No you can do it yourself....


Your argument is basically that nobody but the devs could mine Bitcoin until late 2010, because the was no mining pool.  But all you needed was an online PC and internet access,  just like with Decred.

Anyway,  I guess  you don't really care about any of this,  so I'm out..

It's inaccurate to say that devs were the only one able to stake from the start, a basic dsl connection worked just fine. But sure you needed a PC.  I'm not sure which big spike you are referring to but the switch to a more steady slope correspond to the activation of the first change in consensus rules voted to switch the ticket pricing algorithm, (sdiffalgorithm )  which was known for having crazy oscillation. In fact you can see pretty clearly on that chart  that if you remove the spikes caused by that algorithm early on,  the mean price is a pretty linear slope since voting started. You can find the details on the initial algorithm and the proposed change here: https://github.com/decred/dcps/blob/master/dcp-0001/dcp-0001.mediawiki

This is totally inaccurate.  The stake pool software is not required to vote or stake.  It's a third party service which allows users to leave their wallet offline and have a third party relay their vote for them when a ticket gets chosen. Everybody could vote and stake from the beginning,  only by running an online wallet.  Which was available before block 1 even existed.  I know for a fact because I'm not a dev and I did it pretty easily...

That's not how it works...  you can't compound by staking with Decred because only 30% goes to POS,  (60% goes to POW) So everyone who had tickets since launch,  today has less tickets.  Unless they are continuously investing new money (either buying more Decred on the market,  or running a sizeable mining operation).  Personally,  I'm down to ~13% of my initial stake.

It is by design and big investors face the same issue.

I have to wonder, why would people bypass the principles and governance model of Decred which allows on-chain community votes and proposals for basically any consensus changes you can imagine, in order to force their own consensus changes without community approval?

There isn't much of anything Decred in this project:

- The way changes are introduced is against what Decred stands for,
- It's not a fork of the blockchain, because you have to strip the currently 3,804,324 DCR  (213,688,879$) of stakes from stakeholders in order to introduce changes they never voted for and agreed to. If you would retain the current stakes, your project would be DOA and unable to produce blocks.
- Piggybacking on the name of a successful project for an unrelated coin that doesn't even share a blockchain history isn't something any serious dev would do

You are of course free to copy the open source code and do anything you want with it,  but this strikes me more as a HCASH copycat than anything Decred.

Followed directions and paid with ETH from mywtherwallet. Transaction is  confirmed.  Is there a delay before tokens are sent out ? I see nothing in the investor profile page