1. pruning
Every crypto can be pruned. That's not going to make them scale to actual adoption levels.
2. No. Just because I out shady scummy truths about coins/businesses doesn't make MONERO look bad.
Yeah, trolling forums is a selfless "let's spread the truth" agenda.
3. GUI != development exclusively. As a "programmer" you should know this. ANSWER: Use MYMONERO or 3rd party guis that exist if a GUI is such a big deal for you.
4. How so is it not in a proof-of-concept in monero's current form besides "the gui"?
Scaling
5. Trolling is not the same as calling out bullshit when bullshit rears its ugly head. Speak for yourself and the dash-scam-defenders resorting to childish behavior and underhanded tactics of lying, twisting the truth, being hypocritical, and makin veiled threats towards people who oppose what DASH is and was created on and around (instamine, lies, Evan et).
Yeah, I mean monero people prefer actual real life threats, like those against businesses who adopt dash.
Look, dash is a 2 y. old project. The instamine issue was addressed in the first months. Evan proposed an airdrop to fix distribution, people voted it down, that's the end of the story. The community considered that with all which had occurred up to that point (turbulent first months), the distribution was pretty good and didn't require "fixing" with extraordinary means. That was early-mid April 14 IIRC and price was still 0.001. Then it went to 0.027, twice, with major coin reshuffling, again, and again. Mintpal also "reshuffled" the coin supply, as I suspect happened with the hack in the official pool run by Evan which Evan paid out himself. Now Cryptsy, again a lot of DRKs might be reshuffled.
Not to mention when Evan and Minotaur and other dash-scam defenders run away when the truth comes out and they don't want to address what is being discussed about their shady actions.
The instamine was addressed in early 2014. People voted down the airdrop proposal. Get over it. But then again, if you do, how will you troll about "instamine", "instamine", "instamine".
As for running away from the truth, I asked, who got scammed by the instamine, I never got an answer.
The instamine coins were valued at 2.5 BTC for 100k coins. That's how much you could get back then, and many threw a couple of BTCs on it, becoming DRK whales later. The entire instamine was worth 50 BTC. For almost three weeks after the coin launch. So we could say if someone mined the ENTIRE early supply at most he got 50 BTC. But unlike altcoin scammers who hit & run, Evan stayed and developed the coin and gave it value, being a responsible dev, in a sea of scamcoins. And that was appreciated by the market.
Price started to rise from 0.000025 to 0.000080, to 0.000180, to 0.000500, to 0.02, dropping to 0.008-0.0016 (ccex hack), stabilizing at 0.0011-0.0014 for quite a while after the ccex fiasco, settling through voting the supply issue and the instamine issue, releasing darksend, going to 0.027, failing to deliver the dual consensus system with the forking issue, price dropping, rebounding, etc.
Whether one came one day later or 3 months later, their btc value now is from 7x to 280x. If that is "scamming" then, as somebody said, "Evan scam us some more". This value increase is directly related to Evan working on the coin and delivering. Anyone can make a shitcoin but few can give their shitcoin value. Evan did that, and everyone is gaining as a result. You say scam, others like the concept of an invested dev that has overlapping interests in the success of the coin - as he will be motivated to preserve and increase the value of his stash, and, by extension, the value of investors stash.
At the time point the instamine was done it was worth 50 BTC. If Evan got ~700k coins, as is circulating, that's approx one third of that, near 17 BTC. If you apply later valuation, you must also say that Satoshi too is a billion dollar "scammer" for ...solomining BTC. But you can't do that because at the time he was mining worthless coins.
Now... At current valuation, and if Evan has ~300-400k, he is at 900k / 1.2mn USD in holdings. For working 2 years straight, for more than full time (days and nights), that's 37 to 50k USD per month. Is that some kind of serious money for a crypto dev? There are normal day jobs that pay more. He would actually get paid more if he worked at market rates. IIRC Peter Todd was charging Viacoin with 60k USD per month and probably not for that kind of dedication and/or health risks that arise from anxiety, 16-18hr work, etc.