You have made some very valid points.
This has been my concern all along about battbot - not that he wanted to go off to XC (that's fine), but why -- something to do with CINNI's prospects (or lack thereof)?
What we need to do as a community is focus on the future. Even if this means organising a coder and getting donations to get what was promised done.
This is exactly what I've tried to do (see my message history). I got the biggest name in devs, **mindfox** (check his!! message history) seriously interested in helping out. Part of what he agreed to was to review the work done so far and give an honest thumbs up or down based on his review. CinniCoin's PM'd me with a simple "no", without explanation. The timing is interesting because, as you can see from my message history, this was in the days leading to these dev departures. This is what really concerned me before battbot's departure. I have concerns we've all been misled about what is or isn't going on - concerns mindfox would've been able to either dispel or address if they turned out to be true.
So if we have to, then I for one will put in my BTC to get this on the road. Whatever was done before no matter how wrong or bad is done. We can't change that, and remember in Crypto there are many many scams that happpen over and over. What we have left is a very very solid coin with a strong community. The naysayers may label us as "bag holders" and that's ok. Who cares. Any coin that suffers a setback has bag holders, it's a Mathematical certainty.
So Cinnicoin I have some questions for you.
1. What is the status of the anon?
2. Do we need external funding to get thing done?
3. IS there anything you want from us? Many here are happy to help, so communicate with us all, give us a current snapshot of Cinni and a plan.
And please be open and honest about what is and has gone on so we can move forward as a community/team and get Cinni up with the top 3 where it belongs!!
People tend to be quiet when there's trouble brewing that they dont want you to know about (note Mt. Gox's silence up to when they were forced to reveal the truth. Same with CINNI's dev departures - silence until the bad news hits -- battbot had to publicly resign so he could go on devoting "time and energy" to posting on XC without being berated for his absence here).
I think we need a credible outsider to come in and answer these questions - answers that would give us, and more importantly the markets,confidence that the truth is really out there and any issues on their way to being addressed. That would get us out of this limbo.
The only CINNI effort I'm willing to devote BTC to is paying mindfox for an independent evaluation of where things really stand and what needs to be done.
Silence before trouble .... :/ tthat's worrying