I am not attacking you personally for saying those things, but I don't think you realise the full impact of the first statement or the irrational nature of the second.
Crypto-currency is a computer-science experiment that has the possibility of breaking into the mainstream. But keep in mind its still a computer science lab experiment. There is always a central product (the
coin created by a or a group of developers) and there is a group of people (the community) who believe in the skills of the development team to 1) innovate and possibly 2) promote. The community also evangelizes strongly and the vibes that a community gives is what attracts more people.
Given that context, all these guys who are now complaining about the incompetence of the developer, did you even do your own due diligence about the dev when you got in your money into XLB? Did you understand the competence of the team behind this coin? Do you understand how difficult it is to pull off the anonymous technology? Do you understand the hard work that needs to be put in? Do you visit IRC to actually talk to the dev to understand his perspective, one on one?
The hype train started when Bouzy joined the party. But remember, Bouzy was not in the original team and he is notorious about not being able to work in a team. So actually thinking that the Coin developer (his product, his baby, however erroneous) is going to roll over and let Bouzy take over in a fist of chest thumping is just wishful thinking.
So basically you fell for Bouzy's promotional skills but never did your due diligence about the actual team and the central product (which surprisingly has not changed any bit). And now that Bouzy has been kicked out, and the prices tumbled, you do not want to build infrastructure to help this coin out from the doldrums, all you do is complain about prices being so low and spread doom and gloom.
Money is usually made through hard work, but in crypto we are constantly piggy backing on other peoples skills without understanding what we are getting into, so sometimes its going to be a hard fall.
Either take the hard path of building infra for this coin yourself, or sell at a loss and move over to something new that is still pre-hype. It is as simple as that.
if you want Libertycoin to regain success, you need to be very careful about the words you use. I am trying to be helpful - even though it may not appear that way - and even though I am out of XLB. You are revealing the dev team as amateurs AGAIN and your words would never be written by anyone who knows anything at all about damage limitation. Unfortunately, you're making it worse again.
"all these guys who are now complaining about the incompetence of the developer, did you even do your own due diligence about the dev when you got in your money into XLB!" = caveat emptor = "let the buyer beware" = the devs were not up to the job before the project started, you're a fool for trusting them and it's your own fault for investing. Or, simplified "Don't blame us, it's your fault" Don't blame the devs. Interesting.
"we are constantly piggy backing on other peoples skills" = we don't have the requisite skills in the dev team to do the work and our approach to delivery is to use other people's code and ideas, we bring nothing new, we are not innovative.
Please, IconicAmateur - you may be a really nice bloke, with good intentions - but you are not helping with the damage limitation when your statements can so easily be picked apart.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Nothing the devs have posted has contributed a single iota to the damage limitation or solid evidence of current developments and changes. Nada. Zilch.
You're shooting yourselves in the foot here and pissing on your own dinner!
My best advice would be for the devs and all backers of Libertycoin to
STFU until something tangible and working is ready to be delivered. Concentrate on that. All attempts at damage limitation have failed so far. Keeping quiet may be your best option for the future of Libertycoin.
Once you have something
tested and fully working - not an Alpha or Beta, not something that only hackers can use - then you should employ (that means pay for in money, not XLB bounties) someone with proper marketing skills to big it all up again (oh, I forgot, you got rid of the last bloke) with proper press announcements etc and a whole new product.
The name Libertycoin is now a laughing stock across the whole crypto world and all the developers and supporters have been red flagged for future refence by many people.
You did this to yourselves. You lit the fire, all that other people have done is throw you more wood.
