Actually, you were specifically bashing BTC in your tweets and asking investment for vericoin saying it is better investment than BTC - and that's fine, it's cool if you want to make money, but in this case don't present yourself as an innocent boy, don't be a hypocrite please. You aren't a voluntary coder for the linux kernel for free of charge but the lead developer of a software in the 95% scam driven altcoin market. You are here for the dollar - just to be clear about your motives.
In the meantime you are talking about my investment, but I said many times, I am not overly worry about loosing money with vericoin. Which bothers me and many other investors most are the broken promises, the lack of development, your incapability to deliver anything in the last 8 weeks, the hypes about the conference and Wall Street when the pumps were in progress, and the scam with wizrig. You must understand, most people are not overly worry about the money, but don't like to be mislead and scammed, not even from a PhD student. Look back at your first hangout, how you presented the "team member" wizrig by asking investment when that scammer said "I am here for long" and how you sold his plan about the worldwide media campaign, how you stated everything is legit about wizrig, and then hopefully you will understand why many investors feel that this is just another P&D operation and the wizrig affair was a proper scam. Having said that, nobody would care a lot about your wizrig affair and any past broken promises if you would a) say at least sorry if there is a mistake b) start developing the software and deliver something c) wouldn't top up that scam with broken promises again and again.
You have a big problem in my opinion, because more and more investors, once committed supporters are very unhappy about how you develop, more precisely not develop this coin. To be honest I was hoping that provocative comments and the moaning from unhappy investors will trigger other actions from you than arrogant replies, what I was hoping is that you will actually sit down with your colleagues and start to develop the software. I guess you guys just incapable to do that, you are just not good enough to compete with viacoin, cloak not to mention Ethereum. It would be great if you could prove me wrong and start to develop something that matters.
Finally, it is not your business if I stay or go. Your cheerleaders pointed out last week that this is the Wilde West, don't cry and go way (which sentiment actually appears in your reply as well). That is hilarious, because if it is really the Wilde West as your cheerleeder brigade like to say then you should expect some gun fire when there are no delivery, broken promises, pump and scam in the air.
In the meantime you are talking about my investment, but I said many times, I am not overly worry about loosing money with vericoin. Which bothers me and many other investors most are the broken promises, the lack of development, your incapability to deliver anything in the last 8 weeks, the hypes about the conference and Wall Street when the pumps were in progress, and the scam with wizrig. You must understand, most people are not overly worry about the money, but don't like to be mislead and scammed, not even from a PhD student. Look back at your first hangout, how you presented the "team member" wizrig by asking investment when that scammer said "I am here for long" and how you sold his plan about the worldwide media campaign, how you stated everything is legit about wizrig, and then hopefully you will understand why many investors feel that this is just another P&D operation and the wizrig affair was a proper scam. Having said that, nobody would care a lot about your wizrig affair and any past broken promises if you would a) say at least sorry if there is a mistake b) start developing the software and deliver something c) wouldn't top up that scam with broken promises again and again.
You have a big problem in my opinion, because more and more investors, once committed supporters are very unhappy about how you develop, more precisely not develop this coin. To be honest I was hoping that provocative comments and the moaning from unhappy investors will trigger other actions from you than arrogant replies, what I was hoping is that you will actually sit down with your colleagues and start to develop the software. I guess you guys just incapable to do that, you are just not good enough to compete with viacoin, cloak not to mention Ethereum. It would be great if you could prove me wrong and start to develop something that matters.
Finally, it is not your business if I stay or go. Your cheerleaders pointed out last week that this is the Wilde West, don't cry and go way (which sentiment actually appears in your reply as well). That is hilarious, because if it is really the Wilde West as your cheerleeder brigade like to say then you should expect some gun fire when there are no delivery, broken promises, pump and scam in the air.
Saying VRC is better than BTC isn't bashing BTC. BTC is great. I've been mining it since 2010. I've worked on free projects in the past. In middle school I was a contributor to the PearPC project (ASM CPU translation code). If I was here for the dollar I would have sold off my VeriCoin long ago.
You, others, and even me have been let down by lack of developments. They aren't because we're doing nothing-- some of them are due to obvious commitment problems (Wiz for example) in which more was said than done), some are due to delivery issues (we were waiting for new UI icons for weeks and finally have them), some are due to technical issues (Our original plan for VeriSend is much more difficult to implement without significant codebase changes, for example), some are due to partnership issues (the next ANN)-- all of which we were likely unprepared and too naive to appreciate when we discussed them publicly. And I am apologizing for the delays. Viacoin couldn't handle development themselves and had to outsource a lot of it-- which cost them a great chunk of their IPO. Ethereum similarly has tens of developers and not a single working coin (and won't be for months), as well as millions of dollars to pay developers. I'm not especially aware of Cloak so I cannot comment on their progress. Either way, nobody but VeriCoin is attempting to make a coin for the masses. And that requires a lot of "bridging" to work-- things like VeriBit and our next announcement. And those things often require more time than we imagined.
A lot of what we are building now isn't just software but part of the platform and ecosystem to make VeriCoin useful everywhere. One thing that is sorely needed (and we're working hard on) is getting a community foundation going that can help us where we need it: marketing, news releases with more reasonable timelines, etc. I would say that is our greatest deficit right now and one we are working on fixing. I also have spoken to the other devs about not releasing hints of new stuff until it's done, then delaying so we can get proper PR ready. It was a mistake in my opinion to even discuss the announcement set for last weekend before it was ready. Doug knows this now. One of the other issues is that one community member figured out vaguely what it was and started talking about it... so we need to keep things closer to ourselves until it's more mature next time.
I will be especially more critical in future investments. So if you think these devs had it bad, wait until I support another project! They will hate me until they love me. The quality of your developers means everything to the start of a crypto project. 