9. Please observe the complete series of announcements we make this summer before you judge our commitment to BitShares success. 
Thanks for your post Stan. For the record I have never questioned your devotion to BitShares success.
The I3 team has a weakness in the PR department, and have made a few bad decisions IMO. I don't expect perfection, but the same type of mistakes are being repeated. It would instill more confidence if we would see an acknowledgement and that steps are being taken to correct them, but I don't expect that's going to happen.
The project is extremely challenging to manage, I recognize that. All I can do is offer my personal perspective. What you do with it is your choice. The collective voice of the community will indicate whether you have chosen well, if you are able to hear it.
It's not clear to me that I3 values or respects the voice of the community, based on the lack of discussion on important topics prior to asserting a position. That's not always the case tho. I recall a tremendous amount of discussion and debate concerning the merger back in Nov. before it was final. You and BM were quite active in the discussions.
Regarding the current 2.0 roll out I see it as a mixed bag. It doesn't seem as well thought out as I thought it would be. Being thought out is not the same thing as having every last detail settled and decided, but it does mean that the majority of the uncertainties are at least identified. I would like to see a more systematic approach to what is settled and what remains to be settled, in an organized, prioritized format. You know, like engineers like to do. Well, most engineers anyway.
It's an over-constrained problem requiring the balancing of many, many factors.
When you do such tradeoffs no single "design parameter" can be maximized.
Those who don't live this 24x7 often point out where individual parameters are not maximized.
We look at where we are as pretty near optimum given everything that had to be balanced.
And its going to be a great summer!
Announcement 2 is coming up tomorrow. 
Really ?? I would wait for any announcement, until this forum drama created by this Newmine clown dies down.
I'm impressed how many forum member fall for Newmine crap again and again, for some reason all of the sudden all his crap is finding unexpected support, luckily only few forum members tend to agree with his nonsense . For starter he never answer to any replay to his fuding he just put up some FUD and he's laughing his ass off watching the forum unfold. It is amazing with one line comment he managed to drop atomic bombs all over and completely turn upside down the community Ohh wait if you respond to his stupidities then his favorite answer to that is : you are just fanboy blinded by bytemaster manipulations that's it. Attacking is the best defense and he know that very well.
He even dare to say that he's not fuding .... the reality is that besides a few good funny posts in the past he's basically just making fun of this forum that's all !! What amaze me the most he got the balls to pretend he got skin in the game ..what a joke !! So my point this is no time for good news, it will be wasted in this negative vibe that is happening right now. In fact I don't think this community deserves any good news right now !!!!