I know nothing about the argument inside the staff. Just interesting for me to get a little insight. Seems like many things have been dammed up, but the quarrel here might be (hopefully) a step into a direction, that clears up the some troubles. That would be much better for the project than a current uncertainty, or a continuous, destructive fight inside the community. So please go ahead as long as everybody remains objective and factual.
(Possible?)
For me - as a total outsider - the line of reasoning from tjeff looks much better, than the one of bikerleszno, because to say (to obvious long term supporters), that they should sell their coins and leave the project behind is not only childish (what it absolutely is!) - it is more:
This provoking reaction tries to hide, that bikerlesznos answer misses any factual value. And it closes doors, which should better remained open in order to find through an objective discourse the best way for a prospering future for XtraBytes. For me it's alarming, how investors/supportes got treated here in a terse manner:
You have an other opinion?
Sell your coins and leave us alone!And XFuel... yes. Looks on these beautiful grafics nice, shiny, reasonable. But my first thought (which is already wandering through my head, persistantly):
Do we really need another coin?
Just doing the same trash like many other projects?
Printing money and making things more complicated?
Hm...
I am in crypto since march this year ... (Hey! Don't laugh!^^) ... but this short period was time enough for me to get deeply pissed off, when I read or hear about a second, third, ... coin-release from an already existing project. It offends hodlers and it frightens new investors in a world, which is complicated enough for newbies, or people, who don't want to step that deep into the matter like a dev or the hard core of the crypto-community. It is like a piece of tech: You want to use it, but you mostly don't want to understand exactly, how it works. And if you have the choice between a simple to operate piece of tech, or a difficult to operate one - which one would you choose (or invest in)?
Hm?

Please don't forget, where future money will come from - because it
won't work without this fresh money. And yes: Releasing a new coin has a strong inherent taste of printing money, no matter how shiny the grafics are. You are scared of limiting the supply too much, because of the locked coins for the nodes? Lower the price for the nodes! To halve the price should have the same effect like releasing a new coin with equal supply. Inclusive saving time and work, what you could better spend on the projects core - instead of creating a new construction site with it.
But maybe I do not understand, do fail to see something important?
However...
tjeffs impartial criticism of the absence of transparency is true, as long as no comprehensible reason is claimed on why this secrecy is necessary. Beeing opaque is the most disqualifying factor for new and serious investors. Especially in such an early stage of a project, when trust is the most important thing of all.
I have been full of hope for XtraBytes. But after I have to read that (legimitate) critics should better sell their coins and leave, I'm just a bit thoughtful now. Because this statement shows nothing less than a deep lack of understatement in how the market works and how it works to lead a project to success: A project is
nothing without investors. And less than nothing without investors who care. Nobody owns the whole truth about what is right or wrong. That's why a strong community with many ideas, suggestions,
criticisms and many points of views is the key to success. You better should listen to each other, because you are dependent on each other -
... if the project XtraBytes is still important for you.
Just my five cents.
Regards!
McW
Great 5 cents! This is the kind of discussion that should be encouraged.
The problem has been certain individuals creating chaos, fudding, repeating the same thing over and over and personal attacks in one of the founders. These are the kind of people Biker was addressing I believe. If they no longer believe why are they still around? What motive do they have? Are they trolls who should be ignored?
One of these has multiple accounts here and on the slack. Claims to want to fix and help xby yet the more he talks the more he/she reveals themselves. I don't like getting into keyboard fights or arguments but this is something that needs to be called out.
Anyhow, great post. You raise some interesting points.