1. Who cares what the Bitcoin Devs like and don't. If you're just using Fractalcoin as a test bed for future Bitcoin features, then yes, what they like matters. But if you're trying to create your own, useful, real world adopted coin, then we need to have innovation. Waiting for other people to create features then adopting them will not make Fractalcoin valuable. Taking what they are working on then improving them does.
2. And anonymous mixing may indeed be hype, I don't know. But it is what the market wants at present. The market sees value in it. Fractalcoin must gain traction and adoption. Anonymous mixing is a way in. If you have a better idea, I'm all ears but POS is not going to be it in my opinion and you'll waste two months of dev time. If in the future that feature is no longer utilized, who cares. But at least Fractalcoin will have gained traction thanks to it.
3. Back in 2005 I started a company where we decided not to have so much as a logo because we were sick of being bombarded left and right by marketing. We had a really good set of services and our homepage didn't so much as have our company name on it because we wanted everything to be clean and just about the services we offered.
You've never heard of the company or any of the services we offered. As altruistic as our motives were, that's just not how the world works unfortunately. Yes, be transparent and honest but the fact is, you have to appeal to the masses by giving them what they want or are told they needed in order to sneak the true innovations in.
If you don't do anonymity I fear someone will take Fractalcoin and add anonymity to it as a more secure anonymous currency would be amazing. I'd prefer you head that up Earlz. But if you don't, whoever does, please contact me via PM so I can invest.
Hi MyFarm, did earlz or someone else (dev) contact you about your suggestions?
Hi Earlz, I may give you a hand on implementing built-in Tor. Although we can configure and use Tor without touching the wallet, the build-in feature will be much more convenient and that is what people like. I very understand this was already discussed long time ago, but I would emphasize the big difference between implementing the built-in function (work done by us) and a simple guideline (done by others). We don't need to change the code hosted on the git, rather I can compile a wallet with built-in Tor. I hope you can announce that officially if you agree with that.
Just additional comments about FRAC, cryptoworld moves very fast; now is not like 2009, when BTC was born, and it can wait for people picking up. Slingshield is good, technically, but is that really what people like? (yes I am talking to satisfy people, because that's what we rely on and we need to construct stronger community; so pls don't ignore/argue people requests/comments too much) And because of this "deficiency", people would hate BTC/exit BTC? We can think differently, let's say we assume people like Slingshield, but what is the next which should be done to even improve the Slingshield. Simply clone PoS is not the way, that might delight some people. But, why not anonymity (Tor first then anonymous nodes etc), people will get excited.
p.s., PoS means richer getting rich, what are the solutions to cope with this?