Coins with rock rock star devs like Vitalik, Evan, Sunny King, and Fluffy Pony have godlike control over their networks, and I am looking for the opposite (coins with no well known devs but many unknown devs).
Please correct me if I am wrong abouf any posted info thanks.
I just discovered this thread, and thought I'd chime in, because your description of me is grossly inaccurate. I write VERY little actual code in Monero. My role, as a maintainer, is primarily coordination, testing, merging. On a higher level, as a member of the Monero Core Team, I am involved in stewardship, administration, architecture, and so on.
Take a look at
https://github.com/monero-project/bitmonero/graphs or use a tool like
git-fame.
That will show you that the REAL rock star devs of the Monero project are people like moneromooo, the late warptangent, Thomas Winget (tewinget), Howard Chu (hyc), oranjuice, mikezackles, and Shen Noether.
Similarly, looking at other areas of development like the Monero Research Lab and the Monero Core GUI adds several more parties to the list.
Then there's Kovri, which is really just a ton of historical work by orignal, and then mountains of work more recently by anonimal, EinMByte, and majestrate (psi).
Lastly there's the members of the Monero community, from the subreddit moderators (americanpegasus, dEBRUYNE) to the guys that handle the social media channels, to everyone contributing to parts of the ecosystem.
I am no rock star dev, and to call me such is incredibly insulting to all of those that put in tons of their own time with little hope of reward. I'm just a cog in a very large machine, and even if I disappear tomorrow Monero will continue unabated.
And to answer your question: without being overly biased, the answer is obviously Monero. The reason is because Monero makes it impossible to undo anything. If someone stole a bunch of Monero, what would we do? We can't roll back the chain, because by then the transactions might have gone anywhere and outputs might have been utilised in any number of legitimate transactions. We can't undo or roll anything back because there would simply be no point to doing so except to destroy Monero's immutability.
Rolling back is something that will never happen. About the closest the Monero community would come to that is to checkpoint a block to correct a major implementation issue that has caused a fork or to correct something that is so far beyond the social contract (eg. magically creating billions of Monero in a transaction) that to leave it is untenable. Monero's social contract remains fixed.
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