I appreciate the response Josef, not trolling just doing my due diligence. Like I said on the last page, I've been a long term hodler now since the price came down in like March. I sold this morning after coming to the conclusions that the comms were poor and I felt a bit like factoid investors are treated like third class ciitizens - the last to hear of any delays or important info. I should have got in on the bnk to the future crowdfund instead.
I can see the use case for factom, and I understand what you're getting at with the scaling creating the need for a separate blockchain, I guess my last question then is if the company would like to prove they aren't dumping regularly on hodlers to drum up cash. Or at least be a bit more transparent about it.
The problem out of our perspective is more that they don't think much about the market at all. Why I don't believe that they play with it is simple:
1. They are so carefully in interviews. They don't even want to talk about Factoids. If you watch the interview with David Johnston, it's already said in the first minutes and even the SEC is mentioned.
2. They are well funded.
And the experience of everybody who is in Factom since some time is: They don't do anything for the market directly in terms of communications. If they would want to make money out of Factoids, they would have communicated in a way to get the price where they want it to be. That wouldn't be much of a problem. But: It would be illegally. Factom is not a little shitcoin nobody cares about. And something like that could fall on their feet much later.
The published mail of Paul Snow: It has impact on the market. But it's a psychological overreaction because of all the controversy and "insider-info-theories". Of course, I'm also not happy about delays but that is not a new info in Factom. New and Insider-Info would be if a single person would know of an exact date - and I've never seen that they gave one. They used words like "around the corner" or "in some weeks" and so on but without hard date-specifications.
And just a little reminder: Some months ago there also were speculations about them dumping because the price went down and just some hours later they published news (I believe it was the smartcontract-partnership) which revealed all the shady theories prior as bullshit.
Plus: The price did not just react on all the speculations and theories but also because of the Bitcoin-price. That's why a lot of projects show a deep red today.