Speaking of rebranding, the name change is the last thing that would interest me ... and it’s not the first time I’ve seen you place a lack of momentum on the shoulders of the community. As for the "wall of pessimism" you are talking about, I think any reasonable person should agree that this is much better than a wall of spam, or even worse, complete silence, (you should be aware that everyone here appreciates your presence and that of tonych). However, something is wrong ..
On whose shoulders should the momentum be then? Obyte Foundation creates the software and publishes the news, it's up to the community to make it heard.
One man or small group of people can only do very little, a community on the other hand, could make a lot of noise, if they wanted.
Bitcointalk, luckily, removes lot of the spam and tonych uses Bitcointalk mostly to dump news (you can see it from his latests posts).
I sometimes post to combat FUD. Silence would be better because then FUD wouldn't bury the news.
There won't be a good exchange, either, until the Obyte team is on the path to fix it ... and I really feel like someone is hiding the setbacks. Btw, since conventional strategies don't work, maybe in this case Obyte team will contact Tether and agree on the launch of USDT on the Obyte Network?
[tether/transparency]Didn't we have news, that we take bids for raising the funds to get listed on good exchanges? Even feedback from those people was that they would buy more GBYTE if would raise more to get on bigger exchanges. We just haven't raised enough so it would align with the expectations of how much good exchanges ask. Meanwhile, everyone is pretty happy to ape into unfinished projects that promise to fix their sh1t by the end of the year (they postpone the goal post every year).