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.
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.
Mmm...well written post notsofast.
Cryptowest I'm a little stunned by the deterioration of this project from the grand optimism and enthusiasm it had just a month or so ago. I've exited and sold all my Tron (and lost about half what I've put in; so pretty disappointed) but I just can't see you're comprehending what needs to be done to give the project a sense of purpose and future potential.
The last few posts indicates to me you're clutching at all sorts of temporary adjunct ideas that aren't directly related to seeing Tron increase in value and shore up its future. And now you're talking about making another coin to help fund you! (With an ICO no less!!! Arrgghh ICOs are disastrous!) You have all these stakeholders here who've now probably lost a fair bit of BTC on Tron and you're wanting more put in, but it's not specific as to what it will do and achieve. Man-oh-man, this sounds like desperation. None of this is giving anyone any confidence. I think you need to be asking the question what is Tron for? If it's not becoming clear it's something that people want to use (even if it's just on gambling sites) then there's really no point to it. Masternodes won't fix this issue; they'll just give a temporary spike but potentially cause a whole lot of heart ache when you miss the deadline again (which you're almost certain to do; it's been the only consistent thing so far; stating a date/time, missing it then needing to apologise). Honestly, like many I gave you the benefit of the doubt but clearly you're over committing on your time and resources again and again. It's confidence sapping (for Tron holders as well as for you)
I think you need to have a really big think about what it is you're doing here because there doesn't appear to be even the most rudimentary strategy and business plan that will stack up and make Tron increase in value. I can't see how it's going to recover to anything like the pricing it reached unless the project has a clearly defined purpose, the road map directly ties in to that purpose and there's consistent delivery and achievement of milestones.
I appreciate that you really put yourself out there with the doxing but I have been worried from the beginning about your seeming inability to focus on Tron specifically. Shortly after you revealed your identity you started talking about helping another completely unrelated coin by getting involved with that dev and asking people to look at it (I almost sold all my Tron then as that had red flags for me....wish I had; I''d be in a far better position as Tron was probably around 40K or more around that time).
I think you're a good guy but you're terribly naive posting so much rhetoric and expression of difficulty about how people you've engaged have gone MIA and you have no money, etc. I understand it (we've all been there....or are there) but once you start putting this stuff into the public domain you've just pulled the rug out from under yourself as you're not expressing confidence about what you're doing. It's a vicious spiral that's almost impossible to stop once it starts.
I'd encourage you to really take time out...think carefully about what it is you're trying to achieve with Tron....how it can be commercially viable and what resources you need to execute. If you can't get that all clear in your mind, there's no point coming on here and blurting out all sorts of bizarre out-of-left-field ideas that don't have any specific relationship to core features/capabilities of Tron and this project's objectives as it just makes you look like you don't know what you're doing.
I hope you can find your way. I've lost a few BTC on this. I'm not upset about it (but don't have BTC to be throwing around either) as I knew the risks when I thought I'd have a go at it. The Dynamic PoS staking was a lot of fun, but the project's on its knees now because I don't think you really know what it is and what purpose it serves.
Still thinking it over, and everything you're saying makes sense too notsofast. I just would prefer to stay in crypto fulltime than go do something else. After seeing people raise stupid amounts of BTC for stupid reasons (hiring hookers and renting a boat), I feel like it's OK for me to ask for something. Finding an angel investor for a new cryptocurrency is pretty tough. The first one lost money and got skittish. So instead I'm seeing if the community and crypto people in general want to help. If they don't, it's ok. I'll get a regular job and keep working on TRON part time. But I'd really love it if ppl invested with this and traded it and made it fun, and I'd catch up on my bills and start doing some real work on tron and interviews and have time for all that stuff, make tron the only focus. Other developers are also having a really tough time. One of the most talented devs I know is doing so badly that he got an eviction notice put on his door today and might also leave for normal work again, which would be a waste of crypto genius. That's the altcoin scene today, its rough, but I believe I have something successful here and I want to fight for it with all I got. So I'm probably going to at least try it, maybe after these TRON MN are done.
