https://monero.town/comment/38729
This comment is very rude and lacks the necessary information to change someone’s thoughts about Monero. But this does not warrant calling this person a “glowie”. He is a known developer in the crypto (cryptography and cryptocurrency) community and has participated for many, many years. We do not know his circumstances for this kind of behavior, but the responses to his behavior need to be addressed. Calling someone a “glowie” seemingly out of thin air does nothing but discredit the Monero community and give us the image of paranoid fools who will seemingly lunge at any privacy software to appease our constant paranoia, as the term itself was used as commonly as the very paranoid schizophrenic man who coined the term.
nothing wrong with calling people glowies, it’s funny, that being said jeff is an intelligent genuine man from what i’ve seen in my interactions with him so i don’t think he is one. while i’m not a c++ developer by any means, just by using the programs and glancing at the code, the monero codebase definitely isn’t very well written, like most c++ projects
if you know rust or have some spare xmr i suggest considering helping out with the development of cuprate https://github.com/Cuprate/cuprate. i still really don’t think monero is a honeypot but there are a lot of improvements that could be made