How and when can we meet online so as to discuss and thrash out these ideas?
Lets not worry too much about the coin quantities... there must have been a very good reason the initial crew decided on that number. Trading and making a profit off the coin should be the last thing to tackle. Otherwise, if all we are going to do is to cater for altcoin speculators, we could as well let the coin be.
The foremost issue is: What value does TiPS offer to the people at large? What space, in the big picture of the world economy can TiPS offer real value and thus gain its value?
I think real time chat is not necessary (also I think it's difficult especially if we're more than 2 people), in that case we would only need to find a place to concentrate the ideas and make the discussion fruitful. I saw you started editing on the gdrive which is great! I was proposing to create a dedicated forum for TiPS for a while now so we could discuss separate projects like this each in its own thread and make things easier, but I don't think we have that yet. So I can now only think of either doing that on gdrive directly in form of comments, I think there is a chat option too, and we can make the edits directly on the relevant files. we could put this project in a special folder so we can create several files in one place. what do you think?
about the number of coins, I think it's still a good idea to decide on the optimal number of coins, I think trading on btc is important to reach a larger number of customers/community. plus we need to make the decision anyway if we decide to go ahead and create a new coin with new algo.
I like what you propose to make of TiPS and I tend to see those areas also as a really good target:
- wherever "tips" is used, ie small merchants, tipping waiters (evtl convincing them to accept it as payment if we offer the right service), street artists etc
- coupons and value exchange between merchants and customers. I like the idea of using colored TiPS to designate what kind of coupon it is and establish trades between coupons
- and of course online tipping, in chats, between friends etc. (eg. a friend recently tipped me with fedoracoin on the facebook group TiPS4tips for taking care of his cat, he then acknowledged that this thing is actually useful after he was skeptical for a while
, so I think there is room for innovation in online services where TiPS can be used in a useful manner.
- I guess that's it for now, and if we get more stuff in the discussion I will add them all then to the strategy file so we have clear goals ahead of us