I personally think this is a great idea. The "current" team already stole the coin from a dev they claimed was not doing anything to push the coin forward (which is what is also happening now), so kosmost just went ahead and set up the extra websites, the LLC etc. He did not ask some team for permission. You should not have to either. In fact people should be happy that you want to take it forward but they are still attached to their prophet OR they dislike the sound of yet another prophet.
I htink I lost my money to whoever dumped that 1.5 billion or how much it was a couple of weeks ago (just before the Lill.com news and before the LLC was shut down). I still have the karma I just dont think it will recover..
Really sad, but I just got a loan for ~150 btc and i am going to go travel the world for a while. A long while. Maybe the coin can recover now that more people are creating infrastructure but I seriously doubt it.
you didn't lose any money if you didn't sell. If you sold at a loss then that was your choice to lose money.
as for creating Karma 2.0 etc with an entirely new blockchain, I agree there is nobody stopping anyone from doing this. there are coins called Bitcoin 2.0 and bitcoin scrypt nobody stopped them either.
were they successful? well that is for history to judge. if you create a better offering then the community will naturally follow you if you don't then the community will stay where it is.. that is the nature of a free market.
givecoin was already clone of Karma that failed, Karma ofcourse was a clone of litecoin which was a clone of bitcoin... people are welcome to create more clones and succeed or fail based on their own efforts.
all I can say is that I wont be leaving this coin unless it is hijacked by someone with bad intentions.
so I will continue to develop for this coin.
people are free to come and go as they please.
enjoy your trip around the world.. there are much more interesting things to see than endless posts about the price of Karma and complaints about dumping lol