710 BTC is too little for this project, developers should have another one, or it's NOT fair for developers, if developers stop to do development, price will drop to Zero.
Likelihood of developers stopping increases proportionally with all this annoying fund talk.
Other than that: I do not want to play any role in anything that goes beyond coding, but from what I read occasionally I would really suggest to improve the quality of the communication which goes outside of the project. If I didn't know better, I think I would get a pretty bad image of Elastic quickly.
Just a suggestion from someone who observes

EK lots of people are ready to market this coin, I have been educating people in bitcoin meetups for a long time here in Amsterdam about it but we would need some help from the team for convincing arguments because the technical details are not really widely known even in this forum. There was a paper that is a bit outdated comparing it to gridcoin and golem but a new one should be written as a basis for solid arguments.
As an example, elastic can run parralel code where other projects run the same code on all nodes in ethereum? Is this a valid argument? Also ElasticPL that is C like is a big argument and I am using it too.
Also it's more generic use as the others that are more focused in rendering etc.
Can someone make a list of the most important differentiation points here so we can use them on tweets or reddit etc?