Any thoughts about putting out a bounty for anonymous transactions, encrypted messaging in the wallet, stuff like that? These are the areas that are hot right now. The coins doing it (or saying they'll do it) are dry, techy and kind of soulless (XC, XLB, Cinni, Darkcoin, Blackcoin). The combination of Panda's lighthearted, pleasant image combined with hard-core tech would be unbeatable.
The field seems wide open: Darkcoin rose, and then fell because their tech is buggy, Blackcoin imploded because of team issues, XLB might be a scam, Cinni made promises but never delivered. Today it is XC's turn in the spotlight. They have good tech which is (as usual) doesn't seem like it was stress tested against what full real world implementation will bring. I suspect they'll slip back down into obscurity pretty soon once things start to break.
The market for altcoins is not the general consumer (yet). It is the anti-bank activist, the miner, the investor, the whale and the minnow who buy, mine or trade into these things because they figure their coin of choice could be the next Bitcoin. It is very unlikely altcoins will ever be used at general retail or in restaurants. Some payment processor will issue you a Visa card that you can link to your altcoin account(s) and they'll handle the fiat conversion etc. behind the scenes (I think Blackcoin does something like already). To Panda Express, it'll be just another Visa card ATM transaction. To succeed, Panda has to appeal more to the techy, finance oriented geek constituency. Panda is consistently between 38 - 42 on Coinmarketcap which is great but much more is possible.
The field seems wide open: Darkcoin rose, and then fell because their tech is buggy, Blackcoin imploded because of team issues, XLB might be a scam, Cinni made promises but never delivered. Today it is XC's turn in the spotlight. They have good tech which is (as usual) doesn't seem like it was stress tested against what full real world implementation will bring. I suspect they'll slip back down into obscurity pretty soon once things start to break.
The market for altcoins is not the general consumer (yet). It is the anti-bank activist, the miner, the investor, the whale and the minnow who buy, mine or trade into these things because they figure their coin of choice could be the next Bitcoin. It is very unlikely altcoins will ever be used at general retail or in restaurants. Some payment processor will issue you a Visa card that you can link to your altcoin account(s) and they'll handle the fiat conversion etc. behind the scenes (I think Blackcoin does something like already). To Panda Express, it'll be just another Visa card ATM transaction. To succeed, Panda has to appeal more to the techy, finance oriented geek constituency. Panda is consistently between 38 - 42 on Coinmarketcap which is great but much more is possible.
The developpers are working on the more advanced and major improvements of the coin and that's why they have no time for the smaller standalone features. That's the reason the bountylist was created. It frees up the time of the devs to focus on the core functions.
The goal of Pandacoin is to be widely spread not just C2C but also B2C and B2B. However we take things step by step, we want to do it at the right speed and not rush anything. We are here to stay so we have plenty of time.
