Objected Oriented Programming is simply not cutting it anymore, specially when it comes to concurrency and parallelism; trying to add concurrency and parallelism to this languages adds lots of complexity and more often than not leads to over engineering and poor performance.

Functional programming in the other hand is already well suited for these challenges, Immutable state, Closures, and High order functions, concepts that lend themselves very well for writing highly concurrent and distributed applications.

But don't take my word for it, you can find enough proof by looking at the technological feeds of startups like WhatsApp and Discord:

    1) WhatsApp was able to support 900 million users with only 50 engineers in their team by using Erlang.
    2) Discord in similar fashion handles over a million requests per minute using Elixir.

Hello!  I wanted to post some of the planning that my team has been doing regarding a new service for stock photography, video, music, fonts, and icons.  We are a small group of experienced web developers that have shipped many successful products and public facing sites.  It feels like there is still lots of work to be done, but I wanted to get some ideas out there to see if there was any feedback.  I love the idea of an ICO.  In the past, raising money and funding projects and businesses has always been a challenge.  Not to say that it will be "easy" with an ICO, but it does provide and interesting new mechanism for raising capital and getting customers directly involved with the business.

The final product offering will look like a typical stock photo site, such as iStockphoto or Shutterstock, but will be built on top of blockchain technology.  During the ICO, we will be selling Fotocoins in exchange for Ethereum.  Fotocoins will be the currency for licensing stock photos and other digital assets.  When a photographer or content creator has an asset that they want to add to the stock photo site, purchasing or licensing of the digital asset will be paid for in Fotocoins.

We have lots of outstanding tasks/research to do.  Any advise would be appreciated.
Other than during the ICO, we are not sure how the ongoing purchase of Fotocoins will take place.  Is there a process to be listed on an exchange, or is it that you just need to gain enough momentum to be listed?

Thanks for reading.

-Will

Radix - scalable (pruning included), stable, it has apps, a chat and mailing system, a debit card running on its own network and a dev and team who didnt need an ICO to raise funds yet - because they truly believe in the idea behind it.

---nothing for a long time. A very long, long time ---

EOS
NEM
IOTA

IOTA was very suspect-able for me from the very beginning, Majority of coins in hands of few goons, and most people are Arabian, I will not invest a single penny in this pyramid.

Man, didn't know that Waves and Maid had ICOs - must have been totally under advertised.
Probably they hid it from me on purpose.
Honestly I've never heard of most coins on Poloniex - totally under advertised stuff. Mean.

Try harder and please finally show us your whitepaper "how to advertise correctly".

You keep spamming that image.

The best image of Byteball is this, an actual DAG.


Byteball is the first DAG-coin, the first! The first IoT coin, and the first on exchanges and actual use in livenet.

I wonder why we  can't have Lightning Network and confidential transactions in bitcoin. It is perfectly possible to implement.
Litecoin is growing like crazy - MAST alone will make LTC script language 2 generations ahead of BTC.

In the interim BTC miners are just scared to upgrade Bitcoin even so slightly, but maybe it is for the better.
After all it is nice to have LTC as testing ground before changes/upgrades can be taken over by BTC.