Quote from: HYPERfuture on December 21, 2015, 06:31:38 PM

Hi HYPER community,

Firstly, I would like to apologize, as it seems for some people the trust they had in me is broken.

Secondly, I would like to say that I am so grateful for the community that has risen up, and seen the potential in, a cryptocurrency aimed squarely at gaming communities and online games.

That is why I created HYPER, because I believe in this idea, and I know that many of you do too.

Unfortunately I have been very busy and I have not had the time I would have liked to devote to HYPER for the past 2-3 of months. It makes me sad when I see the effect my absence has on the community and currency as a whole.

Most of the gaming servers and infrastructure are still running as intended, and in fact besides my absence, HYPER is still the disruptive gaming cryptocurrency, and always will be.

A community takeover, is in my eyes a very positive development. I would still like to play a role in marketing and promotion, but the responsibility of managing the whole project is hard for me.

I don't expect anyone to understand unless they too have launched a cryptocurrency, and kept it alive for 18 months, because they do not want to be the person that just disappears when things get tough. This is why, although I may disappear for periods of time, I always come back and ensure that HYPER will grow and prosper for the good of all involved.

Wearing the many hats of marketing, management, making sure the network itself is robust, pushing wallet updates, answering PMs (sorry to everyone I have not replied to yet), coordinating the rebuilding of our core website after the hack, not to mention emails (the address itself I have not reactivated yet after we were hacked), and ignoring / dealing with trolls, is too much for one person that does not have many, many hours of spare time every day.

I am not that person. However, I believe in HYPER, I have spent many, many sleepless nights tweaking websites, coordinating marketing, making sure the network has sufficient nodes, pushing wallet updates, and much more over the past year and a half.

It is time for a change, and I also agree that the community deserves better.

I would like everyone that was considering a community takeover to PM me with your ideas. The best ideas I will turn into a poll. And as always, I will let the community decide, because the community is HYPER. HYPER is a decentralized cryptocurrency, it certainly shouldn't rely on one person (me), to make sure it runs smoothly.

This is not decentralization, this is dependence, and is something HYPER needs to overcome to reach the next levels I know it can and will reach. Together, we can take HYPER to where it belongs.

Satoshi is dead, or disappeared, or living on the dark side of the moon. And while I am none of those, a true cryptocurrency does not rely on its creator, due to its decentralized nature and HYPER should be no different.

When Bitcoin was 18 months old it was worth essentially nothing, and considering that, when taking the long view, HYPER still has a very long way to go.

Everyone please PM me with your ideas for the takeover, it is time to move beyond this project relying on me, but I will still be involved as much as I possibly can.

Thank you for your time in reading this and game on. As I said all of HYPER's game server infrastructure is still active and the current list can be seen at http://hypercrypto.com

Just to make it clear I am not retiring' or abandoning the project. I too think that HYPER deserves better. You deserve better. I simply want to work on one aspect of HYPER (such as the marketing), and let other community members work on what they think they can do best (such as game development, running the twitter account, running the official HYPER email account, being responsible for the network security, etc). Anyone is welcome to begin work on any HYPER supported game or App as they see fit. We have such an amazing community here. Let's make it happen.

My real life has very recently become much more manageable, and realistically I should be able to reply to ALL PMs I have received, within the next week or so. Unfortunately, I am not willing to go into personal details as to why I have been unable to give HYPER the attention it deserves the past few months.

Thank you again for taking the time to read this, and I extend my deepest apologies to anyone that feels let down, disappointed, or upset by my latest leave of absence. It is time for HYPER to evolve to true decentralization.

I totally agree with you! We all need to work as a community! No idea can really grow to realization without a team! It's never too late to succeed! The future is still to be formed and success to be had!