That was the idea on my part when I registered it to transfer the domain to his name, but I probably should have done that prior to it coming on here. Also, I do think its worthwhile to consider the democratic approach to anything we need to control as a community (such as domain names, etc.), just in case the sole person who owns it turns into a tyrannical dictator. But seriously, we need a structure and direction going forward. The coin is an ideal but we're still people.

I completely agree with what you're saying. Unfortunately you can't get a domain name from ICANN without ownership, which makes this stuff a little more complicated. What I propose is that we establish a foundation that can operate the day Netcoin launches so that ownership of the domain may be transferred to that foundation. The foundation's decisions can then be made democratically. I guess it's a different kind of 51% attack if someone owns the domains and refuses to cooperate with people unless some other motive is met (like domain squatting). Probably an overstatement driven by paranoia.

My view is that Netcoin is certainly not a business, but it does require legitimacy and that requires quality control, and that in turn requires people to organise. These are just my personal opinions, by the way, I don't mean to cause any animosity for anyone! I just put some information up in a way that I think works before someone else takes the domain and refuses to coordinate. You know, so that we don't end up with clownpenis.fart for Netcoin's domain because I think the domain will matter then.

I agree with the points you make. The biggest challenge with a community-driven project like this is that people tend to drive a bunch of efforts in a bunch of different directions. That's both the beauty and curse of open projects. Although TacoTime and his development team will have full control over the quality of the code until it is open sourced for reasons of security as discussed in here, our job a a community around this idea is to create an ecosystem to support it. I think this is where it becomes challenging.

The point on the semantics of Netcoin you make is really important. I think the community has decided on Netcoin as a name, something about it resonates with people. I registered netcoin.io primarily out of urgency a little while ago after a conversation with TT about it as we thought it could be a good potential domain name for Netcoin. Unfortunately, netcoin.com is domain squatted and trying to buy it for thousands of dollars isn't really a good idea in my opinion. I think the .io domains have a nice ring to them. I do, however, want to declare that I registered netcoin.io with the intention of being open to anyone and everyone about it and working with anyone who approaches me to make it into something that suits people. I'll even point it elsewhere if required. I want the community to have a written record of that, in the interest of full disclosure and transparency.

The reason I put up a discussion space is because I wanted to experiment with a lighter type of forum to see if it works as a means to work on smaller project-based work for Netcoin, such as coming up with a few mock-ups to present to the community (probably in this thread) to vote on so we have a base for further design. I don't mind doing it over at platinumdigitalreserve.com/forum, but I find the theme really hard to work with over there. I've messaged the admin to try and work on a better theme but haven't heard anything yet. I want to keep pushing forward so I put one up for smaller-project based work as mentioned, as I'm active and intend to stay active on the community project side of things.

The next point I wanted to put forward is it would be really great if we could find out who registered netcointalk.org (05/05/13) and netcointalk.com (01/05/13). I presume both owners are members of this community, so I thought I'd ask to see if someone pops up because those would be great domains for a discussion forum.

Sorry for the long post! I think we have to put up for discussion whether we decide Networkcoin = Netcoin as I think we need to glue and stick with something. Obviously I'm biased towards Netcoin for the reasons listed above and the difference of semantics where net isn't network (although technically it is, but we don't say Internetwork). Anyway, having said that, said that, I am active and ready to develop/host anything people want to see. Just ask! And if something looks or sounds stupid, tell me that too!

Bitcointalk has SMF, like the Netcoin forum at http://networkcoin.com/forum. I figured a lighter forum might work better for Netcoin discussion given that it represents a currency as opposed to all of cryptocurrency, but maybe that's an aesthetic bias. Anyway, I'll keep the other one up and see what comes of it.

I've been looking for an excuse to make a custom theme for the Netcoin forum. How does everyone feel about Vanilla Forums? It's simpler, but it feels a lot cleaner to me. If anyone is interested in experimenting, I put up http://netcoin.io/forum. Feel free to throw your ideas in there and I'll organise categories. We've got some basic information at http://netcoin.io, as we will probably end up using this domain as the main site for Netcoin and another for a dedicated forum. Happy to work with people on suggestions and improvements to build a structure that works for everyone. Let me know!

Edit: Just on a sidenote, probably not wise to end up with two different forums later on, so I put this up to see how people feel about Vanilla Forums for Netcoin. We'll end up redirecting http://netcoin.io/forum to whatever is preferred.

I expressed my interest too. I think Dalkore is a little busy currently (hopefully setting all this up?). It'll be good to see if it matures into something.

No offense intended to anyone here, but this isn't a pissing contest. We're an ecosystem. If LTC fails at this point, it shows an adopted crypto-currency is vulnerable. Infighting is the last thing we need. Progress for any crypto-currency is progress for the whole of crypto. But hey, if you need to patch your insecurities by declaration of sole allegiance to the crypto you assign your identity to, well, you go on ahead and do that, partner!

Thanks for this information! Cleared things up quite a bit.

I think a lot of what we're seeing with BTC and altcoins alike runs on speculation, not all of it, but a lot of it. Adding substance to the currency through goods/services is what will make it stay for good. A currency is to be used after all! That's just my humble opinion.

Do we really think BTC will reach $1,000?

Hello.

Just passing through!