Come on, how can you be a numb and yet you made a coin! Is that even possible or believable. C++, coding and coin development is some pro shit and I seriously doubt a numb in cryptos, I don't mean the forum but cryptocurrency in general should be able to wrap his or her head around it, come on!
No, there's definitely software that generates a new forked blockchain with relative ease. It's like an unwritten rule that we generally don't want to go about promoting that fact, though, for obvious reasons. To do coin development
properly takes skill, yes. But literally anyone can churn out a dozen clone-coin knock-offs without much effort. Why do you think there are so many pump'n'dumps out there?
So what I am really wondering is...to make a coin popular, does it have to have lots of people hosting nodes and mining?
You'll probably get a number of different answers to that question. I think the easiest answer is to say that there isn't one particular thing that makes a coin popular. It's a combination of factors. But it feels like everyone is looking for their own preferred combination. You can't please everyone.
For me, it's more about the principles. As with most things, strong foundations are important. If you build your coin based around a particular ethos and pursue that ethos relentlessly, never abandoning those principles, that's a good start. If you can find others who share that vision, particularly ones who are talented coders who can build a reliable and securely robust system, then it's better. And if you can do all of that while not succumbing to the temptation of a pre-mine to "
fund development", then better still. It's surprising the number of project who can't even get those bits right. Beyond that, yes, it's about network effects. The more users you have, the more useful your network becomes.
