Dumped my bag a few days a go.
One thing I will say is guys, obviously he cannot hire someone to help with this. He isn't making any money by working on this coin, nor is he being paid to do it aside from maybe a few small donations which the market can barely afford to convert to BTC. There is absolutely no way he could HIRE anyone.
HOWEVER!
He should have brought more people into the fold AGES ago. People in this forum would have gladly acted as PR, web design, additional coding help, etc etc. There are tons of talented people all over these forums, and many of them would have jumped to work on such ambitious tech, and most would have done it for free. While BTCtalk is sort of a running joke, the coin threads are where many go for updates and news, and generally what comes up first on searches. Updates in here were required.
If this was just a side project, something that was just passing fancy, he NEVER should have opened it to the markets.
To those who plopped down large sums of real money, their life savings, a second mortgage, etc. Please take this a lesson. Crypto is not going to make you rich over night. There will not be another Bitcoin anytime soon. No other coin will explode until Bitcoin and crypto have seen mass adoption which is years off. Even Bitcoin took a few years of gradual yet significant increases before it mooned. A coin is never going to move from fractions of a penny to a few dollars a piece in one move. When a coin is going to truly moon in the fashion that could make you rich, you will have ample opportunity to get on board.
Throwing money at ideas sometimes works in the real world, but not in crypto, and literally thousands of people have destroyed their finances by going all in on dozens of coins whos ideas didn't exist yet, but sounded good on paper, and whos anonymous and faceless devs told them of their devotion and good intents on an internet forum. Sounds sort of silly when it is put that way, right? That's because it is.
I'm not fudding. I have bought in and out of this coin for close to a year now. I held a significant chunk of this coin for close to 7 months. I have offered suggestions, have posted on Twitter tons of times to drum up support, have tried to stay positive. However, it is done. I know when I am beat, so I have salvaged what I can while I still can.
The really glaring thing that made me give it up was realizing that without a PR person or communication, there would be no pump. Odds are that he would randomly stumble in here, release the update, and there would be no pump leading up to that update because nobody would have a clue it was coming.
"Buy on rumor, sell on news". This is the LAW when it comes to any market. Follow it wisely.
Edit: If you plan on holding your bags into the dirt, try setting sells around 500-600 and pray some pump group goes to town on this coin. Has happened to plenty of others, but it is most certainly a long shot.