I guess a lot of people are mining mostly as a hobby or to try and pull in a little supplemental income, but for building out a large scale mining operation, you can't just buy a GPU here and there.  We're looking to invest into a dedicated data center for mining, not the same size as Genesis, but closer to that than a few open air cases in various rooms around the house.

Does anyone have experience creating a business relationship with techdata, CDW, ingram micro, or a similar sized wholesaler?  If you already have such a relationship with them, are you able to purchase GPUs from them?

For someone like Genesis, do you think they just buy from AMD or Nvidia direct?

Just wondering how people are adding to their mining operations.  The GPU shortage has lasted a while.  Other than the obvious choices, are there any innovated options that people are willing to share?

I'd like to start a poll, but I don't want to be exclusive of certain features.  If we can collect enough though, I'll redo this as a poll.


So, what are the necessary/mandatory features that any new coin being created should contain?  For example, if a new coin was being created tomorrow, what features should it contain?

to get us started:
very fast transaction verification
true anonymity - maybe questionable, but it's on my list
very liquid
less volatility than we see today
online, offline wallet

Mining:
no asic
GPU better than CPU, but CPU not worthless

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