Quote from: rdnkjdi on September 02, 2014, 05:00:05 PM

I am curious about the Monero development. I saw someone awhile back ask how many "full time developers" it had. Until that question (which was never answered) I'd made the assumption that it was probably developed by people who had other jobs.

A - I know it's been answered here and there - but who on the IS involved in Monero development?

B - How many (or all) do we know the real life names?

C - Any idea the number of manhours per week put into it?

C - Just as a side point. Sometimes it's a little tough to link past performance with future results when those with very good development credentials probably would prefer to NOT be tied to certain projects.

1- It did get answered by smooth, look in his posts for the exact answer to the question (brilliantrocket's question I think?). Anyways - tacotime, eizh, smooth, fluffypony, othe, davidlatapie, NoodleDoodle. There are a few other developers involved, not sure if they're part of this forum or not.

2 - at least two core members and i believe two developers on top of that.

3 - smooth answered this as well in that post you're gonna go look for. it sounded like it was more than a little but less than a lot. that amount of time from >7 people on development is a lot of man hours.

3 - sometimes, all people want to do is link past performance with future results. This is why there is a major trend for developers to use sock puppets to manage their various coins. The developers that have decided to contribute to Monero have chosen not to go that route. Whether or not you choose to link past performance to future results is generally a matter of speculation (at least it is to me) .. unless there was some massive error or major achievement in a developers past. Taking that into account, we either have some of the worst criminals or nobel prize laureates developing these coins.