The problem I see with a Veribit style service is, that it requires a certain coin value and trading volume to work and not harm a coin. In order to use Veribit your VRC is "converted" to BTC. The more the service is used, the more "sell pressure" will be created. That works for Vericoin at current value and trading volume. But HMY would collapse under just one medium-sized purchase with such a system right now.
You first got to build a stronger community and value around the coin, then such a service could be usefull.
I'm not actually particularly fond of it, but right now (a working) anon tech is still "valuable". That door is closing though, as more coins actually implement their whitepapers...
I don't disagree, but two points:
1. By the time this actually implemented, the coin will be trading FAR higher with FAR more volume.
2. I think it is unlikely the feature will be heavily used even if Harmony was worth far more.
RE: Anon. If they could implement it next week, sure I guess it would add some value. But if we are talking a month or more out, the world will have moved on. Anon hype is already dying - Harmony needs to be looking one step past it. IMO a veribit implementation will be the next big thing.
Thinking one step ahead is a good idea. But like a baby this coin first needs to learn to sit and crawl, before it can learn to stand up and walk. You say #1 as if that was a given. But how will you achieve that volume and price increase? It won't come just because we want it to.
Right now HMY is a very, very niche coin. It basically "lives" on a single exchange and has a very small audience. Even the multipool is barely used. We need to expand the audience first. Unless the devs or one of us has a breakthrough idea to go directly to consumers, target audience #1 is still the crypto-trader-sphere. Get their attention by delivering the features they crave. The feature has to make sense in the context of the coin. More on why I think Veri-/Harmonybit is not that feature below.
The devs already said they're working on anon, let them finish it (although I agree that in a month it will probably be too late to make much of a diference). Also finish that dual-wallet, that's a unique and original idea AFAIK. Maybe integrate TOR, from what I hear it shouldn't be too complicated. Also take care of that Bittrex wallet address, just to be safe. Get those things done and the traders will come. Then it is time for steps 2 and 3 and 4 and ...
BTW, haven't seen you in a while in the UNO thread. Make sure to check back in some time, LOTS of interesting stuff happened lately! New devs, new wallet, new website, new services, new stolen coins investigation drama, pretty much new everything.
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A few thoughts on altcoin adoption in general and Veribit in particular:
Veribit is sort of a band-aid to make up for lack of merchant adoption. It is a nice feature and makes a coin that has it more
usefull, no doubt about it. But I am not convinced at all it makes a coin more
valuable. It doesn't give anyone a reason to own the coin over Bitcoin. Why on earth sould I spend BTC to get HMY, just so that I can have it auto-exchanged back to BTC again if I want to buy something? Doesn't make much sense. There is a reason the VRC devs didn't introduce Veribit when VRC was trading at 700 satoshis, although they were certainly already working on it then.