I appreciate your honestly. The reality of the situation is that it appears that this is a hype type situation around a technology that are going to lose a lot of small fishes a lot of money. By continuing to hype what WILL come crashing down (if not in price first - then by the exploit BCX outlined if it stays a decent sized target).
I honestly don't see this "hype" situation you're describing. We don't make promises or say we're going to do something merely to create hype. When we push something out, like with the OpenAlias system we pushed out today, we are already well down the road to having it working, if not completed already. Anyone outside of the core team that tries to create hype will have to, unfortunately, deal with out release cycle.
We (the core team) have already stated that we will work on Monero regardless of whether the price goes up or down. Monero is not going to "die", even if the price goes down. The exploit still has more vague hand-waving than actual details. Nonetheless, if such an exploit exists then either we will figure it out over time and patch it, or the exploit will be used and we will patch it (just as we did with the block 202612 exploit).
This, too, will not make Monero "die" any more than Bitcoin "died" in August 2010 when someone created a block with 184 billion Bitcoins. They had to suspend the network and roll it back, causing a fork at that bad block. It took over 2 days for the correct fork to win out. In fact, Bitcoin has, over its history, had 23 exploits serious enough to have CVE numbers. And yet it hasn't died. This constant declaration of death because someone manipulates the price or some other person unverifiably claims to "have an exploit" is just silly.
The entire thing is built around greed of the big guys (see rptellia).
The "big guys" were not around at the beginning, so I can't get how you say that "the entire thing is built around" them. That makes no logical sense whatsoever. Either way, they can be as greedy as they want, they're not affecting us or our ability to develop. Eventually their "greed" will either result in them being rewarded financially, or they will chicken out and leave. Not every early, loud-mouthed Bitcoin proponent is still around.
This overt stab at screwing people over and being dis honest by creating hype about a technology that is NOT ready for prime time has created this backlash.
Again, where is the hype?
Are there proponents of Monero who say that Monero is "amazing" or what have you? Sure. But I have not seen them claim Monero is ready for prime time (in fact, quite the opposite), and I have not seen them claim we're developing anything that we aren't.
