People keep creating new coins instead of maintaining the existing ones.
If we were to seriously propose to help folks by trying to maintain coins, Neutron would be years down the list because there are still some of the very first altcoins ever made that are not being maintained as well as they could be.
So if you really do want to help by maintaining coins, how about start at the start, there are many coins from the very start of altcoining that could do with more maintaining.
Lets put Neutron on the back burner as one that should never have been created in the first place because when it was created there were already coins created prior to it that we were not fully up to date on maintaining at the time it was created.
We should have fully maintained those and brought them all up to date before even considering creating yet another altcoin...
How can anyone trust devs who keep spewing out new coins when they have not even attempted in even a token way to first bring up to date all the existing coins?
The first thing that should be expected of anyone interested in becoming a coin dev is that they do their homework / training / on the job experience by participating in bringing all the existing coins up to date.
Then once they are all up to date maybe, possibly, but probably not likely, it might be reasonable for them to say "I have worked now on every coin out there, brought them all up to date as much as possible, and with all that experience and having seen that none of them can be adapted to fill this objective I have in mind, I am reluctantly forced to conclude we might need to create one more coin, to fill this gap that no already existing coin can be adapted to fill..."
-MarkM-
If we were to seriously propose to help folks by trying to maintain coins, Neutron would be years down the list because there are still some of the very first altcoins ever made that are not being maintained as well as they could be.
So if you really do want to help by maintaining coins, how about start at the start, there are many coins from the very start of altcoining that could do with more maintaining.
Lets put Neutron on the back burner as one that should never have been created in the first place because when it was created there were already coins created prior to it that we were not fully up to date on maintaining at the time it was created.
We should have fully maintained those and brought them all up to date before even considering creating yet another altcoin...
How can anyone trust devs who keep spewing out new coins when they have not even attempted in even a token way to first bring up to date all the existing coins?
The first thing that should be expected of anyone interested in becoming a coin dev is that they do their homework / training / on the job experience by participating in bringing all the existing coins up to date.
Then once they are all up to date maybe, possibly, but probably not likely, it might be reasonable for them to say "I have worked now on every coin out there, brought them all up to date as much as possible, and with all that experience and having seen that none of them can be adapted to fill this objective I have in mind, I am reluctantly forced to conclude we might need to create one more coin, to fill this gap that no already existing coin can be adapted to fill..."
-MarkM-
99% agree.
In a similar situation with Digitalcoin, so completely agree with maintaining senior, well established coins. It's discouraging to see so much effort and support going into many new blockchains, while beautiful 2+ year old coins with so much potential, remain on life support.
1% disagree.
Priority for attention shouldn't necessarily be chronological.
Anyway, would love to participate in a "rescue group" as suggested in the OP, and likewise from a supporter/investor, not a coder/developer perspective. With the intention of bringing some support to my efforts, while supporting others.
The Altcoins Foundation (https://altcoinsfoundation.com) would be a good platform for such and effort. They're off to a slow start, but a really nice website and forum.
It could even be somewhat financed by investment in these coins
If more comes of some collective effort to maintain/revive worthy coins, that is completely legitimate (not some pump and dump scheme), I would be interested in considering involvement.
TT
