The big consolation I get is that the whales are losing more money than the small guys. And they have less of an escape route. We saw what happened when one whale (MintPal) dumped.
I've sent 5% donations to the devs quietly and plan on sending more. If whales want to help this is how - not the hype. Building a virtual reality to live his kingdom fantasies in 2d world revolved around Monero is kinda cute. I don't really see it harming or helping the coin much.
I kinda have a problem that one of the core team members / whale sidekicks is working on a borderline scam project Truckcoin/Hyperstake. The 750% is bad enough but using an old coin to pump in order to pull off insider trading just ... smells bad.
Monero is still the only altcoin out there worth jack**** and maybe boolberry. Thank you devs for what you do. I'll be donating more soon.
I wanna distance myself from several assertions here.
First, there is no consolation in seeing others losing money. I was the one who made the wrong decisions not them.
Fortunately, no one should be losing money. That only happens if one were to make the mistake to sell now. Actually he would be losing both fiat and real money.
Finally, David has always been kind and helpful to me and others. Your allegations simply "Does Not Compute".
Hyperstake is FUN. If you followed it and knew the community, you would know that.