I like how you say "his users" as if we are one entity, a cult, a following of claymore and now are guilty by association under your premise. Apparently, since I use his miner and have used his miners in the past, I am guilty as well.
it is some of his users, and no need to be rude to each other here
some of his users do act like cult followers, and many of them were bashing linux miners which code of which was in the very miner they were using - that is ignorance...
and his miner was released which cause an incredible increase in hashrate which did drop the price
no need to be ignorant about it.. blame or not, they are the reason the price has had such a steady drop... its just the way it is...
if the truth is annoying,... just don't listen to it
and i did/do like his eth miner, no need to lie about it
but at the same time no need to be ignorant of what happened with the ZCash miner
As you stated, "it is some of his users," not being rude but classifying everyone of his users as bashers was inappropriate
Also I am apparently "lazy," being rude is not my forte, but for you, it is.
I quote, "who cares about windows ... only people who are too lazy to install free stable and secure linux LOL... why do people want to use an OS with backdoors out the ying yang"
And with your argument about the hashrate dropping the price. Please learn the fundamentals of mining.
"hash rate is just the overall number of hash calculations performed per unit time, which is inferred from looking at how many blocks have been found over a given time window"
The market is affected by supply and demand. Currently, there is no demand because who the heck would hold at a price of 2-3 btc (even WAY higher initially) when they could sell. The same number of blocks are found but the difficulty goes up. In this case, when claymore was released, the "lazy window's miners" now could now mine at an equivalent hashrate, spreading the wealth of coin to more dumpers. Now instead of few dumping, everyone is dumping coin. So yes, you could correlate the dump to claymore's miner but that isn't ignorance if someone were to argue the technicalities of the situation. The dump happened because the same amount coins were mined, but more individuals were earning them, so the dump was happening in a quicker (though smaller, consistent interval).
My point being, stop blaming claymore's miner as the reason, because the coins were getting dumped by everyone (including you, as you mentioned many times...so not sure your argument), his miner just increased the amount of dumpers, not coins. Honestly, the ignorance is the fact you're butt hurt about not making a bunch of money because linux miners had a hold on consistent profits prior to claymore's miner. To argue otherwise is ignorance. (searching your name on zcash forums brings up the same post on multiple discussions with the same graphs correlating claymore's miner to zec crash...... even some users pointed to the troll fest of posts).