My gf asked me why 37% (10 voters) dislike me. While trying to explain my take on this, I realized I didn't directly articulate my implied response to your challenge above. You are essentially stating that my ego would alienate the community that would be needed.

The implied summary of my long retort from the prior post is that those who wish to eliminate the concept of a leader, because of their own egos, end up the losers in the market. The winners do not let their ego get in their way of evaluating the objective reality.

Thus the community of losers will fall away and the community of winners will proceed (and again I don't claim to know for a fact I will win, rather just defending my logic about my freedom to compete in a free market and why I feel this is the wisest action at this juncture). Again this might cause some readers to think "there he goes again with that huge ego", but yet they still don't see that it is their ego. I am not talking about myself, but a conceptual point about leadership (and again do not conflate leadership with authority, control, and power to manipulate/scam). But those who are blinded by their ego, will be blinded. Sorry there is nothing I can nor should do about that. I hope this is the last time I will choose to respond to allegations that my ego is the hindrance.

The other aspect of your challenge is that you are noting that so many altcoins have failed because they relied on a leader who is either failed technically, lack of sustained effort, was unwilling to give up control to the open source community, or in many cases was duping the community. Thus depending too much on any one person is very risky. Again I was not proposing to have investors put up funds with only me to be ongoing at the helm of a project. I am in a solo development phase right now because that seems to be the most efficient path from point A to point B. Once we get to point B, then we can start to try to spontaneously see a "leaderless" (a leader without control) open source team take form. I tried to build a team in July, but I quickly realized I was losing more effort to sorting out all the myriad of issues with that (very complex to organize a team when there is no project yet and the differing expectations and also to know how this culture clash with work out in advance). It is much easier to form a team after release when there doesn't need to be commitments made. People can join and leave at free will, so then there isn't all this time lost to trying to predict the future and organize against such risks when making commitments to what can't be known well in advance.

Please consider if you have any hands-on (actual) experience at all in what you are writing about. You may. I am responding with my logic.

Edit: I didn't find your post to be combative.   You may be genuinely concerned that I may fail if going alone and alienating people with my egoindividualism. If my response came across this way, it is because my response is attempting to address all those who have various reasons for finding me distasteful, not just to your statements. So I was reading between your lines, the various thoughts some of (not all of) the others may be thinking, not necessarily what you were thinking.

Oh and I got so focused in on making my points, that I forgot to thank you for your feedback. Sincerely thank you for giving me the instigation to respond and also stoking my thought process on these matters.