I agree to most of what you tell, Goergem, so what I tell below is not to argue, those mostly just free thoughts on the subject.
The project time-frame anyway looks to be long enough. Two forks in the next 6 months most probably mean first steps of torrent integration into the actual blockchain, aka start of public beta testing of the basic torrent-related functionality. I expect there lots of discussions and probably disagreement (as everyone has his own view on how this should be done). Its interesting whether the Dev intends to take it into account, or he has 100% fixed vision..
If quite a lot of work is already done, one person or 10 people working on this project doesn't make that much difference if there is a release plan in progress. If it's done, it's done.
"If it's done, it's done." - true, but only to some extent
. Most of developers I have worked with (even very good ones) consider things done as soon as the basic "skeleton" functionality is implemented. But in real business world "done" means - "completely thought out, with all the smallest details considered"+"all of the essential parts implemented, including the smallest details"+"all these tested and passed quality control, including stress testing and many other kinds of testing"+"all this reviewed by multiple people with different strengths and areas of expertise, as one single person could/would always miss something".
Its a bit strange the Dev doesn't ask or discuss anything here. To have a proper torrent implementation in blockchain, one has to consider huge amount of details, and there are so many questionable aspects there!! One explanation could be - maybe indeed there is a team, and they discuss it internally to the extend they don't need any input from outside..? I would be happy if that's the case
SDC at $10m and DASH at $80m are both built around one dev.
Truly saying, I see the VTR idea to be much more complex than those two projects you mentioned, both because of many conceptual questions, and also due to the insanely wide user- and 'abuser-' base of torrents, people (or governments) who will try to abuse, break and stress the VTR beyond all measures. That's also the reason why VTR should have much bigger market cap when being ready and working
Why would the devs be looking at two hard forks within the next six months? Come on fellas, think it through.
I suppose that would be the first steps of torrent integration, and probably starting from that point we could have the "skeleton" implementation more or less ready, so the testing could finally involve the community here.