While I feel like I could have lead the project better than you, are you saying that I should have just what, stolen the source code, forked it myself, all the while learning C++ and convincing everyone to switch over to my fork?
There's no such thing as "stealing" an open-source code, if you see it this way then it saddens me to think that you really do not have any idea how an opensource project works; the people (in this case miners) will follow who they trust most.. If you think you can do better, you should have done it in the first place; honestly, saying that you could have done better is just talking, I'm sorry to put it this way but, talk is cheap. At the VERY least, if you thought you could do better, you should have coded it and proposed the code to the team, that's the beauty of opensource, it rarely contains only one dev and many devs will create their own version of it.. ie: Bitcoin vs every other coin..
I'm not much of a programmer, and you are not a business person.
We all have our individual skills and talents and frankly I feel you relied on your programming knowledge/experience to try to solve a business/marketing dilemma.
It's also entirely possible you volunteered to take on this project before adequately considering how it would finance and promote itself.
Once again, you prove my point about your understanding of an opersource project, you are looking at this project as if it was a business, which I think it can be seen that way, however, without IPO or pre-mine or both, or serious donations, there is no way to fund an opensource project. You seem to claim to be business-savvy, so I'm sure that you can agree with this, and I'm sure you can agree that funding is essential to any business project.
Dano decided to take over something that would have died instead of letting it die. I and a few other members of the team have also greatly contributed thousands of hours towards this without any payout at all, most of us only started mining when the algo was already screwed up and the payout was incredibly minimal, it did not even pay for the electricity used. Now don't get me wrong, I do not regret my contribution, but reading posts like yours do give me a partial sentiment of regret.
Now it's very easy to just say "go do something, take action".
It's even easier to sit back, relax and complain that someone else is not doing something.
How hard would it have been to create a multi-pool to create buying pressure on the coin (this strategy is not just for PoS coins)?
I'm not sure I understand you here, are you trying to complain to algo devs that they did not build a multipool?? That's what multipool owners do, not coin devs (except for on a rare occasion). Either way, KittehCoin is still a small community, directing hashrate to other coins to trade for our coin is a good idea, if you already have a stable established hashrate, if not, you risk killing the coin because no one is hashing it, this is certainly not the way to go for a fairly new coin, but is absolutely something to look at for the future.
This next comment is not directed at you but the community in general. It's shocking how every nerd who knows how to create a cryptocurrency thinks that means they should make one. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. The majority of these "developers" are programming students with little or no real-world experience. How do I know that? It's evident in the way they speak, their actions and their reactions. The base goal of all crypto currencies is to flourish and to become an international world currency. You know what would be nice to all those programmers trying to build "Money 2.0"? If they knew a little something about business, marketing and economics. Wouldn't that be nice? If those people in charge of creating the worlds new money knew something about money themselves?
How is this post not directed at Dano or the team? And if it is not directed to Dano, then why the heck would you post this comment here? This is a comment for Maxcoin, I just don't understand the relevance here.
Cryptocurrencies are a natural evolution of money. As such, as an EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISM we shouldn't be concerned if the coin has to relaunch two, three, five or twenty times. As long as it keeps getting better with each evolution. In fact, cats have 9 lives don't they? So what, you relaunch again and kitteh has 8 lives left? Wouldn't that play into the whole Cat theme anyway?
I do partially agree with you on this, it is an evolutionary mechanism, it is a natural evolution of money. Hard-forking every couple of months however is an incredibly bad idea and leaves a sour taste in the mouths of many people. I personally spend countless hours on the last fork to contact every single pool way before the fork, to make sure they would be on the right wallet at relaunch, believe me it's not easy to get in touch with most pool owners, they are very incognito (in general, there's obvious exceptions like the amazing Locoshibe). Despite these efforts, there was still pools mining on the wrong wallet and I'm convinced we lost a percentage of the community because of it, too many forks is hurtful to a large community and devastating to a small community.
I suggested relaunching the coin with a new multi-pool proof algo, implementing a hard block reward tax like einsteinium for wildlife protection/development.
Again, talk is cheap, the last release, we launched KGW because EVERYONE was asking for it, people were constantly fearing multipools once we hit cryptsy, this is the reality of a coin that gets to that point. So we delivered on what everyone wanted. Ever since then we've been working really hard at changing that same algo or completely designing another one that will actually work to prevent multipools from invading the coin. You were certainly not the first to make this suggestion and I did not see you presenting a proper/proven/working code that will prevent this from happening.
More could have been done. You only needed to step back and take off your programmer hat to see this.
Could more have been done? Absolutely! But not by the devs, by the community, this is a meme coin, plain and simple, the most successful one is DOGE, look at what that community is doing, they are all pitching in. That is what needs to be done, not depend on a small group of people to make this happen, if you are not contributing and you're complaining, you are part of the problem, plain and simple (although please don't take it as if I'm not saying you are not contributing, it's a reference to the sentiment vs support we receive by a small but vocal part of the community)
Just because someone is not a programmer does NOT mean they don't have ideas or can't be useful in strategizing a profitable plan.
You are absolutely right, that is typically what investors/board of directors do (or pay someone to do), developers are not investors (or at least in this team, we are not). But once again, you are comparing a business model to an opensource project (which IMO is just not something you can logically do if there is no pre-mine/ipo)
Lets be brutally honest, programmers don't make games, programmers don't design the software and programmers don't make marketing decisions.
Programmers program, and that is what they are good at.
This statement is completely unfair to the countless amount of programmers that have become project managers and business owners/managers(often the most talented ones); it is simply not true that everyone only has one talent--- Bill Gates is a great example to counter your statement; a programmer and a business genius.
So expecting a programmer to do EVERYTHING (Design, Programming, Marketing, Finance, Legal) is just asking for failure.
But this is what happens in the crypto community. Every programmer goes off on his own and makes his own currency.
No one can do everything.
Absolutely and that's why the Dev team is not only comprised of coders, Dano is not the only one in the team and he assembled a fairly large group of people when he first took over, many of these people made promises of what they would do but never delivered, well it's not like we can threaten them to fire them if they do not deliver, when there's no money involved, we can only rely on the support people give us in all good faith.
Was that a rant and a half? Sure was.
But I'm sure there was some point in there somewhere.
Other than wanting to vent, I really fail to see where there is one.
Whoever steps up to the plate needs to put their ego aside, admit they can't do everything and build a team to round out their weaknesses.
From my countless conversations I've had with Dano, he is far from being egotistical, he really cares about creating a fair project and even in this case, despite the his recent lack of time, due to recent events, he has worked incredibly hard, burning the candles at both ends, to release something that will ensure that KittehCoin does not die and is easily sustainable by the community until a full and committed development team is structured.
Guess what, Steve Jobs was a useless hack, he didn't have any programming knowledge, but you know what he had? Creativity and ideas.
Where would Apple be without him? Nowhere, thats where.
I once again disagree, Steve Jobs was not a useless hack, as much as I despise the way Apple does business, I have to give it to him, he was a very good salesman, that takes talent (your statements makes me feel that your claim to be a marketing/business expert are seriously unfounded, but I'd love you to prove me wrong!). Now Steve Jobs did indeed have creativity, ideas (all mainly marketing-related though which was his only real innovation, IMO), but he would have never been able to do what he did without funds, he had to sell the idea to investors who in turn gave his company money, in cryptocurrencies, we have to sell an idea to investors who in-turn invest by purchasing the coin, this creates absolutely no return to be able to build a business-like backbone to be able to fund new projects. Seriously, the more I type, the more I realize how much I'm amazed by your statements and comparisons.
