Quote from: twd78 on November 03, 2017, 11:58:08 PM

@contraband:
I know that it is hard to deal with upset users, especially when you obviously are fed yourself only with snippets what is going on.
I just have to address this one more time: The technical performance of the dev team is inferior.

You (I mean the whole Electroneum team Cheesy

) earned nearly 40millions and are not able to provide top notch network infrastructure and security ?
That is what I really don´t understand.

Hiring good developers would have been a good idea months back, including Pros like the Amazon guys. There are plenty of mechanism, ready to use, which deal about every security concern which gets brought up. You got flooded by a bot net - there are plenty of DDoS Protection-services. Overloaded websites are not really state of the tech and with the use of good network infrastructure - well controllable.

The website was not secure at all, you implemented step by step further security boundries. That would have been necessary from the beginning.

The Linux scripts: They are just 1:1 copies, very lightly modified of Monero, there are still some Monero lines in the sources - mentioning "Monero". Even the electroneum-wallet-cli shows "Monero 'Helium Hydra' (v0.11.0.0-release)" No sign of real developement.
Just an approach of minimum investments to achieve the maximum goal.

The downloads page showed at the beginning some Miners (GPU ones) which were not usable. They were usable for Monero wallet addresses but NOT compatible with Electroneum ones. They quickly disappeared and were exchanged with ones which work.
I had to google to find working ones, which are Monero miners. Glad I found them but it would have been nice, if I would have been in the position from hour 0. I was online, but could mine only hours later.
Then the password changing mails and now the website is down. I tend to think that the team simply wasn´t ready for the deadline Nov 1st.

You see, most of my criticism is about the technical issues and the inexperience of the team, because those errors are poisonous for the image of the whole team and ICO. I still trust all of you, and that is why I believe in the coin. But sadly you made many many errors and took the dangers too lightly.

I really would encourage some technical guy to give statements about what happened, what was compromised and how this gonna be resolved. I am not willing to change my email passwd as it is secure, as long as you cannot give me infos, which mails or if all mail addresses have been stolen.

This post I quote is from November 3rd, and to this day I still have little confidence in the capability of Electroneum's technical team. I see a young team, with little prior experience before entering the cryptocurrency space. At launch I saw 3rd party mining pools working, while Electroneums official pools where down, with questions still not answered to this day regarding payments from official pools. Please at this point, burn me to the ground in how wrong I am, that I missed new hires, more experienced devs coming in, etc.

I worry, as I normally evaluate at a more technical level, I gain confidence in a project as I see the Devs communicate, and get excited about something like an Atomic Swap, etc..I don't see a damn thing from the Electroneum Dev team, it's scary. Please restore mine and others confidence in those in charge of maintaining the heart of this great project.

I don't want to pick on Adam, but instead whoever is in charge of the "TEAM" page..Please guys, read his description :

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Adam has a First in Computer Science from the University of Kent.

He leads the Javascript development of Electroneum, with a specific lead role in developing and maintaining the offline paper wallet system that allows 100% security of Electroneum stored funds.

You've had this guy as a lead for paper wallets? Was this ever a good description? I'm sure this is not all he does, that is a laughable position as paper wallets are a dime a dozen, just pick one, modify the code / images to suit your needs, and done. Even if it is 10X more complex than how I make it sound, this is not a good position to specify as "Lead Role"..The image portrayed on the technical side is not good at all

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