Topic: [ANN] [TRON] Positron Technologies - Upcoming Project Direction Change - page 31. (Read 324002 times)

There are already tons of shitcoins on the market, I think you're overestimating the demand for another one.

even if an ICO raised me only 5 btc from people who want to help me out but want a shitcoin to whale around with, it would be enough of a bump (included to my IRL webdev contracts and pc repair crap) then I can work on TRON full time for at least a month, which I would love, and I could buy more TRON to make my work on it feel more rewarding, get a bunch more done and caught up. If I can pull everything together I personally believe TRON can be successful even in the short term.

Is tron a good purchase now?
Or should I wait till it drops somemore.

West, I think the more you get done, i.e website, nodes, startups the more people will trust you. A new "funding coin" once you've set up an infrastructure is a much better idea that trying to do it now. I know you're out of cash, but honestly I think that approach will help tron, and won't taint your reputation. If you call for a coin to fund you, people are going to think less of you.

If you develop and check things off the list of promises the price will rise.

You will only get lies here. For the real advice, you have to join the ARCH style private CEO slack group. It's where people discuss things like price and who owns how much of the coin.

I would recommend just ignoring coins that have these private slack groups. No need to get in on this coin when there's so many other coins to support.

Is tron a good purchase now?
Or should I wait till it drops somemore.

The idea of TRON as I understand it is to be a crypto technology incubator in the "alt" world.  

If you want other people to pay your bills for you while you develop TRON further, you could make a NXT asset to fund your development, campaign for fundraising on kickstarter/indiegogo/cryptocurrency crowdfunding...

I don't have much sympathy for you man. Speaking as an entrepreneur, asking for funding so you can work on crypto full time-- IE take care of your personal expenses-- is not the best way to sell supporters of you and your coin on further development. Creating a lottery-staking coin for the express purpose of funding your further full-time cryptocurrency pursuits is just counterproductive and takes development time, and thus value, away from TRON. It's zero-sum.

In such a space as cryptocurrency, with anonymity and distrust or trustlessness, you have to build the value first and then convince speculators that your altcoin has value. It's more difficult every day to do it the other way around where you promise "if I get the funding I need then I'll do this".

I guess it's just very rare to find a skilled developer like yourself who's also entrepreneurial enough to bootstrap their project on their own. Two disparate, high-level skillsets. If you can't find a way to make TRON happen whether or not other people are willing to kick in, then maybe you're just not as passionate as you need to be to make it happen no matter what. Or maybe, more likely, you are more interested in the title of Full-Time Cryptocurrency Developer than you are in doing the very hard work it takes so that you can't help but be known as that.

I mean no disrespect, and I can see you're trying to come up with creative ideas to get what you want, but if you *already have* an idea with legs (TRON) at some point you need to stop looking for shortcut ideas to leverage others and do work yourself. Get a second job completely unrelated to crypto. Take on some freelance coding work. Find an angel and convince them to float you while you dev. You're already spending time on TRON, and it's not enough, so you need to take some additional personal risk and put some of your own skin in the game besides your time (which if you love cryptocurrency you would be doing anyway). If you're not willing to take on that risk personally, ask yourself if you really believe in your project's potential regardless of its value, or if you're just trying to find ways for others to pay you for the programming hours you put in.

Got a question for anyone who has TRON coins or likes crypto.

I'm thinking about doing a "westcoin" where its a small ICO and a mining phase after, to support myself so I can stay dedicated to crypto. I dont want to go get a real job again. I could make it fund itself through a gambling sort of staking where users can choose to stake and can win or lose their money 50% of the time in the stake blocks. If they lost, it'd go straight to a dev fund that would be 100% used for bounties, so the coin would be mostly self sufficient i'd hope. and i could use it as a testbed, im doing to stick counterparty tech in there so i can test colored coins.  

The amount won or burnt would have to be perfect.. enough that people want to take the risk of staking but not so much that it inflates the money supply too badly. Since the dev account gets 50% of the coins, a higher stake would be OK and the community could regularly decide what to do with the funds - to fund a new bounty, or to burn them, or just leave them in the fund. We could work something out with multisig so I don't have to be trusted so much with that, thats ok with me.

I'd do an ICO maybe 50 or 60 btc, and I'd be happy if i only got like 4 or 5, then burn all the rest of the coins to make the value go up, and go into the short mining phase. I'm seeing if trex will list it for me, waiting to hear back. I don't want it to look too egotistical so I'm going to use sad pepe for the logo.

https://40.media.tumblr.com/c261969b41e5033b5312625b6ac88237/tumblr_nozk536fZc1tfbd61o1_400.jpg

I had this idea because of that stupid Boats and Bitches coin that just raised 60 btc so the devs could go hire hookers and rent a boat.  

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bnb-boats-n-bitches-ico-pos-new-roadmap-1079548

I could use money like that to frugally live on, and I wouldn't even mind being transparent about what it was being used for. I could make it funny and fun.

Maybe if I raise over X amount I can promise to strap a gopro to my shoulder and use some of the funds go on a bender in Vegas with my fiancee, since that seemed to work well for boats and bitches.

haha. but really, I could use the money to work on TRON full time and people would have something to play with and trade in the market instead of just donating money. I'd stay transparent with the funds and I don't have any expensive vices so I don't mind being being transparent.

With the self-funding staking method, I can continue to focus on TRON and the TRON community doesn't have to worry i'll be putting too much effort in the other project.

I would make it so everyone who participates in the ICO gets a chance to win a little prize, just a Sapphire Radeon 290X gpu, but still cool to win a $400 card if you only donate $1 to the crowdfund. If I raisde over X amount I could give away something like an i7 laptop too.

I expect a good amount of softcore FUD and trolling in the thread but I think it could be fun. Nobody wants to see more devs leaving alts or unable to donate fulltime efforts. I would be transparent about how i was spending the money and use it only for neccesity not bullshit. I have all the bullshit I need, too much computer stuff. The money would be used to support myself while I work on TRON fulltime and use some of the money for TRON also. Thoughts?


Masternodes Update

Masternodes will be completed in 3 days or June 26th, 2015.  The directors have agreed that 10,000 TRON should be the MN cost. There will be only 30 to 50 masternodes total, we're still deciding on that exact # and if you have any feedback pls take a moment to post it.

Thanks!

If you want other people to pay your bills for you while you develop TRON further, you could make a NXT asset to fund your development, campaign for fundraising on kickstarter/indiegogo/cryptocurrency crowdfunding...

I don't have much sympathy for you man. Speaking as an entrepreneur, asking for funding so you can work on crypto full time-- IE take care of your personal expenses-- is not the best way to sell supporters of you and your coin on further development. Creating a lottery-staking coin for the express purpose of funding your further full-time cryptocurrency pursuits is just counterproductive and takes development time, and thus value, away from TRON. It's zero-sum.

In such a space as cryptocurrency, with anonymity and distrust or trustlessness, you have to build the value first and then convince speculators that your altcoin has value. It's more difficult every day to do it the other way around where you promise "if I get the funding I need then I'll do this".

I guess it's just very rare to find a skilled developer like yourself who's also entrepreneurial enough to bootstrap their project on their own. Two disparate, high-level skillsets. If you can't find a way to make TRON happen whether or not other people are willing to kick in, then maybe you're just not as passionate as you need to be to make it happen no matter what. Or maybe, more likely, you are more interested in the title of Full-Time Cryptocurrency Developer than you are in doing the very hard work it takes so that you can't help but be known as that.

I mean no disrespect, and I can see you're trying to come up with creative ideas to get what you want, but if you *already have* an idea with legs (TRON) at some point you need to stop looking for shortcut ideas to leverage others and do work yourself. Get a second job completely unrelated to crypto. Take on some freelance coding work. Find an angel and convince them to float you while you dev. You're already spending time on TRON, and it's not enough, so you need to take some additional personal risk and put some of your own skin in the game besides your time (which if you love cryptocurrency you would be doing anyway). If you're not willing to take on that risk personally, ask yourself if you really believe in your project's potential regardless of its value, or if you're just trying to find ways for others to pay you for the programming hours you put in.