At that time I was considering cutting some corners and releasing something less ambitious and then gradually improving it. But I changed my mind. My co-developer was obviously jl777. And I was also in discussions to work on BTCD and apply some of my ideas there. But obviously the forum attacked me when I mentioned about the possibility of launching an ICO that could be a precursor to JAMBOX, so I abandoned that possible direction. Also I had stated that my heart wasn't really in doing an ICO. Note contrary to what some others wrote, jl777 has never pressured me. I was just exploring the possibilities and trying to make a rational decision as to the best choice of priorities.

Also note that I went on a tangent about creating a new programming language for about a month, which was far too ambitious for a one man coding team. I decided to proceed until the research and discussion on that new PL had reached a plateau where it could be paused without losing too much continuity or in process discussion. I put that on pause about 2-3 weeks ago and reserved as a future work.

My plans for JAMBOX and in-app currency may benefit greatly from that work on a new PL (for reasons I'd rather not detail now), but that necessarily has to be a priority that comes well after launch and with more funding to make such work move forward at a faster pace (i.e. not only me as the sole developer).