A nice newbie post
I like Counterparty but I am less optimistic.
1. Decreasing interest to use counterpoarty for crowdfunding. Waves or something like this will be used.
2. Little progress. Functionality of the exchange is even worse than at the beginning, years ago. Does anybody use the dex?
3. Smart contracts are problematic even in Ethereum (either original or vitalikfork). Why should anybody use them here? What is so innovative about cloning the code of another coin?
4. Cybersquating with counterparty assets. Everything is better than this. Better to allow non unique aliases for assets than this.
5. The dex is slow, heavy and annoying. It is not improving. Nobody can build better technical solution on top of the existing dex. Something completely else will be used.
6. No use value for XCP token. Creation of assets (useless) and maybe smart contracts fuel (problematic).
7. I am not in Slack and othe internal channels. But it is not important. The general impression is that the devs abandoned this project long ago.
8. This thread is dead anyway. Where are other trolls??
Here is my perspective as a founder of a startup that builds on top of Counterparty:
1. We have huge interest in using Counterparty as a crowdfunding platform for our game. Waves has no functionality yet in that regard from what I know.
2. The Dex works great and enables everyone to instantly trade their assets in a decentralized manner.
3. There is no need for Ethereum based smart contracts for our use case. The EVM project has been abandoned anyway, leaving more room for progressful innovation on the token creation side, such as sub-assets and randomized token distributions. Also, how do you define a smart contract? A multisig can also be seen as a smart contract.
4. No idea what you are referring to here - would be happy if you could elaborate on it.
5. See point 2.
6. Creation of assets is very useful for an indefinite amount of purposes. Counterparty provides all the infrastructure needed for anyone to create a functional asset within seconds.
7. I am in the Counterparty Slack, where I receive instant support from all projects that build the infrastructure around Counterparty. A vibrant ecosystem of diverse but symbiotic applications is emerging.
8. Hi.