Just one sincere thing James:
I understand that you cannot value BTCD at X10 of current prices for the ico, but the value of 0.0053 seems to me too low. Lots of people have trust in you all this time, buying lots of BTCD upper that level, and I think they deserve a bigger reward from you.
I'm not telling to value BTCD at X10, but the current valuation is too low.
Always remember the ones who have been loyal and benefit them, that's a key rule in finance man...
but why would anyone invest in btc than?
If you value BTCD at 0.01 you'll get almost the same BTC's and you'll have most of BTCD holders much more happy than they're now.
Myself, I was planning a BTCD at 20-30 M $ valuation in a year with iguana coming, but this changes everything...
Don't know what to say man... broken plans...
That's the thing. We have all being waiting for iguana which was so close, I have invested some funds way above 0.004 hoping that when your job is finally done it would be worth much more. So what do I get now? Looks like I should have staid off. Not complaining, your projects always returned me some cash, but to promise something for months and then when almost everything is ready to say we will only buy it at the current price, no more then that, ..... completely agree with this
iguana is still on track, independent of komodo
komodo will get the iguana of course
as to price, just think of it as a little pause. The flip side of having a known price is that it wont go down too far from it either. Markets have prices going up and down and the price is at essentially a 1 year all time high price
We have to be a fair and balanced pricing for the ICO investors. the fact that there is all this complaining that it is unfair to BTCD holders, I guess means that ICO investors wont be complaining we gave BTCD holders too good of a deal.
Especially since I am a large holder of BTCD, I hope you can see how I had to err on the side of not overrewarding BTCD holders.
Also, the ICO funds that come in will allow a lot more to be accomplished.
Maybe it is a short term paper loss for some and I apologize for that. If it makes you feel any better, I am suffering the same paper loss and probably a lot larger scale than most anybody.
I have been working on the core nonstop, literally 14+ hrs per day 28 days per month for over 2 years. And in the last year I doubled the SuperNET NAV after having neglected it and letting it drop 75% due to NXT price decline.
I couldnt go public with the plan as that would have contaminated the price average. And if it was pushed up to .01 by BTCD holders who wanted to boost their share of the komodo (admit it you would have thought about doing it), then it would have been sabotaging the ICO investors.
So if you are suffering, I feel your pain directly and to a larger degree. I did what I believe is fair to both sides and just keep in mind that while the price probably wont go up too much, it wont go down too much either
Let us try to focus on the breakthrough that dPoW is and the introduction of zero knowledge proofs.
Yeah James I fully understand you. You're doing the correct thing.
It's just that we all were waiting for 1000%-2000% profits with BTCD and iguana and now we'll have to go for a 100-200% profits, sharing with new investors who didn't even know you.
Nevertheless, I insist, you're doing the best for the project, and that gives me even more confidence with you.
I'll invest hard in your ICO, even if I have to go for a simple 100% profit.