David is a great guy but he is just 1 guy to make a stand.
There are others who help him above average (you know who you are), but the way things are going makes it hard for Bay.
Yes it's a legit coin
Yes it's got some great team members
Yes it's got potential but in crypto times goes fast and without a stable client, after 1.5 year it's time for me to bail out. There are many, not just 1, alternatives today. Which got bigger teams, better marketing and eventually pegging.
No, I don't think it's over but i do see from other directions there is better innovation. Bay isn't the frontrunner anymore.
Good luck to David. I am happy to see what passion and heart can do. And you David got a lot of both.
I'm sorry to see you leave although I do understand that it is frustrating to wait for so long.
You are right about the team being small and David is our only dev. On the other hand, he is probably the most efficient dev in crypto. Most big dev teams have not been able to deliver a fraction of what David has coded all by himself.
I agree things move fast in crypto. To fast! Everyone seems to forget that we are working on software that is designed to handle peoples money. Thorough testing is a must, and can't be skipped or rushed. I tested the release version of the wallet from a competing coin, and immediately got my coins locked. Now we have the DAO situation. It's a good thing we have this sandbox we call the crypto community that allows experimentation and mishaps like that, but incidents like that are totally unacceptable when we want ordinary people to use it. There would be so many law suits, there would be no time for development anymore. We had the win version of our client in beta for more than a year, and I'm glad we did. We found the last bugs only weeks before we released the official release version. It is now rock solid. Mac and linux will stay in beta for a while to make sure there are no OS specific bugs. And when I talk about bugs I don't just mean obvious bugs. Considering that ordinary non tech people are supposed to use this, we have to treat every problem that users can create as a bug, or at the very least give them a warning when they do something that might lead them into trouble. Like not using default install path. There is no way to rush this, so when you say better innovation is coming from other directions I disagree. Ideas come cheap. Anyone can make a roadmap with some fancy innovations. But actually making the software, and then doing the tedious work of finding and removing bugs -that is a whole different beast. To my knowledge our client is the most advanced wallet in existence today, and so far we have only made the fundament. Now we will begin to roll out the exiting stuff...