@CCR Its december 2nd now and 3 days until 2 years since the patent saga began. Any chance we might see anything about patents by early next year ?  If this project gets patent pending soon, you can demonstrate the tech to the greater crypto community and maybe give this project some momentum. The last update we had was regarding the lawyers working on the patents back in late september but its been radio silence since then

Also regarding your post about public opinion @CCR, public opinion is already still pretty low for this project. Outside of diehard supporters, teammembers on the project and you and borz, the wider crypto community has a pretty negative opinion of this project. I'm more interested in patent pending for this project since I would like to see for myself how the tech stacks up to alot of the other projects out there. Alot of the features (such as 10k TPS) has already been done by alot of projects, but I am curious to see some of the other features such as X-Change (been looking forward to that since 2017)

You also should realize that there's a larger crypto community outside of discord, if you want new investors you should try to get a foothold in communities such as /r CC. If you can demonstrate the tech there, i'm sure alot of people will join into the XBY discord and maybe you will attract some really talented people to the team as well. Also you should consider dropping KYC for nodes too, similar to the overbearing censorship, that will drive away investors as well

@sluppy Well its been 2 years and its still pretty much the same outside of XIP, but I doubt it. My concern would be whether this project would actually get adopted in the real world. If you've observed the people in this project for a while, most seem to believe in a field of dreams fallacy. "If you build it, they will come" isn't something that can apply easily here, and even with patent pending I question what hook the team will use to draw people into the project. As an investment I doubt this project will ever turn a profit compared to 2017 (in my personal opinion / observation) but I'm more interested in seeing the end-game rather then a profit at this point (i'll stick to investing in other projects for a profit)

@Ganja Its been 24 months (in 3 days) and I doubt the patents will come soon, but *shrugs*. Never know I guess? The most likely result will be that the project will continue the way it is and remain delisted from CMC, still low volume, etc