I'm one of those guys that is always on the quiet side, but I've been following a lot of people on twitter since the BTC/alts boom in november 2013, and I've followed Romano for 9 months.
This guy is the real deal, the github entries are speaking for themselves. He his an incredibly competent dev that any team would want because he actual does the job done, and in a timely fashion.
I've been in VIA for nearly 3 years, but was loosing hope before Romano took over the project. This coin/project is now probably one of the most exciting out there with tons of new features added constantly and incredible optimizations (like the recent Electrum X one).
Via has a bright future in front of it.
I never do this sort of post (you can check my history), but when I see someone who is genuinely working for a coin while not really being known, without any scam intention, only the will to do construct something great, it has to been encouraged.
Even if this coin never really increase in price, what I'm honoring here is the investment and work already done.
Thank you Romano, you and your dev team, you have my full confidence and respect for what you're doing.
I would second that thought on Romano. I've been trading alt coins for the better part of 5 years now. You can go back and look at my own post history - which is to say I don't jump on many coin's bandwagons often. There are a lot of good coins I've invested in but few that I take the time to support their thread or follow what's going on close in the slack/group chat.
I've been following VIA since late October and continue to feel optimistic about the direction this coin is going. I've been buying VIA since the price was in the low 0.00002xxx and have been buying as recent as last night at 0.000052. I still have orders on the books in the mid 0.00005xx because I think this is going to be a winner in 2017.
I'm not going to sit here and say VIA should be a top 10 coin on coinmarketcap because honestly there are a lot of good projects out there with strong development teams, marketing budgets and years of experience under their belt but if I go look at the top 40 coins there are some iffy projects that are in the $8,000,000 - $30,000,000 price range. I wouldn't be surprised if VIA made a push in 2017 to hit the the top 50. As long as Romano is working hard I'll continue to hang around and wait to see.
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