I just read the first page of this thread. A total of 84,000,000 token supply is quite reachable specially if you have a good team. I also read statement "Coppercoin is an open source, global payment network that is fully decentralized without any central authorities." I got confused, what is the difference if the project have a central authorities and the project that don't have? Is there any disadvantages between the two?
Couple of thoughts there... I think Bitcoin, for example, is truly decentralized... no one group has supreme authority... lots of infighting and some groups have culled together enough sway to be influential... so say what you want about all that... but the idea is that Bitcoin can't be changed or manipulated to the whim of one person. Or one company. Or one large holder, etc. It's truly, globally, decentralized.
Coppercoin no doubt has the mission to be such, but I'd fear at this infant stage its not actually decentralized. Only 2-3 pools available to mine. The only blockchain explorer and main pool are on CopperCoin.net, the main website for the project, and I think someone out there is paying to host a node for it. What happens if they change their mind? Does it come crashing down? Are there enough nodes to keep it alive? Not really sure the answers to this stuff because I haven't had the time to dig... but I think in order to begin its decentralization, it needs to be independent of one or two people who are probably keeping it alive right now.
Maybe a good first step is for 2-3 of us to volunteer hosting nodes for the coin to keep it's pulse. Thoughts?