Sunny King is the King !   .

I'm in Texas where power is pretty cheap, but I can't bring myself to run my ASIC miner because it seems so wasteful. 

So, I went to Peercoin and I am a fully distributed, decentralized minter now. 

A full node can be run on less than 3 watts.

There is a program where you can get 10 PPC for setting up a node on a Raspberry Pi.

It is linked here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=715971.new#new

Right now it is just for R-Pi.  But the program might be expanded to other hardware someday.

And, just one tip per person.

Thanks for your interest

haha... sorry to disappoint, there is not too much money nor a dire need of full nodes.


It's just a friendly promotion that gets technical people involved and demonstrates in a nice manner how Peercoin Network is secure with full nodes on less than 3 watts per node. 


Three watts per full node for security is pretty low cost; how much does your network have to pay?

Buy NXT if you want marketing, pretty logos, pretty girls and lots of enthusiastic people who are really quite clueless as to the technical realities of cryptos.

Buy Peercoin if you want fundamentally good engineering, design and development.

I agree with Chronos.

First, Peercoin has no more rewards to early adopters than any other crypto - with the exception that Peercoin is designed for long term success, enduring and succeeding in time after other cryptos have failed.  Only in this respect, it is more favorable to early adopters.

Second, it is true that Bitcoin is unlikely to change much from here on forward. But unlike Chronos I don't think this is because "Too many players would have to agree..." rather, I believe Bitcoin will not change because of a couple of less big reasons and one very big reason:
     1) Bitcoin has a market cap now of 8 Billion dollars. What paid or unpaid developer wants to risk screwing that up?  If the price rises or falls dramatically the fear and paralysis of core developers will become even greater. 
     2) Bitcoin core developers are under a constant noisey harangue by countless clueless fan boys and others who have little idea of what they are all shouting about. Mike Hearn, a core developer says for this reason and the above reason the core developers have quit developing;
     3) This is the big reason that pretty much dominates all other factors: The power and control in Bitcoin is in the few hands not of core developers nor Bitcoin holders but of the most important actors in Bitcoin - those who verify transactions - the shrinking number of miners and even smaller number of mining pool managers. These are the very small number of people who have total veto power on any change to Bitcoin and they have tens of millions of dollars invested so they would never allow a change or improvement such as Proof-of-Stake which would be better for Bitcoin holders but would devastate the power and wealth of the small handful of centralized miners and their mining pools.

Yes, there is really a lot of development going on in Peercoin.  In addition to the fixed minting you mentioned there is Peershares, Peerunity, Peerbox, Nubits, cold-locked minting and sidechain research - not to mention some secret projects.

Peercoin is the most innovative of the established cryptos.

Thanks for putting in the extra Sunny King interviews.

At some technical points he can say so much with so few words. 

He expresses the simple fundamental essence of the complex dynamics that exist deep in the heart of cryptos better than anyone else I have read.

It is the mark of world class genius.

Thanks for putting in the extra Sunny King interviews.

At some technical points he can say so much with so few words. 

He expresses the simple fundamental essence of the complex dynamics that exist deep in the heart of cryptos better than anyone else I have read.

It is the mark of world class genius.

Very Informative Video!

This does not seem like a great point or even a good point to me.  No matter what your ownership percentage it will not increase nor decrease only because of Proof-of-Stake design.

Proof-of-Stake is inherently decentralizing by design. In contrast Proof-of-Work design is inherently centralizing.

Sunny King just gave an excellent interview: http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-real-sunny

Excellent interview!

Sunny King is a genius.

Now, I want to buy Peercoin.

Excellent Newsletter! 

Full of information. Really a lot!

I agree: this thread is hilarious!