Quote from: EleanorZ on January 10, 2018, 10:52:49 PM

Quote from: snowboard on January 10, 2018, 10:39:13 PM

Don't be the one against the odds as it simple won't help you further in life.... just think again what the word "privacy" means and you will notice that is certainly don't mean sitting in your bedroom all day long, reading a book, feeding your goldfish, not picking up your phone, not saying hi to nobody, living in the forest where noone finds you...

In the context of coins, it would mean, keeping the transactions away from the public...(untracable)
You see ? this coin can be published on all exchanges while your transactions are being private. You can market the coin, and still being privat.

Again, this is not about what can and can't be done. It's about what will and won't be done in this project, based on XSPEC's stated goals and ideals. I agree, the team could do many things, but they won't do things that conflict with their vision for XSPEC. Everyone has their own opinion of what should be done, but ultimately, as investors, the only opinion that matters is that of the dev team. It seems that some people on this thread are unaware of the dev team's position on some of these issues--see Beachguy's (part of the official dev team) comment on this very topic from a week ago:

Quote from: Beachguy on January 04, 2018, 04:48:12 PM

What I can confirm is we are always looking for a mutual opportunity for Spectrecoin[xspec] and an exchange. But let me say....its the tech and the community that grows the value of a coin....not this or that exchange. The amount of money that some of them want for a listing borders on obscene with some wanting thousands of dollars to even consider and make ithat non refundable. Take a look at even smaller exchanges like Cryptopia and you'll see they want almost five btc to list a coin. Do the math.

What many don't realize is a privacy coin like Spectrecoin[xspec] and a centralized exchange are at odds when the exchange has to comply with the KYC demands that governments around the world are starting to implement. Taxation is the goal of course and they all smell money.

Our current exchange line up serves quite well. we're not looking for a huge pump and then dump of xspec. A nice steady growth in value as people learn what real privacy is all about.

Decentralized exchanges are small now but, look for adoption to increase in 2018.

i'm not sure why you keep mixing 2 subjects with eachother. (on purpuse ?)

subject 1: is it ethical to get more awereness (in the vision of a privacy coin)
subject 2: Trusting the devs to follow their roadmap. (as you say they will do whatever they want...)

Before investing some money in 1 of the 1000s projects, one must check the team (in this case it wasnt posible), check the roadmap, whitepaper etc...
while reading into a project, you will notice the mission of the project and the vision of the devs behind this project. This can't be argued about afterwards as it was and still is known...

So again, don't mix those subjects as we cannot have a discussion this way.
Nevertheless, we all have invested in this project, otherwise this discussion is dead.