Thank you all again for your continued patience while this normalizes. The scrutiny and critiques are important for us.
I'd like to open discussion for a few posts with those with experience re what could have happened during our launch - as to prevent future coins or others that maintain them from having this happen to them. Had a very productive convo with the dev about the art of crypto sabotage from competing coins/pools/miners/scammers/pr stunts/etc etc that he experienced his last time in the market, and we're already starting to see.
Dev has gone over the code many times, it's par. Nothing was out of the ordinary yesterday compared to any other coins launch except the reaction from the market.
So - it might not matter, but I'm an analytical person and would like to understand more. What 'else' could have happened yesterday either by design or by an unforeseen that may have caused the sync/retarget/etc issue? One huge warehouse rig setup hitting us first/fast? Other coin owners discovering a way to sabotage a launch/somehow screw the diff crazy high and leave? Did we simply do way too much pre-promo and it suffered from a bombardment of people as of the moment the client was released? ??
Would like to hear your .02, and learn a bit more about the crazy tech side of the backend.
First problem - some better instructions on the linux wallet please, people getting bogged down trying to get it going - issues with libraries.
I know it's linux but usability is still important and it would be nice to have it like windows for ease of use - probably a lot better for security and confidence too.
I've tried a bunch of different coins and usually there is some issue getting the linux going, and the readme is usually not enough to fix it.
All those nice front ends for miners and clients tend to be for windows. I'd love a CGminer gui like the one available for windows so I could do my configs in a snap rather than trolling through files, making endless petty typos and wondering where I went wrong. Who wants to be going through the CGminer conf file looking for a misplaced comma ? But these things seem to never get made for linux - shame.
But aside from that, knowing that the wallet is going to be usable without a struggle would be very cool.
I gave up on getting the linux wallet going for this coin, and used the windows instead on my dual boot setup - but it's a drag to reboot just to see if my earthcoin is going OK.
And if people are serious about crypto currencies as a way of getting round monopolistic money systems then they should be going for as little centralised, monopolistic operating systems as possible too.
