Did the Mazacoin dev disappear? I thought he was publicly known and went on interviews and things like that?
The mazacoin team is a bizarre one. Disappear is the wrong term, they never showed up here at all. Their devs purposely stayed away from this forum because they didn't want to deal with 'fud'.
AP apparently coded the coin, holds the code/rights/whatever and may be legally blind, based on his webpage layout.
Boxxa was lead dev, or something like that, but quit after seeing the new website. That, and the fact that AP denied allowing the community to help at all, which included a new logo and community made website.
Payu is the public spokesman, who has rather odd marketing skills. When people here were asking for a fork to lower rewards to stabilize the price, begging for a dev to show up here to talk to people... to create a new website... do something... he posted a youtube video of himself jumping into a lake.
In Payu's defense the video he posted was in response to another tribal member calling on him to do the cold water challenge. But with no context to his post it really didn't make much sense. I still like the idea behind Mazacoin, but yeah, it's not doing so hot because of certain issues that have been mentioned.