Yeah, I have a lot of faith in the development party: this was posted on Discord and Telegram by the lead developer 'Quantemleaper':
QuantumLeaper, [26.10.19 16:35]
Somebody was asking about pricing on Discord and what I think about the current valuation. If anybody else is wondering, here is my answer:
Would I like to see a fair evaluation of our project? Absolutely. But I am not dependent on this. If I were to be dependent on our price, our project would cease to exist.
I do plan on eventually being rewarded for my hard fork, considering I value my time at ~$240/hour and am not just investing time, but also money into this project.
However, my main intentions is creating software and services that we very much need in this world. To create awareness of privacy based issues
and to help avoid censorship and supression.
The way I see it, there's one of two options for UPX to really "moon" and stabalize at a fair valuation, which we are extremely extremely far from.
#1) A true alt market kicks off after bitcoin goes parabolic again (but this isn't consistent)
#2) To create an internal economy by bringing users in to buy and UTILIZE (huge emphasis on utilize) UPX for unique, original, or viable purposes.
This would be like having apps on our services that require UPX to use (UNApps anyone?).
If you take a look at MANA and DICE, you can see their price movements are completely independent of the typical alt market.
This is because they have a solid use case that is explored by those who are not just speculative traders.
It's my opinion that the first option is a huge gamble, and not worth the risk if that is why people are buying. It's our job as a community to show what blockchain can do, not to just invest and "hodl". Unfortunately, that mentality is extremely harmful to both the technologies and peoples involved within this industry.
to me it's clear that this team will do everything in it's power to succeed, and bring blockchain and uPLexa to the masses.