This is a great project --- I've been in the community since April. Learned how to set up my first MN, and now I have a few. For anyone perusing coins like this, here's how I'd describe the project:
The dev has a long-term vision and has made some hard choices (from the beginning) to achieve that goal. That's meant restarting the chain, changing the algo, moving to PoS, and constant upgrades. The project is constantly being worked on, improved, tested. New ideas are thrown out to the community --- some accepted, others not --- it's got the spirit of a Silicon Valley startup scene, flipping up pancakes to see what sticks. That's not a criticism, it's an absolute pleasure to see. There are so many cut & paste coins there with the same roadmap, same plan to bring "crypto to everybody" or somesuch. Instead, this project is more like an effort to build something together, involving crypto, but could be a lot of other things (they've proposed a commercial network, etc).
For me, seeing these ideas come and go, with some sticking, is the magic. Eric Schmidt (former Google Chairman and CEO) used to say "let 1000 flowers bloom" in an innovation zone where testing occurs and failure is not just allowed --- but encouraged. On a much smaller scale, of course, this is how I feel the Curium team is going at it.
If you want a quick buck, stay away. But if you want to join in on something that's very experimental, very long-term focused, bringing long-term value to a project that will be around for a long time then head on over. I'm now using this as a way to teach my daughter about crypto and get involved and show how open innovation looks (in it's beauty and it's clumsiness, both are part of it). And to learn how Proof of Stake works. It's one thing to read about this, another to try it. (Also: ever seen how many of these coins have these scammy MN sales? That's not this at all).
For around $50 to $100 you can buy 10k CRU (at todays prices) and set up a MN. Buy the coins on Graviex (80% of trading volume), Stocks.Exchange, Crypto Hub or SouthXchange. From there you'll be participating in the PoS model. Don't expect this coin to moon by Christmas, but I frankly don't think the price will stay that low for that long. Heck, for $100 of coin that you buy on the exchange, it might be worth just the effort to learn how to set up the MN yourself and have a community (and dev) join in to teach you. Our current MNs are running GCP (the cloud) but my daughter and I are going to set up another one this weekend on a RasberryPi. Maybe we'll post pictures on the Discord channel.
Come join us. I realize people say this kind of thing all the time and so don't believe me if you don't want to, but I don't do endorsements; I'm not paid in any way by the devs; etc. Come say hi!
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