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The elephant in the room needs some discussion though...
So we've branded around retro gaming, hey kick ass, I grew up on NES, I love this stuff! The tech in the coin is awesome, certainly on the forefront of what's out there. But, it's the logical path with the branding that's going to drive this coin's adoption/success.
Meaning, I'm all about this adventure, and of course primarily 8-bit-party's efforts have been awesome, there does seem to the the underpinnings of a great community behind this. But, the fact of the matter is playing the coin game as most other coins play it, is never going to make 8bit hit the highs it's capable of. Now other coins talk about their economy, and I've thought of or heard some absolutely great ideas...
Things like ebay'ish markets for gaming gear, brick and mortar vendors (something like a
www.the-1up.com would be friggin' sweeeet), getting listed with things like phone driven multiwallets (maybe
https://coinomi.com/?), multipools so miners will "touch" us again (great idea 8bit-party), we should pick up a sub-reddit, 8-bit-party's fork (yay!), and yea, I saw a need for a fountain in early stages of 8bit (and as something the coding I know lent itself to), and more.
Now obviously these things need to happen, and as alternative currencies go, we do need to grow an economy in as many directions with as many users as we can. And with those things we can certainly carve out our niche and see great growth and in turn profits. But, if we're really thinking BIG, it's the killer app already in our branding. Physical games that either accept 8bit as payment (think at a brick and mortar arcade/bar), as a currency for an online game (that in-game purchase stuff for android/iphone games), or even as a prize for games (think if you could "cashout" your game money from one game to buy something in another). Those sorts of ideas are 8bit's "killer app", it's that sort of adoption that would set 8bit apart, and give us the growth/adoption we all seek.
My only problem is most of that isn't the sort of code I historically do, so it's safe to say without me going back to school for a few years, I'm really not going to be just dropping a game on the community. Nor do I have significant contacts with arcade owners or professional game studios to set that up solo either. But, I have almost 20 years working in advanced technologies (I'm a professional UNIX/Linux nerd), and I organize well, so I guess I'm just trying to help anywhere I can to make this take off.
Soooo, in an effort to see how far we can push this, I'm asking the 8bit community, who among you is willing to donate time/effort to rock this thing?! Are you a web developer? Gaming guy? Do you have skills or an idea that's better than all of this?? Let's hear it! What resources/skills do you have, and how much are you willing to share that skill or resource? If we can bring this together right, an empire of ridiculously valuable businesses can be built here...
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