Okay, fair enough. You're an active member who's supporting the community. But the extreme distortion will be off-putting to potential new members, it gives a (not entirely inaccurate) impression that the community is rather moribund, else such a degree of distortion wouldn't arise. Phrase it how you like, the assumed ROI is predicated on volunteer technical support and that's a self-defeating tactic, especially in a domain which is crammed with people hustling for an edge and where the contributive ethic runs quite so thinly.

I'll turn 69 next spring and spending so much sedentary time at the keyboard is becoming increasingly damaging to my general heath, so taking a back seat was inevitable and is now timely. I made my first technical contribution to this group back in Jan 2015 (https://github.com/slimcoin-project/Slimcoin/commit/7c453189b87d717a4d0e943c3e283719e0074f0c), this was about 12 months after I arrived on the cryptocurrency scene never having previously written a line of C++. I'm a generalist with a background in psychology and human factors (personal computing and the internet has grown up around me - https://web.archive.org/web/20170517095106/http://www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news067f1/b87/sci/psychology/00000024.html) and five years is about as long as I usually stick around in any domain. Right now, I'm in the last stages of winding up some (self-imposed) community responsibilities and will be drastically reducing my level of engagement in cryptocurrency in general.

The technical side of Slimcoin is in reasonable shape. I've been running the latest client, built from master, for several months without any real issues. From time to time it goes into a staking frenzy and uses up 100% of its thread and the GUI becomes unresponsive but I've found that it returns to about 12-15% of thread use after several hours.

I've taken the development of the code as far as I consider is feasible in terms of stealing code from Peercoin. There aren't any more avenues to explore as far as I can see. There have been various statements about taking the coin up to Peercoin v6 and about upgrading to Bitcoin Core but at this stage of the game, I'll leave that implementation to someone else.

I'd argue that's a false dichotomy, neither are appropriate for a peer-to-peer network dependent on voluntary technical support.

Cheers

Graham