They have had a Monero Dev on staff for quite awhile
They looked at those options among others regarding the algo change, etc.
They were considering many things not even being discussed by most, along with many things that were discussed.
They had the ability to implement any option they wanted, and knew them all.
Considering everything, I completely agree with the move.
Just because we dont agree, doenst mean the Devs on staff couldnt implement any of the options.
It is pure FUD that the Devs on staff dont understand blockchain tech, in fact, they would be classified as experts
I have mined before. One time, I rented 37 different miners to mine BTCD in the first 18 hours and got 70K coins. Quite a score considering it only cost me $55. All the pools got hit by a DDoS, so I switched to P2P and hit big
Ive never owned a machine myself. So Im not sure if that counts. Just used to stalk the ANN page and hit most of the ninja launches back when you could make a killing.
The BTCD move got me $80K when I sold 5-6 days later, a few days after the announcement that jl777 was coming on board.
Those were the days. Too bad that didnt last much longer than the 2014 summer
Also, I would check out the patent, look into our partners that have been announced.
Id start there
And yes, I would trade some ETH and stack up on ETN. But thats just MY PERSONAL OPINION. To be clear, Im just stating what I would do.
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One Monero dev doesn't really solve the problem, why are they being such massive tight-asses if they keep telling everyone they're the biggest ICO ever. Why not hire 10 good devs and show the world you mean business? Or even 2-3 and not wait until it's about to blow up in your face? We all saw the KnifeOfPi2 fiasco and frankly, the way Electroneum reacted was so unprofessional, a 12-year old video gamer/YouTuber could have come up with a more balanced response.
Is 'FUD' a word of the day among fanboys or something? It's not FUD when it's fact... And I don't think the industry needs more anyway as the whole of crypto suffers fear, uncertainty and doubt, and Electroneum are creating enough of their own - that's why relative to other coins it's falling faster. Fact. If it was just weak market sentiment, then relative to other coins it would stay static.
Mining - I am referred to owning and maintaining your own hardware. Contract mining is better than nothing at all but as you don't have the CapEx and ongoing maintenance you will not understand why what Electroneum did was downright shady and turned their backs on everyone that got them to where they are (and probably higher than they ever deserved). If you are on a contract mining hire, as soon as you are fed up you can pull the plug, so it's not what I was referring to. Also back to the ASICs thing, hashrate is relative - I am sure you understand in a simplified example, let's assume a GPU can do 1MH/s and an ASIC can do 10MH/s, and there are 10 of each. On a GPU-only network you will have a network hashrate of 10MH/s, on an ASIC network you will have 110MH/s but the GPU miners will leave and mine something else so you end up with 100MH/s. The ASIC network is not suddenly 10 times more secure, it has the same amount of security as the GPU-only network with less hashrate. So it doesn't matter if the hashrate is in the GH/s now and well above Monero because Monero has more miners and workers active. ASICs centralise because they are out of reach of the majority. I actually ordered some then cancelled them because all it'll take is someone to get out of bed with a hump and disable them again and there's not much worthwhile you can actually mine with them.
I have checked out 'the patent', it's a 'patent pending' with some vagueness about a hybrid blockchain - a granted patent is worthwhile if it's been done properly, a patent pending is worthless right now. Also there is a reason people don't do hybrid blockchains for this kind of thing and that's because you have to add a trusted third-party again (sounds a lot like a bank...) to act as the settlement layer, given the quality and uptime of their website and wallet servers, this could pose a problem. I will reserve full judgement for when I actually see it first-hand but given everything I've seen so far I don't hold a lot of hope.