https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/satoshi-disappear-day-6730
These were written in 2011. Way before the GIANT boom. SPR is more advanced than bitcoin, and has many people ready to jump on it and drive it even further. It may take two years for SPR to be worth a fortune but who wouldn't have wanted to invest in Bitcoin in 2011? If we all had a time machine that is one place we would go. SPR looks depressing now, but we need to hold out for the future. Those of you who have stockpiled SPR need to keep it. Consider the money gone. How much would you regret it if the price of SPR hit $100, or $500 a coin? Perhaps more. This coin is different and better than Bitcoin. The fact that a dev goes missing and the community feels responsible enough to pick it up is the best sign we could ask for. Coins don't need a single developer, they don't even need a team of developers. The best coin will have a community that believes in what they are doing. Because if a company of developers is running the currency then we have wasted our time trying to develop a decentralized currency.
Spreadcoin: Avoid the corporations, build the future.
EDIT: Bitcoin also had people calling it a scam, ponzi scheme, and illegal. If history tells us anything it is that this coin will follow in the steps of Bitcoin.
I've heard this logic over and over again about SPR hitting $100 and that it's better than Bitcoin (among nearly every altcoin for that matter as well), rah rah rah. Why is it better? What differentiating factors does it provide that isn't already out there in other coins? The pool argument is out so lets not rehash that.
Comparing Mr. Spread going MIA to Satoshi leaving BTC is absurd and there were competent devs working on Bitcoin before he disappeared. While there are people trying to work on the SPR right now, I wouldn't say comparing the two is even fair as I have yet to see some serious coding talent emerge. Just looking at Spreadcointalk, it seems people are just haphazardly starting to play with variables hoping for the best. Not exactly the best means of further progressing a currency and certainly not to the level that would deem it "more advanced than bitcoin".
Enlighten me.
You know, I hate to say it, but you have a point. Mr. Spread was at least a decent dev - something 99% of alt devs can't claim. There's nobody else stepping up who's even close to competent, from what I see.
Well here is your chance then.