People complaining about Spots are mostly people that did not read the threads and notices and did not follow the set rules and lost out because of their own laziness/incompetence. I agree that some of Spots' decisions could have been done better especially applying a weighted avg on the last merge. However, those that followed the threads and interpreted the planned moves and coin specs properly, made tons because one could see the impact from a mile and could prepare accordingly.
Spots just takes no-nonsense and sticks to his guns. It is never possible to please everyone in this game. Remember that crypto currently is very much like the Wild West of the 1860s and everyone follows the best middle road they can. When you are moving through a jungle clearing bush with a machete, no-one can really be blamed for going left or right since there is no map for what lies ahead and at least from experience people that then follow will know don't go left there or don't go right there. At some point better generally accepted rules and regulations will form that governs things like merges, swops, new coins and the likes. In the mean time sometimes you win and sometimes you lose and anyone that does not already write off any money invested in crypto should rather go buy government bonds. This place is lawless, but necessary to produce innovation for a digital future. In that sense I like some of Spots' experiments, especially on the high POS. High POS sounded like a good idea but was not economically viable and it had to be reigned in. Bringing it into one stall was a good idea not necessary executed perfectly but taking a hair cut is much better any day than being abandoned outright.
You can love Spots or hate him and it is possible to say many pros and cons about his actions, but he is still around, taking the flack on the chin and moving forward despite all the attacks and animosity. He is sticking to his guns so far on his middle road and is much more that can be said about most other devs that disappeared, produced infected wallets, dumped premine and ran, coded hidden premine or any other blatant scamming that went on elsewhere.
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I'm one to complain about spots. Personally I don't think he was out to scam anyone. But by his actions, he's caused a few half way decent coins to collapse. If the group wants to take them over, I say more power to you.
The problem I've noticed is spots is bi-polar. He's also manipulative. Throws childish temper tantrums when people don't agree with him. Then he deletes posts, including his own.
At one point during vary testing the people in BTCtalk were the best because everyone was testing out his new stuff.
now, he hates everyone of them and there all fools.
Someone asked for help with a conf file. Conf files are for shit coins to make them able to run.
4 posts later, add maxcon=999 to the conf file...
At one point he was the greatest developer to ever live, only he could understand everything.
later he admits he just started coding and didn't care for it very much.
No coin control in his earlier coins, because he didn't want people gaming the system.
later he explains how to do things you could easily do with coin control to game the system.
I think the problem was, he didn't know how to make it work.
Never a bug in his code.
The whole thread is filled with him, releasing fixes. Not to mention the problems with 9 hour block times, that just had to work themselves out...
I don't know if he ever fixed the problem with Stakes not reporting while maturing. His solution was to close the wallet and reopen. Or go look at getinfo the info
is correct there.
It's his coin, and he's going to do whatever he feels is best.
Everybody was complaining so I had to change it.
My whole problem with his coins. He can't seem to stick with anything for very long. Something new comes along and there is a hard fork. Things not working exactly as expected, create a new coin and merge things.
The great and powerful spots couldn't figure out how to make a coin that would just use a snap shot of the old chain and assign the new coins to addresses based on that. AKA Clams. Would have saved all of the bullshit, send me your keys/wallet and you only have 60 mins for this offer....
He slams Hyperstake every chance he gets. At least that coin has stuck to it's guns, and after some interesting inflation, seems to have settled down. Plus it has a hella development group.
He's had some interesting idea, It's to bad he felt the need to change things and have them come crashing down.
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