I have enjoyed mining burst from the very beginning just because POC was different than anything else out there and actually quite fun with the learning curve of plotting, mining, and now even GPU assisted mining. Some really cool advancements have been made.
There is just nothing to make people want to invest in Burst despite some of the very nice features under the hood like AT that few are aware of. Besides gambling with Burst and investing in a few assets in the asset exchange what purpose does it have.... The built in Marketplace could also be a nice way to draw people in but without a way to browse listings and need to know Account ID of someone who has posted something for sale that is also useless. I don't feel the new all in one solution crowetic is making will be enough to save Burst. If something like that was available from the start of Burst it would have made it much further.
Most existing miners will probably be giving up on Burst in favor of things like Storj where with 10k coins you can actually get rewarded now for providing storage space in Test Group B. This at least shows signs of a brighter future of decentralized apps and actually making use of the used hard drive space instead of wasting it for the sole purpose of an energy efficient mining alternative.
I do believe the Dev is likely still active behind the scenes pressing forward. When the Dev rarely posts to the thread with any type of update of progress or what a current roadmap is it makes you want to sell and just be done with it. For Burst to be a year old and you still need to manually type in /rewardassignment.html to set that is absurd.
Myself and others would probably be more motivated to donate to a PR campaign when the product is updated a little more frequently or some type of consistent communication from Dev.....even once a week 5 minutes of time is not too much to ask. Once I see that I will donate 100k Burst toward PR. If Burst shows signs of life it would be worth a donation, many people have posted over and over asking Dev for a simple post once in a while with a progress update. Even if weekly updates were provided exclusively on burstforum.com it would be progress and maybe draw people away from a 1100+ page thread here.
Thanks for an interesting read in this mess of a thread
I'm aware that the Devs have been doing promotion for the coin, but it really hasn't given too much results. I believe that BURST simple wasn't ready for a PR campaign. It was and still is way too difficult to get started to get people involved, despite all innovation.
With daWallet's program for plotting and mining (and a wallet), with a simple setup.exe, we get something really significant to lower the level of entrance for regular people. That should be promoted hard.
Also, as I written before, the coin needs a detailed roadmap, for technological, software and promotional development. As far as I understood crowetic, this will be done. It remains to do a few things after that, like updating and simplify the OP and making use of the blog.
I strongly believe that BURST will be reborn with these measures and some more. BURST was practically impossible to promote until now. To focus on software and infrastructure development the last months is, I think, the best choice that the Devs could do. Now, from 30 sats, BURST is ready for its first baby steps.
Also, to make a short addition to this...
http://burstcoin.info/market/Above is the link for the marketplace explorer. Which will be getting further development done as well (I have some great ideas for the marketplace as a whole, that I think will make BURST VERY used, and make people want to use the coin more than ever!)
But yea, we definitely agree with you about having a use for the coin, and have many ideas to conduct this usability, and re-introduce the coin to the people with more usability.
Such as our setup.exe for the Windows Wallet GUI plotter/miner for BURST! This will make the coin EXTREMELY SIMPLE TO USE! Which I believe is the first step to mass-adoptability!
Thank you for being a long-standing member of the community, and stay tuned like Y mentioned, we're just getting started!
<3 to the BURST community!
Btw, why not call coindesk and ask what's up, or take one of the published ones as template?