The following is why short of someone seriously manipulating the prices upward, CATcoin will continue its death spiral. There are many die hard optimists in this thread who don't use logic and invest purely based on emotion or some arbitrary libertarian ideal. Those people will say things along the lines of "The difficulty retarget and block times are perfect because it's the same as bitcoin" or "CAT is an alternative to bitcoin which is more decentralized and combats the increasing levels of bitcoin regulation by governments". In reality, however, CAT is not operating under the same environment as BTC and treating them the same is a mistake:
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In the past I have indicated that the only way to save CAT is a hard fork which decreases block times to 1 minute and changes difficulty retarget to roughly once every 24 hrs. This was received poorly by the community. Perhaps the community will be more willing to consider it once it takes 1-2hrs average for a block and the price is at 0.0002. Maybe then I'd be willing to reinvest in CAT again.
+1 agreed.
however, a proposal to hard-fork the currency after a week of mining and trading? that will trash remaining confidence in the coin, and people will move on to this week's meme (i guess it's cagecoin).
as long as cat remains one of the least profitable coins to mine, i cannot justify spending resources to prop it up. right now i can mine doge, and trade it for 3x cat in USD everyday.
Why people think a fork will make investors lose confidence? If something it shows the engagement of a serious dev team that understand the coin needs a change from the initial idea. Memorycoin 2.0 had a fork because of this same reason, the dev didn't take longer than a day to understand that the future of the coin was unclear without the fork, so they did it and people just got more confident seeing a dev taking care of the coin.
Hardfork may throw coin out of exchanges.
Why? Did anyone ask them?
We need a fork, this coin doesn't have enough popularity to survive ... 2 yeras? until the next difficulty change, and there are too many other coins competing. With a fork, everyone updates their wallet, we keep the coins we already have, in a day we can mine again and the coin won't take longer than 3 days to recover its real price and popularity. Only have to change the difficulty re-targeting to something more realistic, every few blocks.
To everyone talking about the price this coin should have, it's not about difficulty, it's about offer and demand, and with so many other coins the investors just don't want to risk, they need to see that the dev decides to fix the coin, it's that simple.