lol ya especially after they switched back to ASIC mining to appease them and others.... guess it didn't work out so good. 
Actually it seems to work out way better as the GPU debacle than back.
At least the coin is 51% attack secure. Actually one of the very view ones that can no longer be 51% attacked.
That alone is a huge success and only a handfull coins/projects including ETN is at least safe from nicehash 51% attacks.
If anyone can identify an attack that resulted in the true takeover of a coin by an entity with malicious intentions please link it here. Id like to know, always a chance I missed it lol
You know that when someone speaks/writes about 51% attacks it includes all kind of attacks, beginning from time spoofing up to selfish mining attacks, as with all you need for a given time bigger % of the nethash.
A pure 51% take over attack is the worst case, doesn't mean that the other attacks are much better, as every successfull attack is just bad for a given project. A project being secure from whatever such attacks is a huge advantage only a view coins have and right now ETN is one of these view coins/tokesn/projects that due the huge asic hashrate can not longer be attacked.
If you need info about 2018 successfull attacks, let me know, can write you a list with at least 20 coins and multi 10M damage/stollen/hacked/spoofed/ coins.
EXACTLY!!
Couldnt have said it better myself!!!
And on a side note, theyve had a Monero Dev hired for months now, along with other highly capable Devs in the crypto space.
Those that think theyre lacking in Tech, have been listening to way too much FUD.
Though they didnt plan to fork and then fork right back, other than that, they havent made "mistakes", just decisions some dont agree with because they are taking actions as if this is a startup, not just launching a coin.
Remember, were still growing and continuing to add users at a faster pace than Facebook and Twitter did at this time in their history!!
We are also still on pace to be the coin with the most active users within a year from now. Already, in less than a year, we are more than halfway to passing BTC in total number of users.