check those thread links some are polls
This is also damming evidence
Let's take a look at the first 5 h of Darkcoin (XCoin at that time)...
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4589219Edufield said (after failed launch) that he will wait the next day to launch DRK (XCoin at that time) it is 11 pm.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4591407 Edufield disregard windows wallet and daemon and hurry up his launch, presumably to not have windows miners on board.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4592827Edufield say he added four nodes for the launch at 4 am (5 hours later, despite his promise to wait). The 4 nodes from Edufield are 3 amazons AWS + another unknown (whois IP). Launch started at 3h54 am.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4593601 Edufield said the github version was not updated, nobody could compile and only Edufield was able to mine until that time. It is 5.09 am and Edufield instamined alone 1153 block at 500 DRK + 60 block at reward 277 = 593120 DRK for him alone in about 1 hour.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4593987 No windows wallet confirmed at 5h47 am, despite a user attempt to make one avaiable, that Edufield dismissed quickly.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4594096 Illodin, understand dev has instamined alot of coin.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.4595573 From this list of nodes, at 8h34 am (4h40 after launch) there were 50 Amazon AWS node and 50 microsoft cloud computing instamining DRK (checked using IP whois service). This is 100/124 nodes using cloud computing to instamine DRK. We are at block 2870 and block reward is 500. From block 1153-1729 block reward is 277. After that it is 500 again hence 2294 block at 500 + 576 at 277 = 1306552 DRK (worth about 13M$ now) were instamined in less than 5 hour by Edufield and coworkers using about 100 cloud mining instances. Edufield himself instamined in not even 5 h from 600K to 1169K DRK ((1306K-600K)*100/124 + 600K) depending how many of the 100 cloud mining instance were its own. All this while having purposefully set the difficult ridiculously low and block reward 100 times what it is now.
From 6M$ - 13M$ in 5 h, Edufield did some lucrative work here!
Edufield is nominee for the Master Scammer 2014 award!