I'm going to chime in that I met Ron at CoinSummit this past week and had a really nice talk about what Mastercoin is doing. As an investor that was losing faith, It was a very productive discussion that has fully reassured me. Perhaps the MSC guys aren't the best at doing PR, but they really seem to know what they are doing otherwise.

I would encourage anyone who has real questions to try and meet the Mastercoin guys in person. They seem far and away the most competent at what they are doing in the Bitcoin 2.0 sphere.

So, as an investor- to hopefully counter a bit of the negativity here: I was very impressed.

I will be at CoinSummit tomorrow and Friday, so if you spot me walking around with the Black Case and would like to check out the KeyVault in person, by all means- please say hi!

It's time to change the record- I think we've heard this one before.........

Read the MSC blog- cool stuff is coming. Give it time.

I had a chance to show the Aeternum KeyVault around today at La Maison du Bitcoin in Paris. What a cool space! Not only do I wish I lived in Paris because it's so beautiful, but because La Maison du Bitcoin is such a beautiful Coworking with cool energy!

Also check out the new case for the devices- a high impact resin case. I'm thinking about selling the devices direct in this case as well.

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Well, give them a little bit of a break- It's only been a couple days. stuff takes months to take shape. I think they get the point and will get on it.  Good luck with your sell- but saying you want out because you think it's maybe a failure isn't really such a good way to make a sale! :-)

You are trying to do too much with too little. Cover one communication channel, and one channel only. Drop the Skype, Webchat, Facebook, Phone, (Lot of Forums) and get one simple place you can stay in touch. Run your own simple discussion forum or just use Reddit. Period. I understand you are very talented and have a great track record, and I'm as excited about swarm as anyone, but you are freaking me the heck out concerning your abilities to pull this off by focusing on a 8+ channels of communication with 3 dudes that can't get back in touch using a single one of them. It's screaming style over substance (Like that 24/7 chat room that is empty). PLEASE cut out all of this and just stick to either your own forum, or better yet JUST stick to reddit (So you don't have to actually run the forum yourself). Nothing else. Screw the twitter, facebook, Skype, etc.. until you actually have a product and not just our money. In the meantime, keep in touch non-stop, but one channel of communication, and skip the chatrooms. Honestly. If your developers have time at this point in the project to chat to anyone who drops into the skype lounge, then please let me have my Bitcoin back. Because those are not the developers I thought I was funding.

EDIT: I don't mean to be harsh. Sorry if I sound that way. Maybe instead of Reddit, just use this thread here. Keep it simple. Answer everyones questions in one go. :-)  
EDIT2: Maybe just pick a time of day questions will be answered as well IE: 10am each day, all the questions from the previous day will be address. It's a simple way to wait until everything has been asked, and that way people know when to expect and answer, and you get a chance to carefully think through each answer so it's comprehensive, well composed and clear. Also it will cut down on needing to answer the same "Whats the golden ticket?" question that gets asked over and over. And People can be refered to earlier answers if they are being repetitive. You can then just compile each daily answer into an FAQ that gts uploaded to the site. So you don't have to answer old questions more then once, you just say, "See FAQ". Simple.

People are too focused on Price for altcoins. If they don't have anything you can do with them but trade for bitcoin. They are useless.

I think you should label your hours. Right now the site says "24/7" support which is something a) you don't really need to provide and b) obviously can't provide. But having it up there only will make people think you're failing to communicate. Also I am sure plenty of people don't realize you are on central european time- something you should clarify as well.

But yeah- you need a forum.

They could fix this- I hope they get on it. It's terrible when great ideas are derailed from failure to pay attention to small details. Also, to be fair- with the launch last night at midnight- they were up very late. :-)

EDIT: I too have a golden ticket. Hmmmm!

And you can't just post the link to this?

EDIT: for the record- the 24/7 chat never has anyone in it.

Poetic, but what do you mean?

Hmm, good points. However, he could enforce a hardfork even with a more powerful miner out there, as hardforking only requires that the people using the coin update their software. If for example the dev says, "This is the new version" a rogue miner doesn't need to accept it, true, but if all the services and majority of users stick with the 'official' chain, then the rogue miner would solving blocks that no one else accepts.

What happens if we don't reach the 1,000BTC minimum in the first round? Will you return investors coins?

There isn't even a blockexplorer yet. Give it time!

Elsewhere they say the difference in speed is 2.2 to 5 times as fast. That is far, far less then an order of magnitude.

Also the "privacy" coins are quite a new thing. They need totally new services built around them, and need a new infrastructure. It will be interesting to see where they go, and if they can gain traction.

How does it lack a blockchain?

Hive is the OSX Bitcoin wallet. https://www.hivewallet.com/  It looks great and has plugins.

Well hoarding is always a problem, but perhaps there are just too few of them to not hoard, if you know what I mean.

EDIT: how fast is the supply increasing?

The GUI is in HTML? If so- perhaps we could develop something like HIVE where exchanges can be plugged into the GUI directly?