There was a time when I considered doing an altcoin. I have some good ideas for technical innovations, starting with multivalent amounts (like colored coins but built into the protocol so you can't mess it up with a stupid client).
I even developed the code for it.
But then before launch I started seriously looking at the altcoin market, and ... ghod, it's a cesspool.
Between exchanges that accept bribes to list coins and blatant market manipulation scams, tactics like burst mining, the outright scamming, etc.... it's the sort of thing you just cannot do honorably any more.
So I didn't.
You should.
Don't announce it like a normal alt coin, don't push it, market it, inflate it's cost, premine it, or try to get it on exchanges. Just put the project out there and discuss + support it.
I'm having the same issue at the minute with
bitmark (linking so you can see how I've approached it). I'm being public but keeping it technical or based on discussions, with much of the information needing effort on a readers part.. to go to the wiki and read, I'm finding response and feedback is small but valuable.
I feel there is, and should be, space for projects with merit, the noise should not preclude the real projects.
Publish your work, I for one promise to have a good look at it, as I see the need for DDAR solutions (decentralised digital asset registers), and believe colored coins being strapped on is not a viable solution.
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