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Regarding the schedule: If you want to create pumps and dumps, that is a good thing. Fortunately all developers involved in BC want to prevent that from happening, that is why you will rarely see ETAs and the usual P&D action around such dates.
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BC does not have fully transparent development and games are most obviously are being played behind the scenes. Nevertheless, it has a good dev team and it's a serious coin.
Well, the coin core development is 100% transparent, you can see every little step with commit and comments on github, you can ask rat4 any questions you want... How do you think there can be more than 60 BC clones so far (not counting those who deleted the git history)?
BC development is not fully transparent, otherwise we would have an idea about what the devs and marketers are working on and what the estimated due date of every feature/event would be. I cannot see anything like that.
Instead, what I see is work behind closed doors, price being manipulated constantly by bots, skeptical investors... And then suddenly, there goes the announcement, everybody taken by surprise, those in the know target emotion and take the money. The current development model makes it possible to manipulate the market with inside information. When there are closed door, there is inside information. And when there is inside information, there will always be the element of surprise, which can be exploited pretty badly.
Well, you obviously decided that you don't want to understand what we are saying.
One more try, very brief:
The only OFFICIAL BC THING is the development/improvent of the PoS protocol, first PoS 2.0 (read the whitepaper, you will be surprised, it actually contains information...) and in the future the decentralization of checkpoints.
EVERYTHING ELSE is made by community members on their own for the community, some times backed with some funds by the "foundation" that does more marketing than anything else. They usually announce WHAT they are doing, just not WHEN it will be done. I do not see any problem there, seriously. It simply does not matter if you plan to hold the coin long term.
But you want to know a date when you can/should buy, and a date when you can sell with maximum profit if everything goes the usual altcoin path, and that's basically the persons we do not need and, more important, do not want as "investors".
Just look at desasters like the coinkite go live date and you will know what i mean. Perfectly executed P&D because there was a date where people expected something to happen, and it actually did happen: they have all been fucked by a P&D group if they bought that day.