I'm a bag holder. Like many of you. I have mined and purchased AEON at much higher rates than ones on Polio.
Question - What makes the coin successful?
AEON was always presented as a community coin. But honestly I don't see much community involvement. Is this because people just want to make quick money these days? Previously I participated in some community work for other coins and it went quite well. Until the price went down..
But I trusted AEON. It was some kind of social experiment from the beginning as it uses the same code as Monero. While Monero is superhype AEON is evil twin nobody cares about. I understand that Monero community has money to make things happen but still it relies on BTC. You can't buy anything with Monero. Just another altcoin, not even with original code. BCN is almost dead but these guys created the first Cryptonote currency and everybody else just tweaked it. Quazar is quite bad clone, Monero has some additional features now but still taking fixes from BCN. It was just a BCN restart with decimal point shifted to the left. So why everybody stays in line to buy it? While AEON is _exactly_ same coin with low price and low diff..
I wish there would be something going on in this community. As I don't believe developers make changes to coin price. BCN is dying but it has the best CN devs. FCN is very nice idea but nobody cares about it. Maybe I'm just depressed to see how people let go coins they mined for weeks for as low as 0.00001.. As a bag holder I'm hoping.. I can build USB image with miner but who would mine at such low prices?
In the end the coin price depends on hype. We can certainly create some. But instead all miners just dumped the coin on first bigger exchange. Did they expect to make money this way?
Coin needs support from miners, devs, community and then investors will buy it. So let's do something. I don't know what otherwise I'd do that. For 1 BTC the price can be four times better than now. Why nobody invests in AEON while Monero is getting shitload of money? It's not just the same algo, but a bloody twin. I'd like to get input from bagholders like me. Let's change this situation and make people aware of AEON. Let's turn the potential of this coin into real price. Only with better price it can progress and develop.
I agree with all these points and I am also still mining and believing in this coin. Like most people on here I work in IT and I cannot stress how important strategies and roadmap's are. There is also the factor of current state and what funding is in place to push things forwards. For a coin to prosper and for the community to be strong the Opening Page (OP) must, in my humble opinion, contain what is going to happen over the next three months. I am investing on other coins and GoldReserve has a very good OP. Also if you look at syscoin has taken then they have taken a totally different approach.
The main point is that it takes a combination of time and real money to move coin forward and a clear roadmap shows this.
While the community can offer kinds words it may be that funding is required to move a coin forward and we as the community can help through various methods.
Coming back to my original point in order the create a clear strategy and roadmap you have to understand the current state so the community can help.
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