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July 09, 2014, 10:40:10 AM |
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First off, on a scale of 1-10, my knowledge of all things -or anything- crypto is *maybe* a 5. I'm a relative newbie who started GPU mining various scrypt alts (LTC,WDC, etc) in may 2013.
My latest 'accomplishment' is getting the latest version of bitcoin-qt/core synced and working which for me wasn't exactly easy. Finally, after downloading the torrent bootstrap, adding several fallback nodes and more restarts I succeeded.
Yes I understand money (a lot) is involved, so security/bugs first, worry about functionality for the mainstream nitwits (me) later. Fair enough.
Whats that you say? "The number of nodes are decreasing?" Gee can't imagine why..
OK then, /sarcasm /rant /beating dead horse.
*Tries to find balance between pretense and pointless rants. Succeeds in preaching to the choir and feeding trolls.- check.
Are there some coins that have:
--Full client wallets with incentivised node hosting/better P2P performance?
The last time I played with P2P people were talking about Gnutella/Limewire. I used BitTorrent client to get the bootstrap for bitcoin core. A few quick adjustments to the client defaults and boom, big file efficiently downloaded/seeded. It worked very well. Maybe that's why it was linked on bitcoin.org? I know it's apples to oranges but I was wishing my bitcoin wallet worked half as well. I know there are good 3rd party wallets and I don't deny their right to exist, features or that they serve a need. Still a 3rd party though. :/
--Incentivised testnet.
I dono seems like a useful idea. Not hoping to outrun ASICS.
--POW/POS?
Generally I think people are more accepting of POW, although POS definitely has important utility and I'm not intending to understate that. I can somewhat understand the rationale behind POW, POS and POW/POS coins.
Maybe a better question would be ; How much incentive is there to go around?
Any suggestions? Maybe my priorities are misplaced/unfounded? Either or both just trying to get some leads here.
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