Come on, give Monero guys some credit. They are maintaining the biggest CryptoNote community there is and doing it pretty well.
Maintaining community is one thing and developing an innovative tech is another.
I really appreciate what XMR does to CryptoNote promotion and development of pools, wallets, etc. However, if you take a look at their recent transaction pool changes, you'll be quite surprised.
Firstly, Monero devs changed the source code so that the transactions could stay in pools forever. This lead to transaction piling up to 250+ transactions in the daemon tx_pools, which were not going anywhere at all and could be stuck for eternity.
Secondly, they took BBR solution to the problem and I assume didn't even bother thinking deeply on what they were adding. The 24h limit for transactions in the pool was a solution but again not a wise one. As there are no wallet notifications, the wallet doesn't know anything about the transactions being reversed. Users, services are not notified on the process at all.
What's more, if there are older daemons in the network, a more interesting case is possible. The transaction is reversed in newer daemons, the inputs are free again for other transactions. But when they're used, the older daemons (which didn't get the transaction out of their tx_pools) have to report double-spending attempts.
This is not how you make critical updates for the currency.
1) Monero developers should evaluate the long term consequences of their commits. Each unthought solution can cause drastic problems in the long run.
2) Monero developers should allow a compatibility window in order to make sure that the network is not split during the update. It's not about "mandatory update" alert on the forum, but a sophisticated approach inside the source code.
And that is why I prefer Bytecoin developers approach. I'm sure they can't ruin the network with one random commit. Can't say the same about XMR devs.
Its friday and i have really better things todo than addressing your constant hate without a reason.
First of all, it was a hotfix and its was coordinated with pools and exchanges, there is absolutely no problem users just need to update their wallets... Polo and Bittrex both work pretty close with us and we coordinate everything with them.
There was nothing uncoordinated i have even discussed the fix with zoidberg and he sees no problem either. There was a compatibility window and still is - there are pools who mine the low fee transactions.
About the hashrate and your botnet paranoia - the hashincrease simply matches the price increase on exchanges, theres no vodoo or black magic - and whats the difference to BCN, they use the same Proof of work...
Then your other concern that the miner was crippled is just a joke because we were the ones who fixed it, you better ask bcn why they did make the pow so slow without a reason.
The dev progress speaks to itself, you just have to check our githubs (all monero people):
https://github.com/mikezackles/bitmonero/commits/daemonizehttps://github.com/Neozaru/bitmonero/commits/masterhttps://github.com/wolf9466/bitmonero/commits/masterhttps://github.com/wolf9466/cpuminer-multi/commits/masterhttps://github.com/fluffypony/bitmonero/commits/masterhttps://github.com/tewinget/bitmonero/commits/masterhttps://github.com/zone117x/node-cryptonote-pool/commits/masterhttps://github.com/NoodleDoodleNoodleDoodleNoodleDoodleNoo/bitmonero/commits/masterThis is an open source project with a great community and not a one man show, you should realize that.
And that is why I prefer Bytecoin developers approach. I'm sure they can't ruin the network with one random commit. Can't say the same about XMR devs.
There was a critical bug which allowed the blockchain to be replaced due to an error in their checkpoint system we found here:
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/5ceffa8c8abb96bb8314939bf75c9b935ea7b5bcand fixed here:
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/commit/e7171250739790a5e5040264c4c1356ddeeea241This bug allowed it to replace the whole blockchain on CN coins, because it made it possible to fabricate a blockchain with a bigger cummulative difficulty due to non-checking of the block before the checkpointing. Just for your info.
Ultimately we should all work together but with the hatred from certain people here i doubt that will happen....