One week ago (Sunday, April 12th) our team has published community discussion, to get feedback and hear opinions of Ryo community members about increasing weekly dev fund reward to meet expenses that the team has with Ryo development. As was described in this write-up :

"..we all know the price of crypto, and especially alts, has been going down. Zcash is close to its all-time-low. Monero is lower than it has been before Alphabay pump in 2016. Current dev fund income makes it hard to cover even server costs - let alone hire someone to help with development or marketing. Therefore Ryo team proposed increasing the dev fund to 51282 RYO (~$382 at current rates) per week, while keeping the emission the same (This will decrease the miners' block reward to around 54.95 Ryo)."

We would like to thank everyone in Ryo community who took their time, and shared their opinions, made some good additional offers (shoutout to Russian community) and gave us lots of feedback and understanding that the ultimate goal for Ryo is - privacy for everyone. Unsurprisingly we also got feedback from communities that don't like us too much. Let's sum up the feedback:

• /u/soapyfresh [agrees]
• /u/nostradamus411 [agrees]
• /u/S-WW (SdoubleW) has came back from a long period of inactivity to [agree] (more on the rest of his post later)
• u/Tohelo101 [agrees]
• u/nassel22 [agrees]
• u/teamara4 [disagrees]

Given generally nearly unanimous support and understanding the purpose of the increase from the community - the changes will be implemented next week.

Sumokoin and Monero communities

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Let's start off with some wisdom from Sumokoin's "official shared account"

https://preview.redd.it/syym536gcst41.png?width=682&format=png&auto=webp&s=2543200371138188b160a5878196f1224016f5d0

Full topic including Sumokoin and Monero comments is available here

For those uninitiated to how Monero operates, it might be surprising that 4 of their community members have logged in to comment on a proposal in a coin that they have been declaring as dead for over a year - and to tell us how we are obsessed with them. Thought reform is a basic characteristic of an MLM/cult. At this point they don't see a contradiction in that because they think whatever they are told to think.

Of course just like in a MLM/cult, you need to sell stuff or recruit. So they couldn't resist doing that:

/u/OsrsNeedsF2P

Tradeogre is pretty good

If you are the kind of person that buys coins because a magical friend on the Internet told you to do it, /u/CryptoContra has a list ready for you:

Masari, Haven, Sumo, ect.

He will get a beating - he forgot Wownero (Monero for-profit testnet) and Tari (the coin Fluffypony buggered off to make)

At this point you might hear a sharp record scratch if you have been around for a bit.... Didn't Howard Chu DMCA Sumokoin over a typo? Wasn't this what they had to say just 2 years ago:

Your SUMO move gave you a lot of reputation points :)

I still think your skills are better used at the Monero project, but at least you killed a scam coin ;)

[source]

Why are they selling what they were declaring as a scamcoin 2 years ago? Well the short and simple answer is that Sumokoin is a joke now and not a threat to them, hence the 180 degree turn. And again, given that thought reform doublethink is a required characteristic of being in Monero, nobody dares to question the new direction.