We need more hashpower to protect the coin ?
I've put something up for sale here before I go to ebay in a week or two;
http://burstcoin.info/market/including plotting to your specs.
Many of those available, but I can only plot 1 or 2 a week.
If the coin has more value it would automatically increase the hashpower.
Oh, how I love these smart-asses, stating the obvious.
I'm trying to make use of the integrated market place, you wisenheimer.
And the price per TB is half that of new disks. It depends on your local energy
costs if this is a viable alternative to buying new Harddrives. If so, voila,
32 TB added to the net.
Going along with use of the marketplace, I would like to reiterate that I too have posted some available hashpower for sale. Only in the form of a single 4TB Western Digital RE SAS drive, but available nonetheless.
Also, I still plan to go forward with the making of an asset with bit's mining power. He re-affirmed to me today that if we do go ahead with this, and people accept that it is something productive and give the benefit of the doubt, with of course myself backing the asset and doing the release, he will remove his 'threat' of any sort of 51% attack.
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One more thing, the decision to not alter the BURST reward structure for now has been made as well, seeing as there are too many community members against the idea. Also, the moving forward with a clone coin will take place.
I find the mention of some sort of spyware being imbedded into an open source project to be a ridiculous idea, but regardless, I will say that this is not something that should be worried about at all. I will likely be a big part of the clone coin as well, and feel like the modifications that are accepted as mutually beneficial for both BURST and the clone, would be put into BURST as well, upon agreement and acceptance, and of course, however many devs as deemed necessary, reviewing the code.
If anyone has issues with these statements, I think that is silly and I don't think I will entertain it whatsoever.
In recap, the only reason you would not trust the fact that these things would not come to fruition, is if you don't trust myself, nor the developers that will review the code.
I also think that the fact dual-mining is a possibility, means it should be attempted. However, seeing as the main dev will be bitladen, people who have issue with him can simply avoid the benefit of getting dual rewards from their same plotted space.
Also, since it IS possible to make the plots incompatible, I have a feeling that the more negativity that continues here between everyone, the less likely it would be for the two coins to want to work together, which in fact would be a shame, as I feel this could make something that is already extremely revolutionary, become even more-so having the ability to not only mine 1 advanced coin, but TWO, with hardly any power, on an existing BURST mining setup, would be pretty freakin' awesome.
So...
I will ask everyone, can we become a community of people that are out for the same goal here? Even if we may not view everything exactly the same, can we at least all agree that we're in support of the technology, and would really like it all to become successful?
Lastly, I hardly think we can compare BURST (or any crypto for that matter) to gold or really any 'traditional' investment, as there are many other things in play in the crypto community that aren't in the others, so there will obviously be differences. We can speculate based on whatever we'd like, but saying that things are for sure how things will play out in a given scenario, is just silly.
The thing is, we're in a place where we've got to stay ahead, and that means having active development on not only tools and extras, but of course, the core of the tech.
Community development for BURST is what we've gotta go with at the moment, as we've not got a single person willing to stand up and take the role 'lead dev'. So people, any developer that is willing, fork the github, do some work, come tell us what your work will do, and let us get this coin's development going again!
To the future! *holds up glass*