Hi all,

I'm a long-time lurker, first time poster. I've been following this exciting coin since the relaunch and am one of the new mods (coinn00b) revamping the subreddit.

I'd just like to say a few things Artos, I hope you read this:

We all appreciate the hard work you've put into this coin - the development, the infrastructure, the promotion, etc, but we also know it can be too much for one person. Stablecoin has a large community behind it, our subreddit now has more subscribers than /r/Digitalcoin and /r/Anoncoin. We as a community are able to take on the responsibility of promotion and marketing. We just really need that Mixing Service (or at the very least updates about its progression) - without this unique feature SBC doesn't stand out from a sea of clonecoins and is difficult to market.

Originally you didn't give us a hard timeline and understandably reasoned it just needed to be out before Coin-Validation becomes a reality. However, with the Zerocoin news, and a team of devs working on a mixing service for Anoncoin, we now have a race on our hands to become the first coin to offer anonymous transactions. If we don't do it first, SBC will most likely have no future.

My proposal is that you open signups to assemble a dev team. There are several members of this forum who are trustworthy and have been supportive since the beginning who may be able to assist. You have shown you are a great programmer, but when both our competitors have teams while you work solo they have the advantage at implementing features faster. Not only that, as others have said currently you are the Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) - not only does that put a lot of pressure on you, it also makes some in the community nervous when you don't communicate regularly and people's imaginations can run wild.

Just think, with a small dev team, you'd be able to implement the Mixing Service faster and likely well before Anon/Zerocoin, and then you'd be able to work earlier on more projects setting SBC apart from the rest like Zavtra's PoP suggestion: http://forums.stablecoin.net/index.php?topic=237.0
Not only that, by removing the SPOF, as well as the dev team sharing the responsibility of regularly updating the community, faith in the coin will be strong for the long term.

Please give this proposal serious thought Artos. The future of this coin depends on your actions in the next few days/weeks.

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