SlimePuppy, what part of this are you not understanding? He's not ramming a fork through, he wants us to come to a consensus on what should be done. I think we've reached a consensus that another fork needs to happen, to what end and at what time are details yet to be determined. Pretty much everyone in this thread has agreed the diff oscillations are something that needs to be fixed, if you don't see that by looking at this graph:
http://catcoins.biz/charts/ then you should really move along to another coin. Stop this bullshit, it's not productive.
Then maybe you'd care to fill in the blanks? I have read his proposals and have said NO. He responds by attempting to redirect the conversation to Git where we are to enter a number to launch his fork. So far I've seen ZERO from Hozer that suggests he's acting in any way OTHER than his own.
What I don't understand is YOUR messaging! I agree with you that the coin can use some work to tweak the diff oscillations. I agree with you and others that this can and SHOULD be done in an organized and level-headed way and NOT as part of a knee-jerk reaction.
I have expressed confidence in you and in the board to this point, but the more you type the less confident I am that I'm backing the right horse here.
Please DO help all of us understand what's happening with the board?
Thanks very much in advance.
Very well.
Right now I have 13 people in our dev channel Including Cinnamon_catcoin, dogles, hozer, nebajoth, NyanCat, zerodrama, etblbu1, JRWR, Myself, new_shibe, raistlinthewiz, Sir_Knee_grow, and skillface. we're in the process of discussing a few issues, the recently discovered chinese catcoin, which by all accounts looks irrelevant.
Etblvu1, who has recently joined us and most of the others are discussing what to do about the diff oscillations. We have been working on this for the past several days. A number of ideas have come forward all of which to my knowledge has been put in front of the community in this thread. Ihave been and always will be in favor of a community vetted approach that's released preferably through KR105's original fork. I apologize if my messaging has been unclear as, this thread has been somewhat dynamic today and hard to follow. It's very difficult for comments to appear in the right order when people edit their posts in great length after the fact.
With regards to Hozer's fork, and what's happening there, and my personal position on it let me calrify a few things so there is no misunderstandings:
1. I do not personally agree with his approach, what was done was a little hot headed and perhaps did not really contribnute to the direction the community wanted to go, he did this on his own and against the boards wishes.
2. Hozer's fork is his way of stating frustration that the community can not reach at least a consensus of what needs to be done if anything. What maybe people are not realizing here is the original Catcoin does not appear to have a working testnet, so Hozer deployed a fork that is largely designed as a test environment. Unless it recieves majority hash it will NEVER be the live fork, and people misconstrued that as a 51% hostile. It's not.
3. Hozer said he was going to contact the exchanges...blah blah blah. He did say that, he also did say that when the network hash reached 5 MHash he'd just fork the coin, he was clearly frustrated that people would rather watch this coin die than act and intervene. He's on our team, he and I and the rest of us all want this coin to succeed, how it was approached, by hozer's own admission was less than ideal, and perhaps over the top.
4. The number he is asking you to enter is not to launch his fork, its to actually get some valid input rather than all this bush beating we've been doing up to this point. He's simply trying to make people commit to the thought of change rather than just saying no to all his ideas and not offering up any alternatives. I agree with that this might not be the best method, but at least he's trying to get suggestions
5. Once again his actions were his alone, and he'll be the first person to tell you that.
My position is as follows:
I am an investor in cat, I have 7500 Catcoins that are largely worthless in their current state. I have been mining this coin since day 1. I am interested in this coin being a long term investment, and I am willing to contribute in whatever level is necessary to correct that. My current interest is to build a motivated team that is capable technically, socially and financially that effectively represents the most active members of our community. I feel that this coin is best run by a consensus of the most invested stakeholders, including you. I believe we need to tweak this coin in a levelheaded, well thought out approach to make the coin viable as a long term investment for others and to slowly build the Catcoin brand to be one of the most dominant coins on the internet. I see this coin outliving dogecoin (as cats often do), and ultimately being an alternate currency to litecoin and bitcoin directly. I think this coin has incredible potential and I am willing to go to whatever means is necessary to further that vision.
I did get frustrated earlier, and honestly I don't need some of the stress in my life that this coin provides. I was trying to defend hozer earlier, yes, because people weren't really understanding what was happening. I don't agree with the method he chose and from all of us at the board it didn't really reflect the direction we want to go. I didn't believe personally that he should have been crucified though so I tried to defend what he was trying to accomplish without alienating yet more valuable members of our dwindling community.
My real name is Kevin McCurdy, I am a network engineer by trade and I believe catcoin has the power to go great places. I am an avid gamer, and have been quite addicted to mining for several months now. I do not wish to hide behind a shroud of anonymity, because I believe this coin needs a face to lead it, not some anonymous handle on the internet. I believe it's going to take determination, and hard work and perserverance to get where we all want this coin to be.
I hope that answers your questions. I'd be happy to chat with you in IRC or via PM if you'd like. Believe me, I am not the enemy here, I am trying to help take this coin places KR105 never dreamed it could go, with him or without is irrelevant. This community is probably the strongest of any coin I've seen yet, and I firmly believe this coin will go places if we act soon and together.
Hope that helps
Warm Regards,
KM