I would like to see circcash take off and that's not only because I'm holding some, but it seems like it could be a good thing.

Quite honestly, a lot of the whitepaper is over my head.  I'm not the only one.

I understand some of the feelings you have as reasons for doing things a certain way, but I think you might be missing another the other side of things.

You've said... "So for a price of 14 sats/CIRC, core development of Circcash is not paid enough to do much of anything. If you want better services, then please pay more than 14 sats per CIRC."

Saying that that comes off like either entitlement or you want to be paid before doing the work.  It seems like you are more like the latter and I don't think you feel entitled.  I just mentioned that because I can see your statement(s) being taken that way.  You may not actually feel either of those, but it does come across that way.

Either perception is a problem though.

You can get aggressive to those who mention that to you, but that isn't going to help.  It's only going to increase those feelings and alienate people.

If you want people to pay more than 14 sats for CIRC, then make it worth more than 14 sats to them.  I realize your goals are different from someone who may be mining it or buying/selling it.  We all have our own reasons and there is no right or wrong to that.  It just IS.

You can say how mining pools aren't needed and we shouldn't be mining that way.  You could be right, but don't try to make them feel bad because they asked the question or like to mine that way.

Pools, explorers and exchanges make coins worth more in the eyes of people who will mine it, buy/sell it, or hodl it.  You can tell me I shouldn't be using a pool, but that is the way I'm going to mine it.  I have a decent amount of CPU's that I mine on and I am absolutely not going to wallet mine on each one of them.  That would be a huge waste of my time.

Again, I realize I may not be the type of person you are aiming for, but myself and people like me are pretty much what you have at the moment.

How can you hope to attract lots and lots of people to mine this if they don't know about it or see many others taking an interest in it?

You say you want to get CIRC on coinmarketcap and such, but you aren't going to get there by being listed on one exchange that isn't tracked.

It would probably be beneficial if you could get word out about your project. I know you don't want to advertise without it being worth much yet, but how is it going to be worth much if no one knows about it?