Bitmain will use their IPO funds for the end game, the final assault, I think everything is going to plan!

It's  amazing Bitcoin is valued at 6k USD before any real global collapse has happened, just lots of cracks appearing but no clear event to signal the collapse is imminent. When I first started in crypto I thought we'd need another Lehman bros collapse or similar to get over 5k ... If you'd told me 18 months ago 6k USD would be close to the capitulation bottom of the next cycle I'd have thought it highly unlikely, but here we are.

Devs exit scammed with remaining airdrop funds down to the corner store for a milkshake and burger each ... life in bear market,

Thanks! So, SuperNET could run 5 Stratis Masternodes ... that could generate a sizable amount of income one day.

Stratis Masternodes could become the retail option for regular people to add decentralised risk free privacy to bitcoin, so it's great that SN can tap into that revenue one day.

How much stratis does Supernet have, are there plans to run a breeze privacy masternode if over 250k ?

CfB left NXT in 2014 when Jean-Luc took over as lead dev, but there's no doubt NXT and Iota are both cutting edge tech, and neither is a pump & dump, just at the mercy of the crazy crypto market as is every other coin and token, but yes i agree , CfB isn't in charge of adoption,  but the foundation is well suited to guide that, and reports are they're employing nearly 100 staff within a couple of months. That's why if by early next week  CfB and Popov are on the board this has ben a good result!

What does concern me though is the pre leak dump, that smells like potential insider trading, the timing and volume suggest someone had advanced knowledge of what the board were discussing and got nervous and dumped. If the source of the leak and dumper are inside the foundation then that could get someone in a lot of trouble, the dump was millions of dollars worth, and non profit foundations involved in insider trading is a bad look.

Edit, I don't mean whoever leaked the discussion to the community did anything wrong, that was an act of disclosure, I mean whoever tipped off the person(s) who dumped before the board chat log was made public, they could easily be another person, and maybe not directly involved in the foundation .... could be pillow talk, or even a case of the foundation communications being hacked .... who knows, hard to prove, but a worry none the less.

Sure, there is a lot of uncertainty with Iota but CfB is one of the all time crypto dev legends , so IMO the risk with the tech is well worth taking.

As for Iota AS it sounds like some of the founders have created a company for their own personal projects within the Iota ecosystem, like RedHat , which makes sense. As long as the Iota foundation governs the protocol itself it's better for the foundation guys to have their own money making businesses as separate legal entities, they can't exactly pay themselves millions from the non profit foundation even if they deserve it for all the value they've  created, just a regular salary, so having their ownprofit generating  businesses that add value to the whole ecosystem is fine with me, but sure, let's wait and see what happens, I love a good conspiracy thèory, but this looks like good ole common sense, just some legal separation to prevent conflicts of interest getting misinterpreted by paranoid crypto guys.

If the tech works nobody cares about anything else, as long as everything is legal, and with Iota foundation the legal setup with Iota is best in crypto. Being rude isn't illegal, and neither are embarrassing leaks about who is behind the leadership controls at any point in time.

big partners are like everyone else following IOTA, interested enough in the tech to stay engaged while we all wait to see if the tangle can scale with zero fees. The recent drama is actually being shielded by the crypto wide bear market, if this happened during a bull it would be much more severe reaction.

Iota is years from maturing, I expect slow progress.

You know that feeling when you realize you ate something off, your guts are churning, and you know your digestive tract is about to open up and purge from both ends ... that's where Iota was a couple of days ago after the leaked conversation, the market digested the news, and some weak hands have now dumped from both ends, and the price is in the toilet, relatively speaking.

Once the news is fully digested the market will recover, some people lost confidence in the current setup and dumped, others will soon see an opportunity to get in cheap. Just the usual churning of ownership, the tech fundamentals are still the same, and as long as the business partners don't lose confidence in the foundation things will blow over soon, and we end up with CfB and Popov on the board, and maybe Dom waits a little while and exits gracefully  with a huge stash of Iota and buys a yacht and retires at 22.

Maybe CfB and Dom make up, but if one of them leaves it'll obviously be Dom, and he probably gets replaced by a seasoned corporate veteran who ticks all the boxes for Bosch and VW, so not a bad result.

As painful as this leak might be in the short term for marketcap of Iota, when the dust settles people might appreciate more the paradigm shift we're all witnessing before our eyes in how these decentralised global crypto projects are governed. The Iota organisational structure is pretty flat, and regular community members know exactly what went down in a crucial discussion on an extremely important area of governance for Iota. As painful as it might be, I actually like to know this, it helps evaluate things better.

Watching the sausage being made isn't always fun, but the fact that we can see all the ingredients here in cryptoland is not such a bad thing. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!

Look8ng to setup a stratis masternode, can you guys help me sign up?

Is anyone offering a masternode hosting and setup service?

I agree, for an airdrop coin made without any ico funding by volunteer devs you can't expect a money back guarantee ... No wait, you can, HLM cost us nothing, remember, so we're all entitled to a full refund at any time!

Cool, you do realise a stratis masternode requires a full Bitcoin node to work, plus the stratis node? Does that change things? Your website mentions 20GB blockchain limit.

Wait for the UI to be completed, usability is a key ingredient for adoption, and qora community has shown it is patient so why rush out a release now when we've all waited for literally years so far. Get the UI sorted and then release with a big effort on marketing, so start organising that now would be my advice to the community.

On windows wallet i have to restart the wallet to stake, then after each block has staked again the wallet stops staking for days, then after another restart the same things happens, each block stakes once and then nothing until after a restart. Any ideas? I have staking=1 in my conf file.

It's a good suggestion but devs can't change the rules now without killing trust, would have to be a whole new sister coin from an airdrop, which could work a treat.

Does the platform allow loaning out veri tokens for interest payments yet?

Are you planning to support Stratis masternode?

Is there a guide to setting up a V3 Masternode on windows?