Some have been arguing the necessity of sharing undistributed coins with others. Please, consider not doing this.
I, obviously, represent only myself here, but maybe there are others that think alike.
My decision to invest in Byteball has came even before reading the white paper (which I haven't finished), by only reading the OP's summary, some pages of this thread and reading into the way tonych talk about this project and interact with people, knowledgeably and with conviction, kindly but firm, without circumventing any question but ignoring any provocation.
I am convinced tonych has Byteball at heart, but terrifies me to to have other people exert any control of it.
That's not to say that the situation with undistributed coins isn't bad. It brings uncertainty and untruest.
There is the danger of someone gaining access to those coins, which is a serious concern for investors and sure is also for tonych even in a personal level, especially if price continue increasing.
I understand that tonych changed his initial distribution plain (fixed percentages, end soon) in order to maximize its effect obeying his criteria (my interpretation, obviously) of widespread distribution within strongly interested, highly experienced and hardened people, thus bitcoin.
The problem now is market uncertainty, not knowing how long it will take and in which pace.
I see this as a factor of untruest for long term investors.
I think Byteball will stand according to its own merits: technical, usability, privacy/anonymity, lucid leadership and etc., all this being solid foundation. What is left is more decentralization (finishing distribution is part of it) and the test of time, being serious glitches free and enduring attacks.
I can only hope tonych's goal is to timely but decidedly release control in favor of decentralization but continue development being the lighthouse for the economy to follow.
Can you imagine how much decentralization this concept of 12 witness with anyone being able to designate a different one at the same time can elicit?
Imagine not depending of all those miners nor the relative energy spending?
I'm here for the long run and couldn't care less for daily fluctuations of price.
Pay an exchange to list byteball? Are you kidding me?
If Byteball has potential it'll be listed in as many exchanges as needed. tonich has already provided needed API.
Exchange
https://cryptox.pl works really well for me. It has fast deposits, instantaneous withdraws (of bytes, I've never sold nor withdrawn previously deposited bitcoins, so I can't tell), streamlined registration, no AML/KYC (granted, no fiat involved, but I've heard others have those even without fiat involved) implying privacy and clear interface.
The genie is already out of the bottle as we can cense by new people arriving every day.
PR is important and
https://coinmarketcap.com is the best we have. Being in the forty range is surely attracting the attention of anyone that is serious about crypto currencies.
So I'm really content being patient as long as fundamentals continue moving in the right direction.
ps: just to give context it's written before today's price jump, which is nice but is not really that important.
