I agree with you guys too. If we think of the situation further, it is complicated and the problem could be contradicted one to another. In a simple word, it is because magi intends to stay at low hashrate that makes chances for single person to plugin such a miner. According to prior discussions, I am not yet to see a chance to make simple algo switch to disable a super hashrate miner; for example, what if he owns a CPU mining farm, then there is no way to get rid of it with whatever algos. We could go for huge amount hashrate allowed by the network, like the bitcoin and then the hash of the current one is trivial; but I don't think this would be good to go.
Of course he could mine with GPU or FPGA too as people talked earlier. Certainly I'd like to work on this situation in whatever approaches we can take to deal with it, allow me some time to take serious look at it, but I've learned that this isn't that easy to make changes that disable them at all. But wait if one takes miners leaving as a killing (surely it sounds like very disappointing situation), that might be too earlier to say about that.
Well this needs a must work.
Well spoken.
There are a lot of coins out there, most have no real purpose, are only used for mining and trading (p&d). Only a few ones really work hard, together with their community, to give their project a real purpose: Using it in the real world as an alternative payment solution.
But in order to provide a secure, unexpensive and fast worldwide payment solution, potential problems needs to be prevented as much as possible.
No customer or merchant will deal with a coin that i.e. stops processing transactions as some stupid kids plays with an ASIC or a GPU miner developer tries to make some profit selling his custom code.
If you want to succeed, you need to be aware that there are 2 point of views:
- people experienced with cryptos (miners, "investors", traders, exchanges,...)
- people who have never heard of Bitcoin or crypto in general
A business owner mostly is not interested in dealing with wallets, mining tools, pump and dump and what else we, "crypto nerds" are used to deal with.
They simply want a robust and easy to use payment option to reach a new audience and receive their customer payments without high fees, chargebacks and currency conversion loss.
@111magic
I really appreciate your efforts, you keep the community alive and try to spread the word!
BUT: in nearly each of your posts, your solution to all problems and questions is:
"The Magi community is awesome, our developer is a genius and will find solutions to solve all problems, Magi will be the be a success, lets start another giveaway."
Sorry Dude, but serously spoken, stop that nonsense. Magi is an interesting coin, your Dev seems to be a honest guy with good ideas and a lot of knowledge. But as he has stated several times, he currently doesn't have a solution for the current problems and needs input and ideas from the community (which is totally legit!).
So instead celebrating the community and coin in each post, you/we all should start thinking about how to make Magi more robust against big hashpower attacks. Start generating volume on exchanges instead of telling the people to sit on their coins to gain more attention and to generate a stable price(although I need to mention that the price of XMG is very stable, compared to most other coins).
For example, have a look at Dogecoin. There's no real spread, you need some funds to move the price considerably, so this helps to keep the price at a more or less stable rate (mostly between 40 and 50 satoshi on average). That helps merchants to reduce risk to lose money and makes a coin more interesting for them.
Just my 2 satoshi, some points to think about.