I don't know...I don't think they're really working on the project anymore. The last thing I heard was that the guy who created the truthcoin concept that Augur is based upon quit being an adviser and declared the project a failure. It's almost been a year and they've had 5 million dollars to work with....I'm pretty sure this project was just over marketed....I don't think they can build the platform they claimed they could build....not even with 5 million dollars.
We (the
Augur developers) are still working on it. I don't know how anyone who spends even 30 seconds looking at
our project's Github could conclude that we've ceased work on the project; all 6 of our main repositories have been updated (most of them multiple times) over the past day. The primary thing that 5 million dollars buys us is the freedom to take our time and really build a secure product. If you rush your product, you get The DAO.
We fired Paul (the Truthcoin guy) from his position as advisor when we found out that he'd been secretly competing with us, as this was a significant, undisclosed conflict-of-interest. FWIW, Augur has considerably more in common with the Schellingcoin and Princeton models than it does with Truthcoin.
I agree. This project was over hyped and the core developers left. A The actual idea is not Augurs. They just caught the momentum with eth. A lot of people are selling their augur holdings.
There are two core developers (me and Joey Krug) and we're both still here. Like most projects in this space, the "actual idea" behind Augur is a synthesis of a variety of concepts. There is indeed a lively market (on
Reddit) for anyone interested in buying/selling.
The idea that our project is "over hyped" is fascinating. Where's the hype? If all we do is marketing, then why am I (one of the core developers) on here responding to you? Shouldn't we have a crack marketing team that handles this kind of stuff? How is it that people have apparently gotten the idea that our project is dead, if we do so much marketing?
The truth is that Augur is (and always has been) a developer-led team, and we prefer to spend our time working on the product. If you're truly concerned about our progress, I encourage you to look at our Github, and/or
join our Slack.
I'm glad that I saw this post and that you are active. I'm new to the Cryptocurrency thing and came here because I got into the rabbit hole of decentralized PMs. Just read the case against Augur blog and the fact he didn't even mention Gnosis discredited a lot of what he said. I would like to know one thing, the reasoning behind Ethereum over Bitcoin. There seems to be a lot of criticism about this which is the biggest reason I haven't fully supported what you are doing.
The other question was what level of involvement Robin Hanson and Ron Bernstein have had in the project? I recently watched the video of Ron talking with someone from your team. His support is one of the other reasons I've been more interested in what you are doing versus Hivemind and Gnosis.
With some of the responses and posts I've read here, I find it commendable that you posted here and replied to everyone. I'd invite you to stop by the twoplustwo forums sometime, there's plenty of us who follow prediction markets and we've talked about Augur before. I think they would have some great questions and would be a much better environment if you want to communicate with PM users.