In the last two days, we have seriously reviewed our internal structure and how we manage ourselves, the coin, and the community, and we've decided to regroup and reorganize to focus on real-world media, endorsement, and infrastructure. The coin is only a week old on an exchange. It is a living financial experiment, that is under improvement, and those who purchased AIRcoin should know this, and our theory is applicable and works well, but requires an environment that we need to properly build from the ground up, beyond the very small environment offered by just the existing market. It is now our duty to do whatever is necessary to change the system or the environment, so that it works long-term.
This means, clearly, we are seeking a larger real world audience, changing our policies on privacy, making more connections with real world business to accept AIRcoin, and whatever else is necessary to create an ideal economic environment for a large volume exchange. We have not abandoned this coin, nor have we planned on doing so. We intend on making AIRcoin both stronger in code, system, economics, and usage in the real world.
The investment pool and trading system and how we managed was an experiment, one that has proven to be unsustainable in these particular conditions. We have as of, 12 hours ago, the last form of market support was concluded, and it is now a completely free market just like any other cryptocoin with no direct involvement from our system. The price currently is almost entirely dictated by the prices that miners are able to sell at to sustain their profit currently.
Our intention is not to pump the price or to directly declare a price to hold, that was never the intent or the plan, it was to provide slowly moving, up or down, rates, that acceptable support. The intent was to always make a self-sustaining system that did not require direct manipulation or purchasing of the coins from the developers themselves. The entire amount of trading value, right now, is split into ~10% BTC and 90% AIRcoin that was purchased from the market to keep the price up. That BTC will remain on Poloniex and is not withdrawn, is not being used to pay the developers, and following the trend of the transparency release, we have used almost the entire investment pool to purchase AIRcoin, not to pay ourselves.
We have postponed DGW and the wallet update indefinitely. As a result of attempting to rush the development, we ran into numerous syncing bugs from the change to DGW and other tweaks into the code. This is the primary reason for the lack of communication: worry that we would not be able to solve the syncing issue in time. It wasn't up to our standards as compiled and it would have been a disservice to release it prematurely.
We're currently looking carefully x11, however it is still relatively new, and most of the problems it solves can also be solved on the market side, so it is definitely a long term option, but we are going to realistically compare it with Scrypt-N, Scrypt-Jane, or, other algorithms that have benefit to the use of their computing power beyond mining.
At all times, we reserve the right to keep our personal information protected, especially given the anonymous nature of online forums and the cryptocurrency community for our protection, that is why we have chosen to incorporate.
If you have purchased AIRcoin, knowing that this is a long-term investment, it is in your best interest to hold it. If your investment puts you at financial risk, and you are unable to have enough faith in our team to pull through and make results, then you are not invested in the project or the team, but in short-term profit, and there are many other coins for the purpose.
Because our team is going to focus its energy toward real world application, we will leave this thread for discussion, and will respond when necessary, but for direct questions and concerns, we will primarily work via email or through our website. Supporters are always welcome to discuss our plans and decisions personally with us as we develop them.
- Alexander
EDIT:
To make sure our point is clear: this coin is not dead. We are still actively working full time on it, and it has only been in the market for one week. We are changing our objectives and methods, but that does not mean, in any way, that we are abandoning the coin. For a brief period, it will not be supported by our system, but that does not mean we are not going to implement a new system or that we have abandoned the investment system in any way.