You have a serious axe to grind here it seems @aclarkuk82 - I spent considerable time and effort responding back to criticisms of the article only for you to respond half-heartedly and honestly, I find it quite rude. But I guess what can I expect from someone who clearly has such high praise for EOS given your posting/comment history which seems to be heavily EOS related. I am guessing you're quite possibly heavily invested and can't see EOS from any other perspective.
Dan did not “leave” the other projects
Oh, so Dan still works for Steemit Inc and works on Bitshares? Seems strange he would write a resignation letter that he posted on Steem here where he announces his resignation from Steemit Inc.
he never “owned” them
I never said he owned them. Maybe if you read my comment before responding to it, you would have seen what I actually said. Let me quote what I actually said, my own words word-for-word.
Dan also has a history of giving up on projects and moving onto the next idea he has. First Bitshares, then Steem and now EOS.
I am not the first person to question whether Dan will stick around with EOS, an article on Bitcoin.com linked here also ponders the same question. A relevant quote from that article is:
blessed with too many ideas and talents to stay in one place for too long.
You're acting like I've called EOS a bad project which I never did. All I ever did was call out the incessant levels of hype surrounding EOS and advise people to be careful. The whales are circling EOS and looking to take profits. Dial down the cultism by a few notches @aclarkuk82 you're scaring me.
it will cost you financially
I am just not another sheep blindly following the herd and believing in unsubstantiated promises. Given the prolonged bear market we have been in the last few months, the conditions are not exactly ideal for trading most cryptocurrencies lately (except maybe today).
The only financial cost here is people investing based on hype, I can almost guarantee that most people invested in EOS haven't even read the whitepaper. I've read it and it's technically impressive what they're attempting to pull off. But once again, anyone can write words, actions are what matter. It's not the idea, it's the execution.
lol ok, I will give you a response that hopefully does not 'hurt" your feelings, offense is taken not given.
Semantically he quit as CTO I will concede to that, but that simply means Dan will not govern the direction or write code. Steemit is an open source project, anyone can contribute and develop the platform, it is not the Dan show for sure and never was in my opinion.
Dan was part of a community-based project which is precisely the same EOS.
I believe Dan moved on as he is a great innovator in this space, is Dan perfect, of course not he is still human. That does not mean he has given up on it, Dan is merely moving on to bigger and better things. To truly excel at a task, I believe it needs 100% of your attention; otherwise, the tasks list spreads you too thin.
Dan will absolutely no stick around once EOS is running as he wanted, but again why is that a concern. Dan has already stated that he will divert his attention to writing dApps on the EOS platform, moreover he has hinted at "Steem 2.0" running on EOS.
Investing in a great project is not about "being a sheep" it is about performing due diligence and backing a project that you feel will deliver the next wave of distributed applications that will not crash when a single dApp consumes the network (Crypto Kitties on Eth). So you are right, do not be a sheep and blindly follow the crowd, but as you mentioned, you have read the white paper and where impressed. If that is the case, have you not been following the success of the testnet's running that are outperforming expectations AND has more features working than the white paper proposed.
Anyway, I will never tell people what to do with their money, but if someone slams ANY project with nonsensical and emotional based slander, I will respond.
good luck pal, no hard feelings I hope