No funding except for the ICO? Call me crazy but I remember an ico.
I can't take this anymore
Yes, donations were collected almost 2 years ago (Alerta: no ICO!!!) with the purpose to kick off the development process. This obviously worked, didn't it? It is absolutely irrelevant whether it was required to burn them, throw them in the toilet, donate them to charity, use them to quit the job and pay the running expenses while coding, pay for 10 litres of Kopi Luwak coffee per day to stay shap-focused or if some other complex butterfly effect was made possible to happen. It just does not matter. But there is one thing we can be sure of, clearly "creating a foundation, forming a corporation and funding developers on a monthly basis" was not the way the whole thing headed. It just didn't, even if you try to create the impression of the opposite. But this is fine, since it was never promised!