Will there be a way to port GMC into old school games?
Why not use bitcoin? Why do we need GMC?
1st question: Possibly. I'd like it to happen, but first focus is making it as near seemless as possible for current development. We get that done, then we can do all sorts of things with it.
2nd and third. We could use bitcoin. But bitcoin's focus is on becoming a mainstream currency, not any real means of doing so. That is their goal. Our goal is a commodity that is of use NOW. Not in the future when "everyone uses bitcoin". Plus, there are things about bitcoin, both it's community and it's structure, that are actually a bit inimical to broad development.
From the technical side, it has ten minute block times in ideal conditions. I've frequently seen it take over an hour, and once a whole day to find one block. This actually precludes it's use for it's intended goal without the addition of third parties, such as credit card companies. In my arrogant opinion, almost every altcoin is technically better than bitcoin. It has the first mover advantage, and it started what is becoming a revolution. For that, I will always love bitcoin. But the evolution from that DNA has left it a dinosaur in a fast moving world. If a cryptocurrency displaces the almighty dollar, it won't be bitcoin. As a savings vehicle, perhaps as it becomes more scarce, it will work. As a means of moving assets from one place to another nearly seamlessly, it is very good and it's infrastructure both broad and deep enough to eventually displace or be used by such services as Moneygram and Western Union.
From the cultural side, we have a very vocal group of people, mostly all of the developers included, who view Bitcoin in a religious manner. They are convinced that no other cryptocurrency can possibly compete because Satoshi Nakamoto was a living god. I suspect that Mr. Nakamoto is having a rather good laugh over this, if he is indeed one person. These people stifle innovation, and they don't even consciously do it on purpose in most cases. What is the word that they always throw out when a new coin is introduced, regardless of it's perceived or seen merits? Shitcoin. Scamcoin. Clone. They claim that since most cryptocurrencies in existence are derived from bitcoin code, that they can't possibly be an improvement or have anything to offer.
I beg to differ. We share over 99% of our DNA with the Chimpanzee. Chimpanzees, if they ever set foot on another world, will have done so because a human used them for a lab ape. Clearly that 1% of difference makes a hell of an impact. Or, if an evolutionary argument don't hold, how about a technological one? Almost every car on earth is derived from the original "automobile" patent and follows pretty rigid standards of form and function. The car that set the majority of those standards was the Ford Model T. Does anyone seriously question the superiourity of ANY modern vehicle to the Model T? Sure, they're cool looking, and yes, they put the automobile in the hands of the common man. And for this, Henry Ford and his car are and SHOULD BE respected. By the same token, bitcoin's open source nature put the concept and the ability to improve upon it in the hands of anyone willing to undertake the project. And hundreds have. Heroes and scoundrels and everything in between. Have they change the base code by a lot? No. Have they changed it significantly as to it's functionality?
I say yes. Not a "maybe", not a "possibly", just yes. Bitcoin's schema is flawed, and the altcoin community has addressed, in numerous ways, all of those flaws. That this has led to a plethora of coins of mostly no practical utility except as a vehicle to gather bitcoin without mining is also true. But this has much more to do with the focus, and maturity, of the developers. A great many of these innovations came from young people with no real plan beyond "Hey, I can do this". And there have been a number of nefarious actors as well. But that does not change the fact that the innovations have been made and are being made daily.
So, Why GMC? Because we have the flexibility to target a very large but very specific market. As long as the basic functionality of the coin is maintained, we are free to add to it or alter it as we choose, and thus make it even more tailor made to that niche market. At current, it is not a terribly innovative coin. We are, of course, intending to make a number of changes to the wallet, and the peripheral things to the coin. Since the takeover, the alterations made have been primarily aimed at stabilizing a coin that was a mess. It had promise, the original developers broke that promise. Whether by intent or not, I do not know. I wasn't involved at the time. I suspect there was no deliberate malfeasance, just some people in over their heads. As we progress, we aim to add a number of features and services to the GMC family that will make it the easiest to use crypto ever. Whether we achieve this aim remains to be seen, but I lead a group of very talented men who have achieved sufficient age to not get discouraged by the day to day swings of the market, or the fact that we have so far made little impact. We are instead focused on what needs to be done, both in the near term, and to make this a long standing success story. If we succeed on just our current plans, this will be an immensely successful token. And it will be traded for far more than BTC.
Unlike Bitcoin, where we would be riding the coattails of some other's dream, we are making our own dream take flight. We of course have immense respect for what has gone before, and in aiming to make our own brand as recognizable or more so than Bitcoin we show that respect. We will be continually addding features to both our clients and our interfaces. It is the goal of this team to make our wallet so easy to use that people actually find it harder to use their credit card or paper cash. Can we achieve that? We're certainly going to try. But we're going to do it in the gaming industry, where people are FAR more demanding than the guy going to the corner Starbucks for a cup of coffee. From that crucible, we just might, in time, be the coin that breaks free of Bitcoin as a "base pair".