Everybody is holding and it's slowly dying. Don't dream it's gonna jump to 300 overnight. It can only happen if there is action on the market.
I said this 2 months ago, everybody was dreaming to sell it @300 back then. Now, it looks like was right, unfortunately.
So all holders (many miners included here, I assume) dump some coins, and put a buy order. If everybody did that, we'd be well. We need action. If no trades happen, coin is dying.
And there's the other issue of fast decreasing block reward. If block reward decreases faster than the BURST/BTC value increases, it's bad news. And the value keeps decreasing!
The only reason I'm still mining BURST is because there's no other PoC coin yet. I plan to make one though, and hopefully other people will make PoC coins also.
If there were other PoC coins, many miners would have left BURST for another, and then without miners the coin is completely dead.
I hear many people criticizing me that I mine to get profit. Well, duuuuuh!!! That's why anybody mines. And thus far I ended up mostly holding.
BUT I DO SOMETHING for the coin. I MINE. I mine a lot. I do a lot for the coin. Without hashpower the coin is insecure (open to 51% attack) and therefore dead, or ready to die at any time.
Erm... It's not just about selling, it's about buying too. Burst doesn't have enough demand to support everyone selling. If all the holders sold, the coin would crash. That's why it was so profitable for so long to mine, because a lot of people were holding. There is a LOT of Burst in circulation right now being held by people.
The coin price right now is what happens when the holders start selling. There isn't enough buyers. Selling and buying will just encourage more dumping unless you're buying more then you're selling.
Yes, people may leave the coin for another if there is more then one PoC coin. That's what happens when there are choices. It doesn't mean the coin is any less dead if another doesn't exist, it just means the technology has more then one home and wont die out with one coin (if the coin dies). Right now all the eggs are in one basket. Every major algo has more then one coin associated with it EXCEPT PoC.
Mining for the sake of 'security' is a self serving excuse. The coin would be fine without massive hash power much as it was before it had it. Also this is different from what you said a month ago when you were saying you hold all your coins and don't sell any. Perhaps the reason the market is crashing right now is because of you as I predicted a month ago? Burst was being propped up by a bunch of miners holding hands and not selling. You get one big miner who decides to start dumping and the coin goes with it. Good job bro.
My two cents!
The value of this coin and all other crypto coins are based on its usability and perceived value.
Right now we can only Mine -> Hold / Exchange for btc / Buy Assets / Donate for PR
We need to create more items, tools, services & products so people can spend and earn burst within our
community and then build outwards from there. We need more places to spend the coin, more stuff like
the burst derby game (which I loved), more assets, more trading.
Is someone here capable of building a burstcoin dice or similar game. I'd be happy to pay in burst for
such a creation.
Thanks
Why aim so low, dice games are everywhere. We need something a bit more.
The smart contracts is really awesome.
The coin still really has massive usability problems. You can't even make smart contracts without a lot of work. The wallet is a hassle to use and if you want to start mining you have to jump through a ton of hoops to do so. Many PoW coins have a simple 'mine' button right on the wallet. Obviously it doesn't work very well, but it still has it. I'm sure PoC2 will help with plot generation times, but right now it's a fairly complicated and very long process.