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I agree that Max's approach can rub people up the wrong way but that's his style; love it or hate it.
To correct some misconceptions about the launch:
It was a mess and we own up to that.
It was not intentionally so chaotic.
The devs have made no money out of MaxCoin (we've actually lost money right now in server costs).
Max provided no funding to the dev team and to my knowledge had no advantage over any other miner (excluding his financial resources of course)
We had every intention of having GUI wallets available for all all clients at launch as well as a CGMiner port (we planned originally to release this on day 2 to allow people to CPU mine first but it became apparent that the community were going to beat us to it so we put resources into developing one but proved unsuccessful due to time and competing priorities), stratum port and p2pool port.
The above was not possible due to time and resources constraints and it was decided that it would be better to launch as was than delay and upset the community.
In hindsight it was the wrong move to release when we did and we should have delayed but hindsight is 20/20 as they say.
This above is my take on things personally and doesn't reflect the opinions of the entire dev team or Max himself. A comprehensive statement explaining and apologising the launch will come hopefully tomorrow.
I can only apologise if people feel cheated and or let down by the launch. We all hope to do better in the future.
http://www.reddit.com/r/maxcoinproject/comments/1xgo7a/the_launch_wasnt_for_crypto_cry_babies_cowboy_up/cfbany3 To correct some misconceptions about the launch:
It was a mess and we own up to that.
It was not intentionally so chaotic.
The devs have made no money out of MaxCoin (we've actually lost money right now in server costs).
Max provided no funding to the dev team and to my knowledge had no advantage over any other miner (excluding his financial resources of course)
We had every intention of having GUI wallets available for all all clients at launch as well as a CGMiner port (we planned originally to release this on day 2 to allow people to CPU mine first but it became apparent that the community were going to beat us to it so we put resources into developing one but proved unsuccessful due to time and competing priorities), stratum port and p2pool port.
The above was not possible due to time and resources constraints and it was decided that it would be better to launch as was than delay and upset the community.
In hindsight it was the wrong move to release when we did and we should have delayed but hindsight is 20/20 as they say.
This above is my take on things personally and doesn't reflect the opinions of the entire dev team or Max himself. A comprehensive statement explaining and apologising the launch will come hopefully tomorrow.
I can only apologise if people feel cheated and or let down by the launch. We all hope to do better in the future.
