How is EGem different than ethereum apart from few basic changes.
I want to know what exactly do you plan to achieve.
If its just about speed then there are a lot of other networks like EOS, Tron which can achieve the same.
If its just about a different skin of Ether then it makes no sense.
Ethereum also has a list of plans to make a move towards POS, along with addressing the scalability issue. If they are successful then there wont be any need for EGem.
Just curious about why are people supporting this project.
Looks like a lot of shilling going on in twitter for the same.
...and quite the opposite of a "lot of shilling" EGEM almost made a "non announcement" of the recent airdrop of SFRX 2:1 to all EGEM holders because it EGEM community is tight knit since day one and it was based to reward on participation in the initial chain build. If you happen to be on tweets related to EGEM you might want to consider yourself fortunate to be following someone that at least is into real POW crypto. The entire team came from another coin project and has not advertised at all except grass roots to active participants. Case in point, an airdrop is a major marketing move for shilled coins and I don't even think a single reddit post was made in advance of the airdrop. The team came from a previous ethereum based POW project and a community that values working on this type of chain as a base, and has made significant enhancements on that open source stack that are coming out on this integrated subchain. Meanwhile the information on Twitter has been to a direct audience and in conjunction with podcasts and conference attendance or even private dev meetings with a need to reach that direct audience. Besides I think you are also overlooking the fact that there was no pre mine or ICO on this fair launch POW eth chain which is a direct improvement over those exact activities on Ethereum.
All that being said, team EGEM developers (at least myself for certain as I am one of them) are extremely appreciative of the ETH codebase and philosophy and have decided to improve on that function in their own way. Initially, yes, this means only a difficulty adjustment and faster block time with a removal of the premine and presale funds, lowering the uncle reward, and a fair launch mining situation. But, secondly an extension to that base of a retrofit "quarrynode" was placed into the community to support network growth. Finally that base is being enhanced with a multi currency wallet and additional related chain (our integrated subchain sapphire) that improves the way the entire ecosystem interacts with the stable core. Sapphire is original code from the ground up that incorperates some new connection protocols for peers (based on other open source projects which will be acredited in the code) and unique approach to mining and node expansion. Sapphire is also independently mined with a dofferent algorithm than the main chain and is designed to accommodate dual mining expansion of the EGEM ecosystem in general. These activities take EGEM into its own direction and hopefully provide a new block chain open source base for thee communities to learn from and explore further enhancements to the crypto community down the road.
tldr: I don't think its shilling as much as you are following someone related to the great EGEM project on twitter :-D
final: hope to see you there in our discord :-D
