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Some nice points made by barabbas. Let me answer some regarding the dev team.
It's true, we are young. Early twenties, to be more accurate. Originally, there were 3 of us. Srele, Micto and myself. After some time we added one of our trusted close friends as a new dev. He is not a member of this forum, never posts anything. The 4 of us are very good friends IRL, we all live in the same city, all went to the same school. That's who we are. If we need more transparency, we will answer anything we can. Let's work on that a little bit.
It's true that we did't have any money when we started this. We couldn't afford an iPhone to work on the app. So we went to our families and other friends for help and we managed to raise some money to keep paying for the servers and to continue development. Servers right now cost us $150 per month, and we are still paying for it out of our own pockets. We are not selling coins in order to pay for expenses. We don't want to take the trading potential from someone else. If we need to disclose how many coins each of us personally holds, we will disclose that as well.
If by net transfer fees, you mean the 1% transaction fee, we will remove that. Since there wasn't any premine, we thought that we needed a way to accumulate some coins just so that we have them for bounties. We even gave out free coins to people that had some account problems.
As for the animated gif, we can replace it with something more pleasing to the eye, we just thought it was nice. Any suggestions on what it should be (a woman will run this time
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Let's work on transparency.
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Since transparency is KEY, as we all seem to be in agreement, it would have been nice to explain in the thread the purpose of the 1% transfer fee. As well as to keep track of whatever figure that amounts too. I don 't think any of Mango's supporters will have anything against you collecting some funds, or even donate more, for legitimate purposes such as paying for the servers or creating bounties (I personally don't like that concept in this project, but call it whatever). Again, the key is the transparency and trust-creating honesty. Everyone would enjoy watching the project grow as the transaction grow and the funds grow. Ity would have been win-win-win. Transparency always is. Especially in a project like this one that DEPENDS on trust entirely.
As for the horrific gif, please take it down asap for no one, no one whatsoever, would ever want to run with any valuable smartphone attached to their legs in the manner shown in the picture. It's be nice to ad another one more pleasing but please show it before putting it up officially. Let the people decide. Mango followers, I believe, have good taste and can determine the most compelling idea presented, I'm sure.