With so much iterative updates/forks I feel like this was a very "beta" project and almost feel like a new "alpha" product should be launched with free ICO coins given to those who invested previously. seedCoin2.0? lol Anywho, I still look forward to 6 more days of growth.
This is crypto, not something guaranteed.
NXT had a lot of issues with the wallet even a couple months after it launched. But it's working well now and the coin is going places, and early adopters will probably benefit handsomely.
The main dev here answers questions promptly and applies fixes in a reasonable amount of time.
I think those are good signs.
NXT is doing well because they hired James (jl777)
And I'm gaining valuable experience. It's not like I can't figure out solutions to the problems when they crop up. I can solve any problem. But it is much more difficult to anticipate a problem that hasn't happened yet when you're building on someone else's code.
Still, I wasn't as careful as I needed to be with the fixes we had earlier in the week, because every fix I make is extremely time sensitive given the nature of the coin. Once growth is past, I'll have time to test things more vigorously, and invite people to participate in beta testing on a larger network.
This was a relatively simple fix that I was actually able to test on the main network. It resulted in an orphaned block unfortunately, but it allowed me to verify that the numbers worked as expected in an extremely short period of time.
yes but, for you to make experiments and gain valuable experience, some people lost money. And THEY should be shouting. Not I
That's why I'm working as fast as I can to fix things.
Somewhat ironically, people with more than 1 coin may have actually not staked as much as they could have if this bug was fixed, since anything over the whole amount (unless they were very close to having the next highest number of coins. So 1.9 may have staked %269 fine if it was old enough) got rounded down to nothing.
Meanwhile, those of you that have been having this problem mostly have coins broken down into smaller pieces, and while some of those pieces only got 1% - you're going to make out like bandits when they start staking correctly when the fix takes effect, and the people that staked before wont be able to stake again for 24 hours.
One thing I am going to tell you and it's really important. If you ever decide to develop another coin, make sure you first create huge awareness to people.
With what I see now, is like you opened a huge shopping mall on the top of a mountain, in a village with 30 people in the middle of nowhere and you expect to become rich.
If you do not attract people to visit, the game is lost.
Believe me, your coin may be more interesting than doge. For me doge is a stupid coin, BUT, they created public awareness and attract people.