Quote from: Don Flamenco on November 10, 2014, 01:40:35 AM

Quote from: Diabolic on November 03, 2014, 04:11:37 PM

Wow that really is eye opening? Those guys pretty much didnt want their dev to merge the the coin as it would cut their total coin amounts and that would kill their influence over it. Thats pretty greedy and self centered. These guys claiming to be "Angel investors" really have everyone else's intrests at heart right? lol They have their wallet's interest at heart.

Fuck SDC. Those three are so toxic.

IMO, there shouldn't be a hate campaign against SDC.

Rynomster seems like a decent guy to me.

I found this post yesterday, and posted in the blocknet thread.

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.

If you read the original chatlog, then think about the massive fudfest that happened, then read this... well, make your own minds up

(p.s. i'm invested in both coins, its a shame sdc didn't end up being part of blocknet, could have been a good thing imo, hopefully those fuckers dump and move on, and ryno can be able to make his own decision)

edit - the most important part of rynos post i think should be highlighted...

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.