Upon further examination, I have to correct myself. Quite significantly too: BYTECENT IS A TRAIN WRECK
First of all, abounding on a point made above, it isn't "working". Meaning that regular folk with regular, even potent, laptops, are NOT mining. Not for a couple of days not for a week... they are just not mining. I have corroborated this myself. So IE lies blatantly in his latest radio update, while claiming that, in the mining aspect, "everything is how it should be". Unless he is referring to him and some friends mining massively the huge amounts of BYC that are being mined currently, he is not only untruthful; he's blatantly lying. Like I said, I have corroborated it personally during the last full week.
But that is NOT the only reason why BYTECENT is indeed a train wreck. The main other one, of course, is IconicExpert himself: He somehow envisioned this coin to benefit from his personal involvement. Contrary to what his enormous ego has led him to believe, most people in crypto really hate him. And I mean way beyond those that have convinced themselves, without any base in reason -or very flimsy ones- that he some kind of scammer. As I have posted repeatedly, he is NOT. And, like I said, those acerbic idiots are NOT the problem of Bytecent. The problem, one of them, is the IE is not even remotely close to the "draw" that he dream he is. Or more specifically: Very few people gives a damn what he does or, more precisely, what coin he is behind. And that's people in crypto who either know him or know of him. Outside of Crypto he is a non-entity with no capability whatsoever, none, to bring any regular folk into crypto, let alone Bytecent. The entire Bytecent launching brouahaha would have granted, one would have imagined, some kind of whatever minimal adoption if, in fact, IE was to have any "pull". It has produced none. Not the press releases. Not the radio broadcasts. Not the twitter giveaway... Nothing. The crypto community, those free from personal phobias and hatred, either feel "meh" or, not even that. The community doesn't grow at all and the community that exist simply doesn't have any money, to boot. Consequently, the very few people that bought into the idea, has fail to go even beyond the first mini dumpp (coin is still above the ICO price, but impossibly far from the 248% above that it reached ath.
And it is only downhill from here, I'm afraid...
Let me correct myself from one of the above posts, I hadn't even looked recently at the blockchain. Upon a recent glance, I have discovered that not 30+% of coins, free ones, have been mined since launch. Not even close. More like almost 100%.... staggering. There are, at the time of this posting, almost 273,000 BYC in total. That's close to double the 140,000 that were sold in the ICO (once the refunds were discounted). That means that while 140,000 were bought at 0.0005 BTC, almost 140,000 more have been brought to the market, coins that were obtained for free. It means that even if they sell them at 5 satoshis, they are still making profits. Imagine how many the have sold above 100,000 and beyond... and continue selling as this is posted. The answer to that image is simply one: Too many. There's no money in the community, nor ios there any new members coming in to absorbe such amount which, mind you, continues being increased by roughly 2-3,000 new coins mined everyday, probably significantly more.Keep an eye on the blockchain and find it for yourself... exactly.
And if the current situation clearly explains why is this a train wreck, presently, the worst is to "be patient", as IE would like to have you. Think about it: For IE, things are "working currently the way they should". Which, as stated, is far from the truth. But even when and IF things work the way they are supposed to, imagine the next year bringing in more than half a million new BYC coins to the market, all at ZERO COST. This is what will be mined if and when the proper limit of 1440 coins per day are mined (I will repeat once more than many more than those are being still mined daily currently and who knows for how much longer). So, by this time in 2015, Bytecent will have around 800,000 coins total and at current valuation of 73,000 sat, a market cap of $200,000. The current market cap of BYC is $67,000. What in the wildest of your dreams would produce a tripling of the price in the next year? I will answer that: Nothing. Because it will simply not happen. As a matter of fact, BYC will not exist by this time next year. And neither will at least 90% of the rest of altcoins out there, probably not even 5% of them will have survived 2015. And I assure you, BYC will not be one of the survivors.
Admittedly, it was a good idea. A very good idea even. Problem is that IE doesn't have the pull to sell that idea to more than 100/200 people in and out of crypto, so even with sterling launch and implementation -and this has been so far the opposite of that- it would not have been successful. It wouldn't have been such a train wreck though, just out of the gate.
Putting it mildly, IE simply doesn't have what it takes to make this otherwise worthwhile project, successful. Pity