Topic: NXT :: descendant of Bitcoin - Updated Information - page 466. (Read 2761650 times)

Wich makes me think, lets create some usb sticks with that app and hand them out to people.  marketing...

That is a good idea.

Well, I would say this depends on how you define a node.

I give you two examples:
1) 2 nodes behind a loadbalancer => look like 1 node, but is actually two
2) 1 node serves two IP addresses => look like 2 nodes, but is still one in terms of security

Furthermore, who's gonna control a node provider? He could easily modify the code. It has nothing to do with forging itself, but in how many accounts a node could manage.

This is the main reason I didn't donate.

I'm not sure it's an either-or situation.  "Raspberry Pi" is actually a code word for "super cheap nodes".  There is still a possibility that a slightly more expensive node can have the technical capacity to participate in a high TPS environment.  THis is one of the first things the infrastructure committee should test, starting with the $60 Odroid U3, which is much faster at forging blocks than a RPi:

http://hardkernel.com/main/products/prdt_info.php

Don't worry, this is like if someone is injured, you try to help him. If you aren't a doctor, you can also kill that guy, but still at least you tried. However wiki has got strict rules about new sites, so your submission is already declined. But thanks, wiki will be soon.

wow, sophisticated thought process 

Wesleyh has a windows app, just unzip and run.

You can even install it on USB stick and run it from there.

That's the beauty of POS. An economical safety net against such attacks. With pools, we should have a great TF algo to compensate the partial loss of it.

Have you seen their markup? If you buy 10,000NXT it will cost you $555,20. 
That's about 20-25% above market price.

Great that initiatives are deployed, but these prices are crazy if you ask me.

That is exactly what I mean.

But we need a discussion about what that means for Nxt as a whole, for the value, for the decentralization aspect, for marketing (decentralization, raspberryPis, ...), for what ever. I don't know.

It is a major decision.

It's going to come down to just how many txs we are wanting to process per minute (and you should think of it has per minute rather than per second as your transactions still have to be put into blocks).

Thanks for the kind words. I did not campaign when I saw the list of people on the infrastructure committee were all much more talented than me. I know some of them personally, and I am sure they will do a great job to ensure that NXT will have proper funding for any infrastructure related projects.

With regards to the recent discussions, I think that everyone should probably take a step back and not get too emotional. I volunteer my time because I believe that NXT represents the future of cryptocurrency, not as a coin, but as a cryptoplatform. I don't expect to get paid (but a big thank you to the anonymous donators!) because what I do will only help increase the value of my stake. Also a hint to all those who feel that "nothing" is going on and NXT is "stagnating": there is actually a lot going on, but it gets forgotten easily within 10 pages of this mega-thread. James is right, even if you cannot program, there are tons of other projects to be involved in - and not all of them "community" oriented. There are business projects like NMAC or DGEX that released shares recently. This is pretty exciting, and I only expect that as time goes on, more and more companies, founded by members of this community, will pop up because the AE provides an extremely low barrier of entry.

So if you have a good idea, try to find a good group of like-minded people, and execute it. If you're still looking for ideas, volunteering to help out with community projects is really a good way to start. Try to break the AE on the testnet, and post your results. You can even think of new ways to contribute that no one else has. I sometimes have crazy ideas myself, but they are all in the name of improving NXT

Pandaisftw

yes we do but lets ignore it

Yes this does look bad.

Like I sad in my previous post last night they better start sharing this wealth or there is a possibility that they might take their millions of NXT in the near future and shove them up their ass, because it might worth that much. You guys don't get me wrong I would hate to see this happening because I like this project, but I am smart enough to see that the NXT project is currently in a sort of crisis.

Yeah i know it is not fair.

The people that post here and working their ass of should be the real millionaires or at least big stake holders.

if nobody give them bounty, rewards, donation they leave coz they have no goal to be any longer and help out or work.

This is what will kill nxt people don’t care any more and good people leaving like uniqourn, justabit, nifty and so many others that left.

So I think if founders will any profit they have to start working themselves or donate to the workers.

Either way nxt will die coz of disinterest of the founders and the workers look at me for example, I am getting rich by doing nothing this is not right.

I just have to sell my daily nxt (which is hard coz i have no buyers)

Apart from ruling out Raspberry PIs, do you have a more generic idea about the hardware/network requirements TF would impose on forging nodes?

Many coins are on exchanges. People don't know how to use a client so they leave there NXT on them.

We don't know what the actual distribution is.

In my opinion the concept of TF is mostly a good one (i.e. to get a very large tx throughput) so I would think that the first thing is for the community to decide whether it agrees with that or not (all other decisions really depend upon this one).

If as a community with think it's more important to have people forging with Raspberry Pis then we would be scrapping TF altogether (realistically it is *one or the other* even though marketing people want to have both).

Sorry, had to post this.