No one should be surprised that JR once mentioned that he *may* quit his day job when BTC reached $1000 - I am sure many of us said something like that in passing. Similarly, no one should be surprised if JR doesn't make good on such an equivocal comment. Even if the comment were unambiguous and insistent, JR is a guy with a family and responsibilities, and if he puts those things ahead of some comment he once made on some forum thread, we shouldn't be disillusioned.

If, however, people are disillusioned, that should only reinforce a lesson that we need to learn: not to turn to JR as to some higher authority. JR himself has stated that his interest in Mastercoin is primarily as an investor, not a developer. The degree of esteem in which the Mastercoin community holds him is detrimental to the project. Again, I am calling on JR to directly encourage the community to look elsewhere for leadership and developers.

While responding to my request that we hire more developers, the board seems to have gotten stuck on a peripheral point again: at what rate to roll out the dev Mastercoins. I am thus asking the board to reorient itself and answer the question directly: Will you either call a head-hunting agency or do some networking and find full-time developers? I am aware that the 300 BTC bounty was meant to help find full-time developers, but thus far it has not been successful, and other projects are catching up with Mastercoin's progress (for exampe Nxt, as Pouncer pointed out).

I would like the board to have a vote as to whether we should hire full-time developers. If the board doesn't feel this is the right course of action, I would like to know why.