Hey,
What up BTC.org? I've been on a 6 week vaca from alts. Still holding my VRC strong and wanted to see if anything was new? Any update on the James/SuperNET/weareallgoingtoberich situation?
Everyone has moved over to the new forums, lots going on:
https://www.vericoinforums.comYeah, I know that's up and running. I think it's a terrible idea. Most people that want to learn about altcoins will come to bitcointalk.org first.
Someone should stick around and chat with the other 98% of crypto coin users
There's really no reason that the two can't co-exists, though. This announcement thread can be used for announcements and follow-up discussion for the general alt-coin community and the drive-by-curious while the official forums can be used for more focused discussions on specific topics.
Back out to the root of the BCT forums and look at all of the forums that are setup for Bitcoin, each chock full of various threads/topics. There are over 30 forums, each dedicated exclusively to bitcoin... and a mere two shared by hundreds of alts, with each alt having the bulk of its discussions reduced to just a single thread.
Yes, bitcoin is much more establish and there's currently significantly more interest in it than there is in any specific alt. If it were reduced to a single discussion thread, it'd be an absolute nightmare trying to find information on specific topics. I'll argue that the same thing applies to any altcoin with a discussion thread spanning more than a hundred pages, though; and we're currently at 840 pages.
Try to find and follow the discussion on the current state of the SuperNet fund in this thread. You'll probably go up to the search box and type in "SuperNet Fund". That will give you three pages of search results with the most recent posts at the top. If you want to follow the discussion in a natural order, you'll start skimming thru the search results until you find one that looks like a good starting point. That may take you back 6 or 7 pages and once you read that post, you may have to skim over a page or two of unrelated posts before you find the next reply. It's messy and frustrating. On the official forums, you can just go to the "
VeriCoin Escrow Fund (Gifted from James)" thread and read from the beginning.
Take your own situation as another example. You've been out of the loop for a few weeks and are wondering what's been happening with VeriCoin and hope that someone will summarize things for you (probably so that you don't have to read through pages of discussions to find out). In a well established and properly utilized forum, you can just skim the titles of the active topics to get a feel for what's been going on. The Official VeriCoin Forums are just getting started, but if you skim the titles of the active topics, you'll learn that:
- The Official Forums have been launched
- The new VeriCoin Wallet has been released
- There have been some wallet sync issues
- There's some discussion about CoinBlab and Circle.com
- There's some discussion about the SuperNet fund
- There's a VeriCoin marketing discussion
- There's a very active discussion about mining hardware
...and you can read about each of those w/o having to wade thru pages of posts related to the others.
TLDR; I think that the official forums are a good idea and ultimately beneficial to VeriCoin. I also think that this thread can continue to serve a useful and necessary function.