[Inflationary]

Hi all,

I'm looking for an altcoin to promote as part of an unrelated project.  Maybe, despite the sea of alternatives to bitcoin, it doesn't exist yet, but maybe it does.  You'd know the waters better than I.

Here's what I'm hoping to find:

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Inflationary - I'm looking for a potentially useful currency.  Bitcoin isn't one; it's tchotchkes to sell to gold bugs.  The coin I have in mind has its difficulty curve deliberately shallowed to match Moore's Law, or perhaps a bit more.  This is so over time, all else being equal, a constant amount of coins will be entering circulation, providing a low but steady inflation rate.  10% would be perfect.  This would have the effect of encouraging users to reinvest their liquid wealth as soon as possible, as it's doing them no good sitting in the wallet, while the crypto prevents hyperinflation scenarios that make cash entirely undesirable.

Not premined/high initial difficulty - although the difficulty will be slow to ramp up, it should start high.  This is to remove even the appearance that anyone jumping in early will "strike it rich" when it takes off later - e.g. every pump and dump scheme ever, and more than half of present altcoins.  We're making a currency here, not a cash grab.

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ASIC unfriendly - Insisting on a not-premined solution doesn't do a damned thing if the wealth generation is dominated by a small cabal of people who can afford specialized hardware.  GPUs okay though.

Some kind of blockchain solution - BTC blockchain is getting a little bit ridiculous in size, and it's still a niche thing.  Something that would let average users participate in the transaction process without having to store the whole damn thing would be nice.

I'm sure I had one or two more desirable traits I can't remember now, but tbh the first has probably alienated 95% of you and narrow the existing solution down to "none" as it is, so I'll turn it over to ask for suggestions.  Anything come to mind?

So, I'm liking the look of bitcoins.  Secure, anonymous, decentralized.  I think they'd work well as a currency for use in tor or i2p, "behind the veil" as it were.

But bitcoin isn't the only player out there.  There's at least a half dozen other alternative currencies vying for adoption.  Wikipedia just has crap, it's made of marketing and herp for a topic this narrow.

So tell me about them, if you'd be so kind.  What makes them good?  What makes bitcoin better?  Which are the players and which are the underdogs?

Due to a sudden but fortuitously timed business trip, I'll be in a position to go to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in DC on the 30th.  I'm going to bring a rally sign, naturally.  One side will have a reasonably sane message, the other will be baseless fearmongering.  Mongering may not be extreme enough - for this I'd fear for free.

Here's where you come in.  I've got slogans I can make posters of, sure, but I'm not above a crass bribe.

For a sufficiently large bitcoin donation, I'll write your slogan(s) in place of mine and display them at the rally.  This isn't a straight auction, since I want to balance BTC price with the catchiness of the slogan; the better your slogan is the cheaper I'll wave it for.  I'll make a final decision as close to 24 hours beforehand as I can make it, since I don't know what my schedule will be like.

The only requirement I have for your ideas is that they must fit with the rally themes; no bitcoin ads or DISREGARD THIS, but honest reasonability or unreasonable dishonesty.  Even though you can't be there, which I'm sure you have a very good reason for, I'm willing to spread the word about... y'know... the wombats.  Or zombies.  Wombat zombies.  Zombats.

As proof I've done this, I'll post a picture of your poster with something Washingtony in the background.  Like that obelisk, or Lincoln's feet, or maybe the rest of the rally.

Should I for whatever reason be unable to make it to the rally and post pictures afterwards, I'll of course refund your money.

Current slogans:
Reasonable: "Things are getting better" (0 BTC)
Fearful: "Your husband is fucking the babysitter" (0 BTC)

You can't have a healthy economy if everyone stuffs their money into a mattress.  In an effort to encourage diversification of bitcoin services, I'd like to ask you all what you want.  What would convince you to part with your hard-earned BTC?

If you have something specific in mind, post it here instead.  This poll is for generalities, for what you personally think BTC might be "good for."  Everyone can vote twice, so you can split your vote if you can't make up your mind.

[I want to Buy]

How do we not have a thread for miscellaneous trading?
Well, we do now.  

If you have something specific you'd like to buy or sell with BTC, post it here.  You don't need to make hard BTC offers, but just say what you want to buy or sell and negotiate price when someone contacts you.  Also, please limit yourself to one posting - there's an edit function for a reason - and limit discussion so that other users can browse postings efficiently.  Trading via private messaging would be preferable, but DO report scammers for the benefit of the rest of us.  Actually, report non-scammers too, for possible induction in the honest traders thread.

My posting:

I'm trying to automate most of my trading via my website but I'll use this space to test the waters of stuff I haven't coded yet.

I want to Buy

KoL Meat - check website
EVE ISK

I want to Sell

KoL Meat - check website
EVE ISK
TF2 items (scrap metal, some weapons)

Location
Internet

[EDIT] Lots of stuff being added here continuously, read all my bigger posts in the thread for what's what or just check my site.

KoL, short for The Kingdom of Loathing, is a free web-based game notable for its wide appeal.  

If you're a casual gamer, or just someone who enjoys a good dick joke, you'll find them aplenty.  Among the variety of things you'll encounter are Senile Lihcs, Giant Sandworms (and befriend their young), and The Trippy Floating Head of Grand Moff Tarkin.  Or if you're VERY lucky, Count Bakula!

If you're a hardcore gamer, you'll find that the pop references and sarcasm are built on a system of very solid and intricate mechanics.  Since you only get a limited number of adventures per day, it's important, profitable, and often difficult to maximize them to accomplish whatever it is you want to do. For example, farming occupies many people's time.  Others like collecting trophies, or basement diving, or just beating the game as fast as possible, possibly with interesting handicaps for powerful and braggable rewards.

And the crafting.  Holy crap, the crafting.

Oh, and it's been actively updated (by "active" I mean active) for over five years.  And it's completely free to play - all financial support comes from $10 donations in return for powerful (but optional) items.  Which you can also buy with meat, the official currency.

Which is where I come in.

I recently coded up a bitcoin - meat exchange site:

http://derpular.dyndns.org/BTCKOL/

If kol sounds like something that would be worth your time, two bitcoins will buy you enough meat to get you comfortably settled in.  Since I have much more meat than bitcoins right now, buying meat gets you a 15% bonus.  That'll theoretically smooth out as people trade, so if you're gonna buy meat, do it soon.  If you already play kol and you want to sell meat, that's cool too, but you might wanna wait until the conversion rate becomes more favorable.

Since the site is very new (just finished coding it last night), there's definitely going to be some bugs, so please limit transfers to amounts you can afford to temporarily lose - a  bitcoin or two here, 100k meat there.  I'm recording all transactions multiple ways and will try my damndest to make sure everything goes smoothly, but shit happens, y'know?

I'd also be very appreciative of any opinions of my server's user experience.  I've tried to make it as straightforward as possible to use, but there's definitely more streamlining I need to do.  You'll notice the link I posted is a deep link, unreachable from the main page; I'm currently talking to the EVE gms to see if I can charge isk (via bitcoins) for the tools I have there, and I thought it would be prudent not to look like an isk laundering operation waiting to happen.

Enjoy!