| > They claim they had a large team working on the project for 4-5 years full-time. There are two repositories. A public one and a private one. The Breitmans contracted with an OCaml shop > They have absolutely no incentive to continue the product or work another day in their lives. The article disproves your point. They haven't walked away. I think it's commonly accepted that if you pay someone upfront they either don't do the work or do a shitty job. That isn't always the case. > I didn't even think it mattered until I heard they were incredibly rude to just about everyone in their Slack channel I was there for most of its existence. They weren't rude. He never posted memes and wasn't that active in the chat compared to others and their community manager. It was pretty cool to see him respond to questions, but they were mostly short answers because A) he's busy and B) the questions tend to be quite repetitive because no one reads the white paper. > Later they would delete channel history and eventually shut them down completely under the guise of "preventing fishing attempts", though I never saw a suspicious link anywhere I was there for the end. Because of the way Slack is setup anyone can join and message other members. The scammers were messaging everyone telling them the ICO started and they should contribute at a fake URL. Because there is a lot of FOMO in this space their strategy works quite well. The scammers also tried to take control of incoming webhooks. I'm not sure if the configuration was wrong or whatever, but I was quick to point out who was causing the deception. They were banned but the channel was shutdown shortly after that. I can dig up the screenshots if necessary. > IMO they have no intention of delivering anything, except maybe to save face. If the past is any indication, they don't give a shit about saving face either. The commits on Github prove that isn't true. They have put a lot of work into this blockchain and smart contracts that can be formally verified. These are a lot of untruths in your comment. |
https://www.tezos.com/static/papers/Tezos_Overview.pdf cites development began in 2014 and with a full staff of 10 core developers. I suppose I misread and was wrongly under the impression that they always had those numbers. But it doesn't change that Arthur and the gang modified their LinkedIn pages after the fact to remove full time employment at their day jobs and replace it with full time employment at Tezos.
> IMO they have no intention of delivering anything...
>> The commits on Github prove that isn't true.
https://www.reddit.com/r/tezos/comments/7791ex/the_path_forw...
Yes development continues, but they've downsized the now unnecessary development team to from 10 to 4 and instead are relying on 3 outsourcing shops. They more or less have to spend the money they raised that belongs to the foundation, which requires significant public auditing and transparency while reducing their own involvement and spending their own windfalls as they please. The entire team except the leadership is gone. And now they are removing the head of the foundation.
> They weren't rude.
You're wrong. Arthur made everything conversation personal and used 4chan style name-calling all the time. Really obscene insults flowed from him almost everytime I heard him speak. He used memes to respond to questions he was probably admittedly tired of answering. But the content was ludicrous. They were Shkreli-like get rich or die trying memes. It might have been tounge-in-cheek, but its impossible to tell with him because he couldn't handle a normal conversation.