Merely a superficial blanket imo and goes against the whole nature behind the anon movement.
I wouldn't have a problem ideologically as long as the devs could be anonymous even from the authorities (think NSA-level resources). But since this is extremely hard or improbable to achieve, their anonymity is not really against the establishment, rather the ordinary people, forums, investors etc. And, when that happens, people are more hesitant to throw money in a project due to all the scams and fails that are way too numerous to mention.
These developers are delivering on their promises. Hands down the best design and development team currently working on any blockchain based technology. All they ask in return is to respect their privacy while they build the next generation financial privacy platform. This project has been around since July 19th 2014 and they are still here. We are far beyond the point of scam speculation. If they were going to dump and dip they would of
A) done it a long time ago when the volume was 800BTC and bitcoin was still $700
B) taken part in the BlockNet pump scam for quick exit profit
C) accepted Evan's Darkcoin merger proposal as an exit strategy (at the time would of bumped the coin to 700-800k)
D) accepted XC's buyout offer for an exit strategy (at the time would of bumped the coin to 170k)
Any credible investor can look to the above key points as validation that SDC is an honest project and is here for the long term.
My counter argument is XC's Dan Metcalf was "public" and look how that turned out. The "Metcalf Bump" was him colluding with pump groups and reviewing his own tech to turn quick profits with shitcoins.
It's my view that anyone asking for the identities of anyone is in the wrong market and is probably LE.
Satoshi is still unknown and Bitcoin has the highest marketcap of any project with "public" developers so your point is invalid. In the future there might be contributing developers who don't care about their own privacy but that would be their own choice. Nobody from within this community or any outside of the community should ask a developer, designer or investor for their identities. This entire vertical market is built on the idea of preserving the individual's right to privacy. There are plenty of coins to invest in with "public" developers.
Will you get the same return on development? Nope.
