But you are thinking one-sided (your own side - not the coin side).
Merge mining spreads the hashing around, alleviating the probability of a 51% attack. It also gets more people aware and involved.
If you don't mind trading in weak coins, there's plenty to choose from. If you want to deal with a coin that has a better established base of people vested (it's a word and I used it right) in continued success, this one is for you.
The price is partly due to FUD, partly due to shortsighted people, and partly due to unforeseen issues that delayed the launch and affected the early ability to transfer coins among exchanges.
Find me another new coin that has the backing of good dedicated developers, backed by a company that promised resources if needed (and proved it), and has such a strong interest among many of us (not you) this long after launch. I've seen several other new coins die on the day they were born, in just the past week or so. And several coins killed by the greed of their own scamming creators.
Maybe you aren't yet qualified to do any thinking. But don't stop trying - you'll get there.
I think merge mining was a big mistake..look at the diff and the price now...
It was always the case that Syscoin was going to be merge-minable for exactly those reasons. We had hoped to launch with it, but there were a few issues that has since been resolved.
It is all about securing the network for future usage. In my own personal opinion any coin that does not focus on this will die.
As for this week (Note : Syscoin v0.1.4c was just released ) :
So whats you guys up to next week? Can you tell us what you planing? I am not asking for any ETAs, just plans. I dont know if you saw the IRC at that time, but Whale123 made some good points in IRC...
Right now we're focusing on this pesky 0.1.4c release which it looks like we'll release tonight and also getting the growing team into a single, unified project management system. Soon as I'm done with that stuff I can post more info on what we have planned.
Specifically this week we are trying to talk to Moolah, and also trying to get together a concentrated marketing effort/microsite on the "offers" aka the Syscoin Marketplace service including hiring developers if needed to create multiple examples on top of the API which we will open source as well as use ourself to sell Syscoin swag. We plan on doing this type of concentrated marketing on each of the various features now that things are stabilizing the network hashrate continues to grow thus providing a reliable foundation for businesses.
The price looks so bad
