Not a fan of discord but then again I got the boot.
But I still hold ESP and seems there is either an advancement or slip back. ESP was a lot higher but victimized by tanking BTC and alt markets. Been a nonstop attack on crypto yet it showed gains. I think the possibility for advancement will be defined on nodes blocking DDOS, that's pretty huge. Don't know if it could role out into VPN service as well to gain more market share and use case for ESP, but seems it could be possible if moving into direction of internet sort of service.
But advancement and meeting roadmap is one thing, but momentum and gaining further interest and collaboration with ESP is much needed or else it seems small group holding hope or dreaming big of some big investors blah blah...for this, I'd think ESP would be jumping at opportunity to move towards parachains, like as in Parity Technologies or Web3Foundation. There are grant opportunities, and ESP could take leading roll and garnish interest with parachain and even governance. If the idea of ESPERS for blocking attacks is good enough, there would be support and opportunity for ESPERS to build this mousetrap. And if ESPERS could be built for ESPERS community why could that not include collaboration of other foundations, skilled devs, and those working on parachain? If the idea of ESPERS is so valiant, it could perhaps be promoted as an offering, in exchange for...XYZ (depends on governance).
And if ESPERS could garnish support this way, is it not possible that ESPERS could partner with other teams as we move towards atomic swaps? And if this is possible then trade volumes would increase what has become stagnant in comparison to the bull run that went away.
Seems the strategy seems to be playing out with a roadmap and not being critical of that or efforts, just seems strategy could be tweaked to create momentum this project needs, and working with other teams and consolidations could create some win win partnerships, some with big names in Crypto that would support that which the market supports, in terms of governance and parachain / validation of the network.
Question comes down to, how could ESPERS complement other teams and projects with blocking DDOS attacks via nodes? Could there be a conversion for replication somehow, with ESPERS being the fee for this solutions based model? If not a "fee" then transactions in ESPERS or payment (exchanged or swapped).
I'd say go for Parity Technologies and tie in. Or stick to plan. Momentum is what is needed, maybe even new directions, but that's what localization is all about. I'm about done using decentralized because it's been overused. But really further decentralization could be played out yet in complementary fashion. And again, opportunity to prove selves with devs that see the value proposition. Perhaps some well run foundations could offer grants to ESP team for developments that tie in the projects. There is strength in numbers.