Hey everyone, thanks for all the responses and judging by how quick the hashrate is rising I think harambecoin is off to a good start
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So as far as people asking about the team: so far it's me and the mighty spirit of the great harambe. Hopefully a few people will get involved once this project picks up but I wouldn't underestimate harambe either...
olkah: exchange? relax bro, it hasn't even been 24 hours. Honestly if I somehow had this set up to instantly be able to get rid of them the day they came out, I would expect everyone to be at least slightly suspicious...
As to the understandable question of "what's the point?", let me do my best to give a quick answer. Since I started getting involved in cryptocurrency and subsequently watched as many others have come and gone, I feel for the people who do get interested there's an overwhelming desire to contribute and be a part of some of these projects. That said, bitcoin and some of the other major cryptocurrencies have groups of extremely talented developers already working and I think it makes it unfortunately a little bit too daunting for the average person who isn't as experienced in this to actually be able to contribute. I think there are a lot of really good ideas that ultimately get missed as a result so harambecoin is hopefully a project that could be an interesting incubator to try something new.
Also, I feel another thing holding cryptocurrency back from being more widely known and accepted/used is the simple fact that its too complicated for most people. I understand that it's going to be quite some time before something like bitcoin is considered mainstream, but it's amazing to me how many people I meet who have still never even heard of it. So for example something like Ethereum (et al.) which is an immense and impressive undertaking that's being worked on by some very smart people is helping on one end of the spectrum to improve the technology behind this type of code, I feel that there's just as much a need for projects like harambecoin to try to make cryptocurrency a bit more friendly and fun as opposed to more complicated.
tekyboy: Thanks for setting that up so fast, I haven't had a chance to test it but when I get some free time later I'll try mining on it for a little bit. That said I only have about 3Mhash of power so it might not be comparable for people pushing serious numbers.
On that note I may still try to run a p2pool node for now - seems relatively easy to configure except I may have to mess with the share targeting a little to avoid a high % of stale shares.
