Bitshares is very different from blackcoin, nxt, etc.
There are also 100s of coins that have lost far far more than Bitshares.
The comparisons in this thread ... are bordering on retarded.
The original question was about AGS and not Bitshares-PTS. To keep it real, as of right now, the btc I sent to AGS is gone and I have nothing to show for it. I'm a big supporter of this project, but I can definitely understand the frustration. It's not about wanting a quick profit, it's about knowing your investment will eventually give returns. Every week that passes makes people more and more antsy, especially when it was supposed to launch on the ides of March. Remember that?
I want to be clear that I'm not this person.
"I'm here as a donator to build DACs for the good of mankind, so I don't care about making money. I'm such a moral and ethical person and everyone trying to profit is selfish".
If you are this person just STFU. You are probably full of crap.
I'm here to profit and so is everyone else, so stop the bullshit. Just ranting as I've heard this from people in these forums.
Anyway, Go Bitshares! I'm a big supporter, but I can understand the frustration. That's all.
March 15 = earliest
hope to start testing Minimum Viable Product (MVP) TaPOS-based command line wallet.
March 15 + 10 weeks =
actually start testing full DPOS product with huge new feature set and robust toolkit.
If we had released a MVP product on March 15th, Milestone 2 would have been to release a robust, user friendly product (UFP) after three or four months of further development.
So one could argue that we have now caught back up to our original target for Milestone 2 and are in a
much stronger position then we would have been if we had released a TaPOS system on March 15.
Further, the investment of those 10 weeks into a more robust toolkit and development team, means that we are in a great position to accelerate our schedule further in the months ahead.
So comparing the development time for an MVP to the development time for a UFP is really comparing apples to oranges.
We pulled off an entire R&D cycle and caught back up to our original schedule in one season.
THAT's what I call development horsepower.
In 40 years in the aerospace R&D industry, I have seldom seen so much accomplished so quickly with so few people.
I'm not frustrated. I'm inspired!