How is the coin's progress now?
Progress is slow but steady! We're still in brainstorming mode on many issues, and all feedback and suggestions are most welcome. What features would you like ORA to have? How would those features solve real world problems? What do people use ORA for? Everyone is most welcome to have their say still.
Remember, at this stage ORA is mainly trying to build a strong viable community, then start a discussion, and then we build the tech. Our lead dev nio is still considering options, so this is still a very 'open' process. ORA has no leader as such, so things will inevitably be slow at the start, maybe too slow for some. My hope is we'll reach a tipping point soon and things will start happening a lot faster, but for now I have to admit that momentum is slowing, but that's OK IMO.
If ORA is going to 'work' we need to empower people into positive self directed actions, to overcome the bystander effect where we often expect someone else has everything under control. In a starfish organisation that assumption, that other people are 'taking care of business', probably is a little dangerous. With ORA it's more about 'ask not what ORA can do for you, but what YOU can do for ORA'.
Posting a question or a comment in this thread is very useful at this time, to let people know the IDEA of ORA is still strong, so thanks for 'doing something' for ORA today, every little action creates an effect :-)
so after 5 months still we don't know what Ora might be? i mean still NIO thinking what to clone? Slow? i would call it a turtle race..
Turtle pace is a fair assessment, but total crypto user numbers would be max two million people, probably much less, and growth rate of adoption has stagnated too this year IMO, so turtle pace now does not mean ORA won't be successful, and a lot of cool tech is being released at the moment, and if we're patient ORA can take advantage of some of this stuff. I'm thinking in particular of things like CIYAM's AT which is cutting edge and opensource.
Being methodical now does not mean we get left behind, the crypto race hasn't started yet.
Turtle pace is more a reflection that ORA is not a full time pursuit for anybody (yet), and until it is for our dev team we need to be patient. The pace is slow, but our initial distribution was FREE, and the experimental aspect of ORA has always been pointed out to people, so I expect all those who have purchased ORA on the NXT AE understand the risk involved.
If we had raised funds in an ICO it would be a different story, but we didn't, and so far the only person seriously out of pocket is probably me, and I'm a true believer! I can promise nothing other than that I will do everything I can to make ORA successful, but I have no ability to make anybody do anything now, which is the nature of decentralized starfish organisation. Starfish has benefits but also weaknesses too, and in the end it will only work if enough people care enough to do things.
In my opinion it could perform much better than a simple clone of another coin.
