so the devs are doing their jobs and got the ltcf cooperation through hard work, and the dash 0.13 update frees else otherly invested devtime. the price does not really show that, but as long as there are the old devfunds i dont think that the development is in jeopardy. from the 11,500,000 stated some time ago in this thread, there are still 6,288,792.6213561 xsn left on the addresses from the faq -
https://stakenet.io/faq/#what_is_the_treasury . even with our horror prices right now, that is a good basis for not getting too stressed out, and continue developing instead of worrying. so i would put that out more - having stable perspectives in development without having to stress out about the funding should be something people aprpeciate. at least so called smart money
the big picture wouldn't be achievable at all without that sort of financial security. and since the puzzle pieces are slowly fitting together - mn/ln/ltcf/dex/dapps/ccpos, tpos/xeeda/ledger/viper, and the right core to implement great work (dash <3) by others without a need to hardfork (just to name a few), it should not take too long that more people will come around. the lightwallet should make it easier for people to come around as well. on the other wallet - it was about time to change some things (logo) very long ago, now with the much appreciated help of dash, there should be freed ressources to help. and having a nice looking and easy wallet seems to be as important as good tech, cause most people dont seem to care about understanding what they are doing, but want one click solutions. since i am writing about the wallet - pls, pls, pls make an unlock for staking only feature and improve the scalabilty for small/big resolutions.
there are some obvious problems as well. unless the team directed some of the funds to addresses not mentioned in the faq, there was a lot of sell pressure because of the very high rewards in the beginning as well as when 5mill xsn got sold over the last year, it wasn't exactly helping the price. in hindsight i think xsn never should have had as high rewards, but hey nobody was expecting that posw would be traded at 1$ for promises (bull) and xsn always below that for delivering (bear). but all in all bear combined with sells explains a lot. not that bull and bear markets explain everything, and of course even duringst them there can be anticyclical projects (though its easier to be anticyclical during a bull of course). nevertheless point being, that the bear was taking its tolls and intensified the negative impact of inflation and selling funds for development. But there is hardly a better way of dealing with a bear than just push forward through development, dont get me wrong, but it of course plays an immediate role pricewise when coins are sold, whilst the development seldomly immediatly resonates, but with good dev it will materialize far better returns over time, than what the short term selling is costing.
in the end two pleas:
pls dont put more goals on the roadmap due to the work dash has done, but regroup the ressources for the goals already written down
pls update the whitepaper, the 2018 roadmap in there hurts a little, i'd put in the achievements of 2018 and (still speaking of what i would do) put in the roadmap without the qs, telling people to check stakenet for updates.