I see many newbies asking for information that is already on the thread, I recall someone created a thread with information about the coin and there is also datacoin.info , please check it before asking
Also, I have been forced to abandon the blockchain file browser and the upload tool that I was hosting (I am still running a full node and will do it for a month or so) because of lack of time since I have been moving on to other things.
I still believe this coin has some potential, but it urgently needs :
- A dedicated dev team with fluent communication with the community (if there is any left).
- More services around it
- And most notably : people using those services
- Less hoarding, datacoin is meant to spent on uploads, not to hoard it (see the amount of coins that are kept in exchanges FFS). For instance check some block explorer (if you can find one) and search for block rewards greater than the standard, you won't find much of them, this means the coin is not being used at all.
Even with all the above, I wouldn't expect Datacoin to succeed given the recent developing projects like MaidSafe, Ethereum, Skycoin and many others that will implement some kind of decentralized storage and have some nice developers (and funding) behind.
Excuse the rant