The Dev team will eventually become obsolete and the real dev team will become the community of supporters. There are no trademarks, ownership rights or anything. EarthCoin is as much yours as it is ours and it is solely based on what you put in as effort, time or paper money.

Also remember, crypto-currencies in general, are "politically sensitive". Although you may support them, many banks and institutions do not. They recognize that the probability exists for their businesses and rule to implode under the weight of debt. And rightly so.

Facebook was used as a mechanism for the Arab Spring uprising and crypto-currencies could be the missing link to unite the 99%ers, Occupy Wallstreet or even the Tea Party agendas. We are not political in anyway and have a utopian perspective and objective but that does not prevent this mechanism of trade to destabilize developed nations. There is something much bigger going on here.

Germany is progressive and operates it's society efficiently and without the burden of debt and so are afforded the luxury of foresight and planning.   It is no surprise in November 2013, that crypto currencies became recognized as a currency. However in India's debt burdened, high inflation environment, class warfare society, crypto-currencies have become banned, out of fear from the leadership to lose their grip on control.

Remove yourself from your own personal fears regarding EarthCoin and think globally as to why someone would not want to be proactive just quite yet, in painting a target on their back in a turkey shoot!   In time these currencies will become self-sustaining through their decentralization and no army or power will stop them. Then the legends that began the movement can be lauded.