Quote from: msmin on January 17, 2019, 06:09:42 PM

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Quote from: hihelen on January 16, 2019, 09:34:40 PM

I liked the new guid of Universa. Thanks team for it https://www.blockchainstories.com/2019/01/16/universa-mainnet-accounts-token-withdrawals-and-swapping-a-how-to-guide/

They didn't even make this guide

"This has been made in collaboration with our community and the lovely people behind https://blockchainstories.com"

Useless team behind Universa, they talk and talk, but results are non-existent. You won't find much competent talent outside a couple of devs

Your thoughts seem to be rather interesting, indeed.
What are 'existent results' from your point of view? You do not count Mainnet, swap option, smart contracts, hypertokens, etc., do you?
Needless to say, the team members are the ones who have been always helping users on Telegram, Facebook, email, and many other social networks. Do you still claim we they useless? That would be a quite queer thing to say.

Let's outline the facts briefly:

- Mainnet was launched in April 2018, fine. Great, huge success.

- Swap Option was made available in August-Sep 2018, sure, very long overdue, by this point many already become disheartened over Universas lack of progress. Guess what though, those UTN you swapped for have no real use atm, swap to UTNP and save yourself the hassle.

- Hypertokens, utterly useless. Lets examine what we know, to this day Universa has a 14k volume across all markets, a pitiful sum, feels like i'm back in 2013. How does volume come into play? It's the only metric from the outside anyone has to gauge adoption of Universa, and if adoption is not there, the use of Hypertokens (ie a stablecoin and pairs) is utterly useless.

- Userinterface is in misery, with 2-3 access points to go into the wallet, and do various of tasks.

- UTN is useless, does not function anywhere outside of the system designed for it, we are still trading ERC-20 Tokens, which has more use than anything the Universa team has created. UTNP gets more TXs than everything on UTN's chain. Why? Simple, the team designed a system that requires a full-fledged integration into an exchange and outside sources. Thus, listing UTN on any exchange, becomes a very difficult and obscure task.

- Transacting UTN is a very cumbersome, un-friendly and virtually unusable. When is the last time you gave someone a file (containing 100 USD), and they had to upload it to redeem it? Never, again useless system.

- Team continues to explain to the community about B2B, their essential focus, we've only seen 1 deal made in more than a year, and that happened recently with some internet provider in Tunisia. Sure, great, but only a momentary brief candle light.

- Team continues to argue against marketing, even updating simple information, such as removing "ICO Has Ended From website, and even here." How long does this task take? Not even 3 minutes, especially here on Bitcointalk. Obviously "their priorities are elsewhere," and time is so "limited," and 3 minutes of their time definitely can't be diverted, because they are working so diligently on the benefit of the project. They can't even edit and update their own information, the only thing that's keeping this project alive, community members.

- Team defends scams and doesn't want to acknowledge scams that occurred on their chain, in case of SmartGold and Quick (?). Scams occurred on UTN blockchain as "smart contracts." both have no activity for over half a year now, and yes they will censor you for bringing this up. One Russian who i never saw speak in the telegram channel, was amendment about censoring me immediately. Red flag.

- Team is desperate to bring us new information, by giving us not updates about their project, but updates about the most useless pieces of information. Case-in-point, their latest tweet. https://twitter.com/Universa_News

- Team doesn't want to market their project anywhere, team has no focus or priority to bring on other teams to develop smart contracts. They expect people to stumble apon their project, and create for it. That process only works, if your blockchain is visible in the first place, leading me back to volume of the coin. The only 2 projects that made contracts, where the 2 scamcoins above, run by Russians ironically.

- Universa the interest from community members, twitter followers have declined by 300, telegram users by 1k (over the past 5 months).

The Positives:

- AB (the CEO), is trying to make something of the project, but has nothing to show for all his hard work
- Core developer team understands, and is highly capable
- Project has potential of being a very successful blockchain
- Team understands crypto to an extent, attempting to shy away from hype-trains (which also negatively impacts their prospects)
- Admin team is active, the last tree branch for everyone who's involed. If they stopped talking, then this project would of died a long time ago

Lets go in deeper, the admins.

- Team of admins is good, they consistently answer the same question about UTNP-UTN Swap, because the core team's inability to update all other information elsewhere. Thus, viewing their Telegram, 90% of all interactions are about the swap. Very talented.
- Team of responders are always active, but these are the lowest level jobs, re-regurgitating information that has been available for months now. I don't necessarily blame them, because the majority of crypto users are brain-dead. But also, there's a severe lack of information anywhere outside of their Telegram group.

Again, if anyone is curious, just look at Universa's volume, the ultimate meter for any crypto's performance. There's a lot of other miscellaneous pieces of information, a lot of more detail that can go into these points, but i really not going to spend time pointing information that the team takes and throws in the trash can, or is reluctant to even understand or acknowledge.

I don't know about the rest but I didn't lose hope in the project and still believe in it. I think most of the negative comes from the price and low volumes. I think this year it will be improved. They don't want to market undeveloped product. Seems wise from my point of view. Plus, this new partnership should give some boost to the volume. I think it's too early too judge about the overall progress of the project after just one year. Many things were done but that was just one year. Patient ones will reap the rewards.

Me neither. This bear market even strengthened my belief that this project is bound to succeed. I see many remarks from tk808 that it's all useless but I'd rather say that almost nobody uses it. Those are different things. Tech works great. We have 20k+ tx. Now AB is working his up to get more partnerships. We got quite plenty of those but all we need now is some patience until they are fully implemented. After it, the project will fly.