kamiyama:
We aren't doing an ICO, or an airdrop, and it will be months before we do anything.
Vite costs fees, and their HDPoS is looking to again be a heavily centralized consensus algorithm. We also won't focus on adding a smart contract platform.
BitPotus:
I'm actually a developer myself, and I've already gotten the PoW blockchain running (not networked yet though). I'm also partway through implementing SECP256k1 keys.
There was a project called Stone that got half a million for rephrasing a blog post on zkSnarks. They did no work and never proved they were capable of doing the work. It really pissed us off
We won't ask for donations, do an ICO, or any other sort of mass fund raising until we are close to a releasable product.
Stone was an obvious scam by David Wilkinson.
Only noobs fell for it.