A while ago i got in contact with Jackielove4u about a discussion on the forum, and we kept in contact since that day.
He asked me some questions about cryptocoins and mentioned GRS, so at one point he asked me if i would be willing to help.
At first i just provided some ideas and mentioned some ideas what could be improved.
By that i got also interrested into the Groestlcoin itself and kinda discovered its one of the coins with the best development as far as i can see.
Ofcourse that does not make a coin succesfull on itself as most of us know, but it can be very important if the community succeeds in getting more people to use the coin.
After some discussions on for instance email, personal messages and on the slack chat, i got the question if i would be willing to help the community on bitcointalk and at some point accepted to get involved. Ofcourse my busy schedule does not allways allow me to make time to be daily active.
But i often am able to slip into the my vpn to my house and watch what is shown at the forums or chat
.
Anyway long story short i have been asked to be the voice on bitcointalk and i accepted this job as the community manager.
I am sure we as a community should be able to get the Groestlcoin back in the spotlights where it deserves to be.
So Lets introduce myself :
I am a guy living with my lady near Zwolle in the netherlands,
Started many years ago as a alpha tester at the seti program and donated many thousands of hours cpu time and later also huge loads of gpu power.
We made it as a team ( Team Elteor Borislavj ) which consisted only out of 7 persons to become even nr 5 at the world top list.
This was a massive achievement because we surpassed huge groups of people with often hundreds or even thousands on members.
At some point UD research started a project to use cpu power to find medicine for certain illness and we would get paid a small amount when they succeed.
The project became a huge succes but the greed of the ones running the project, kept the billions of dollars they made for themselfs.
After i jumped back on several BOINC projects i kinda lost interrest in helping those projects, a friend in germany said have a look at what i am doing.
You probably guessed it Bitcoin so i fired up the good old cpu/gpu farm and farmed alot of coins, now back then they had kinda not much value.
At some point some people offered services for fun like buying pizza, hamburger, art, socks and all that kinda funny stuff like t-shirts and coffee mugs.
So i spend alot on those and i admit i should have kept a bigger part for later
, but you can not change history.
Even a mistake with sending 5000 btc as fee was not gonna hurt anyone because they had no real value.
A few years later i wanted to shoot myself in the foot for spending these coins i did back then, and mess with the coins so easily
Anyway i ended up in the world of crypto and am one person who is known to show the footangles and potential problems.
I have several times warned for instance bitcointalk.org that they might get hacked, they laughed me off but less than a year later boooom hacked.
I worked as a network engineer for years and loved to build and install server systems.
At one point in time my head of department disappeared suddenly and the CEO asked me as a senior to take control.
So i became in time the reserve IT manager
I must admit i tried to ditch the job constant and kept trying to move someone else into taking over the job, but many who got hired todo the job got fired or could not really handle the department well.
So i was put back in charge several times, at some point i decided to stay at the job and still am.
Currently the crypto community is struggling to keep things going and the endless stream of new coins and bad news about the community will be a hard thing to get rid of in the near future. As you have noticed the crypto world is dominated mostly by very technical people.
And that is one of the largest footangles in the crypto industry, for us it all looks easy and handy but believe me its scary as hell for non tech people.
Even my wife does not go near any of it, or any of our friends. As a gamer i also know a large portion of people and even these never go near crypto coins.
So i am kinda trying to find ways to get those non technical people into using the crypto coins.
The most important issue is still not resolved in the crypto industry, a way to make it all easy for absolute everyone and have enough security ( NO not the coin but the failures from the person themselfs as well) see when you send of the coins they are gone no matter what.
Compare that to bank transfer if you made a mistake you can often get your money back or in case its send private you can ask the person to send it back.
Ofcourse some people will not but thats besides the point, another feature is the security that if something happens to for instance the banks the governements repay your losses up to a certain amount. Again in the crypto world its lost.
That does not mean your money is safe in all situations but often you have some kinda fail safe build in for situations
Lets be honest everyday you read about some kinda scam, disappearing company or even a crypto company who suddenly decides your money is not worth anything tommorow without even telling you upfront.
So are these people wrong not to get involved in crypto, if i am honest to myself i say "no" they are right there is much to be done.
That also brings us to alot of other questions to be answered and they are kinda constant being talked about.
So start to think about what we can do to make things easy and try to find ways to prevent some of the risks involved, which are lacking in the current crypto solutions.
Also let me remind you people by just holding large amounts of coins, you are not really helping the coin
It might give you a quick buck, but if they are just sitting in your wallet they might end up like cinnicoin ( worthless )
You gotta use them to get the community going, ofcourse its wise to keep a few at reserve.
Ofcourse i can not stop people from being greedy thats seems to be one of less good things about humanity.
Only a few seem to understand that keeping thousands of coins in a wallet without using them nothing will happen.
You gotta use them to get actions going, what are they worth if you have say 10 million coins stashed in a wallet without having any means or value.
For instance i had 30 million beecoins and guess what they are worth now, indeed nothing the coin died completely.
So people come on do use your coins, you have to make the coin a usefull product.
Not just another stashed away coin, which eventually ends in just another failed coin.
I am open for discussions with everyone involved into groestlcoin, you can contact me here or at our forum or use slack.
Lets make groestlcoin a well known and used coin !!
