Blame Vertoe for selling part/all of her/his/its stash.
No, i blame the very very poor communication both internal (dev team) and external (towards community) .
Agree.
Random members of the community aside, for core devs and other essential members of the team to have not been consulted is ludicrous. This seems to have been a decision made by foundation board members and Evan exclusively.
And THIS is what I meant when I posted that Darkcoin has always botched PR and other public relations...