You guys seem like nice people interested in anonymous cryptocurrency, but honestly is surprising how group psychology works and how people can get blindly behind an idea without any proof of progress. You were dealing with anonymous developers with no real life consequence after scamming you guys, they will be gone and there is nothing you can do. You guys had no public testing of anything, no bug reporting and project management interface, nothing. How could you truly believe something was going to be released out of nowhere.
To be open, I am a Darkcoin supporter, but it seems to be very clear that this project did not include elements that would give any serious investor confidence to put their money in.
In Darkcoin we have:
1. Transparent Developers
2. A foundation liable for the project has been registered as an LLC in the USA.
3. A public testing thread on the forum where everybody contributes to testing future releases and interacts with the developer before a release date is set.
4 A Jira Bug tracking page to manage bug reports and project management.
5. A very active testnet.
6. True and proven innovation that is already making impact in the crypto scene: x11, DGW3, Masternodes, Darksend+
4. A third party review by Kristov Atlas that everybody will get to see.
5. Darksend+ will be open source soon
Why didnt you require the same things from your team? Anyway, you are still on time, as Darkcoin will be opensourcing Darksend soon. If you are still interested in anon cryptocurrencies, spend some time learning about Darkcoin and if you like it invest in it.
I hope people didnt get hurt too bad on this, best of luck to you all.
Your arguments are good. To answer it (at least for me): it was a bit of greed. High volume, many waves. What kept me in after the big drop was the need to cover my losses, and finally, after some hard trading, the opportunity to get out while breaking even.
At work, we also use JIRA (and Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, ...). Those are tools which are ideal (if not requirement, at least some of them or similar tools like Redmine) for a serious project. What do we have here? Fancy PDFs.
You are totally right, we should require at least a project management tool. If I ever calm down and decide to get back in, maybe I could help setup a Redmine installation, so the team can do some SCRUM to have timeframes for the project and, finally, some kind of system in their development.
This would render the fancy PDFs obsolete, as everyone would know what's happening and, for fucks sake, the team could notice early when somebody just doesn't show up for several days.