That's what digital coins are. The entire planet will soon find out about them and will want them but there's no way to get them cause mining now requires very expensive hardware but that's not the problem, 10% of Americans would spend the money, I did and I'm not even working right now, but the software, that's the real problem, it's so difficult with all the varioius pools and all the various mining programs to get the right one and it never works until you mess with it for days and most people just aren't good enough with computers or software to do that. So then the only thing left is to buy coins on the exhanges. problem with that is americans are scared people - they don't like risk. most would never buy off an exchange like vircurex that's been attacked and down twice in 45 days. And most americans won't buy coins until they feel it's safe.
What has you fixated on mining, and thinking it is just a matter of it being made easier? Did you learn about bitcoin from the weusecoins site? I noticed it has had this effect on a few people I know.
So why don't a few of you smart guys who are obviously good programmers write some code for mining programs that will work with any PC or at least a higher end PC. It can't be harder than hacking into NASA or the pentagon. laborsome, perhaps, but not more difficult. I guarantee you the flood gates will open and people will easily pay $50 for a download they can trust or a disk with a software that makes mining easy. and once you do that you have done 2 HUGE things: a) you have brought digital coins to the masses for free (while making a killing off selling a $50 DVD) and b) you will make yourselves crazy rich cause as 5 million or 10 million mine your coins that will make them more rare and as more people mine them successfully they will brag about it and it will catch fire and this will lead to a massive explosion in mass acceptance as well as the price in many of the coins being mined.
Mining used to be very simple. You just checked a box in the client for it. It was taken out though, becuase it has become a negative value to try and mine on the cpu and most gpus. Soon it may be all gpus.
Take a look at this graph..
http://bitcoin.sipa.be/getting miners has not been a problem, hence little value to improving the ease of it.
Cause I really don't understand, you guys have a product and you want everyone to get a piece of it because that kind of popularity will lead to mass acceptance but when a normal person off the street tries to find these coins, any coins, in just a few days they find out that's it's practically impossible. If you guys are real programmers and it seems that you are and good ones at that why in the world don't you have a download somewhere on this site for a miner which downloads devcoins? A simple download where any computer illiterate guy can just push a button and that's it. Why not make devcoin the first easily mined coin cause right now there is no such thing. you guys might think it's easy but in the real world in every job I've had I was considered computer literate and quite often I was the guy in charge of training the other teams on new proprietary software because I leanred it the quickest and let me tell you, it's been a month and this stuff is still confusing to me and out of all the coins I tried to mine I was only able to mine litecoin which was a failure.
Most people are going to have to find another way than mining to get their coins. You said your litecoin mining was a failure, not because you could not mine, but because you did not get enough reward. The reward is going to go down more as more people try and people invest in dedicated minters.
Devcoin's problem from a business standpoint is that it has too many coins and this kills the value and this is only going to get worse. How long would it take to write a program for an easy to use miner and just put it out there. once it gets popular you can even charge for it. The more people own devcoins the less devcoins are floating around, and the more
It would take almost no time to reactive the option to mine. It would be worthless though to the people who use it. They would see the same thing you did, little return and a higher electric bill.
