I have just cast my vote and I think this is the right move to make by the dev to help kick start this coin again. In the end I think the dev and community will make the right decision to help the coin do better.
I hope so too since im running out of options otherwise :/
to the ppl that are still complaining about the swap:
1. you dont have to swap, feel free to stay with the current coin.
2. without a swap i wont be able to continue with any project and it would be the end of this story pretty quick.
Would the coin (1337) still be maintained and continued dev'd with continued expansion of market usage venues? or will it simply be abandoned?
In regards, to the swap. What do you have in mind that would make different or viable after the swap and not end up in the same predicament? (Hence a repeat of history)
nothing is getting abandoned. like i said before, my projects need liquidity, i simply need to be able to sell my stakes to buy stuff for stake2play and the API of our payment processor doesnt work when theres no buy order so it cant convert the price from USD to 1337 (i have to list the prices in USD in the webshop). but ill continue to dev it code wise. and maybe the sell pressure will become less after the swap so i could use it again for my purposes.
What do you have in mind that would make different or viable after the swap and not end up in the same predicament?
the idea is as follows, lets take the 100:1 swap with 133.7% APR as an example and lets say that 60% gets swapped of a total supply of 11B 1337...
1. 60% of 11B would get burned during this process. bringing the actual supply of 1337 down to 4.4B
2. decreasing the supply will most likely also decrease the amount of 1337 that are currently in sell orders on exchanges which would hopefully give the price the opportunity to rise again.
3. the new coin would have an actual supply of 66M (pre-mined coins that arent used for the swap will get burned at the end of the swap period) with an APR of 'just' 133.7%, which hopefully would still be interesting enough for stakers to stake but could also be interesting for the traders on the exchanges who are not staking.
4. finalizing the projects like stake2play could give the price a bump and make the community grow even bigger.
5. having a coin with some value opens doors for other things like gaming tournaments and tipping to get more gamers involved outside of crypto.