I have had a change of attitude towards Gulden because I strayed away from what I personally wanted out of crypto.

When I first got involved in this new technology, I saw the possibilities and freedoms a crypto currency can offer. To give people new hope that are excluded from the financial markets because they don't fit certain criteria. A good way for people who like the idea of cash outside of the bank a way to store it in a digitally decentralized ledger while also providing a hedge against inflation.

Move onto post 2017 and I became more infuctiated by the financial prosperity crypto can bring while at the same time losing faith that financial institutions have infested the crypto market already while governments start pushing regulation. This all dashing the hopes of a new era of financial independence vaporized for me personally and all that was left is how much money I can get out of this.

I suspect many people will fall into this category but I know some in the Gulden community that never lost faith.

While in this state of mind where I am looking to profit and how much money I can make from Gulden the news of a 40 dev reward really hit hard in the stomach because I knew an increase in rewards is never good, but I got over this because the reward was 100 in the past and it dropped to 80 and then went back to 120.

A few months later an additional 40 dev reward was announced and it was as if someone tore out my hope and dreams of Guldens price ever producing sustainable wealth. I knew traders would manipulate the price because the next day they could rely on a new dump of coins coming onto the market. Take 2-3% profit and place bids lower.
While this news had a major impact the development team announced Novo and i was crushed because development time would be split up and progress slowed.

Out of respect I remained silent on slack because the development team has delivered on the projects they set out to do and endured years of not getting any mainstream credit.

Since October last year I gave up hope on any financial gains and looked to other places to invest for the future. This included the stock market and other cryptos and while I lost money on stocks other cryptos have increased by 5 to 10 times my initial purchase price.

With all these financial gains i never got attached to any of the other coins or communities like I did with Gulden. Its all about exchanges , trading... basically money. While the Gulden community has its channels where it talks about trading but a lot of the discussions is genuine interest of what technology and features that would be good to have. Lots of people helping to support others questions and sometimes issues including Malcolm who is one of the developers.

About 3 weeks ago the realization hit home that Gulden still has everything I wanted out of a crypto besides government regulation which can't be ignored but its one of the the few coins with great development where the community has the most say and not some exchange or financial institution that is responsible for putting food on the devs table and ultimately deciding the course the coin takes.

For people out there looking into a crypto that embodies decentralized where you as an individual or community have a voice then Gulden is a good option. With the current max supply and rewards staying constant the likelihood of massive proce gains is really slim but I can live with it because its not why I am here anymore

Peace out.