My response to an OG Monero developer who said take on Skylight and Justin wasn’t correct.
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I appreciate and respect your take. The Monero OG devs have seen a lot and experienced it too.

The issue with Justin, when boiled down or dug into or however else you want to distill it, is the same thing Bitcoin has gone through. That is the capture dev team for personal or corporate gains, however you look at it or choose to believe.

Yes, he could have been very influential in the beginning. He chose to use that knowledge for personal gain against the ethos of what Monero was created to be. That knowledge was patented, productized, and sold to unwind the very thing he helped build. His motives now are clouded in those choices. Now, he’s using that same wealth to pay for the product development he is ultimate trying to destroy.

This puts him very close to the auditors, developers, and influencers because of money he acquired to destroy Moneros privacy. There is no argument you need to be paid. The money you receive though is tainted, not only by how it was gotten but by the friendship he’s developed. Epstein didn’t finance and help capture Bitcoin directly, he funneled it through grants and friendships.

Sometimes it takes new eyes, new ideas, and new blood to realize maybe the very thing you believe needs to be challenged and reevaluated. The hardest thing to do is reevaluate friendships that have been built with blood.

While I may be wrong on how this product works currently, you know as well as I do you can be just as malicious with open source code as you can be with closed source due to a variety of things that include complacency, trust, timing, etc. We are looking at a development company whose direction is taken from a man who wants to productize breaking Monero.

The reason cypherpunks build is to be sovereign and private. It’s continually improved upon because of actors such as Justin and the Federal Governments. Comes back to the Biblical proverb that “the love of money is the root of all evil”. It’s continually improved because it is continually under attack. If it wasn’t attacked, Bitcoin would be pseudo perfect.

Bitcoin is an evolution of currency, Monero is a forged tool where Bitcoin has failed to protect sovereignty and privacy. 2 different roots, 2 different outcomes. So you best believe I try to take an objective approach to the overview and point out where we are close to becoming like Bitcoin, all for a few thousand dollars. Bitcoin was inevitable but Monero wasn’t. So I want Monero to not only stay true to its course but also survive bad actors, even friendly millionaires who bled with the very people who made Monero what it is.

Do NOT download or use Skylight Wallet by MAGIC Grants

MAGIC Grants president is Justin Ehrenhofer

Who is Justin?

He’s a former COO of Cake Wallet

After he left Cake, he founded Moonstone

What is Moonstone known for? Crescent Discovery, a tool that tries to help deanonymize Monero.

What better way to capture FCMP++ data than having a lot of users (most who don’t change default nodes) use your poisoned nodes with your wallet. This helps mature the patent and tool. How it deanonymizes is with poisoned nodes or wallets as it needs an identifying “enote” to start the trace

https://patents.justia.com/patent/20240428251