I posted this at
http://spreadcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78.0 , but to me it was just so important, that i'd have to repost it here, so here it is:
Hi guys, just throwing all my thoughts out there, i don't know about the majority of others, but i got into crytocurrency because i was a hardware enthusiast, i means theres got to be other ways to use that powerful pc you just bought other than surfing the web and play games right ? =)
I frequent sites like:
1.
www.engadget.com2.
www.anandtech.com3.
www.tomshardware.comi notice that while they don't normally post much about cryptocurrency, they do from time to time post little bits of it, thats IMHO is the mainway to push cryptocurrency mainstream. There are more hardware enthusiast than they are miners.
The hardest thing to attract people are the requirement to do command line entrys which greatly scares most beginners, even if they have like $2000.00 machines, they know nothing about IT. But with Spreadcoin, the miner is integrated into the wallet !!!!!
Can we like push THIS MAJOR SELLING POINT to reviewers and to spread the news about our awesome coin ?
Built in Miner, don't need to disable your antivirus, no scrary black and white command lines and .bat stuffs, and anything etc. just download x32 or x64 and bam, your a cryto miner, spread miner ~
That is a pretty good idea LeongTap
But unless there can be a LOT of optimization of the CPU miner, I don't think you will be able to keep their interest for long simply because the difficulty in a "running" coin is such that I think the blocks would be too few and far between.
But I think taking your idea to an extreme that I believe would be successful by giving them something to play with (IE; testing and benchmarking their hot GPU's), generate enough profit to keep their attention, and "spread" the word because of it's "coolness" factor with the techies on those hardware sites... Would be to build a
GPU mining interface into the wallet.
Don't get me wrong, the in wallet CPU miner IS cool in and of itself, but my 8 core CPU only does about 160khs..
But If I was to have a slick GPU miner in that wallet that could light a fire under the 2 new smoking hot AMD or Nvidia crossfire cards in my "gaming rig"... That would be a wallet I'd be interested in installing because I could mine some change when I wasn't gaming, AND get benchmark and tweaking incentives that I could share and compare with my friends.
Wonder how hard something like that would be to implement?
