Topic: Open Letter to Luke-JR About Alt-Coin Attacks (Read 6310 times)

Thanks for dragging up a pointless thread from 2.5 years ago.   

hahaha actually this aligns with Christian behaviour more than it does anything else

Great, have fun. I don't have time for scammers and their nonsense.

Luke-Jr, there are many current altcoins deserving of the same fate.

very unchristian of him... actually very american christian of him

Eligius was the first pool I used. I then became better acquainted with the operator's public persona by reading posts here, decided he was brain damaged in a way that I did not want to subsidize, and took my business elsewhere. No big deal, this was months ago.

The open source code use/attribution licensing requirement is simple and unambiguous. It must be done in whole, or not; end of story.

However, if Crusader Rabbit* is taking it upon himself to pronounce which blockchain ledger implementations are scams and which aren't, he needs to either come up for fresh air or quietly drown, as he has indeed gone off the deep end. They all could be characterized as scams when seen from outside Nakamototown, and in fact are by more than a few reasonable persons.

So, yes, in my opinion it looks bad when factions running the same basic confidence scheme are screwing around with each other. It doesn't matter whether or not that characterization is fair or correct. The perception of seaminess is already there thanks to Silk Road and others, it's not going away, and quarrelling amongst the children just reinforces the perception.

* Crusader Rabbit Crusade 1 Episode 01
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3hHQvkUhJo

If I may, I'd like to say that I actually agree with Luke about bitcoin forks doing more harm than good... And I don't see how taking them down in any way somehow discredits bitcoin.

lol

go back to sleep man

I partially admire Luke for at least having the courage to push those pump&dump forks right where they belong.
What I don't appreciate is the execution, how many people mining on Eligius would consent to this?

(If I got paid regardless, I probably wouldn't care though)

Come on to EclipseMC!!!  ^_^

Luke-JR: I appreciate you agreeing to talk with me. I am working in the field right now when I return home in about four hours time (7PM EST)
I will message you on IRC.

Thank you.

my Bitcoin wallet address (1Cp8HBr3vtEAvQ1RqQhjbhGciYDapf3ATN)
cant sign with it right now because I am at work but I have mined over 250 Bitcoins with your pool.

This.

Attacking and killing them serves to provide ultimately more discredit to the entire project than just letting them slide into oblivion. What you have achieved here is simply wasting your time to no productive end.

I don't particularly have any incentive to respond to the scammers that I foiled, given the significant cost (in time) to do so. Nor do I have any financial loss or care particularly if people want to stop mining on Eligius because they were in on the scam (or any other reason). I will clarify that Eligius miners were not adversely impacted by this, and that the CLC mining involved only adding data that I hashed myself to my own transactions; and I was careful to ensure that nobody lost any confirmed CLC. If any Eligius miner wishes to inquire further, I will take the time to answer specific to-the-point questions which are signmessage'd with an active (ie, has mined in the past week) Eligius payout address that has earned at least 2000 TBC (5.36870912 BTC) over all time.

Eligius is a Bitcoin mining pool and I am, as always, committed to doing my best to contribute to and protect the Bitcoin ecosystem. Pyramid schemes built upon forks of the Bitcoin software ultimately discredit and harm Bitcoin's reputation. I hope CoiledCoin will be the last of such scams now that it is clear there are people (not just myself) willing to stand up to them. Namecoin alone demonstrates a legitimate, innovative use of Bitcoin technology, and while I don't personally agree with their ideals/goals, I see it as a good thing for Bitcoin and worth cooperating with.

cablepair, regarding Devcoin, I don't see any reason to treat it as different from any other scamcoin. I will at least discuss it with you on IRC before doing anything other than mining it with the almost-unmodified (zero txn fee, zero post-maturity delay) Devcoin client.

P.S. While the opposition seem to be very venemous and vocal, I have gotten a lot more positive support from a head-count perspective.

I won't do so.  Mostly i am mining Bitcoin, even NMC doesn't matter.

I have now moved my workers away from Eligius. It's not much, but I hope others do the same.

For those that asked me to PM the first page of the deleted thread to you, here it is:

https://eclipsemc.com/talk/

I am not going to clutter up the Eligius thread.

Someday he will pay the price. One way or another.

I have always wondered why such a capable coder also had to be such a troublemaking bullheaded asshole as well. I think mental issues are certainly something to worry about with this gun-toting fiend using what he has to cause mayhem and destruction, even if it is "only" virtual at this point.

If this attack was carried out, it's done as stupid as can be. Eligius is the pool that I trusted most as the following is not possible:
* Attack a competing pool/chain by throwing your hashing power at them.
* reward your miners with the coins mined/alt-coins mined traded for real coins.

As in Eligius this can not be done unnoticed as the reward does not come from old coins and thus the miners can not be compensated I hope to see a justification from Luke soon.