I haven't given up either. I believe in what I see.
Artos is still occasionally checking in. He doesn't respond, but he told us he would be unable to respond, and that he was specifically only working on the coin.
If he can't work on it anymore, he'll call for another dev team. He invited us to compete with him, in fact.
Hi. Id just like to clear up some of what you mentioned. Ive been following Sbc daily since December and
used to have a very large amount in my holdings.
Yes Artos occasionally checks in, but once in 3 weeks is not nearly enough. And the fact that he checks but doesnt address community concerns speaks volumes.
He did not say he wouldnt be able to respond, in fact he said the exact opposite in his "return post". He said that he will be actively engaged with the community providing constant updates. This has not happened. The only time he said he wouldnt be around was during the Christmas holidays. As you can see this is not consistent with an active dev who believes in his project.
He did not say he was working specifically on this coin. He made it quite clear that he is busy with his "day to day life" and is working on Sbc when he can. This of course suggests that he is was working on it as a side project.
He will not call for another dev team, what he said is that if someone else wants to try to implement a mixing service service before him to "go ahead and try". He would not be assisting them.
The reason I took the time to write this is for people who perhaps dont have to much experience in cryptos and are still holding out hope. All signs are pointing to Sbc being dead. It might be time to consider researching other coins. Even if the mixing service will be implemented one day, there will always be a shadow having over artos. He can fix this by setting up a dev team that would inject new energy into the project, but I have my own opinion whether he would ever do that.
This being said, you are of course going to do what you think is best, but I think a clarification was necessary.
Edit: To give a general assessment as to where Sbc stands, consider this. There is already >10 million coins mined. Even though Fedora's mixing service is probably not as good as Artos' proposal, when Sbc implements it it will no longer be unique, which matters in this fast moving market. Zerocoin/cash is just around the corner and has a lot of hype around it.
Sorry guys, im just as disappointed as everyone else.
