Hazard was the original coin maker been out of the scene for some time or maybe he goes by a different handle now. Cryptsy was originally intended as a place for miners on Paul's pools to trade coins they mined that could not be traded anywhere. In the old days you would buy, and sell on these boards and lots of folks got ripped off. Anyhow back then there were very few alt coins and there was a big demand from the customer to add coins. Take your investigation to all the old buying selling threads you will see the old wild west.
I supported CAP at the time because it was fair and had stats that I liked. In those days Mullick and I did not work for Cryptsy we volunteered. Cryptsy was a small operation. When we became employees all the side projects and associations became extra work (as it was all volunteer) also made for conflicts of interest so we just removed ourselves from that stuff.
Thank you BitJohn that you took some time to answer some of my questions.
If I understand you correct I have to summarize the history of CAP as follows:15-20 people in the chatbox at cryptsy started the idea to create BottleCaps, including Shake, Mullick and BitJohn.
The idea was to create a coin without a premine, to show that a coin only needs a community.
Digitalindustry was not included in the chat.
The 15-20 people thought that Shake would create BottleCaps for free. However Shake was thinking differently about that (he is still surprised that he is not paid for the creation of the coin). Seems to me that no good agreements were made from start.
CAP was launched as follows:Shake created the coin
JohnEden (a group account) announced CAP at bitcointalk.
Mullick took over from Adam as developer of CAP
BitJohn posted very enthusiastic in the thread, but at that time he was a volunteer at cryptsy. In this way there was not a conflict of interest between CAP and cryptsy
A side note:At the same day of announcement digitalindustry posted in the thread (Coincidence??)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241445.msg2561719#msg2561719 and claimed BottleCaps was his idea. (however he was not present at the initial meetings according to BitJohn). Another lie of DI ? Or was DI present at the meeting with another name?
One proven "sockpuppet" (philipdick, another account of Digitalindustry) also "scammed" CAPS at start:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=241445.msg2581363#msg2581363How did CAP proceed:Some hard forks later, it seemed that CAP was not the success as was hoped for.
BitJohn and Mullick started to work at cryptsy and abandoned CAP because of conflict of interest.
Mullick handed CAP over to "Tranz"
CAP november 2014:It is still listed at cryptsy, while there is hardly a community left (with Tranz and DI as one of the few active members).
