the main bitcore-specific contributors I see across the project and all of these subprojects are (in no particular order) :
dArkjON ( https://github.com/dArkjON ) - 339 commits over the past year. this is "Jon"
dalijolijo ( https://github.com/dalijolijo ) - 1,386 commits over the past year. this is "David"
TheTrunk ( https://github.com/TheTrunk ) - 624 commits over the past year.
joshafest ( https://github.com/joshafest ) - 60 commits over the past year.
so it looks to me like there are 4 active developers on the project, at the current time. This is open source so new people could add themselves and others could fade away, so the number of active developers at any one time is not set in stone.
Wow, that’s a lot of commits for 1 year for a $10MM coin - talk about a dream team.
Regardless, no marketing blown deadlines, no merchants - if BTC has another leg down we could see $.25 or less.
Sadness...
I should note that technically the "no merchants" claim is incorrect if taken literally. Bitcore is integrated with the Paytomat point-of-sale terminal, which is being used by 329 merchants in Europe (Ukraine, Georgia, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland) - see https://bitcore.cc/paytomat-now-supports-bitcore-btx/ . That means that in at least 329 physical stores people can walk in, buy physical items and pay for them in bitcore before leaving the store. They also support more than 18 other cryptocoins, so they are not restricted to bitcore, it's just that bitcore is an option if people choose to pay with it (see https://paytomat.com/ ). There are also the online places such as kamoney ( https://www.kamoney.com.br/ - for paying bills of all sorts in brazil ), luckygames ( https://luckygames.io/ - online gambling ), and games4coins ( https://www.games4coins.com/ - steemit games ). I say "literally" because if the claim is taken "relatively" then compared with the number of places that accept bitcore cash and bitcore, the number is pretty tiny. those other coins are far more widely accepted. I think that the important thing though is that at least bitcore has a foothold in a few places, and the challenge is to grow from there.
I should note however that the number of commits for each of the 4 developers over the past year above is that reported on their GitHub page, which means it includes all GitHub projects that they work on, not just the bitcore related ones. To accurately determine the number of commits directly related to bitcore (and have been accepted and deployed into the main trunk of each subproject), I would need to go to each subproject and individually count the values there, sum them across the projects, and then determine which are the top contributors (I could have a cutoff of say 50 commits).
