Note CfB claims he showed his passport in the past. I haven't seen it and IMO his passport is irrelevant. What I wanted to know is what he accomplished before Nxt and JINN/Iota.
Note when I asked him, I was thinking I wanted to know this to see if he is worthy of proposing collaboration and vice versa, if I am worthy relatively speaking. But as I have thought more about this, I realized that the lack of LinkedIn account makes him unsuitable for the route I want to go with crowdfunding a startup corporation. I need developers who have strong reputations (stronger than mine, because I stopped working in 2006 for the most part although I did continue researching and learning, it is hard to show that because I didn't publish much since 2006. Also I realized that he probably wouldn't be so interested for a too ambitious project that demands a longer-term commitment. And I realized I would be having doubts about whether he would be truly concerned about the value of the software he is creating. I take a huge pride in the software I create and I don't want to knowingly produce something which I think is not going to do what is purports to do. The reason I quit Coolpage, is because after several attempts I was unable to figure out a way to marry pixel-perfect placement with generalized HTML import and export. Thus I realized I was making crap software and I became disillusioned. I really want to believe in what I am working on, which is one reason I've been slow to make an altcoin because I wasn't satisfied that the issues that plague the altcoins could actually be fixed (and I still have doubts even for my own design).
Eastern European and Russian programmers are an enigma to me. I was told (in May or June 2015) they try to find a way to earn the most money with the least work. I was told this by one of them, when I explained why I was having trouble understanding the way they approached my offers to collaborate.
National styles in hacking
Posted on 2013-04-11 by Eric Raymond
The Russian: A morose, wizardly loner. Capable of pulling amazing feats of algorithmic complexity and how-did-he-spot that debugging out of nowhere. Mathematically literate. Uncommunicative and relatively poor at cooperating with others, but more from obliviousness than obnoxiousness. Has recent war stories about using equipment that has been obsolete in the West for decades.
Like most stereotypes, these should neither be taken too literally nor dismissed out of hand. It’s not difficult to spot connections to other aspects of the relevant national cultures.
I must admit I also try to be clever with efficiency of code sometimes. And also with priorities and organization.
But I am also recognizing that I no longer have the sole capability to code 24 x 7 as I did for CoolPage and thus I need to collaborate. And I think this is a normal pattern as someone ages, they become more valued for their management skills and experience than their raw coding productivity.
I am hopeful that my coding productivity will still be high. Getting off this forum is the first step for me.