Look price HVC . deny invest
You don't need to invest. But you know you're going to mine it.
But escrow address is still empty? Looks like no luck for non-PoS coins anymore.
I think POS is just a current trend because it's "new". Although it does for sure have some unique advantages too. But new POS coins definitely get much of the attention.
HVC was one of the NON-POS coins that had promise but due to a combination of events went down hill fast. MNR on the other hand is EVERYTHING HVC originally set out to be without the gimmick of voting.
HVC originally had a strong community behind it (forums and IRC). There was good communication and people were excited. People had or put to much faith in the devs and took what they said as "gospel".
But then things started unraveling as the coins implementation and marketing were slowly ripped apart. The devs slowly lost all credibility and things got shaken up.
1) Coin was STRONGLY poised to be CPU only with no chance of GPU mining. They even did a paper on it.
2) REORDER put a halt to that (strike 1) with release of CGMINER (amd/ati)
2) Chris further put a nail in that coffin with ccminer (nvidia) release
3) I posted the flaw in the voting algorithms (doomsday message) and how it affects the timeline, block reward especially going into Sustain Phase, and security if hashing dropped (strike 2) - however could have been fixed
4) Devs went into hiding and basically stopped communicating (strike 3)
Besides the "strike" items above it also had a HUGE premine/IPO which effectively is about 10% of minting. They did not use escrow and basically forced everyone to do things there way.
MNR on the other hand is billed from day one (rightfully so) as both a CPU and GPU coin. No illusions or denial.
Has a solid timeline and unique slow downward block reward that should allow the value of the coin to easily increase as block reward drops.
Seems VERY OPEN to discussing and even implementing changes offered by the community. No pre-notion of "our way or the high-way" mentality.
Very small premine of only 0.5%
Basically the BEST of what HVC should have been!
BTW, I know this is a completely different coin then HVC but since it uses the HEFTY algorithm it will likely be a candidate to mine by the people originally involved with HVC so...
Reorder. The devs might be trying to change the IPO a bit due to a suggestion I had made a few message up. This could be why the escrow address is empty?.?.? Maybe mjollnircoin can comment.
Reorder, are you planning on setting up a pool for MNR and releasing a version of CGMINER to work with it?
If so, could I suggest something maybe controversial? Could you not release source code for the first week and only binaries? Have the binaries only work with your pool or a couple of pools but "hard" code 10% of mining to a special wallet address. Take the profit from this wallet and split it with mjollnircoin. This way you each get a bit of compensation for your work. If anyone doesn't like that they can use the CPU miner until the GPU miner is out of the 1 week "testing/proving" test.
Don't know how you feel about something like this but I for sure wouldn't mind seeing you guys get a bit of compensation for what you bring to the table!
If Chris comes on board with a version of CCMINER he could do the same or similar.
Carlo