Question: is there a roster of the current dev team somewhere w/ their credentials? Seems like a pretty basic thing for a company like this to have on their website (e.g., one trying to revolutionize payments). What experience do these dev-folks have? What experience do the devs and other professionals have in the highly regulated and long-existing payments industry?
Actually, no.
Why offer up your staff security, especially when dealing with payments. Full disclosure is not always smart or appropriate. I know I wouldn't release all my staff info to a forum of anonymous people. Think about it.
Whichever way you want to spin it, there are many legitimate reasons why opacity works. Security is as good as any,
Bull. People engaged in honest commerce have nothing to fear and everything to gain by being transparent. Criminals have much to fear and everything to lose by being transparent.
Are you kidding? Very, very few companies make a roster of their technical staff public, for all sorts of good reasons that have nothing to do with breaking the law.
How would you know whether you're dealing with a scammer, then? maybe not every security or developer person on staff needs to be disclosed, but there should be some folks w/ verifiable credentials involved or advising on cryptography, payments, economics, etc. We know the bitcoin and dogecoin developers, for example, along w/ their professional credentials. why would anyone accept anything less from these bozos?
I was just responding to the idiotic idea that the only reason a company wouldn't publish a roster of their technical staff is if they were engaged in criminal activity.
In GAW's case, if they have anyone on staff you can safely bet that they don't have credentials worth bragging about. It wouldn't surprise me if they have no dev staff left any more and have outsourced what tiny bits of development that have occurred to the sort of third-world developers who do simple web development for five bucks an hour.
Not publishing a roster means a lot less than the fact that they've done no development of any significance since paycoin/paybase was released. A little integration with APIs from other web sites, such as stripe and gyft. A "vault" mockup and a "validation" form that doesn't seem to do much. Stock charts on paybase. Anything I'm forgetting? And they had at least a few devs in early January. For the more recent stuff, a mediocre dev with a little website experience and no crypto experience could have done it all in a few days, maybe a couple of weeks if they're very new at it.
Has Josh even promised anything lately that would take any dev power? He's trying to get the community to do the work. He's got "team xpy" doing whatever they're doing to try to salvage some value out of their investments. The buyback, in the unlikely event it actually happens, doesn't require any significant software dev.
Everything that's going on, and everything he's promising, is consistent with GAW having little or no significant development staff.