This is to the DEV's and MOD's of B3,
I'm not a developer,but let me take a crack at this:
1. Why was the decision taken to implement Fundamental nodes before the 80k block?
Please bear in mind the following facts;
One reason given in this official B3 youtube video states it was to reward early investors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxiuczSCjGs&t=4sLooking at the official pool figures for the 25th of November, out of 5500+ wallets there were only around 100 wallets who had over 25 million coins required for a FN. A quick look at those figures should have given you an idea of the percentage of the community you were rewarding with early FN's (i'm sure frogger's pool had similar numbers);
This was in order to corner the market away from a wallet that had over 51%. They froze that wallet (was going to be froze forever until community members freaked out because freezing cryptowallets is literally the #1 thing NOT to do in this realm), implemented FN's and started to collect.
Their justification after being caught is that they were going to burn those coins, so it'd be burnt coins vs the large wallet network wise. Which... wouldn't be that bad, but a REALLY bad way of going about it. (not justifying this at all... this was one of the worst blunders I've seen in cryptocurrency period)
2. Why so many updates during the release of the FN's rendering pools and exchanges unable to transact and investors unable to purchase FN's unless they had coins in a private wallet?
Cause they fucked up or fucked you. One of the two. It could have been a mix of both. Say one person on the team knew this and the other few missed it... it happens.
They, in my opinion, are all responsible.
3. The DEV's FN's were rewarded with in my opinion several billion coins due to the carousel feature not working,
Who and when are those coins going to be distributed to?
"Several" lol
They said they plan on burning these, but really I think redistributing them out to the community in some fashion maybe the smartest thing to do...
I would be available to be a escrow agent for such transaction(s).
4. There is a lot of mystery surrounding No1 wallet, what is the story behind it and what has happened to it?
N/A this wallet got pwned during all this.
B3 had a market cap of under $20,000 not long ago... you could have been #1 wallet with a bucket of fly farts practically.
5. Are any DEV's or MODs' holding any wallets in the top 10 rich-list?
Duh. Reference above.