Guys,
Im talking to you as an average Joe.
I like the idea of this project, but I dont see where the road goes right now.
I could manage to burn a btc in the burning phase and I am excited of how this will evolve and Im planning to hodl so far, but I couldnt even sell XCP if I wanted. For me there are too many obstacles in the way that would enable me to buy, sell, trade, etc.
So this arises some questions to me:
- Will there be a user friendly Wallet some day, everyone is capable of using? I think thats a major reason for moste people not getting onto the XCP-train right now. I see in blockscan "only" about 2400 different addresses with XCP onto it. This is way too less in my opinion to get successful.
- What is the roadmap of the dev team? Is there any plans to get a wider spread of counterparty? Even IF we do marketing like hell, people couldnt use it because its not user friendly right now.
I dont want bitchin around. I deeply honor what the dev-team and community has reached so far. Im just trying to be a little bit constructive.
Cheers!
Hi,
Counterparty allows users to place trustless bets with the entire Counterparty ecosystem. This includes simply Win/Loss bets such as sporting event and more complex bets, which will allow you to speculate or hedge risk on currencies or commodities. Counterparty also does other things. For example, you can create a company and distribute dividends to shareholders easily, drastically lowering the cost of starting and maintaining a company.
Counterparty is four months old and still holds the most appeal for a small set of technically savvy users. The issues you mention in your post are exactly the reasons why there are only 4,000 unique addresses. However, we're happy with the growth of the project and I do not expect growing the community further to be an issue. Counterparty's focus has always been developing the protocol and that continues to be the case. As Counterparty becomes easier to use there will very likely be a large influx of new, less technical users.
Counterwallet is going to be a turning point for the project. The overall makeup and size of the community will most likely change drastically in the short to mid term after its release.
Thats a nice summary, thank you.
So I think the winner will be an easy wallet for people like me
Also I cannot use the DEX and I depent on a CEX, cauz Im not willing fighting the jungle of installing huge mass of dependencies and learning the huge commands...
