Any coin that is a game changer is highly promoted socially or DOES something. Since Octocoin isn't being highly promoted socially, what is something it might do to make it a "game changer" as you say (just one real thing, common, one thing)... Many statements like "powerful business component", "most compelling cryptocurrency in history", and "most technologically advanced services" have been made along with some mysterious connection to SXSW which has never been explained and are currently all talk and don't change any games, at all...
The dev just got done saying the coin has only been out for 60 hours lol. The OctoCoin subreddit is becoming more active and there is supposedly a tip bot on the way. There are quite a few people tweeting about it and 888 is getting votes on several exchanges. There are
25 26 pages in this thread and the dev just got done saying it's been in the top 5 in average network hash power since it launched (for scrypt coins.) When you figure there are over 150 active scrypt coins top 5 isn't bad for being just over 2 days since 888 was released with limited info. My guess is the early bonus reward blocks are promotion enough for right now. There have been 8000 wallets downloaded in just over 2 days? That's a crazy number. FusionHash reported over 4000 registrations at their 888 pool? That's nutty man. What the hell is it with you people in such a rush to pull out all of the stops immediately? Are you that desperate to dump your coins that you're going to sit in here and whine that things aren't moving fast enough after 2 days? If you aren't happy with where things are at maybe you could put some effort in if you stand to gain from it. I know I plan to start chipping in with community building soon. My guess is all of these questions will be answered with time and if you are too impatient to wait more than 2 days for everything to be fully developed and marketed you don't deserve the rewards - don't let the door hit you on the way out. After the block rewards drop it will become more critical to begin other promotions only an idiot would expect every single promotion to be run at once immediately at launch. These guys claim they didn't build 888 to be a pump-and-dump so if that's what you're looking for you are in the wrong place. Maybe it's all bullshit and there is nothing here just like every other coin - who knows - all I know is these guys are well connected and 888 seems to be cruising along from where I'm sitting. They launched with a great website, great wallet, great pools, have the best looking block explorer I've ever seen. These current blocks are so huge that right now it's not even a gamble to mine - even if all of the devs are dead everybody mining right now stands to make a nice profit.
Sorry to rant but I just can't stand impatient whiners that have to shit all of over everything. The crypto world is full of them and they always end up poor because they are horrible decision makers. Eventually they will be weeded out.
I'm loving this coin so far and everybody I talk to that has been mining it seems super cool. Profitability on everything else right now is a joke and barely covers the power bill so I might as well take a chance on something that could be big. Yes info and updates have been thin - who cares? At least wait a week before throwing a tantrum.
Well said. I don't see what people are bitching about. This isn't perfect but it's been a pretty smooth launch and time will tell. It will depend on what the devs have in store and how much the community is willing to put in. So far both of those aspects have been great.
And for those saying this coin isn't profitable? It's not even on a stable exchange with volume yet. What I have traded at the beta exchanges has let me grow my amount of coins. And if I wanted to sell them all for between 1-2 cents per coin I would have made more on this than any other coin listed on coinwarz.
Remember this coin has a cap of 88 million. That's just over what LTC has. At least it's not some unlimited or billion coin mint that will have no value besides pump n dump. You guys see what happened to Doge right? Besides support from Reddit tipping that's the only reason it's still around. People were thinking when the block reward halved there was going to be a surge. NONE of the coins will reach or maintain a penny. Coins like Murraycoin and Octocoin are at a penny on day one. Wait till they surge later on when the block rewards are cut.
I don't understand people's though process because from where i'm sitting in the future this coin could be really profitable just based on the specs and what the devs and community appear to be putting in to this. Worst case scenario the coin sux balls and I sell for around a penny and still make more than any coinwarz coin i woulda dumped the same day i mined it.
For now let's keep voting at cryptorush.in and mintpal.com. Ask poloniex.com to add via email to their support. Some guy mentioned some other small exchanges on here yesterday. It only took a day of us emailing to get them to add the coins to be voted on at the exchanges. That's really what this coin needs at the moment is an exchange with a little more eye balls and volume. The beta exchanges are not a lot of volume or trades.
Good luck everyone! And if you don't like this coin why sit on here and bitch about it. Just go support another coin you like.
