Maybe this whole thing was a joke from the start and he finally got bored.
The show's over, the whole thing was performance art, same guy did the same thing with a clone of NXT, using his original forum account 2Kool4Skewl, which got that account banned.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422272.0I'm curious, how did you connect the dots and made this assumption? While there's some similarities both in writing and style, 2Kool4Skewl started a development fund encouraging donations while DecentralizeEconom gave the impression that he will not ask for financial support.
For anyone following NXT since the beginning it was common knowledge that 2kool4skewl started a NXT clone as a joke in response to a guy called frictionlessCoin who complained long and hard about the 'unfair' NXT distribution, and proposed a clone of NXT himself called NEX.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=422052.0The amazing thing is NEM started out in the first few weeks as a similar 'joke' parody of NEX also, then its founder UtopianFuture realised there was enough interest in a 'fairly distributed' NXT clone, particularly from skilled devs entering the crypto space after BTC gained recognition in mid 2013, so he quickly adapted his 'joke' into a real project, and later NEM dropped being a NXT clone and became a legitimate independent project. This is all common knowledge for people around NXT since the early days, others can confirm, or you can check old NXT threads and see for yourself.
NXT cloning was a popular parody for a while, like Doge, and like Doge NEM went on to be a viable coin.
DE might still come back and make YOURCHAIN a real project, like NEM, but looks like it could end up a joke coin too. In the weird and wonderful world of crypto, who can predict with any certainty.
edit: I'm keeping my YOURCHAIN tokens, even if 0.001% chance of success there's no point selling now. Remember, the guys who posted 'interested' in the original NEM thread got a free stake of 2.2 M NEM coins which is worth ~2.2M USD today - unbelievable, but true. First law of crypto - nothing makes sense, HODL. Many who sold their NEM stakes too early are in therapy now, or jumping off buildings.
Thanks for the detailed evidence!... where the truth is stranger than fiction.