Do you have evidence that it was intentional?
Yes:
Releasing crippled miners without checking them first but claiming to be honest and have integrity doesn't fit. Either they fucked up, something they will never admit, because only Evan Duffield has the moral integrity to admit to that. Or, and that's the only remaining possibility: It was intentional. There is your evidence.
The FAILERO scam protecting in here is pretty desperate. Deflecting away the accusations by mentioning off topics is clearly a sign of guilt.
Moanero cloned a scam coin (Bytecoin). Why you ask?
Because they KNEW, like everyone else, it was a scamAnd yet didn't bother to check for scammy code? Is that feigning of ignorance credible?
Definitely not.Why? Because they claim to have so much integrity:
You won't find a more fair launch of any coin no will you find team behind a coin with more integrity than the Monero team in my opinion (though as a minor disclaimer, I don't know all of them outside of our work on Monero -- the work on Monero has been 100% above board and community-focused).
Advertising "fair launch" and yet they pushed a scammy crippleminer onto the publicOnly when an
outside party noticed the scam that was going on:
My concern with Monero is that optimized miner was always closed-source until a week in production. It happened each time the optimization takes place.
There was no closed source release of anything from the Monero project. It has all been released on github, when practical with accompanying Windows, Mac and Linux binaries. We can't control what everyone else does, but we have certainly encouraged optimized miner developers to share them, in one case offering a bounty (though it turned out not to be necessary as we independently developed comparable optimizations).
As far as I remember, it was me who was asking the questions and finally pushed NoodleDoodle to release the source of the first optimization "round". Where's my bounty then?
His first commit to github was the "optimized" (if you want to call it that) miner, which he developed on his own initiative as a individual miner. He was encouraged not only by you, but also by members of the Monero team to open source it, which he did. He has since contributed further optimizations.
As it turns out all these optimizations were really (very likely) un-de-optimizations. If you wanted them released earlier you should get after the bytecoin devs about it. They supposedly had two years to do it.
they bothered to make efforts to fix it.
Monero devs filled their pockets with optimized miners no one else had access to at the time and just when someone else noticed he could fix the scam miner himself they had to come clean. Too bad for him they had already mined unknown millions before anyone found out.Conclusion from evidence:
SCAM CONFIRMED.Monero should relaunch because of the cripplemine scam at the beginning.
Do you have evidence that it affects the coin negatively, as in invalidating any of its claims of decentralization or privacy?
Who cares? Complete strawman. The devs ninjamined Monero in a criminal attempt to fill their pockets. That's enough to dump it for any investor.
Also, Botnet mined Malware-Coin:
Anyone associated (most likely the devs themselves) with the people running an ultra illegal and morally despicable botnet to mine Monero will undeniably become subject to criminal investigation. And rightfully so.
Pretty sad that no one bothered to mine this shitcoin so they artificially inflated their hashrate by abusing innocent malware victims with this disgusting and pathetic tactic.
Monero - Is it a currency or a virus? Better scan your computer now!
