Its worth noting here that a lot of this is on the to-do list. I mean the 10% treasury system broke 6 months ago with a "small bug" (according to someone in slack) and it still not fixed. Zerocoin protocol is "to do" not implemented.
Now i'm not saying I dont like the idea of the coin, but I hope the dev's have the skill and endurance to do what they say they are going to do with it.
PIVX looks like one of the better designed coins on paper and I was hoping to jump in on it when it was just under 5c.
However, being a developer for more than 15 years, my instincts drove me to learn a little more about the core team writing the software. GitHub produces a nice activity chart for a developer and their contributions. Apart from the few commits on GitHub over the past 6 months, there's not much activity under these devs.
The devs also don't use their real identities unlike what I've observed in other core teams. This is perfectly understandable if they had day jobs and contribution here could be seen as a conflict of interest. But it does validate the point that perhaps there aren't any full-time devs working on this project (broken treasury?), nor is it possible to ascertain their skills and their ability to deliver what's on paper.
I've been trying to get a closer a look at the developers workflow, their kanban board, to get an understanding of how well they're organized and coordinate their work, what they're working on right now, what's done and in testing, the QA process, etc. For a community that claims to be the most open and transparent, this information is locked away. I tried pinging various folks in the team over the past 3 days and have had no luck. Some team members responded saying they aren't sure how and where the core devs are organizing their work. I've seen a number of software projects fail or end up riddle with bugs and poor quality because of the skills of the people working on them. I'm not saying this is the case here yet, but it's becoming a concern. I wish they were a little more transparent on their actual blockchain developers.
So yeah, at a market-cap of $30M this looks way overpriced. They seem to very well organized with their marketing and community building though.
anyway - yes if your concerns are reasonable then I hope they will answer you. Go post this on their thread and let me see if they answer your concerns.
I don't think they will reveal their id's however perhaps some of your questions could be answered. try it on there and see. I hope they are beavering away testing out zcoin implementation I saw something they posted on their thread that said initial testing or some kind of implementation has passed. If you're a crypto tech expert then sure why will they not give you some explanation or give you at least and indication they are working away even if github is not being updated yet. Go there now and ask. I don't think you should expect the secret sauce if that is what they are cooking but at least you should be able to judge if these people have skill set required to do what they say. Go ahead of course they should answer you to a certain degree. I heard that some devs that have been working on zcoin for a long time have joined the project but i don't have the tech skills to verify if it is true or not. If you have a chat with them and you understand this stuff at a deep level then speaking to them even if briefly you will be able to see if they know what they are talking about. Go to the thread and ask now. I will be interested please PM me your opinion after in case i miss it here.