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Maybe because I have the secret feature called "PM" and it wasn't directed to you?

Just a guess.


~BCX~

He'll never directly answer questions like this, because he has no real answer.  His vague post just earlier is a perfect example.  He mentioned a request that he made that was ignored.  He failed to identify what the request was, who it was directed to, and who ignored it.  And guess what, he won't do it.  

As I've said before, I have no idea whether he can or will launch any sort of attack (or whether there is one in progress).  But I can tell you that his threats, all of them, are vague.  And he either ignores serious questions, or addresses them in a non-responsive way.  My hunch is that this is deliberate ... it gives him an out.  Whatever happens, or doesn't happen, he can use utilize the fact that he hasn't really threatened anything, or requested anything, or said anything, as cover.  He'll point to X, Y, or Z prior statement of his, and claim that he was being consistent all along, and that everyone else was too stupid to understand.  

And he's right about one thing, he shouldn't be banned, and won't be banned for any of this.  No one has to listen to him.  No one.  

I've said this before as well, but if he does know of an exploit, I am quite certain that the devs would love to hear from him, and work with him to see if it can be resolved.  Assuming he knows something, and that is a huge assumption at this point, he's acted very irresponsibly so far.  And if he does something criminal, he will, with near-certainty, face consequences.

Finally, he's lost any moral high ground he may have had.  Arguably, his obsession with AUR, whether or not he was behind the TW attack, was justified based on the fact that AUR had all the hallmarks of a scam.  That justification is absent with XMR.  

We'll find out soon enough, but if I were a betting man, and I certainly am a speculator on XMR if that counts, I would be (and am) betting against BCX launching any sort of serious attack on XMR.

And since he likes to set up puzzles and make you read into what he says rather than ever give a direct answer, I'd look closely at his other recent post, where he admitted that there is some "bull shit," and referred to his own actions as something that may or may not happen.  Like everything else he says, this is open to a myriad of interpretations.  But if there is no attack, or there is a minor, non-coin killing attack, he'll need some kind of out in order to save face and reputation, and if you look at his posts carefully, it's all set up pretty nicely.

I don't consider it equivalent because when he was doing it Bitcoin was worth exactly zero, and its immediate prospects for ever being worth anything were remote. It was huge gamble to even bother paying for the equipment, setting it up (my recollection is that his setup was speculated to be more than a few PCs), keep it going, pay for electricity, etc. It is possible he "borrowed" resources from an academic lab or something, but still it took time to set it up. It literally took years before the coins could be monetized at all, even to buy pizzas. I don't even know if, without the benefit of hindsight, what he was doing was a good investment on his time and (maybe) money. If he was running a scam, it was a very, very long con, and a risky one.

Today, the situation is different. Pretty much any coin can expect to be listed on some exchanges relatively quickly (some right from the start) and have a clearly established and monetizable value, making easy for a pump-and-dumper to make a few big announcements and cash out, with no real intention to use the money to develop the coin. In fact businesses exist that do this on an industrial scale. Thus the entire model is horribly tainted by the market for lemons problem.

The other problem is that even with the above (or perhaps because of it), the amount you can cash out even with a premine is pretty small. Zoidberg said he is getting about 750 USD per month from his deferred premine, and that is after the price of BBR has been pumped. Before recent development it might have been 100 USD per month or something (not sure of the exact numbers).

He could have done a non-deferred premine instead. Assuming the liquidity to cash that out at current prices existed (which it doesn't), he could only raise about 27K USD that way. Hardly enough to fund a project. Even increasing his premine from 1% to 10% would only be 270K USD, with vastly greater liquidity issues, and still not really enough to soundly fund such a project.

So as far as I can tell premines are a magnet for pump-and-dump scams and don't work very well for funding legitimate projects anyway. A better approach is needed.

There are a few exceptions, if you have a very high profile and can generate huge hype before you even start, like Ethereum.

Expect pruning of ring signatures from XMR. That could be a major development. But I've already anticipated that. It is not sufficient by itself to elevate XMR to a Bitcoin killer.

Actions and outcomes will determine who here has shit all over their face at the end game.

You must bring us... ANOTHER SHRUBBERY!

Just keeping the theme going.

My, oh, my, the emotions in this thread....

It's only money, people.  And really it's only maybe money.  It's alpha-test level software/protocol.  It's all speculative.

Let's all just hang out in the free-for-all and have a good time!

BTW, BCX, I "marked" you in the Polo trollbox.  You now own some BTM.

True.

Your numerous empty posts serve only to chronicle your own inevitable decline.

Yea ... well I disagree.  I think there's enough room for ONE anon coin and one smart coin.

I do agree with you that it is probably less than what most people think as far as possibilities.   Xmr has a better shot than bbr

Bitcoin will die eventually when it gets to the point of needing to rely on fees instead of miner rewards.

We thought we had found one, but when she saw your picture, she backed out.

We found a blind one, but when she smelled your breath, she backed out.

We found a blind one with a cold, but she couldn't prove she was under 14.

We did try.

All bull shit aside, no alt has even a .01% chance much less 10%

What I do or do not do will never alter any alt's inevitable decline.


~BCX~

Four...four points for the record.   

I would like to make three points for the record.

1.  Based on what I can see cryptonote is the best anontech so I own some xmr.

2.   Risto, amorix, and friends do nothing but make me cringe.  Funding the devteam is the ONLY positive that I can see them bringing to the table.

3.  I sold off half my stash (again cut of bcx ... thanks for changing up time line there buddy)

4.  I own some bbr but have less faith in it being widely adopted.  If xmr has a 10% chance then bbr has a 1%

The request I have made, which is simple has been ignored.


~BCX~

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Why do you refuse to respond to the dev team showing all your demands have been met, and instead focus on non dev-team members comment towards or about you?

Annnnd the man is in the house.  Still motivated to give it a shot bcx?

Nemokata dude. .. facts on the coins he mentions back him up.  

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Back on topic from these two longwinded trolls.  Any news on BCX?  Is he still saying the attack is on?