2. I doubt that Drew owns 1723 PAC masternodes. Even if he would have, well, then it would be his right to use them as he sees fit. Besides, 1723 PAC masternodes is still less than one third of all active PAC masternodes.
Pacnode is a third party for Pacglobal
Pacnode is own by.... the CEO
Pacnode control 2020 Masternodes...
CEO would resign or step down from all activities that had a conflict of interest. And this is clearly one.
Please see below what kind of influence PACnode has on the PAC Global network / project.
In summary:
Pac global is a project:
- Lead by a painter/decorator as CEO, with a mechanical engineer as a CMO... a team not qualified for there respective field.
Liking to paint does not disqualify anyone for anything. Also, the PAC Global CMO is not a mechanical engineer.
- a centralized blockchain (Team are able to freeze, or ban coins and wallets) so risk to loose everything if Drew decide it.
Drew has no magical switch to turn of wallets and/or addresses. The freeze is hard-coded in the wallets and then executed by the network built around these wallets. Those wallets were willingly installed by many people, who knew exactly what they are doing, since they were informed ahead of time what this update brings.. Those who did not like that idea could have simply chosen not to update their wallets. In essence, the same way of reaching consensus is used by BTC and by actually just about anything based on a blockchain technology.
- doesn't respect their whitepaper. Team have minted / generated 0.7B new coins to themselve, while it is not in the whitepaper.
The 700 Million PAC are to be acquired for PAC Global LLC holdings. This pool of funds is for:
A. Employee Incentive Program:
• Recruit additional high-end developers
• Incentivize existing employees through PAC Global rewards
• These coins will be subject to a “lock up period” and not for immediate resale
B. New high-profile exchange listings
C. Promotional/marketing opportunities
D. Strategic partnerships
E. Emergency/insurance expenses
F. Reimbursement for pre-approved operations/marketing expenses
while effectively neutralising over 1000 Million of PAC at the same time (see the point above).
- actual CEO own a "third party" service that give him control of 30% of all masternodes so have power to decide which DAO will pass.
The PACnode does maintain over 2000 PAC masternodes for its various customers, but over 1500 are cold wallets one, meaning that the votes are cast by the rightful owner of the coins and not by Drew. Hence, less than 10 percent of the PAC masternodes could be, in theory, affected by it, not 30 percent. Not to mention that there is internal voting system in the PACnode which makes sure that these single digit percent of masternodes vote according to wishes of their owners. In essence, there is simply no situation where there would be a real and relevant conflict of interest.
- Team doesn't ask community about big decisions that literally change the core of the project (They did not asked us our opinion before turning pac global as private company nor to centralize the blockchain) so no point to create DAOs at all.
Every time there is an update, the community is informed what kind of changes this update will bring / brings. Everyone is simply asked to install the updated wallet, but the PAC Global team does not control those people or their computers - if the people do not agree, they do not have to do it. If majority would have a problem with an update, then the update would leave the team with a small or non-existant network.
So, yes, the team does ask the community just about every issue, not only those who bring major changes.
- Brad left the project with 60 Millions with no official explanation
How can the PAC Global team be blamed for that exactly? As far as I know, Brad got his coins through a DAO project proposal approved by the community (but I might be wrong with this particular point..)
In any case, since one half of the information you provide is simply wrong and the other half is presented in a way to suit your needs, such effort fits the definition of spreading "Fear, uncertainty, and doubt" perfectly.
Besides, the critical point is: the old visions / implementions of the Paccoin project have not performed as wished / desired. Therefore, new individuals (i.e. the PAC Global team) have decided to pick up what was left of it, and try to do their best to make it a new project with an actual progress being made.