ivanlabrie, I think you have responsibly addressed many of Hippie's misplaced concerns. Perhaps it is best to simply move forward with examples of projects you have worked on or successfully completed, no need to dwell on negativity.
I agree, just wanted to get that out of the way...I don't have a personal problem with him, so let's move on and stop derailing the thread.
Hippie tech: feel free to pm me or post in the x-children thread.
Let's kick this off with the merged mining idea and ways to work together with important charity and research projects.
We can:
a-Create a network of cause-coins, maybe a descentralized asset in the NXT, BTS and Qora networks?
b-Make said network a merged mineable joint effort, to keep the networks safe, or just go for a fork of some kind to get rid of mining altogether and incentivize holding. I was thinking of some form of carry trade, that'd be new in this field. We can have interest being paid to holders on some coins, and low interest for borrowing other coins. This would imply some form of exchange that allows one to borrow margin for trading. Altcoin margin trading would be something exciting, and definitely new.
Thoughts?
As BitcoinNational has indicated EMC2 is seriously considering 'folding' as a way of "mining". Also, the EMC2 community has already voted for a POS conversion as soon as practically possible; so the likelihood is weak that we will do any merge mining. The "incentivized holding" is something I pitched to the board recently because I noticed how many of the tiny wallets are just sponging up tiny profits making it very difficult for the coin to gain traction. But the board wasn't interested in the 'mini-pos' idea.
What do you mean by "carry trade"?
As for "borrowing" and "altcoin margin", the markets are far too weak for that sort of thing.
Having a 'cause-coin' network is an excellent idea. I spoke with three exchanges recently to consider allowing EMC2 to be paired with other cause-coins.
Big ideas like the above are good (you should PM bitcoinNational more about that), but I strongly feel we should connect on some simple level first.
I'm confident that as we accomplish our respective missions that our coin values will increase, EMC2 is looking for projects all of the time. We get donations every day so we are not short on funds, but we are short on mission oriented worthy causes to donate the funds to.
Even if we can't donate money we are willing to help with publicity, marketing, voting and other such supportive work.
[edit] seems as I was creating my post BitcoinNational posted before me.