People seem to have a strangely obsessive desire to control what someone spends their time on. Though I think it's more likely everyone sold their shares in
ProtoBtyemaster ProtoShares when Btyemaster decided to focus on a single DAC.
In a true free market, which we're all supposedly here to build, anyone is welcome to pick up the mantel of PTS and do with it what they want. If the market doesn't want it it will fail. If someone can make a go of it in the spirit with which is was intended, regardless of the underlying tech, I say have at it.
Mostly I think it's people have completely divested in PTS and now only own BTS and don't want new money coming in and taking some of their cake.
I don't think it was ever discussed that a DAC would become the new snap shot source when Bytemaster decides to work on it. Developers are welcome to do that of course. They can do whatever they want.
Crypto currencies are by design hard to kill by any that attack it. Sometimes that works for you and sometimes it doesn't. This is the best test of one I've seen so far. People are under the notion that since BTS air dropped some BTS(X) on them, twice, that they were some how "bought out". This wasn't a merger.
If you really want PTS to die the only way to do it is to get together as a group and buy all the PTS and burn them. Of course that would just create a new market for PTS and miners would come online again.
The free market; such a fickle beast
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