Announcements should not be made privately from developers.
Either say nothing or go public with it through the appropriate channels. Anything else raises suspicions of insider trading, preferential treatment and/or corruption.
This wasn't a private message. This was a conversation in the general channel on slack. I saw it on slack last night. You can go on the Zcoin slack and see it there. Anyone part of the Zcoin slack can see it, currently 1114 users. There's nothing private about it. I understand where you're coming from but it wasn't private ok 😊