Noah Ruderman on Verge

There are ways to be so unproductive it's better not to contribute. Privacy is like medicine or building bridges: someone can get hurt if you do it wrong or mislead.

Trust me, Verge is not helping anybody but themselves.

Verge has a history of spreading msinformation. As a bag holder you don't care but everyone else does. Neither Wraith nor mindgeek really matter. Not having domain expertise you probably never noticed there was misinformation.

Verge has RingCT on their roadmap, but they don't have ring signatures or plan to implement. Which is where the ring in RingCT comes from. So I guess their plan is to copy Monero's codebase. I don't think they'll get it right though. It actually requires knowing advanced cryptography.

Verge makes strong claims about their privacy that are not true. They make false claims about the privacy provided by legitimate projects for their own benefit. They make these false claims despite knowing that it could get someone hurt. It is clear that the team is marketing on false information for self-serving purposes. These are not honest intentions. They do not care about the safety and freedom of people who need privacy. They are claiming to fight for a cause they clearly don’t care about and putting others at risk for financial gain.