Fantastic work, as always! The market is always rewarding hard work and progress! No wonder Otoh supports this, he sees hard work and potential.
I have few questions:
1. Is there are way we can enrich our viacoins except mining? I have a nice stash of via. Can I "borrow" them to some mining pool or stake in wallet (I know via is pow but asking just in case) or anything else? Right now my coins are just sitting on a exchange.
2. What does Romanothink about this masternode concept? Good? Bad? Ponzi? Gimmick? Is this only possible in pos?
3. Seems like Pos is gaining popularity, even ETH might switch. What is the plan for via? Is this even possible? I dont know if it is even good.
4. Would it be beneficial for romano to hire some dev to help him?
5. Is there any time frame for segwit (signaling or implementation or whatever tat is called, sorry I am not that knowledgable about this). Seems like every coin that starts that segwith ticker shoots up
In any case, happy that segwit is on the roadmap
6. Does the hashrate increase mean more and more people are minning via? I get it it's a good thing but how exactly is hash rate a good thing?
In any case, thanks for all the hard work Romano.
1. I don't know any way to enrich your VIA except for trading Viacoins in swings.
2. Read the whitepaper about Viacoin Styx TumbleBit (yes most of you still don't get the whitepaper is based on TumbleBit). Well if I have to compare Monero ring tokens vs Dash I think Monero is safer. Dash masternodes are often hosted by a company but the NSA could already have control over those servers with the the masternode owners not knowing it. TumbleBit however is an untrusted tumbler. Which is better.
(if someone doesn't agree or thinks I'm missing something, send me a pm I'm interested in people who know way more than me)
3. Not planning for POS. Pow with merged mining is safe & is the reason Viacoin survived for so long.
4. Offcourse it would be beneficial. I hired a Dev from my own money ($5k) to help with merged mining Segwit. (code is now very different)
5. I never really give a time frame. It's done when it's done. I see devs often embarrassing themselves with giving time frames that are unrealistic. It hurts a coin more & takes away trust instead of giving it. But that's according to my own observations.
6. A high hashrate makes the network more safe. It also shows that people show interest in Viacoin. However 1.4 TH/s is exceptional. That's pretty much mining on a competitive level.
