Is that really true? Can you give examples where Byteball leadership or foundation is talking negative about speculators/investors?
Byteball foundation never said that directly. But I undestand that as their position. Never did any for investors/holders, because they think they don't add value.
I do remember one tweet made by Byteball.org twitter that looked down on speculators/investors but that is small offence for the many offences (short term) speculators/investors have made in Byteball community, bitching and whining about everything that needs be changed, often promoting things that are good in short term but add little or are sometimes bad in long term (like airdrops to byteball holders, more exchange quotations, change name, etc), while doing nothing themselves for the project.
I agree. But you have to agree to me: investors/holders add value to a project: reduced volatility, increased liquidity.
It is hilarious: an awesome platform with a coin which simply can't sell or buy without a 10% price move. Not true if you only want to exchange 0.1 btc, of course.
Some resentment and lashing out from active members is to be expected. That does not mean leadership is not supportive of investors. I have been a big investor, but also feel valued by the leadership, foundation and active members. Ofcourse I also add value in other ways than just allocating capital, which probably explains why they value me.
How many bytes are you holding currently?
But I do agree with you that it is very important for the leadership to respect and value speculators/investors that only allocate capital, however the best way to do this is not with nice words about investors or let them lead the project, but with good management of the project that usually means decisions that are sometimes painful in short term but profitable in long term, like cancelling the airdrops, not wasting money on exchange quotations or rebrandings that all add little real users to the project etc.
So... spending money on ONE liquid exchange listing (I am not saying 60) is useless??
Luckily for us, there are another ways which cost exactly 0 undistributed funds to try: binance community voting. Why not give it a try?