THE LOTTERY, THE WALL STREET PROJECT AND THE FOUNDATIONI have expressed on IRC that the 50% take from the top is abusive and that donations should be voluntary. I won't add to that. Whoever wants to play, up to them, it's just not right. And before anyone comes with the usual "every lottery..." every lottery in the world gives ALL his proceedings to CHARITY projects and
/or EDUCATION. Otherwise they would be illegal schemes to take money from the people. End of that subject.
The Wall Street project: First a couple of corrections to IE: It is "due" respect, not "do" respect; the other is pure semantics: Criticism is not necessarily "negative", like you assume the word means. being critical (as in "critical thinking", means to examine all the possible aspects of a subject and point out the positives and the negatives).
I do not know if the proposed Wall Street project will have short/long term positive effects or negative effects on BC. Or if it will have positive effects on the price of the coin, but negative ones on the brand. Or viceversa. In principle and after careful consideration (and critical thinking), I believe it could do more for good than for bad, but I am far from sure either way. I am quite skeptical of "passionate support" from people that is easily enticed by catering to their greed and appreciate more sober observation (and vision), by those who have a much longer term project for BlackCoin. I repeat: I believe it will be generally positive, but I would understand that others may believe differently. As such, I agree that the "Foundation" would distance itself from it. Clearly. IE doesn't need their support and as his initiative, whatever good or bad will come from it, should not be attached to the image of BlackCoin.
I have locked horns with IE in the recent past and I definitely find his passion endearing ... if generally misguided. I believe a lot others feel the same way. While his enthusiasm as initiatives are many times commendable others are ego-driven and totally ill-guided. I won't point to them one by one but most on this board can recall several of the latest ones. It is good the BC is not associated with those initiatives. It is good that BC distance itself from the ideas -good and bad- of a single supporter. It is good the BC takes the high road of a much wider perspective to keep the main subject in focus: PROTECT THE BRAND.
That said, and after spending considerable time on IRC, I have found that several on this dev team are very, extremely shaky in their ability to steer BC on the right direction and I fear many mistakes are just wanting to happen. I have read, many times, on IRC, that "the pool is not vital" by member os the dev team. I have read direct attacks on educated criticism of some of the initiatives -such as the lottery (mind you not opposed to the lottery, but to the 50% take from the top) and others-, by members of the dev team that not only on occasion act like school patio bullies and hoodlums when confronted with different opinions, but actually threaten those who oppose some of their ideas. And yes, that includes Soepkip and Gritt, among others. It would be quite advisable that they spend less time on IRC, more actually working and that they take into real and deep consideration ideas they initially oppose and examine them before viscerally (or greedily) attacking not only those ideas but the individuals behind them that "annoys" them. A bit more maturity should be desirable.
IE: Good work on the cards, good work on the Wall Street project (I get the purpose, many, amazingly, dont and see it as a schooling project or as a sales event (
), but not all your initiatives are or have been positive. Be open to criticism (the good, the bad and the ugly) and above all to accept that sometimes you must just simply be wrong as so many times is the case when passion clouds the mind. And consider that, as often could be the case, there are children -if not total morons- among us.
