These are fair questions air133. There was no intention to hide the project or manipulate anything - with 5000 members on the discord and the network the size it is, I think it's rather apparent that we made sincere efforts to put this out in the open (announcement on /biz/, github, twitter, website, reddit, podcasts, etc). Rock and I both have been very very busy, we have not had any capital or investment, purely sweat equity. Our time is invested in developing, helping the community and dealing with issues that arise. We asked for a volunteer to make the ANN here and we trusted in our community members to get it done.

Sure I have plenty to say at this point, and finally had the couple of hours it took me to write that post. That was not the case before now.