Well, first, I do not find whale accumulation a mandatory factor for success for the project (predictive or otherwise) nor desirable, but even if I did consider it something to be desired, why do you make such claim in the first place?
The model by which this project was created has both merits and disadvantages. The fact of the matter is that currently the people who are creating this project are anonymous, and the system continues to be developed steadily towards a future release.
In a perfect world where you could construct and choose your perfect scenario maybe things could have been constructed a bit different, but looking at the current situation in hand, I see a great project, highly promising, led by people who chose not to disclose themselves (something I find understandable in light of the behavior of some of the individuals we encounter often in the online medium), but their actions (and these actions are pretty clear to me). I think you know bitcoin right? well, it was also created (in the most part) by anonymous individuals who chose to create something of value and let the tech speak out for itself without having their personality/faces/habits/personal life get in the way of what is important.
The only reason why people who invest money, want a face and name to the person who is behind any venture, is so they can have more assurances and feel safer that he is legit and will follow through on his words. Anonymity means they need to rely on his actions without having the ability to discern his personality and non virtual persona.
I should mention that I am not negative about the project first of all. Just decided to reread our dialogue from the beginning and thought that you may draw such a conclusion maybe
I'm sure that such purposeful devs wil make a great useful product. They are altruists, true fans of their project. They will succeed, without a doubt.
I'm just trying to understand, which "large-scale" companies can use the technology, which is held by group of anonymous developers. I think its kinda big risc.
Talking about bitcoin - yeah, it was created by the anonymous developer(s). But he created it and left it, gave this technology(done thing) to the humanity, not continuing to develop it from the shadows... this is my point of view