No one was fired, he became uncontactable, can ask him yourself if you get hold of him, we still pay server costs and have a new developer for GINA, even though GINA is not a revenue producing service, we keep it active as a community service.

Our token doesn't need to have value Steem does, because token holders earns a proportionate share of Steem revenue, however we pay server and infra expenses in USD so low steem price means not much to distribute after expenses.