Quote from: erok on March 26, 2015, 11:42:08 PM

Quote from: CryptoPolice on March 26, 2015, 11:34:55 PM

Quote from: erok on March 26, 2015, 11:29:19 PM

Quote from: AlexGR on March 26, 2015, 11:25:42 PM

Quote from: Automatic Monkey on March 26, 2015, 11:11:28 PM

Quote from: AlexGR on March 26, 2015, 10:30:33 PM

Quote from: erok on March 26, 2015, 10:23:19 PM

Merely a superficial blanket imo and goes against the whole nature behind the anon movement.

I wouldn't have a problem ideologically as long as the devs could be anonymous even from the authorities (think NSA-level resources). But since this is extremely hard or improbable to achieve, their anonymity is not really against the establishment, rather the ordinary people, forums, investors etc. And, when that happens, people are more hesitant to throw money in a project due to all the scams and fails that are way too numerous to mention.

But the worst scams and fails have not involved anonymous people.

If something *seems* legit but it isn't, it has the potential to scam people more money.

However this isn't about scamming anyone with SDC. Obviously there has been work done in the rings on a btc blockchain, so there's proof-of-talent so to speak. It's just that to the whale investors, it seems that a project has greater accountability when the devs are known and that's when they can invest more. Everyone profits indirectly as the price goes higher.

It's not a blocker if there's work going on that seems ok, even if the dev is unknown. It just increases the possible investment if people know him.

Case in point: Spreadcoin. DRK people kind of learned about two projects from the DRK thread. One was SDC due to the proposed merger (and many of us came here and invested a few coins) another one was Spreadcoin as Spreadcoin was the first one to try to clone DRK and evolve a bit on the code on some stuff. At some point the Spreadcoin dev found a bug in DRK and that gained the DRK communitys attention for investment.

Anyway, things were going well with Spread, price was rising and then the anonymous dev went AWOL, never to be seen again. Now it's on a community takeover status with price at 1/10th or something from the peak. It's kind of "reminder to self: Never go big with unknown devs"...

Bitcoin.

*drops mic*

But Satoshi left you a working crypto currency.

You are kind of implying something is broken. Instead of looking at the glass as half empty, look at it as as a half full cup floating in an ocean with large waves.

@AlexGR: Evan Duffield

@CryptoPolice: Shadow is a working crypto-currency

*drops mic*