Mining for a while now with my laptop and never finding a block. Since difficulty will supposedly only raise in future, and people will be less and less likely to find blocks and to earn coins as time goes by, why should they actually want to mine? If on the first day it is already so difficult to actually mine any coins, how on earth can this project even think to be scalable to mass adoption?
During the first aborted launch I had written these lines. A pity my concern was not taking into consideration by the devs, since now the situation seems even worse, with most of the people not finding any blocks. Most of them will soon will lose motivation for mining.
We will have soon pools. Just need some patience from miners. Untill first pools appeared in Bitcoin no one was lefting mining BTC just because it is hard to mine.
When bitcoin started there was no where near 1000 miners. Let alone 500. or even 250.
You had a test-net for awhile with people mining, then on your first launch you saw a lot more miners than expected, to the point you delayed the launch by 8 days. So you had a good idea of what to expect come official launch.
Moreover, the first Bitcoin miners where moving in uncharted territory. We are in a different age now, these are known problems, and to refuse to learn from past experiences is stupid. And your declared mission was to go beyond Bitcoin - towards mass adoption. Too bad your actions are not coherent with that mission. Starting with solo mining where almost nobody gets rewards will select only a tiny group of nerds, willing to spend a lot of money in electricity for just the hope of hitting some blocks. That's the CONTRARY of mass adoption.
With already working pools, as it had been suggested, it would have been a great launch. Instead, it's just a huge wasted occasion. Now you will have to swim against the tide.
