Don't kid yourself, just because they have gone silent doesn't mean they don't still control enough coins to tank the project, if they wanted to do that.
Ned said he was hiding his stake when they threatened to fork is ass out, I refuse to believe that somebody that sets themselves up with 80% of the coins lets enough go to not still have control over what is happening, if only silently.
Somebody owns the 1/3rd of the hive on exchanges.
There are still people here from the launch, just most of the stincy ones are gone.
Not all, yet.
The current frontends are so basic and static..
You are using peakd.com?
It's funny how this thing is essentially imitating real world societies.
Yes, it was designed to expose that, and help fix it.
I mean, what would have been if ned and his ilk hadn't kneecapped us?
We were the number 3 coin.
We are just now getting to where we don't have to look over our shoulder, or bite our tongues.
Our accounts are not on the line like they once were for having a dissenting opinion.
Not that it might be so clearly visible to you.
Meh, the tech is sound, only a matter of time and persistence.
I get their butt hurt, they create this thing that has made many millionaires, many 100thousandaires, a few more thousandaires, and all they get is guff about how it's not better.
We forked out the co-founder for god's sake.
With friends like stinc, we didn't need any enemies.
Meh, we had all that mass migration coming in 2016-17, stinc kneecapped it.
Now we have to climb that hill, too.
Mass adoption isn't the plan, network effect is the plan, and that can work with far fewer users than even MySpace had.
We needed a golden boy and got ned, instead.
I'd agree exponential growth was wasted on stinc and their need to create bagholders to continue their cons.
However, that doesn't preclude its happening at some point now that we are less a bagholder creation tool and more a place to come and meet people that are really nice, mostly.
We even encourage some to become somebodies amongst us.
I get why a long term user could get lost in the weeds, but this is the best the platform has looked, ever.
The 'greedy f**cks' that had kept their knees on our necks up to hf25 through the poor tax robbing the poor of half the value of their stake have been overruled by folks with enough stroke to get the change done.
Some say it was because of rpc overload, so I don't discount that totally, but the facts are the coders knew exactly what they were doing reducing by up to half the value of stake less than their's, and that has been reversed with hf25.
This is a big deal.
Watch the excitement in the pool when things get back to normal in another week or two.
We should slowly grow as the inflation accommodates new people into the fold.