I have a unique perspective on the AMP being between a RHOC and a hard place having friends on both sides.
RChain clergy see Synereo abandoning commitment to scalable proven behaviour of networks under user control owned by the people.
Synereo clergy sees RChain as a pipedream solution to unsolvable problems with too many loose ends to be successful.
In my view they are both right however there is some magic on the RChain direction enabling evolution that in effect conquers the impossible. I plan to redeem 3/4 of my amps for rhoc.
A case in point is FLP impossibility which proves you cannot guarantee consensus with even one faulty processor on the network. While we may like to ignore the fact this proves that even Bitcoin is vulnerable. One the one hand the Casper Proof of Stake consensus mechanism of RChain will always be flawed necessarily it embodies a means of attracting consensus in a maximally consistent history attracting in what I call proof of proof. At the same time the rules for conflict resolution are allowed to evolve by following personal rules innovating solutions by human consensus.
Furthermore the RChain vision offers a model of provably trustworthy computing where everything is verified and nothing is taken for granted. This applies far beyond the domain of ordinary blockchains reinverting the internet to be safe enabling personal and social freedom leading toward victory in the information war empowering us to freely collaborate on solving the problems facing humanity.
Synereoites laugh a Greg for suggesting that RChain will enable us to effectively deal with issues like climate change and call me a "true believer" in Greg's pipe dream. I do understand their reservations and agree building the Synereo social network now with existing tools is a good idea. I agree with Greg that the attention economy will eventually require RChain of the equivalent but it is also important then we experiment with a first approximation that can serve as a bridge to the future.
https://medium.com/@jimscarver/rchain-best-synereo-scenario-it-may-be-a-very-good-time-to-buy-amps-f1ce6e446e11#.extf5za67Getting Synereo out soon should be easy. Building RChain will be hard. While I say RChin is hard, the difficulty is being true to the vision that is so BIG and revolutionary, challenging so much of what we have learned and come to believe, employing mathematics beyond the reach of ordinary programmers, that if it were not for the faith of people like myself and the great minds participating in the project it would indeed be a pipe dream. I am reminded of the words of JFK, "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”
The devotion of Greg, myself and many others gives me confidence that we will do this thing with or without finding. At the say time, the prospects of funding from Otto, others, and potential token sales convinces me RChain will be well funded.