Honestly, this thread has been bumming me out, Ive been a staunch supporter of Dero for months now and used to love the communitys helpful, synergistic vibe. I used to visit this thread and the Dero forum multiple times a day, but find myself coming less and less. The holier-than-thou approach of the team to an outpouring of disappointment from their early supporters and the toxicity that breeds has killed what I used to love coming to this community for.
I think Im going to look for another project to join and back. Not sure I can keep going with this community in its current state.
I've reviewed your posting history, and I just want you to say that regardless of anything that has or will happen, we will always genuinely appreciate the support you've shown to date.
People like yourself are a huge part of this community, and I can assure you that even though we're being very quiet (as usual) we are 100% working on what we know are very important issues.
We've tried hard to be good about staying in contact and addressing feedback, this should help indicate the seriousness we place on the part of the development process Dero's team is working on currently. I can assure you that we read every single comment on bitcointalk/forums/Slack/Discord and we do not take the ASICs lightly. Much more importantly than a box (ASIC) though, is how we feel about our community.
We're weighing 2 very important things at the moment: Network security, stability, and reliability and what the community is saying. We have some (private) very important information/data on our end that is heavily contributing to our decision to focus where we are.