Quote from: G-Bert on November 09, 2014, 02:42:58 AM

I just spotted this post, and although its not really related to blocknet, I still think it is relevant in this thread after the past week!

SDC Dev -

Quote from: rynomster on November 08, 2014, 01:52:17 AM

I don't really have a problem with whales, but I definitely think that they shouldn't be able to dictate the priority of development, the development requirements or the future of the coin..

The first few months of shadow I was completely oblivious to the fact that whales.. The more things progressed, the more people were offering funds to hire extra developers, managers, technical writers, journalists, etc.

The team has obviously grown, and it took me a while to realise I'm no longer able to make decisions on my own, but it seems to be moving forward. I really don't like the delayed open source thing, but I guess you need to protect investments for a bit.

The whales also tend to know allot about other whales, and obviously they've been in the game allot longer than late adopters, so they have very valuable input most of the time.

I would definitely enjoy developing allot more if there wasn't a direct monetary value, and if people didn't care about the price.

Some day people will realise that this is all epic research and experimentation, and that the monetary value is actually curbing the innovation, because they constantly asking are we there yet, and if you miss a deadline or there's a bug or a hack that the developers weren't in control of, the whales can put a massive dent in an entire communities investment.

point being, ryno is on the same path as us, but is being held back by whales. (aka, fudpackers)

shame. Sad

Nobody can force him what to do. If he was at all confident in his coin's technology he wouldn't bow down to such whales. Especially the types of whales involved. No whale should be able to dictate the decisions the dev team make. It's the reason why they pulled out of Blocknet.