worrying so many pinning hopes on a huge amount of incoming interest because of going open source..
I hope you wont all be disappointed.
To me if enigma works well and can be vetted by a couple of top devs that is all you need.
If the enigma engine is really a big improvement over dash and mixing/shuffling or is rather an advanced better process then you will simply witness 50 other cloaks in short order.
If you believe people are not investing because it is closed source then you might be wrong.
Bring forth a decentralised governance and funding mechanism and you will see more interest.
I guess we'll wait and see but i think it could be a double edged sword.
I share you thoughts but after 3 years closed source we decide to go open source way. Of cause there is always risk to be copy.
We choose this way and we will see what will happend.
There is always some points what speaking for open source and what speak against it.
PS: Dont forgert that we have very talented, smart and motivated fulltime device "Joe" i always belive in him and he proof me this 3 years that i was right with my hope in his talent. To copy a CODE is easy but it is not so easy to understand ENIGMA and i am sure there is not so many CODERs there like "Joe". So let enigma copy we are not worry about. We also plant to continue work on ENIGMA and new parts and projects in CODE. The copier would be always behind us.
peace and love is a KEY dont forget
fear is opposite of it!
As someone who's been "around" Cloak since Bob dumped all over us, this coin has to go open source. Not doing so and/or obfuscating just says it can never be trusted and has something to hide. Once the source is out there, there also needs to be a very serious code review done by some well respected developers (that don't have any stigma of controversy swirling around them). There's far too much bad history behind Cloak to not have any of this happen.
As for others copying it.. Well, I'll be brutal. If Cloak can't progress, compete and be better than any copies, then it deserves to die. Just like any other product/company out there in any industry. I would like to see Cloak succeed after all the crap that's gone on but it should do so in a straight up "fight" in order to "prove" itself as a real contender.
@c4shm3n. I've got to give you props for sticking with this. There's been a few times where I've wanted to come in here and post some negative stuff about the progress but your perseverance is an asset to the coin and, quite frankly, the only reason it still exists.
Your view has of course some merit. Although I don't share this view.
I wasn't aware obfuscation could hide damaging or dirty code.
Also if a few high profile developers peer reviewed it and gave a good report it would probably have an even better marketing effect.
I too do not believe that because a larger team could copy and paste cloaks hard work from many years and perhaps improve upon it at a faster rate than the creator cloak themselves that cloak deserves no credit and indeed deserves to die.
Open source in just my own personal opinion is not essentially the best thing from a cloak holders perspective.
I guess even the future will not reveal which path was the wisest from a cloak investors pov. Since it is impossible to tread both paths from here.
The current dev/project managers mind seems to be made up though so of course that is fine by me I will hold my tiny amount of cloak regardless. If I'd held a larger portion of cloak I would perhaps be more concerned and try a little harder to get the community to push for peer review and obfuscation.
Then again open source is the nature of crypto, so to balance this with the selfish desires of max possible impact of cloak in this sphere is something one has to consider.