Looking for consensus on community takeover of this coin.
It's got potential - but it seems the developer is MIA. Yeah, there's a ton of alt coins out there, why save one? Maybe because I need a new cause... Maybe because I think with a little bit of effort, this coin could see some use and popularity, and become something that us 'little guys' can use... I don't want to compete with bitcoin, litecoin, or any of the other coins -- that's a waste of time and energy. What I want to do is put together a SOLID platform this coin can grow from.
It seems since the dev disappeared, we still have miners, there is still network activity, and so on. So it's not entirely dead -- and it looks that there are some of us out here that still have a little hope for the coin. Maybe there is appeal because the coin can still be mined by us who don't have multi-thousand dollar mining rigs generating tons of h/ps... Because of the coins horrible difficulty settings (too low to resist mining pools) - there are problems with the client when the big multi-pools come around, and of course not to mention the sheer number of blocks generated when the network HPS gets high...
Anyways, I've pooled all my other coin assets into XNC. I'm going to try to round up a couple experienced devs and see what we can get going on the interwebs to help the coin along. Here are some un-organized notes so far:
- Checkpoints in the client for the blockchain - it sorely needs them... As well as implementing some of the other upstream updates to the client... Checkpoints first though...
- Production level build environment for the client for downloads (trivial)
- Proper client configuration with stable notes in the bootstrap instead of this crap of managing the config file. Nothing more unprofessional than a client that comes in a ZIP file with no installer, and a text-file with instructions on how to make it work. No reason this can't be resolved.
- Faucet -- they're neat - and given the sheer number of coins already minted, shouldn't be hard to come up with some XNC to feed it...
- Some entertainment - something along the lines of a XNC game server...
- I have some other ideas I'm still kicking around in my head -- so I'll update as I come up with them...
Also looking for suggestions from the little community we still have left on where to go from here --
Thanks for your time and lets get this thing back off the ground. There's no reason that just because the original dev walked away (MIA since sometime in August from what I can tell -- no git updates in months) that those of us with the thousands of coins can't find something useful for them other than dumping for nothing on exchanges...