What possible incentive do they have to even bother with the existing chain? Think about that. That logic applies to all of the other open source platforms that these scammers are shilling. Why use an existing chain when it's open source? Answer that question. You can't.
You can speculate on some altcoin exchange but the reality is that any entity adopting blockchain technology is just going to fork an existing solution leaving your holdings on one chain meaningless. How am I wrong with my assertions? It's not just Stratis but all of the other so called revolutionary platforms for financial, data storage, historical data, etc.. Most are open source and if adopted by any entity will do nothing to bring value to any existing chains.
I just want to say Personally I think your awesome, really you've straight up slayed some real douche bags in the past.
I'll try and answer you the best I can, honestly you can ask the CEO directly on the Slack I think a lot of what you question has been asked and discussed with him. The team is really approachable, you can even follow the #csharp_development on slack with Nic and Chris and dangershoney. And they take suggestions openly.
You bring IMO one of crypto's real undiscussed problems is how in the hell are all these open source projects going to make investors in coins that have 20million - 100 million coins profitable?? Is there a single coins yet that has achieved this? I think Factom is on the way, but it's really hard to get the data to back it up publicly.
One thing that is not mentioned are the personal business networks, FCT obviously had good connections in the real world and are able to turn these into real business.
I think, and this is just my observation from hanging out on the slack and assuming Dorirer has insane connections lol, i get the feeling (i know how reassuring is that) this team in real life is very well connected in London. Outside of that I don't know.
How Chris plans on making the coins and tech viable he has expressed several times that he is obsessed with the notion.
The sidechains will cost, the 1 way and two way pegging will cost in stratis. (I'm really bad at this part so bare with me I'll post a reddit link to the Q&A) Also a major part of their business plan is consulting fees with clients. Yes there will always be ppl that will just fork, kind of like how i'll just fix my own car. But there will always be ppl who don't want any hassle and they will hire the source company to roll it out for them. He's expressed that there will be basically commissions or a kind of dividend to the holders.
The world is full of managers who just get paid to make things happen, these ppl hire who they perceive "are the best" or whomever they can afford.
Of course this stage of the crypto adoption is 99% speculation in terms of will the real world use it brings, i'm not an idiot lol.
In the world of speculation i'm betting this team has got what it takes based on years of being around coins and teams and progress.
Please give them a chance before you write them off just off the WP, things have progressed a lot since it was published the scope of the project is bigger.
Come to the slack be civil ask them some tuff questions then make a judgement.
Mind if I ask which coins you think are winners?
p.s some really great ppl around this coin too
https://www.reddit.com/r/stratisplatform/comments/5fdmr4/ama_stratis_questions_and_answers_about_stratis/
Awesome post.
I'm not lying when I say that you are one of the smart people.
You obviously are looking through the window with the blinders rolled up.
Still didn't answer the question though but gave it a good try.
Holding a good chunk of Stratis obviously. You have to be diplomatic to protect your investment.
Hats off to you good sir, thanks for the discussion I appreciate your personal opinions and thoughts.