Firstly, I do not doubt the sincerity of Mani's post(s). Secondly, I am not defending the devs (amdoge included) as I feel they have let the community down. That being said, there's a couple things I'd like to point out.
1) I do not believe PND's intention was ever to be a "pump and dump" coin. WAYYY to much work went into the coin for that to be the case imo. I remember when PND was trading for 4-5 liteoshi, and skyrocketed to 800. The dev team could have dumped then and made a killing... they didn't.
2) Assuming Mani's suspicions are correct and bdanyo has acquired ~4 billion PND at or around 1 satoshi... at today's BTC price that's nearly $12,000. That is not pocket change and it simply defies logic that ANYone would invest so much into a coin that appears to be on deaths door. You wouldn't front that much money with no faith it could be recovered.
3) Expanding on "way too much work": Pandacoin.org, the crypto crash course, hybrid wallets, reduced blockchain times, etc... that's a lot of innovations to just toss aside for a quick profit. If the whole intention was to scam people out of their money why bother with all this stuff? Just make a bunch of false promises and dump when everyone panic buys as has happened countless times in cryptos. Aside from the 100k merchants, every promise made was kept.
I'm not saying PND is or isn't dead, I'm just saying the whole shit doesn't make sense.
1) I do not believe PND's intention was ever to be a "pump and dump" coin. WAYYY to much work went into the coin for that to be the case imo. I remember when PND was trading for 4-5 liteoshi, and skyrocketed to 800. The dev team could have dumped then and made a killing... they didn't.
2) Assuming Mani's suspicions are correct and bdanyo has acquired ~4 billion PND at or around 1 satoshi... at today's BTC price that's nearly $12,000. That is not pocket change and it simply defies logic that ANYone would invest so much into a coin that appears to be on deaths door. You wouldn't front that much money with no faith it could be recovered.
3) Expanding on "way too much work": Pandacoin.org, the crypto crash course, hybrid wallets, reduced blockchain times, etc... that's a lot of innovations to just toss aside for a quick profit. If the whole intention was to scam people out of their money why bother with all this stuff? Just make a bunch of false promises and dump when everyone panic buys as has happened countless times in cryptos. Aside from the 100k merchants, every promise made was kept.
I'm not saying PND is or isn't dead, I'm just saying the whole shit doesn't make sense.
Anyone with a modicum of hope should read rastab's above post over and over and OVER again.. It's the most logical thing that has been posted in a while.
Building on the questions..
Who was responsible for the biggest innovations? (i.e. switching from PoW to PoS? Was this amDOGE? If so, it would be good to hear from her, not an alias, etc. to find out what plans she supposedly had for the coin, and if she is still motivated to see any future innovations brought to PND)
There is NO way that all of the assets of PND were orchestrated for the purpose of financial scam. I don't think it would have been possible to even cash in on it, because there simply isn't enough volume to trade huge blocks like that. Whoever were the original devs, they created something with some real belief behind it. You can't make a wallet like this, all the website details, innovation to the coin code, etc., as an arm-chair hobby. That took a lot of time and investment from a few good / great people.
The real question is, even if they are gone, when the dust finally settles, can we eventually find a new group of people that are willing to continue developing VALUE ADDED FEATURES that inherently brought visibility to the last re-birth of PND? You can't market a coin if it's a shit coin. PND isn't a shit coin.. Get a new group of devs with some real motivation to INNOVATE. Get past this setback, cut through the nonsense, and the coin will have a new day.
Who owns all of the assets of PND? Who contributed the most to it's development? If the answer is amDOGE, I find it puzzling to say the least why someone with so much talent and ability remains in silence when she has the biggest voice in determining what if any possible next steps exist. If she has checked out, she could at least offer to hand over the code and website controls to the community, and let someone step up to the plate to take it in a new direction.
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