Good day to you, fellow members of the community. I am here to tell you a particularly amusing story: one about Monero’s community and where it got its bustling activity from.
Every developer’s task is promoting their coin and increasing its popularity by all means possible: a task that is very hard in the case of Monero, because the only leverage on public opinion the owners of this mere fork of Bytecoin, that introduced nothing new to the market but some altered parameters, have at their disposal is smoke and mirrors. And smoke and mirrors we used.
I received money for my work, and at first I was all right with it. But now, when I see some people believe in what we do, I seriously doubt if I should continue. It seems to me that CryptoNote technology is the future of cryptocurrency and I’m ashamed to be a part of exploitation effort of the fruit of the labors of several ingenuous programmers, whose only aim was to use their knowledge to provide everyone with an unprecedented degree of economic freedom.
While Bytecoin pioneered the application of CryptoNote, paving the way for all of the following experimenters, such as Fantomcoin with their merged mining; Boolberry which tried applying a different hashing algorithm; or even Quazarcoin, that didn’t introduce anything new either, but made CN available to a much wider audience with its clean launch, Monero just got stuck in petty struggles over its name and people stealing the source code from each other.
Like that wasn’t enough, we decided to project the community’s vital activity with an army of mindless drones, which is exactly the fact that I’m willing to confess today. I am not sure what my employers were thinking when they believed that posts such as these can convince anybody that the coin has any value at all:
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surfer43smoothmickey_miner novagOne should also take a note of how rigid the community is, when reacting to unusual external stimulus: if you ask something related to wallets, pools or whatnot, you will receive an answer almost immediately. But if something extraordinary happens, like the Jane Monero case, or this new development with the cat mascot (you can see the ever-persistent wallet discussion in between other posts that are more on point), the discussion tends to collapse in itself and cease to produce content of value.