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You can slap any name directly on actual bitcoins.
Look at Tonalcoin for example, or tonal bitcoin.
Just market the same blockchain under a new name, and also get to tout its total compatibility with actual bitcoins while you're at it.
-MarkM-
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Yeah the problem with that is these devs aren't reasonable if they want our value we need to work together. If we build from scratch we will have most likely the same vested interest in the project. We can trust each other more, we can decide on a vision before releasing the coin. I feel like the most value I add comes from creative marketing and without the kind of trust that comes from knowing someone personally or being on the same page from the start, I feel like I am limited. I don't want to put out a half ass product. I know a a little bit about marketing and I can't just shove a crypto currency in my users face and be like here buy into this shit. It won't work. I've tried to talk to a couple devs, and a couple teams just nothing came of it. I kind of like the NobleCoin team and Vert team just didn't fruition. Most devs I run into think there coin/idea will sell itself, good luck. Marketing isn't magic it's planned execution. I am not guaranteeing anything obviously but I know the value I have and I am not looking to waste it on something I don't think is worth it.
Well if bitcoins aren't worth it you might as well quit. Especially with them being still crazy low in price right now which makes now a great time to buy in and start marketing them. You'll almost certainly get at least a doubling of value free, even if your own marketing efforts are worthless. But if you are a great marketer surely you can far more than double their value? -MarkM- |
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I'm trying to put together a team to create a real project, and some dick keeps arguing that I should just release my idea and let the community do it.
I don't understand that logic, because there a ton of assholes out there waiting to make pump and dumps.
Anyone interested in being a part of a REAL team with a REAL idea, please message me with what skills you bring to the table.
Canadian and US residents preferred, as I would like to be able to have a face to face interactions at some point, but all are welcome to contact.
Plenty of dicks have ideas. If all you are bringing to the table are ideas maybe you should get a day job and save up some capital so you can bring something actually useful (capital) to the table... -MarkM- BS Man, really? Capital is all it takes huh? Yeah, capital, that's what it took for most of these coins like Dogecoin, yea that took a lot of capital..... You really think all it takes is capital? Yeah Money talks but not nearly as much as you think. It is not ALL it takes, but it beats dickhead ideas every time. IF you ONLY have so called "ideas", like pretty much all dicks do, then go get something else to bring to the table, as we are all drowning in dicks' ideas already. The dick I was responding to has only ideas it seems, no mention of salaries to pay developers, nor of hundreds of thousands of responsive people on their mailing lists, dick all other than dickhead ideas... Heck even dickhead graphic-designers at least have huge portfolios of pre-made "creative" (ads, banners, and so on and so on and so on), not just "ideas"... And marketers have vast mailing-lists, so can easily fill whole new mailing lists of "waiting list customers" responding to their ads gettign on a mailing list to be informed as soon as the exciting new product is ready. The graphic designer types can follow the market type approach since if their graphics are good the capture pages they design to capure people onto their waiting lists / interested customer lists should work well - and if not maybe the graphics are not actually as compelling as they think. Same for an awesome names. If it is compelling using it on capture pages should result in vast mailing lists of people interested in details of how to buy the product. Heck if a name is truly awesome just the fact that you own the dot com, dot org, dot net, and dozens of national and subject-targeted domains can pretty much sew up the trademark so anyone wanting to use it is gonna have to come to you. So even just bringing a few dozen of the specific domains the name evokes is something good that anyone can easily bring to the table if their "idea" is really their idea not one domain investors already thought of and bought up waiting for someone to come up with a website worth putting on the domains. Ideas are garbage. Mailing lists full of people eager to buy an actual product the idea relates to are much better, as are actual white-papers and code, or even just competitive hourly or salary pay rates to hire programmers/developers... -MarkM- |
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I'm interested and have a few other people in a group interested as well. Our problems seem to be similar though, no dev!!! We also have a strong idea, lot of value brought to the table, and no alternative motives. I saw your post earlier and of course you don't want to share with the "community" right away. The guy that was talking to you was acting like this community would just adopt your idea and help you make it you own. What he failed to say was this is the same community that is filled with overwhelming greed and scams. I don't blame you, I would like to chat though. I am out in Seattle right now. We bring a lot of experience in a couple big markets though. Growth Hacking, Affiliate Marketing, Lean Marketing, Social Development, etc. We have a huge social following that we can market to and are just looking for the right Dev. I think at the very least we should look into brainstorming.
If you have all that then you don't need a dev, you just need to pick wisely which coin - hopefully one that has a lot of really good devs - to market. Basically a trade-off of the most and best devs versus the problem that the coin all the best devs are working on is probably worth quite a bit per coin already thus might be harder to multiply in value with your limited marketing resources. So step down from the coin with the most and best devs and longest most successful history of fixing problems, step by step, until you find one that your limited abilities can actually hope to seriously improve the value of. That is to say, find the best devteam you can subject to the limitation of your ability to multiply the value of the coin(s) those devs are developing/maintaining/improving. The good devs are already hard at work, it is maybe you marketers who are goofing off, running around trying to distract devs or lure crappy devs into stupid hairbrained ideas instead of settling down to the real work of actually marketing what real devs have already developed and are continuing to develop/maintain/improve. -MarkM- |
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I'm trying to put together a team to create a real project, and some dick keeps arguing that I should just release my idea and let the community do it.
I don't understand that logic, because there a ton of assholes out there waiting to make pump and dumps.
Anyone interested in being a part of a REAL team with a REAL idea, please message me with what skills you bring to the table.
Canadian and US residents preferred, as I would like to be able to have a face to face interactions at some point, but all are welcome to contact.
Plenty of dicks have ideas. If all you are bringing to the table are ideas maybe you should get a day job and save up some capital so you can bring something actually useful (capital) to the table... -MarkM- |
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There is no such thing as hash-rate.
So people measure how long X number of blocks took, which is a roll of dice, and pretend as if the dice rolled exactly statistically average.
So the first block of a new difficulty is a crap-shoot, the last block at a given difficulty is the largest statistical sample but still might not really be a good sized sample if the difficulty changes often...
So the faster difficulty changes the more of a wild assed guess the wild assed guesses at how much hashing is out there tend to be...
Then too, some coins change difficulty every block or few blocks, based on the previous wild assed guess and the total fluke of how fast the last block or few got mined, so tend probably to get into wild runs of flukes...
-MarkM-
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I have been merged mining this with p2pool for quite some time, but have yet to find any blocks, despite that fact that I continue to find GRouPcoin blocks.
GRouPcoin is higher difficulty than huntercoin so I should be finding some huntercoin blocks by now presumably, even if half of its blocks are going to scrypt miners?
-MarkM-
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The first post does not seem to identify the chain-ID of the blockchain, the number that makes each merged chain distinct.
That number is needed to check that it does not collide with any of the other merged mined chains...
-MarkM-
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I thought they told how to create a BDB config file that told it a higher number of locks.
-MarkM-
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You can help people with basically any coin that fluctuates up and down in value.
Just buy coins that are at a low point and sell at high points and donate the profits to whatever countries you choose to.
-MarkM-
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I saw in a thread title or some such place that the coin was going to be issued later in March so when it showed up on a list of market caps I was wondering how the heck it was purported to be worth anything at all being as how it was not yet even issued...
(Basically I wondered if the people have not gotten their coins yet how are they managing to sell them so soon... So it seemed pretty obvious it has to be some kind of a scam. People selling futures in them or selling coins they have yet to even be issued, suspicious...)
Looks like my first impression was probably correct...
-MarkM-
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The Galactic Milieu is approaching it kind of the other way around: starting with the currencies and abstract, web-based, text-mode and two-dimensional types of game initially to raise capital and provide the large scale backdrop so that the detailed graphical immersive environment types of representations can be financed, since artwork (and the massive bandwidth needed for video-quality interactive 3-D immersive environments) is one of the largest expenses and also because "power players" likely to be major forces in the overall economics seem more interested in low bandwidth interfaces such as currency exchanges and trading bots and the like more than in flooding their available bandwidth with "movies" or "movie-like representations" of the worlds whose currencies and commodities they are making their fortunes trading in... For example although eventually it is intended that every market, bank and stock-exchange built in any Freeciv city on any Freeciv-based world should be able to be actually functional as an Open Transactions server, so far just one such server, the Digitalis Open Transactions Server, serves as prototype, currently handling pretty much all the trading that eventually should end up spreading out over all the many such servers that come into existence as various civilisations build markets, banks and stock-exchanges in their cities. Similarly for individual character hand to hand type action we so far have only deployed the two dimensional Crossfire RPG system and the text-mode CoffeeMUD system for initial working out of the overall economics, encouraging players and developers to look to tools such as OpenSimulator to work up three-dimensional representations of their characters' activities if they desire - and have the bandwidth - to see such representations of their activities. Hopefully if there is enough demand - expressed in the form of money put into developing of such interfaces - for more graphics and such, it will come, the more money there is available for such things and the more money people perceive as being able to be made by adding such "superfluous" bells and whistles on top of the actual underlying mechanics and economics the faster and more thoroughly such aspects will come about... -MarkM- |
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Now that DeVCoin's own forum, http://coinzen.org/ is online, this thread is continuing over there as http://coinzen.org/index.php/topic,348.0.htmlThus this thread is now locked, please use the one on CoinZen instead from now on. -MarkM- EDIT: Coinzen appears to have gone offline, so I guess we are back to using this thread. -MarkM- |
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Can it be merged mined using any or all of the hashing types?
-MarkM-
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I agree with the OP - I think that once ASIC's hit most of the GPU miners will move to the newer scrypt algos with n-factor which will render the ASICs useless. GPU miners have such a big community and that's where the value gets injected into a coin.
The important point is the reason why a coin has value is that there are a lot of people mining / investing and trading and a large percentage of these people are the GPU miners. If all of them move to the ASIC resistant coins, the normal scrypt coins will only be propped up in value by the very small number of ASIC miners....Tell me how the small number of ASIC miners will have enough money to keep a coin alive...they can mine 10 billion scrypt coins in a day but if the majority of the community is investing and trading in ASIC resistant coins, then what use is the ASIC???
Look at DarkCoin, VertCoin, MicroCoin and even Ethereum are heading toward ASIC resistance because the goal is to distribute and decentralize....not keep the wealth in the big fat cats who are such a minority.
So called ASIC resistance simply makes it less likely that small ASIC-designers will get around to making ASICs for the "resistant" coin, thus in the long run such coins will probably end up more centralised rather than less centralised as only the largest/richest ASIC companies will have ASIC farms mining them... -MarkM- |
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Better to invest in something whose supporters are confident enough in and determined enough to secure that they are willing and able to deploy cutting edge special purpose technology to secure it?
I don't think they are that confident. They just happen to have a lot of money to invest and can afford to take the gamble to invest in ASIC just in case that would make them even more money. I was really thinking more of the bitcoin family of merged mined coins than any scrypt coins. Ever since DOGE showed how easily the scrypt field could be blown away overnight by a meme I have been dubious about scrypt, but maybe once scrypt ASICs are commonplace the masses of garbage scrypt crap will be blown away and either litecoin or DOGE will emerge as the clear winner or maybe even better will merge as part of the swcrypt family of merged mined coins... -MarkM- |
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Pure Scrypt ASICs are useless for anything other than scrypt so presumably people who have them will merged mine all the scrypt coins that they can and if there enough such ASICs out there all those merged coins should be able to attain a decent hashrate...
-MarkM-
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If all that keeps GPU-mined coins alive is the miners, it should not matter which algorithm they are using, they are still just a bunch of miners manufacturing coins that no one other than the miners themselves want...
So it kind of looks like any coin whose supporters are not willing to manufacture and deploy ASICs to secure it is a very poor investment.
Better to invest in something whose supporters are confident enough in and determined enough to secure that they are willing and able to deploy cutting edge special purpose technology to secure it?
-MarkM-
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Arguing that people who spew garbage ought rightfully to be paid for doing so makes no sense.
Best not to pay them so that less garbage gets spewed.
-MarkM-
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