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Likewise. Doubled my money or thereabouts, but not a lot. Maybe made 2BTC. Lack of clear roadmap was the only thing that stopped me investing seriously in this coin. Glad I didn't put more in.
Dear boy, it's like you reached into my head and had a little look inside.
I was just thinking the same thing. Road map.
Actually, I was thinking that Plan B (which could become Plan A, if MrSPR wants an easier life), is to produce a Darkcoin clone. That way, the dev team can focus on creating something wonderfully spectacular from Master Nodes. First approached here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=715435.msg10560012#msg10560012 A while back, Evan made the correct decision to focus on Darkcoin as a currency that could be deployed on all platforms, but with a particular focus on mobile.
Why try to compete with that?
Lets see a real life Harvard MBA type case study to push the point:
WhatsApp didn't create a new infrastructure. It created a new service on top of an existing infrastructure, Apps, in order to compete against mobile network operators.
Lets see and compare the result:
* WhatsApp, started in 2009, sold to Facebook for $19bn (employed less than 100, I think, at the time of sale)
* EE, the UK's largest mobile telephone infrastructure provider, founded through decades of serial acquisitions, about to be purchased by BT for $19bn (employs around 15,000 people).
You see, the infrastructure is great and all that, and I think the line of thinking to focus on solo mining plus the odd pool should continue, but it's the service or product that generates the most profit.
You just have to focus on getting the right service or product to run off the Master Nodes.
The fact that SPR has started down the road of competing with Darkcoin is actually a good thing for both DRK and SPR.
DRK doesn't want to do other stuff with master nodes, at the moment, that don't revolve around currency, or eCash, whereas SPR can focus on other things while benefiting from DRK's open source code (unless MrSPR returns, or contributes under a different guise).
The opportunity here is not that the dev is on holiday. The opportunity here is to look at the project from a different angel.
As a DRK bag holder, I can tell you I was seriously deflated by the decision to focus entirely on eCash and not other things that Master Nodes could do. I 100% agreed with their decision to focus on eCash. I helped contribute to that decision. But the prospect of having to wait another year or two to get additional services into Master Nodes was nevertheless disappointing.
So, maybe SPR can take on that challenge and instead of being a direct competitor to DRK it can be an opportunity for both projects.
