They didn't even make this guide
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Useless team behind Universa, they talk and talk, but results are non-existent. You won't find much competent talent outside a couple of devs
Your thoughts seem to be rather interesting, indeed.
What are 'existent results' from your point of view? You do not count Mainnet, swap option, smart contracts, hypertokens, etc., do you?
Needless to say, the team members are the ones who have been always helping users on Telegram, Facebook, email, and many other social networks. Do you still claim we they useless? That would be a quite queer thing to say.
Let's outline the facts briefly:- Mainnet was launched in April 2018, fine. Great, huge success.
- Swap Option was made available in August-Sep 2018, sure, very long overdue, by this point many already become disheartened over Universas lack of progress. Guess what though, those UTN you swapped for have no real use atm, swap to UTNP and save yourself the hassle.
- Hypertokens, utterly useless. Lets examine what we know, to this day Universa has a 14k volume across all markets, a pitiful sum, feels like i'm back in 2013. How does volume come into play? It's the only metric from the outside anyone has to gauge adoption of Universa, and if adoption is not there, the use of Hypertokens (ie a stablecoin and pairs) is utterly useless.
- User-interface is in misery, with 3 access points to go into the wallet, and do various of tasks. Each system does something differnt, one system makes smart contracts, the other one does swapping and the 3rd one you can chat and send users UTN.
- UTN is useless, does not function anywhere outside of the systems designed for it, we are still trading ERC-20 Tokens, which has more use and more convenient than anything the Universa team has created. UTNP gets more TXs than anything else on UTN's chain. Why? Simple, the team designed a system that requires a full-fledged integration into an exchange and outside sources. Thus, listing UTN on any exchange, becomes a very difficult and obscure task. It won't be months, even another year from now until we see UTN actually listed on any exchange.
- Transacting UTN is a very cumbersome, not friendly and virtually unusable. When is the last time you gave someone a file (containing 100 USD), and they had to upload it to redeem it? Never, again useless system. UTN transaction is like a giftcard, instead you're dealing with physical files.
- Team continues to explain to the community about B2B, their essential focus, we've only seen 1 deal made in more than a year, and that happened recently with some internet provider in Tunisia. Sure, great, but only a momentary brief flicker of the candle light.
- Team continues to argue against marketing, even updating simple information, such as removing "ICO Has Ended From website, and even here on BTT." How long does this task take Ampirebus? Not even 3 minutes, especially here on Bitcointalk. Really fucking shameful man. Obviously your and their "priorities are elsewhere," and time is so "limited," 3 minutes of time definitely can't be diverted. There's only 1 thing that matters in crypto, and that's how many community members you have, and how adopted your blockchain, coin or shitcoin is. The only thing that's keeping this project alive, community members. Value is only derived by other people.
- Team defends scams and doesn't want to acknowledge scams that occurred on their chain, in case of SmartGold and Quick (?). Scams occurred on UTN blockchain as smart contracts. both have no activity for over half a year now, and yes they will censor you for bringing this up. One Russian who i never saw speak in the telegram channel, was adamant about censoring me immediately.
- Team is desperate to bring us new information, by giving us not updates about their project, but updates about the most useless pieces of information. Case-in-point, their latest tweet.
https://twitter.com/Universa_News- Team doesn't want to market their project anywhere, team has no focus or priority to bring on other teams to develop smart contracts. They expect people to stumble apon their project, and create for it. That process only works, if your blockchain is visible in the first place, leading me back to volume of the coin. The only 2 projects that made contracts, where the 2 scamcoins mentioned above; created in the more liquid (early 2018) crypto market.
- Universa the interest from community members, twitter followers have declined by 300, telegram users by 1k (over the past 5 months).
The Positives:- AB (the CEO), is trying to make something of the project, but has nothing to show for all his hard work
- Core developer team understands Universa, and is highly capable
- Project has potential of being a very successful blockchain
- Team understands crypto to an extent, attempting to shy away from hype-trains (which also negatively impacts their prospects)
- Admin team is active, the last tree branch for everyone who's involved. If they stopped talking, then this project would be dead.
Lets go in deeper, the admins.- Team of admins is good, they consistently answer the same question about UTNP-UTN Swap, because the core team's inability to update all other information elsewhere. Thus, viewing their Telegram, 90% of all interactions are about the swap. Very talented.
- Team of responders are always active, but these are the lowest level jobs, re-regurgitating information that has been available for months now. I don't necessarily blame them, because the majority of crypto users are brain-dead. But also, there's a severe lack of information anywhere outside of their Telegram group.
Again, if anyone is curious, just look at Universa's volume, the ultimate meter for any crypto's performance. There's a lot of other miscellaneous pieces of information, a lot of more detail that can go into these points, but i really not going to spend time pointing information that the team takes and throws in the trash can, or is reluctant to even understand or acknowledge.
The question about marketing has been asked a qwazillon of times. One thing needs to be understood - Universa is a blockchain platform for business. That's why the team doesn't focus on marketing amongst ordinary users (me, you, many others), but what they actually focus on is b2b and b2g contracts. The marketing guys of Universa and AB himself are trying and succeeding in this though...