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How do you know Gavin didn't work for months on that yellow paper? Give Doug a break, I talk to him frequently on IRC and he is working hard on multiple things at once. I know what your going to say "He needs to Prioritize!", while I do agree that there should be a steady follow of releases it doesn't always work out that way.
One of the other coins that I'm invested in is Viacoin, which has dropped ~70% in the last two weeks. As expected, some of the Viacoin community members are getting "fidgety". The more vocal among them are pointing worriedly at the decline and asking why there haven't been any updates (ring any bells?). btcdrak has an excellent reply, which I think can be applied to VeriCoin, as well:
The big problem is, the reality of it, developing technology for a coin is not a linear progression. It's not like baking a cake where you can predict with high degree of success exactly when it will be ready. Software throws up unexpected bugs, or you get unexpected issues that turn out the be more complex than you thought. You discover bugs in upstream libraries which take time to resolve. This is all very time consuming. Coinmarkets are always looking for the next thing, and the next hype, meantime we've got our heads down working so maybe it doesnt look like stuff is going on.
Thanks for that Scott...great quote from btcdrak. Hopefully the people who are complaining that things aren't being released and things aren't progress can be put into prospective. You guys aren't doing the work so how bout show some respect! Let the Devs do their work, be thankful that they are here to continue their work, and they are not giving up when the pressure is on.