It's hard to understand how you can say nothing is working in Gen3. The root problem was chain splits and we are fixing them. Masternode rewards were only an issue for less than a week and the problem was connected to  the chain splits. Staking rewards not had any issues.

Besides that - migration of 90% was done in less than a month and the whole process was easy as 1 2 3. Two-three clicks to migrate the coins, how much more simple that could be? Just note migration is still in progress and you can migrate the coins now or even after a few years, there is no deadline. What other project has done a swap or migration without any deadline?

MyEnergiWallet is simple to use, as easy as MyEtherWallet or even more user-friendly. Ethereum has been working implementing POS for a longer period of time and they are still not there. Remember you will need to hold 32 ETH to be able to stake if my information is correct.

Rain-bot has been running for the past two years, this is a pre-made bot and it has limitations. One of the limitations is that is hard to sustain a community of 40.000 users + without any downtime. It also is not completely reliant upon NRG. Often when we have issues with the bot it is because of changes that Discord made in their code and we have to adjust the bot to work with their changes. When the rain-bot does go down it is usually back up in a short period of time. The Energi team is building our own discord rain bot and hope to have it released within the next couple of months. Although that may be delayed due to the chain split issues the tech team has been working on. Until the new bot is deployed we do appreciate your understanding when free NRG raindrops are not going out. We are doing our best so these interruptions will be as rare as possible.

Discord support was moved to another system that is more secure and easier to manage.

Every community member is held to the same standards and rules in discord. Anyone not following those rules is warned and asked to change their behavior to help ensure that our community remains a safe and secure, family-friendly place. If they choose not to change their behavior they will be banned. If you don't like them then find another project you can behave that way. That's how life works. If you can't follow the rules that are set in place you get punished. Why should Energi be any different than anything else?

There is a #Suggestion channel in Discord where you can put forth ideas to the team. Please try to understand we cannot implement every suggestion. The team will decide what suggestions benefit the project and the community and will implement those that fit those criteria. All suggestions are welcome but we cannot address and/or implement them all.

If a user is banned from discord, then yes: he is not able to access the coins he has in the wallet. We do have processes in place to allow someone to recover their coins from the Discord rain-bot so users do not lose their coins.

Crypto is a volatile space still, so keeping all your savings in crypto or in one coin/token only is not a good idea. Any investment advisor will tell you to diversify your investments and only invest only as much as you are ready to lose. Regarding team pay, we are still getting paid. Payments have not stopped just because we can't deposit to exchanges. However, the deposit issue doesn't affect team members anyway because our contracts forbid us from selling our coins for 18 months. This is part of the reason why Andrey's coins were frozen. His blatant disregard for his other contractual obligations to Energi proved that he would not honor the 18 month hold agreement either. Therefore, his coins were frozen to enforce that instead of allowing nearly 100k coins to be dumped on the market as soon as deposits are reopened.

Regarding the mods answering the same way all along, try to imagine yourself being asked same question every day several times and then tell me honestly: would you make yourself a template and do a copy-paste or would you take the time to type out a completely different answer to each person who asks? If you do the job for even a single day, I guarantee you will go with the second option.

In such cases you halt trading.

Not close deposits for retail and keep them open for the team.

+ Tommy has an EBI key that controls any wallet he wants. That's probably why Exchanges won't open deposits, they could have their coins frozen by Tommy at any time and don't want to risk that.

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

I cannot answer everything but will do my best to help build some understanding.

Regarding deposits, here is one potential issue that could occur due to a chain split. Say you sent some NRG to the exchange and you were both off chain. The exchange accepts the deposit and you trade for a different coin/token then withdraw. After that, you both realize that your transaction wasn’t valid. Since you have already withdrawn the new coin/token, the exchange cannot undo this and because the original transaction was off chain, they don’t get the NRG you sent (you may be good about it and resend but not everyone would). Now the exchange is out those funds with no way to recover them. Multiply this by however many people do their deposits at this time and it could be a massive problem. Setting an arbitrary time for confirmations is not really a solution to this because how do you determine how long it will take for the exchange to realize they are off chain?

With withdrawing, everything is in the exchanges system so if you are both off chain, the exchange still has this information saved and can process the transaction again once they are back on chain.

I cannot say regarding the commits since I am not on the tech side and am not sure on the exact reasons why each commit is done at the time it is rather than waiting longer or doing it sooner.

Sadly for 3, I don’t believe there is much else any of us can do. Personally, I try not to think about it (but of course we are always asked about it so that doesn’t work very well) but I also sit back and consider how I would feel if I sent to an exchange and my coins were lost.

I know this doesn’t add a ton of clarity but I hope it helps explain some.

Blandin33 Hello;

I appreciate that you have your own mind, and of course your own point of view.  I am trying to understand your statement and respond the best I can to it.

The team has been unable to answer three simple questions for almost two months.

Can you give me an example of a question that you need an answer for that has not already been answered?  Keep in mind, sometimes the answer is right in front of us, we just don't like the response that we receive, that does not mean it has not been answered. 

In response to your point: team is engaged in speculation - again I am unclear on what it is you are trying to say exactly.

If you can be a little more clear, I will do my best to respond accordingly.

Blandin33, I can't claim to fully understand the nature of this current situation with the locked deposits. However, I don't think gaslighting the team is fair. I think you're creating mistaken concern where there shouldn't be any. In the long run,  if they were manipulating price as you claim, it wouldn't help them out at all and would only create scandal - which I don't think any team of a project wish upon themselves

With that said, I'm not exactly sure what you are expecting from them. Explaining why they have chosen to do this could reveal a security flaw. Things of this nature are not arbitrary. I think if this was a new project with little volume there might be cause for suspicion. But time and time again this team in particular has shown that they mean business and are not giving us the run-around.

Remember: at the end of the day, when this is over and deposits are resumed, the team will be held accountable for this decision. Do you think the team isn't aware that we want answers? We'll get answers and the issue will be addressed. If it's just swept under the rug, then there might be cause for suspicion.

Until accusers try running their own successfully crypto currency without issues, we have no grounds for complaining. Buy the coin and let them make you some easy money.

If you have issues with the team, their philosophy, their project strategies, then sell your coins and move on to the next best thing. Creating fear and stirring the pot over speculation isn't fair to the team nor is it fair to investors.

I for one, will give the team a fair shot.

I wouldn't rely on the content written here on this forum as leverage against or for the legitimacy of any cryptocurrency. Anyone can say anything and that's not going to help anyone in the long term.

I've been following Energi from the side lines for a while now. They continually deliver on goals and promises. Sure, it's annoying that deposits are currently closed, but lets look at the big picture. They're creating something that has never existed before and I think they're doing a great job.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. People need to stop going around touting anti-Energi propaganda. Unless you're on the dev team, you can't really say anything about the success or failure of this project. From the beginning, they made it clear that this was an experimental project.

If Energi wins, we win. If Energi loses, we all lose.

Take a look at their github, there are commits that are very recent and they worked around the clock to dispatch 3.0.6 following a DDos attack. If they're isn't dissemination of anti-Energi hate, I'd be worried that this project was failing. The fact that people are writing hateful (untrue) things about the project and the people involved, is proof that Energi is doing something right. (Side note: I anticipate that we see commits very soon as evidence that we're moving forward).

To follow all this however, I think it is time for the team to come forward with a new plan-of-attack. I think if the deposit had been locked for 2 weeks, that would be sufficient time to go without an explanation. If deposits are not open in the next 2 to 3 weeks, I think it is only fair that the team steps forward and provides a bit more explanation and also a timelines so we can be ready for deposits to open so we can resume using this amazing cryptocurrency.

I trust that Tommy has his head screwed on properly. I trust the team IS working right now as I type this to fix the issues at hand. Don't let fear and greed get the best of you.