Hmmm. You paint this like there is some money hungry manager sitting on his hands while working devs into the ground. I can assure you that at MaidSafe we all work extremely hard. We are a close nit team who all roll with punches together and treat each other with the respect they deserve. Here is some high level financial info:
Current monthly run rate is typically around £65k (this is mostly wages for our team of around 17) - we are very under resourced, the costs her possibly need to increase to circa £85k to grow the dev team and community managers/platform evangelists…etc… We have less than a couple of months left - this is £GBP, around 45 BTC and a small amount of MAID and excludes the excess MAID mentioned in the post.
If you have a problem with anything going on with this project, you either don’t understand what they are building and how revolutionary it is or you are just looking at cashing in. If violence solved anything, I’d be hunting all the complainers down and giving them a good smack up side the head.
Ey, if you gotta dump a ton of MAID to make ends meet, please do it, feed your staff. Means more cheap MAID for us. The crypto markets are all a game, they are meant to get played. Holders gonna hold, shorters gonna short, and bitches gonna be bitches. Let the team do what needs to be done
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yeah i hope they don’t loose to much because they really deserve to profit from this project
[/quote]I think there are only two ways to lose.
For the project to prove undoable (I think we’re past any real uncertainty on that).
To sell off your coins in the face of FUD, or to simply make an error in your call if you’re “playing the market.”
+1 the donation idea. Seriously worth some thought, I think. Maybe with some appropriate, fun incentives. Such as donate 10K (USD), get dinner with the dev team in Troon. $100 = special commemorative t-shirt. 50K = get to tussle David’s hair for up to one minute.
But seriously, if there were something commemorative about the incentives—something people could look back on and say, “I did this at the beginning,” instead of just making lots of $$—I think a lot of people would come out of the woodwork to show their support.
TLDR: Never underestimate the value of bragging rights.
Some crazy idea, but what about having some limited edition stuff in a shop for donations/payments.
Like the T-shirt contest you had before This will get you some funding for sure.
Maidsafe is still developing this great project and if it’s finished people want this kind collectable stuff.
Couple of months left for funding is short. Maybe I am being short sighted, but the time frame is a reality which has to be dealt with. If you have a better alternative, then please present it, but as it stands… this is the best alternative as of now.
I continue to be deeply impressed by the integrity of the people at Maid. Sharing this kind of information goes well beyond what’s expected. I’m also beyond grateful to the people working on this project on the budget you mention. I’m sure all of them could walk away and find jobs paying many multiples of that. Impressive and humbling.
There have been lots of good suggestions made on this thread. I especially like the idea of a ‘private placement’ with long vesting. I don’t have an unlimited budget (€10k-€20k) but would be very keen to help in whatever way you think optimal. You certainly shouldn’t shy away from using the community as a resource.
Afraid to known alias, we’re on the safe network forum. I’ve always learned to welcome to members to these projects instead of scaring them away. This specific member you talk about probably worries about hes investment he “possibly” made at the IPO to support the project, this doesn’t turn him into a bad guy.
Point of the forum is to share ideas, experience, opinion. Nobody needs to hide behind a newly created account to say what they think. Surely you want your profile to represent your thoughts. What’s the point of having a go with the flow account and a say what’s really on your mind account. Anyway not on topic
I think most of the IPO investors are not on this forum, they are just waiting quietly. Im responding because I worry about the behaviour on this forum regarding new members and different opinions. Im not here for the “likes” im here to have a great community that supports everyone. Community represents the Safe Network.
Professional - as in rank, not skill… 100’s Millions of dollars to play with. These are wild west days. The average kid playing ether on Polo or Kraken cant figure out how come it goes up and it goes down. Ether is the new Wall St. Credit Default Swap.
Yep… I dont agree with most of what you say but I agree there are MAID YES MEN posting anonymous for fear of backlash. They have no balls and ya gotta have balls to ask the tough questions. The Maid gangs are obvious and some have a little too much power. Many here think its a popularity contest posting and raving about Maid. Its a business and its money and, generally speaking, most people dont like being in the dark or mislead, intentionally or otherwise, when it comes to their money.
FWIW I think David, Ross and the team are doing a great job under the circumstances and will rise to the occaison. When? Who knows? But its coming and when it comes it will be big. The greatest improvement recently is they stopped the “this week/next week”, “in a few days” commentary which caused a lot of friction on this forum.
I think everyone knows what I have (bought 12 BTC worth at crowd sale, gave 6 to Ernie Hanckock as he missed the sale, he gave me 6BT). I used 8 BTC in the crowd sale to pay for the transactions. I supported some projects with 4 BTC then used the remaining 10 to buy Maid when the market cap was $41 million (and yes I knew we were launching client tests and waited until well after). This has all been posted previously on the forum.
As for MaidSafe and MAID we have published the addresses.
Our run rate is well known our take from crowd sale is well known, simple maths tells you the story exactly. We have been open about finances run rate and timescales for cash. Unlike many projects we publish accounts each year and pay for a CA audit and certification that’s not legally required (as we have less than £5million turnover). We do so to ensure all our investors feel comfortable there is an audit trail that is certified. I think that’s even more than monthly spreadsheets etc. These can be downloaded from companies house in the UK by anyone for detailed analysis.
As for friends family contractors etc. etc. I have no idea, I don’t want to know and it’s 100% none of my business.
I think that is all I need to say here chap, I am reading your post as something it’s not, I think, or at least I hope so
This will get you some funding for sure.