I mean, it does make sense to differentiate in this fashion:

1st gen: blockchain currencies
2nd gen: blockchain w/ applications
3rd gen: ability to communicate/interact between blockchains
4th gen: from my understanding, attempts to be an ecosystem of various chains/sidechains.

that said, what others have pointed out here is totally valid. i agree it is getting ridiculous that all these projects are labeling themselves as such, especially w/ 4th gen. everyone is so desperate to find the next ethereum you have people going nuts with these projects like the one posted here or Polkadot which are years away from materializing in any way in a landscape that changes daily. as for your question if there are others: yes, there are many so called 4th gen blockchain projects... as mentioned Polkadot, cosmos,seele are a few considered as such

how could one not want to own a part of something with the name "Murica coin? lol

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Unfortunately, the discussion on bitcointalk is pretty terrible, so high post counts are meaningless in my opinion. Pretty much the only need to comment on something is when you are forced to in order to participate in an airdrop or bounty. That's just the reality of it. Every "discussion" thread here rarely has insightful or meaningful comments. As such, it does not surprise me that many accounts will be newbies. There is very little incentive to post here. All that said, undoubtedly some of those who registered are absolutely trying to cheat the system with multiple accounts. But it sounds as if there will be vetting to ensure no one games the system which sounds good to me... though how exactly that will be achieved remains to be seen.

per discord merit is no longer a metric

Have joined, will follow

someone put good instructions in the thread. you need to follow those, and you need two wallet addresses

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This was much cooler than I was expecting.

Right now I can only get my bot to respond to exact phrases. If there is even a minor omittance of a word or letter it will not respond.  Are there plans for the bots to be able to learn how to recognize like-questions? If so, this could be immensely useful.

That's not how supply and demand works, being mineable does not instill value into a coin.

As for the wallet, they have a working desktop wallet. The Nano desktop wallet is in beta, and no one recommends sending large numbers of coins to it yet. I don't know of anyone that lost large amounts of nano using the beta wallet, but in order to download it you have to apply so you are forced to know it is a beta product. I haven't even gotten an invite link to download it yet myself. So, anyone who lost money by sending all their Nano knowingly to a beta project is, simply put, not very bright.

I wouldn't say that people have lost hope in airdrops.  I think, moreso, most people participating in airdrops are looking for a quick buck. In a project like this, they won't be able to immediately dump their tokens to turn a profit. It's a shame because in my opinion it's projects such as this one that have the most potential. At least it means the token is attracting the right kind of members; those looking to grow and cultivate a community from early in the process.

Why are we taking this random youtuber for gospel? From his other videos, he doesn't even understand crypto very well. He literally states $600 Ripple in another video, he is just a huge (uninformed) shill. Really, really doubt Ripple on CB. It doesn't make much sense. While I don't believe it will be Nano either, it makes way more sense with their recent focus on becoming a payment platform.

Like the choice of airdrop to distribute for adoption. A bit curious as to how it works. Is it 4000 unique users each round of airdrops? Or once per round?

Project itself is very ambitious. Good luck.

Slightly off-topic, but just curious how does one earn merit in this thread?

edit: i have 1 merit! thanks for whoever did that

I've had increasing interest in airdropped coins as of late, and not because it means "free stuff."

Rather, it proves two things:

1) The foresight to see that a lot of coins doing ICO's are going to be wiped out in the next couple of years when the space starts to see regulation.

2) An obvious commitment by the devs toward a project they believe in. The risk for a scam or bailing on a project for a quick buck is significantly lessened.

Finally, I do believe it fosters a better developed community.

I don't believe I am above newbie status or however it works and would likely require being merited, but would love the chance to participate in this project if given the chance. Either way, good luck on this one.

I was interested in this project until today and the vast army of paid shills came in to generate false interest.

Multitude of new users with usernames of firstname_lastname_X who signed up today with all of their posts coming in this thread.

If this has nothing to do with your ICO you should put a stop to it fast.

I wanted to comment on this exchange as it's been a while since anyone has. I have used this exchange now to trade ECA/BTC a few times. I even recently made a reasonably sized BTC withdrawal which is where it seems most customers were having trouble. While my BTC withdrawal was not instant, it did arrive within 24 hours. They did mention in their withdrawal email to be patient, and there are several mentions on their site of only having a small amount of coins on hand as most is locked away in cold storage - which we can all agree is a prudent measure. All in all, I believe this is completely reasonable time-frame for a small and relatively new exchange.

So, for any worrying about the safety of this exchange... it appears (at least at the time of this writing 2/21/18) that they have fixed many of the difficulties they had been facing earlier in this thread. Based on the absence of angry comments since January, I would imagine that is true for other users besides myself as well.

With all the recent mayhem surrounding quite a few exchanges it is good to see a newcomer making strides. I wish coinhouse.eu success growing their exchange and will continue to use them in the future. Would love to see some additional coins added. Coinhouse.eu, if you read this please consider adding some of the other low marketcap (but higher quality) coins that got stranded without a home with the downfall of CoinsMarkets such as COLX or ALQO. These are the coins that will grow your exchange. Thank you.

I bought Twist and withdrew it without problem from stocks.exchange. In the past I did have a withdrawal error with them with another cryptocurrency and it took them a while to correct the error (a couple weeks) but they did end up fixing it for me. Overall stocks.exchange is a reasonable exchange.

true, unless the demand outstrips it. which it may, if the rebound of bitcoin times up just right...

It would be very low cost / minimally resource intensive for DNotes to maintain a Discord channel as most of the heavy lifting would be done by the community itself. Obviously one employee at minimum would need to update announcements, be around to answer occasional questions, tech support.. but that's no different than maintaining a presence on bitcointalk.

Yes, IRC/Teamspeak is a pretty accurate depiction. The biggest advantage is it allows the community to interact with each other very easily as well as provide an easily accessible centralized location for the most up-to-date information. Most discord channels are arranged as some variation of the following:

# announcements (official announcements and links)
# rules
# faqs
# general chat
# support (for wallet issues, etc)
# business / development
# trading (for people to talk about price and not clog up other channels with more in depth discussion)
# alternative languages
# anything. I've seen a number of creative uses with these channels.

A strong community is key to growth and while the DNotes bitcointalk presence is a good one, a discord channel is really key to organically growing a community. I've noticed that telegram is starting to take a back seat to Discord as people realize it's just a much better platform.

I think the uses will be readily apparent if you look at some successful discords, a couple great examples of active and well run discords are (among many others):

Nano
https://discordapp.com/invite/JphbBas

Electra - which has really taken a community coin to the next level with creative uses of Discord
https://discordapp.com/invite/B8F7Jdv

I don't think it's necessarily a priority now, but as DNotes 2.0 get's closer to launch next month and interest starts picking up I wouldn't be overlooking a very cheap, cost effective way of attaining organic community growth. Electra in particular has been good at taking advantage of the community by quickly organizing the members to go and vote to get listed on exchanges (they almost always win community vote now).