Thanks for this very fast and detailed answer. As always I am too late because Weekly Draw was planed only for 6 months and started in December 2018.

I thought it was for all holders but there was an additional requirement to whitelist the Obyte address to be eligible for the Weekly Draw.

So I understand that not much left to distribute?

No. Coins are distributed at the whim of one guy named long term thinking.

How insane? You mean that it GBYTE_USD price has stayed around $35 for a month now?
Or you mean GBYTE_BTC price has dropped in past week like every other altcoin BTC price has dropped?
If you haven't noticed, BTC is gaining dominance, so all altcoin prices in BTC are dropping.

Maybe because one witness being down out of 12 is not the end of the world.
Instead of telling this on Bitcointalk to just spread FUD, did you contract about it Fabien or told about this on Discord, where he is also present?
No, just come here to FUD about it. This is not helping anybody.

Now they have gone from a ridiculously bad name to a neutral bad name.

I agree Obyte sounds and looks kinda empty and void (0byte), something an overpriced marketing agency would suggest, oh maybe they did.

I get no positive vibe from it, but at least no negative anymore.

The demands were clear and well-founded: Byteball, Bytes and Blackbytes must disappear as terms.

Now we have Zero-Bytes and still "Bytes" as currency term. Completely imbecile.

Not the critics of this project are the problem, but submissive opportunists.

It doesn't matter anymore. Byteball is renamed to Obyte and we have to live with that. Only time will tell if this change will have any impact.

But such name wouldn't win in the voting process. I don't think that the majority of the community would vote for such a stupid name. That's the point of voting - get rid of bad things that people don't like and see what people like.

The first thing that I thought about when seeing "Obyte" was: "What "O" stands for? Many people will ask themselves this question and nobody will have the answer because it apparently doesn't mean anything.

So they paid the #1 naming agency to come up with the name but then paid some internet rando to design the logo?

Temporary visual identity and logo, keep the website + content

Real name attestation costs 258MB!

So it is impossible to add multiple addresses to the draw ? We have to send all bytes to the one addresses that's added?
BTW tonych, you should remove at least the lisk/iconomi from the draw, that does nothing for the people.

I totally agree with you on this and it would be even better if any attestation would work, including username attestation, which would make more people to use that feature too.
Maybe bytes for attested users and blackbytes for un-attested users.

Two draws: one with existing rules and one between people (address with revealed identity, 1 person = 1 point).
The people one -> GB, the existing one -> GBB.

Also in the long-term, the market for refrigerators at the South Pole is rather bad.

Marketing is simply aimed at the wrong target group.

Byterteam, so much time wasted. The best way to evaluate your work is to look at the results. A year has passed since you started piss against the wind, what results have you achieved? Balls accepted in Amazon, Overstock? Any payment processor even heard about the balls? Any good ICO? Any DAPP? New witnesses, exchanges, partnerships? Liquidity?
The only thing you care is a fuckin KYC and subsidizing the dead steem forum. When you finally realize that Byterbal community is not your enemy, it is your goal?

Looks like you are still trying to make fun of the phrase "decentralized witness".  Maybe not the best way to say it, "independent witness" would sound better but I bet you understood it anyway.