Topic: [ANN][DCR] Decred - Community Governance | Bitcoin Devs | Lightning Network - page 558. (Read 1202015 times)
December 16, 2015, 07:31:25 AM
Interesting! Watching - looking forward for this
December 16, 2015, 04:36:39 AM
I set my eyes on this
December 16, 2015, 02:54:00 AM
I can see an interest into this, so i might as well follow too and see where it will go, the presentation is great.
December 16, 2015, 02:50:34 AM
Been following your projects for a while now as a Go developer. Cheers.
December 16, 2015, 02:21:57 AM
... I signed up for the airdrop with my bitcointalk account. Not sure if I'll qualify, but I've done some miner and wallet gui wrappers for Myriadcoin and Monero, respectively, using a github account with same nick that I use here.
Looking forward to the release and hope everything goes smoothly.
Looking forward to the release and hope everything goes smoothly.
You will definitely qualify. Anyone will who expresses interest and shows some sign of contributory/constructive thought. The project is inclusive, so nobody will sit on a throne and make decisions to exclude people - it's only meant as a rough filter to try and avoid people who have no interest in building it up. It's also unconditional, but that's a risk the community will take collectively - better to give people the benefit of the doubt if they're prepared to give the project consideration!
December 15, 2015, 01:39:34 PM
Created an account (finally) just to follow this. Looks really interesting!
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Thought maybe cardboardoranges is a relative of tacotime's, but it doesn't look like it's the case. If you're a lurker, welcome!
Thanks! I follow Monero threads and am active on IRC and Reddit. I generally avoid BCT due to the vast amounts of BS floating around, but with this I pulled the trigger
December 15, 2015, 01:35:00 PM
Nice writeup, will be watching this. I enjoy seeing the timeline it says everything about the hard work.
This means a lot, thank you. The hope is that we can see Decred grow alongside btcsuite in a symbiotic relationship where improvements on either of those get fed back into the other. btcsuite has proven itself to be a strong project, stronger than ever, and that was part of the motivation to bring that consistent and high-quality development input into an "altcoin" project. We haven't seen that to date, at the very least limited examples compared to the sheer number of projects that don't keep up the dev work. That's part of a bigger problem that needs to be solved to legitimize alternative cryptocurrency systems.
December 15, 2015, 01:26:19 PM
Created an account (finally) just to follow this. Looks really interesting!
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Thought maybe cardboardoranges is a relative of tacotime's, but it doesn't look like it's the case. If you're a lurker, welcome!
December 15, 2015, 01:20:15 PM
Created an account (finally) just to follow this. Looks really interesting!
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Why do you need a new account just to follow one coin?
December 15, 2015, 01:09:41 PM
Looks neat. Not sure the premine is the best idea, and airdrops have a somewhat notorious history in cryptoland, imo, but with that being said, I'd be happy to participate in this one
Those are fair comments. The project struggled with this for a long time...
I agree, it's a difficult if not intractable problem. At this point it almost seems better to call it something, anything, besides a premine - Etherium and their ICO or Darkcoin and their instamine, both kind of do linguistic gymnastics just to avoid the use of the 'p-word'.
Anyway, I signed up for the airdrop with my bitcointalk account. Not sure if I'll qualify, but I've done some miner and wallet gui wrappers for Myriadcoin and Monero, respectively, using a github account with same nick that I use here.
Looking forward to the release and hope everything goes smoothly.
December 15, 2015, 01:06:55 PM
Created an account (finally) just to follow this. Looks really interesting!
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sure...
December 15, 2015, 01:05:14 PM
Created an account (finally) just to follow this. Looks really interesting!
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December 15, 2015, 01:00:25 PM
Looks interesting. Lots to read and take in so I may need to go over it again but for now Im watching.
December 15, 2015, 12:57:56 PM
Well this sure looks interesting. I'll definitely be following this.
I am following and will be interested in mining when it starts.
Thank you for taking the time to read it all!
Will an AMD miner be the only option available or will some love be shown to the many Nvidia card miners?
The miner is a fork of an older version of cgminer with a rewritten kernel. It has been built for both AMD and nVidia cards, but it is likely that an optimized miner for nVidia cards will take a little finesse and a fork of ccminer.
December 15, 2015, 12:56:29 PM
Nice writeup, will be watching this. I enjoy seeing the timeline it says everything about the hard work.
December 15, 2015, 12:45:13 PM
I am following and will be interested in mining when it starts.
Will an AMD miner be the only option available or will some love be shown to the many Nvidia card miners?
Will an AMD miner be the only option available or will some love be shown to the many Nvidia card miners?
December 15, 2015, 12:27:16 PM
Well this sure looks interesting. I'll definitely be following this.
December 15, 2015, 12:10:28 PM
Looks neat. Not sure the premine is the best idea, and airdrops have a somewhat notorious history in cryptoland, imo, but with that being said, I'd be happy to participate in this one
Those are fair comments. The project struggled with this for a long time. Back in 2013, we thought about trying to get people to contribute financially to fund the development that way, but then there was an explosion of projects who ran off with people's money promising to build stuff. Some of them did build stuff and many more didn't. It was really important to not do that - the community's been battered to hell with all the scams.
But the question remained, how do you pay for real development work and produce something that is worthwhile, whilst not putting the community at risk if it can't be built? The best alternative was to do use what's being built for that purpose so the devs carry the risk and then give to the community the same amount (spread across those interested), so that there's a form of balance. Both these concepts, premine and airdrop have been abused, so we wanted to make sure that's avoided - hopefully people will see that we haven't asked them to carry risk for the devs in that way.
At the end of the day, I'd rather opt for a solution that gets new technology that isn't vaporware and tries to make improvements, remains sustainable in the long-term, and delivers something real in the end.
December 15, 2015, 11:59:58 AM
What is the origin and meaning of the name "Decred"? How is it pronounced?
tacotime came up with it while brainstorming with c0. If I remember correctly, it was on the topic of "decentralized credits". It's kind of taken on a meaning of its own now. It seems that most people who see it think it's pronounced "dee-cred".
In terms of the name, made up words are always nice since you don't have to translate them (an idea that goes back at least to Kodak if not earlier).
December 15, 2015, 11:51:56 AM
What is the origin and meaning of the name "Decred"? How is it pronounced?
tacotime came up with it while brainstorming with c0. If I remember correctly, it was on the topic of "decentralized credits". It's kind of taken on a meaning of its own now. It seems that most people who see it think it's pronounced "dee-cred".
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