Ok i understand everything you`re saying but, problem for me is that dev isn`t active enough.
Active on what? He is a developer who released a fine quality open source digital currency. It seems to me he works on the software, but where his digital currency goes whether it will be successful or not depend on many factors, not least on the community.
The activity of btcdrak, even if he would be hyper active in here 24/7 wouldn't solve the underlying problems regarding the slow adoption of crypto currencies and particularly altcoins.
While the community's actions could -although rarely are- help, the work of the developer is not -as a matter of fact should not be- to do the actual developing, which BTCDrak has outsourced, for instance, to Peter Todd and others. . And the community (or his investors) must support that development providing the means, either with direct cooperation and ideas or with MEAS/MONEY. That's why BTCDrak made his IPO. Problem is that he considers that his personal money and hasn't invested a single raw cent in promoting the coin anywhere. How is there going to be any adoption, or even consideration of such, if no one that could maybe adopt it even know that it exist? The developer has to DEVELOP the project, not necessarily code himself. Or do any of the specific actions that must be taken. But he has to PAY for them to be done. Just like he had no problem in paying Peter Todd. He is I'm afraid so ... I was going to say stupid but let just leave it at business-impaired, that said to me he was willing to pay for marketing/promotion but "... only if guaranteed specific results". Which is, I'm sorry, plain stupid. You devise a plan, implement it and, if you chose the right plan, and follow it, you will obtain some results. Which can be -and usually are- not even remotely closed to what you expect. This is true for small investments and for muli million dollar campaigns of very well established corporations.
The end result is that NOTHING is done. At all. And the project languishes toward obsoletism since anything that VIA can do, multitude others can do better. And are marketed/promoted with various degrees of success.
Appealing to the community for anything other than money, is not just futile it is way counter productive. Even when -as is the case- there are members with great ideas bent on implementing them by themselves. I remember there was a member of VIA that wanted, for months if not years- to implement a ledger for art works etc. Excellent idea, no question. Excellent idea that has gone, of course, nowhere like any other goes nowhere and produces that not even that one can be done by others, professional ones, paid professional ones, preferably. It is just an example.
BTCDrak enjoys his ICO money, his posting in Twitter and hobnobbing -even if ridiculed- with the elite of crypto. And doing nothing else. And hence the reason why a project that had a reasonable chance of relative success is going and will go nowhere.
Only downside I see is that it would need a hard fork (?)...but Todd and you have shown in the past that youre more than capable of that so personally I think the risk is pretty low.
