This is all very nice and dandy but there s still only one question on the table. M2?
I think you should just sell your Factom as you obviously no longer believe in the project.
It s not that I do not believe in the project. All my other project I m involved with, I get to have a daily or at least weekly communication with the DEV team. With Factom team, it s once a month, maybe, if they feel like it. This makes me feel they care more about end users then Factoid holders which s also acceptable from business point of view.
However, this is not ACCEPTABLE from my point of view. Still, no point in polluting the thread with this argument, I understand I am not relevant for Factom at all so let s drop it.
crazyivan has a valid point, the interests of Factoid speculative holders is different to Factoid users now, so there is some conflict of interests here. I am a speculator too as I bought in the ico before everything was known, like everyone else, and I don't see myself using factoids anytime soon for their intended purpose. I want Factoids to moon so I make some returns, but the dev team probably don't care about that. Factoid users probaby want stable price.
There is no conflict of interest because between Investors in Factoids and User of Factom. User don't need to care about the price of Factoids. For them it's always about the price of Entry Credits which are fixed: $0.001 They don't even need to know about the existence of Factoids. They can buy EC's with Dollar - Credit-Card etc.
If there is a conflict, than it's about short- and longterm-investors. Short-term-speculation needs news, as much attention as possible, "hype" and "soon". For them it's about the communication of a team. Often enough they buy the announcement of an announcement to sell into the real release (buy the rumor, sell the news). Longterm-Investors want to see the real value increase: The use of the system. So, the system is priority. Second: Business side... partnerships.
And kind of funny but also kind of weird is how Crypto changed/changes the feeling of time. A month is a year, so there should be something to celebrate at least once a month (exchange-christmas). I know that feeling. But for those who do all the work, a month is still a month.