I'm a big supporter of this coin, I've tweeted about burst lot of times, I've spoken about burst in every trollbox, I've written an italian guide to start mining and opened a thread in my language, I've mined them since launch when here was 4 a.m., I really love this coin..
But..
Now think about investors who want to buy this coin. They don't care if they are mined by HDD! Sure, it's amazing, but investors need only the coin on the exchanges. They will never mine this coin! They want some features that make a coin unique or with great potential! At the moment the dev is working on pool v2, but it's not a great innovation, it's just a pool! We need a roadmap with any sort of feature, something different from other coins, something new! Maybe the dev can ask to the community some help, in every way like developing, promotion, tests, but with 3'600'000 coin every day in the market, price will go down if this coin doesn't add some features! I'm active in helping new italian miners who want to start (that's the thread:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/burst-unaltcoin-da-minare-con-lhard-disk-wallet-123-739507) but we need something more if we want to attract investors! I'm excited about a coin mined by HDD, I'm a miner too, but If I was an investor, a coin is a coin, when it's in my wallet! Even if it's mined whit an HDD! Multipool is a great idea, it can help to increase the price, but it isn't enough! We need something new, because this coin, after being mined, is a coin like 1000 others!
Well, investors don't need features. They need a coin that has potential for whatever reason. Bitcoin is bought - just because its bitcoin. Even Litecoins are still bought, just because they are lightcoins.
What makes this coin special? Its energy efficient AND you can mine it unlike POS coins. I bet the media will like it - unlike this greenhouse gas producing monster called Bitcoin.
ASIC's? Far out of reach - I did the math very carefully. You really have to buy HDD's to mine which results in about the same price for everyone. You see how well distributed the coin is already?
100% agree on the exchanges.
Ok so I was assuming the plot merger combines the separate plot files (ex. 0-100000, 100000-200000, etc.) into one big plot file. Am I wrong?
The plot merger only optimizes the internal structure inside a plot file. This improves speed a lot more than reducing the number of plot files