I have already received a submitted personal statement (250-300 words) from one user on this forum. Please could people who were part of the DigiByte community in the first year write one. I have two more, possibly three, more statements I can include in the book called "DigiByte - History of the First Year". Personally, I would like Jared, 24hralttrade and HR to submit theirs.
Please get in contact via private message on here. Only four weeks remain until publication.
Thank you
Chris
Here's a "statement", or two, that appropriately reflect my opinion from back in the summer of 2014.
Very well put and it's refreshing to hear your contributions to the community HR. We need more of this here. I totally agree. Slow and steady. I do believe the time to capitalize is now with all the carnage occurring in the alt coin space. I don't believe anything will be perfect as we need to continue evolving, but we do need to start somewhere. I am looking forward to see how the release will go.
YC
HR,
As always, beautiful insight. You have a way with words to put things very concisely in a pragmatic manner. We have arrived at the conclusion that what is tried & true is the best course of action in this modern crypto business. Why re-invent the wheel when it is already circular and rolls down the road to success just fine?
And there is that fine line between staying with the tried and true, and innovation. Some things, like the wheel, work so well that it's impossible to make them better; however, if we were to reject all innovation, we'd still be moving ox carts with oxen.
This is the main reason why I'm always so quick to say, "this is just my opinion" - I know I am super conservative and probably about as close to the "stable" end of the spectrum as you can get, and that I do have a way of making a very strong and convincing case, that might not be, often isn't, at the end of the day, the best. Strong arguments have a way of stifling counterarguments that ultimately are absolutely necessary in order to reach 'equilibrium', so keep in mind everyone, these are just my ultraconservative ideas that desperately need your input as well. This is also why I suggest a slow but sure approach - algo change today, maybe payout adjustments tomorrow, probably a more advanced wallet before that, etc.
The algo change will get miners back on DigiByte, and I think that is paramount right now. Everything else with great care, lots of study and analysis, and even more due diligence.
Oh, and just to end with my main "extreme argument", DigiByte should look to be one of the few eventual standalone leaders in the industry, not DigiByte
and, but just DigiByte. (and maybe I'm wrong)
In answer to your PM, I trust that you, as the good author you are, will be able to incorporate my real time comments and contributions in more than authorized biographical fashion - you can take these excerpts to develop a narrative style profile of my contributions, and get something with a much more real feel to it than any contrived, 9 month after the fact, statement I could ever come up with.
Will see what else I can come up to add to this.