Topic: Ixcoin TODO - page 289. (Read 631747 times)

No, I'm gonna pay a Mickey Mouse guy who barely knows how to code unless I need a major job done, which simply adding wallet encryption is not.  Or do you think real developers do updates for $10?  Lol.

Most upgrades are single line updates and many are nothing more than copy and pasting from other coins who already have the updates done.

So no, NOT anyone who does an update to an open source code is a developer.  That's the most ridiculous thing you've said in a long time.

Shit, if that's the case I'm gonna go in my source-code and update a single line and you'll start calling me Vlad the Developer, right?  No, you wouldn't, you'd just be a hipocrite at that point.

But I am getting a big laugh out of this.  That's worth something.


Edit:

I see you left yourself a backdoor out of your bullshit story.

Key word:  Meaningful.  Lol, to me even a single line of code is meaningful. 

Keep arguing, you love it.

Who are you going to pay to do development?  A monkey?  A janitor?  A cosmonaut?
I am pretty sure if would be a SOFTWARE DEVELOPER aka a "dev".  



Anyone who can add a meaningful improvement to the codebase IS A POTENTIAL DEVELOPER.  That is the whole damn point of open source.  What do you think the creator of IXC was?  A guy who added some lines of code to Bitcoin and made IXC.  That concept is called software development.  There is nothing special about the creator.  In your mind you seem to think the creator of an open source project holds mystical powers and thus has the title of "dev".  A developer is someone who develops the codebase.   On a large open source project like Bitcoin many additions to the codebase are not included, many are refined by multiple people over a period of time.  Sometimes developers get annoyed with the process and fork the project to start a new one, either one that is compatible (i.e. another client for Bitcoin) or incompatible (i.e. alt-coin).

If you think 90% of this forum is software developers well that explains why you are so confused about a lot of things.  A minority of people on this forum can write software (beyond "hello world" examples).

Hey, I copied and pasted some code on ShitCoin and did a minor upgrade.

Look:   I'm now a developer.

Bhahahahahahaa!

Talk about not understanding cryptos.

Besides the government, the banks stand to gain the most from Bitcoin and any crypto currency.

This is how I know with certainty that Bitcoin will get the ETF license. Cause the banks and government badly need it to succeed.  

You coders should stick to coding and leave the Economics to the Economists.

Clueless

You made me laugh twice with that post.

First of all, the winklevoss brothers have 1% of Bitcoin and the odds are they've added even more. So, taking into account the massive fees they will bank, and their 1%+ stake, they can definitely make $1 Billion if Bitcoin surges enough.

Secondly, are you joking about the necessity of a dev in order to do updates to a coin?  Lol, does a noob have to explain open source to you.

I can do the updates if I could program or if want to pay for them.  Anyone who can code can do the updates and even remain anonymous.   See, no dev needed.  Unless your definition of a dev now is anyone who adds a single line of code.  In that case, 90% of the people on these forums are now devs.  Ha!

You're now just talking and arguing for the sake of trying to be right.  

The problem is you think the banks will be a savior to a movement started to avoid banks. You are in the wrong place. Big time

Yeah that isn't how ETFs work.  The shares are owned by the shareholders.  If Bitcoin explodes in price the shareholders realize the game not the ETF trustee.  The ETF management company makes a profit on transaction and operational fees and they make those profits regardless of the price.  It is like saying MtGox made billions because the price of Bitcoin went up.

Your delusional if you think a bank can take $1K worth of worthless IXC and convince investors to pay 1000x that.  They would simply buy their own IXC at no markup.  


dev = "software developer".  No code upgrades won't happen without a developer as you are finding out now.  I think you still have problems with the concept of open source.  The person who starts an open source project doesn't "own" or "control" it.  Gavin is a lead developer for Bitcoin he wasn't at the begining and he may not at some point in the future.  Also Gavin isn't the only developer and in the early history of Bitcoin Satoshi wasn't either.  There are dozens of developers working part time on Bitcoin. Bugs are fixed, performance is improved, features are added because many developers are working on Bitcoin over time.  However no developer = no development.  IXC lacks things like basic encryption because it has no development.  Just holding a bunch of coins and praying for the banks to make you rich isn't going to change that.

I had no idea Cryptos had an ideology.

I only care about the economics of cryptos and that much I do understand.

In less than 1 year we'll see who understands what.

Nah, in a year, if nothing happens I will admit I'm wrong and move on.

I would like updates like encryption but one has to realize that if an ETF 2.0 were to happen, from a banker's perspective, it's much better if there is no dev.  This is not a contradiction, it's a fact and just because I would like a code upgrade doesn't change that.  Code upgrades can be done without devs, I'm only upset cause this crook did a premine and now won't pay out the bounties he said he would.

And I think you're missing the point of the ETF.  With a couple hundred thousand coins you could start an ETF.  And so what if the application process costs a few million dollars.  If Bitcoin's ETF goes to $1,000+ you don't think there's room for a second ETF, a Pepsi, and you don't think such an ETF would find enough speculators to take it to $100?  And if it's your ETF you stand to make many times your money from fees and price appreciation.

Watch how the Winklevoss twins turn $20 million into $1 Billion in under 1 year once the ETF launches.  Not exactly a lot of these opportunities out there so of course bankers will give it a shot.

So yeah, I think it would be very smart for a banker with millions to risk to buy up a couple million ixCoins (although much less is needed) and when Bitcoin gets an ETF then immediately apply for a second ETF.  There's no way the SEC would deny an ixCoin ETF given its nearly identical to Bitcoin and has been around a long time so it's not seen as a pump and dump CrapCoin.

And given there is no dev, the process should go very smoothly.

The problem is Vlad doesn't understand the basic ideology of cryptos

So they will start an ETF with 100K IXC valued at less than a penny each?  Given the overheads of an ETF I am sure that will be an amazing success.  Still not sure why two posts up you are complaining about no development on critical features and then in post up you are saying "no dev how convenient".

Then again I think you have deluded yourself fully.  You know what will happen and anything which contradicts that has another explanation.  In a year when IXC is still worth next to nothing, has no development, and no investment there will be some other reason why the "savior banks" are going to swoop in any day and boost the price 1000x.

I never said a bank will buy ixCoin for billions of $$$.

I said if Bitcoin gets the ETF, and I'm certain they will, then bankers will look to form a Crypto ETF 2.0 and the way I see it, ixCoin is the best match.

And look:  No dev.  How convenient!

It would be easy since Bitcoin will have trail blazed the entire process.  And these bankers would only need a couple hundred thousand ixCoins - and they can actually do it with even 100,000 ixCoin.  They would basically just need the initial amount of coins in order to guarantee some liquidity at the time of the IPO.

Which is the same thing anyone else will do.  Yet you still think that because of a Bitcoin ETF, some bank is going to swoop in and buy up IXC for billions.

I wouldn't say I'm afraid, if I were afraid I would never be able to put so much in just one coin.

But I definitely don't want to lose all this money, who would.

That said, I am not willing to pay out nearly 10% of what I've bought with hard earned money when a dev clearly set bounties for the work needed right now and to top things off, the dev premined these coins.

So premined coins are sitting there and I'm gonna pay what cost me over 3 Bitcoins for a fix that should have been done long ago by a dev with tons of premined coins?

That's not gonna happen.  I'm willing to pitch in and help but there's no way I'm gonna pay for the entire thing.

Meanwhile I'm just gonna keep my coins on a USB stick in a safety deposit box.  That's safe enough.

What do you mean you're gonna throw your weight at it?

We need code upgrade, wallet upgrade (including wallet encryption).  Can you be more specific what you're going to do for 10,000 IXC?  

Thanks.


Edit: I just realized you're owsley.   You wanna pump ixCoin.  I already told you that's not an answer and that wouldn't help me in any way as I'm not looking to dump.  The best a pump would do is a double or maybe a triple and that's not gonna cut it.

I'm in ixCoin cause I see huge potential, if that changes then I'll just dump it but for now I wound sell even for a 10-fold.  

Thanks anyway.

~*~iX~*~ I feel bad for Vlad ..i'm working on another exchange coin project here in Beverly Hills and with devs in SF/Brooklyn/Nashville/D.C. etc...Promotion and development...

_*my offer_====> 10,000 $IXC
https://www.cryptsy.com/markets/view/38

=i'll throw all my weight at it!   eZ^$$$

(I promise not to dump until we go wayyy up!)

I even offered my support with development and promotion, what more can we do?  

I'm curious to see where such a mass effort leads.  I think it will be nothing more than a temporary pump effect that may last a few weeks.

For lasting effects there has to be some fundamental change and I just don't see that in any of these alts.

I thought ixCoin had it but after the huge drop last week I honestly can't tell anymore.  I'm looking so hard for some concrete evidence and I haven't found anything more than what's perceived as coincidental evidence.

So we just sit and wait and watch Bitcoin break new high after new high and while the rich get richer we sit and wait and wait and wait.

I'm really tired of waiting...

I'm watching ixCoin and now all of a sudden, there's tons of large block buy orders.

For most coins that's normal but not for ixCoin as there seems to be no interest.

So the price gets knocked down with lots of repetitive 3,000 block sells and almost no buy orders besides mine, and now after the price gets dropped near an all-time low there's a bunch of buy orders.

Hard to say but this looks and feels like manipulation. 

And...

Bitcoin is surging higher yet ixCoin is once again stable, holding up against Bitcoin just like it has the last 6 months.

If Bitcoin hits $300 in the ext few days, and it looks like it will, I'm curious to see if Litecoin et al continue their death spiral while [hopefully] ixCoin will continue tracking Bitcoin higher and hopefully regain the ground it lost this past week.