I notice David you did not actually address my assertion that your free to comment and give confidence levels in anything, group, project, or anyone you like on any topic you like and no authority, tax or otherwise, can call you out on it. Unless your defaming someone your well within your rights to do that and that brings no personal liability to you. That you do not have anything you actually feel like doing that for is another discussion entirely.
All those problems such as organising KYC, Tax and legal obligations just go away when there is true decentralisation. Do the bitcoin or Ethereum, cross chain DEXs, core protocol devs of all stripes have to worry about tax consequences of their creations whether they live in the UK, Switzerland or anywhere else? No of course not. Core developers just code away happily not having to care about any of that. Many core devs are collected under the same roof and company just like at MaidSafe. When the system is decentralised those problems are pushed out to the edges and are no longer a burden weighing down on a central organiser, because there is none. We all have Maid and can send it to wherever we like whenever we like and the consequence for the action are ours only. MaidSafe can’t stop it, MaidSafe can’t be responsible for it. There is just one piece missing…
All these fears being expressed over the years about possible grave tax consequences and things have to move slow to plan for possible legal consequences year after year after year are directly related to the level of decentralisation. MaidSafe is painted into a corner with Omni because the Omni tech appears to force the transition through a centralised bottleneck that bears down the weight of hostile agencies on Maidsafe. So MaidSafe is forced to retreat and walking back on deep core principles… the transition will now be non anonymous/KYC’d for example, will that be the last retreat if things carry on like this, who knows.
If the community can solve the problem by decentralising the transition, all that crap your trying to deal with for so many years literally just goes away. The problem is MaidSafe is owning the transition, when we all should be working out how to truly decentralise it. Proposals here are aimed at trying to do exactly that and they may be sub-optimal and possibly misguided, but there has been no real debate about solving the underlying problem or even recognition of what the core problem is. We are still tied up in petty short sighted infighting like “this is to just to pump the price of Maid”, and “CEX vs DEX duh”.
The core problem is not Tax agencies, KYC and UK laws on MaidSafe, the core problem is how to decentralise the transition to the new decentralised SN, and most importantly for its future survival give it a lifeline bridge so anyone, anywhere, anytime can move value into and out in a decentralised way that does not implicate MaidSafe in anything even remotely legal and tax like… because it is truly decentralised. If we can all together find a way to do that and get a two way transition bridge to the real economy in the process absolutely everyone will be much better off for it.