Lets think critically for a second. Ixcoin is not really used for anything, and of course neither is 99.9% of altcoins, so really everyone is in the same boat. Sure there are a few coins, such as blake or digi, that have some interesting schemes to provide buy pressure but no one is getting any real adoption.
To simplify this argument, there is no reason to use ixcoin or any alt to buy things, and barely a reason to use bitcoin. Without realizing this it will be a futile cycle of getting accepted by a business one week and droped the next.
Any business that accepts ixcoin or any alt for that matter is really only interested in the bottom line, and quite frankly, low volume = low fees = low profits. A business will never be altruistic.
The current train of thought is to jump start a crypto economy using ixcoin as that spark. Or monero, or dash, or ltc, or ppc, or i0 respectively, etc. Look at the amount of work bts and nxt communities do to jump start their economy. So ask yourselves is it feasible or possible for ixcoin community to do the things that bts or nxt community do?
Or is the plan to do nothing and wait for some multimillionaire or billionaire to come along and put us all on their shoulders as they carry us to riches? Cause thats how they got that billions, by being generous and caring, right?
I don't see ixcoin, or i0, dev, namecoin, etc being able to spark enough movement to really make a self sustaining economy. Not in their current form that is.
In crypto, the advantage has gone to bitcoin. The focus should be on using bitcoin to bootstrap these coins. We're just not going to be able to rival the networking effect of bitcoin. Whereas decentralized exchanges are def needed in crypto they are nothing more then a bandaid. The original spirit of bitcoin was to move away from the reliance of a bank, or a centralized controller.
Altcoins have stopped evolving because of quick fixes like these centralized exchanges and left our fate in their hands. The bandaids that are these exchanges have quickly turned into the foundation for these technologies and as they pull the rug out from under these projects we find that we never had our feet on the ground and as a result land on our head.
There really is only one way forward for any coin that is not bitcoin. We need to utilize a technology that negates the need to use centralized or decentralized exchanges. The networks that are known as altcoins must utilize an atomic trading protocol.
Altcoins have been used to divide and conquer this scene. I think it's time to unify the altcoins. We should all be working together and not at cross purposes. If we all stand together, then it really shouldnt be a problem to offer a bounty for new tech that can be used by all.
Atomic or Bust!
As a community I think one thing we need to do better is to support services which will be helpful to ixcoin's future. Some in the community do a great job getting ixc listed on sites, and then no one uses them and ixcoin gets dropped. So we should make it a point to use them. If we don't who else will.
