I'm willing to go down with the ship and I'm curious to see how passive everything seems with this protocol - I'm sure people are trying very hard behind the scenes, but it appears that this team just DOESN'T have someone of CfB's ability to just will the technical issues into being resolved. The silence from the devs and missed deadlines just makes it seem like this project attempted to pull off a technical feat that the team is incapable of executing.
Read my reply months ago, before IPO and you will find me asking for more info on the algo and white paper - reason was to see what sort of technical solutions devs had in mind for the problems they wanted to solve, it became clear devs were not going to release an exact or specific outline of their algo and I bought in anyway. It now appears that there WAS NO defined algo at the time, only an idea of what the algo should accomplish.
Anyway, we now get real trouble! This coin might have no choice but to switch to PoS for the near future and bring in someone from the outside that can (maybe) get a working algo into place.
Best of luck to both the team and the bagholders (like me). I will hold on through.
Well, it's good you agree on the part with supernet, because in my book it's a nobrainer.
But I disagree about the tech ability of the team. Maybe it seems like I am bashing at times, but I am not. I like the developers, and I believe in them.
But it's just my philosophy, that you should always have full faith in what you do and who you do it with, but there's always room for improvement, and always room for making stuff better. So I dont do the whole "Thats so good, this is so good, Wow amazing" when they do something good. but they know I respect them and their work. I just wanna tell them where they can improve or what not in my opinion.
That being said I believe ur questions about the most tech stuff goes through Boris to answer, he's not gonna give you indepth in english an explanation, I spoke to him yesterday and I understand why some stuff get lost in translation, but I don't doubt his ability for tech just 1 sec for his language barrier. And extra developer on PoT right now can probably shed a in depth explanation to things so you get that answered, and later they hire other devs too so it'll become better that way
But, with PoT, it's a long story you know? But if I wanted something that 100% proved to work 100% safe I would buy a clone of some coin. Sometimes they can't test everything before release, they can only test to some extent, and with new code, well, shit happends. Now they know where they are wrong and can fix it.
I don't think it's signs of weakness you know? I also don't believe it's a sign of weakness to take in someone from the outside, I mean, people were jacking off eachother when Viacoin got Peter Todd to do 5 summits. It's not bad news at all.
For me, I don't care about PoT that much because frankly for me, I don't comprehend it fully, I only know 1 guy forges, then he goes to the back of the line, so I cannot comment on it. For me, custom chains is interesting. What I was most of all proposing was a switch in their schedul where they would bake in supernet into it and let Boris code on custom chains, and let the other guy do PoT, so we can see chains in 2-3 weeks.
Joining supernet is not a sign of weakness as you put it, more so for me it's about getting developers to use custom chains and get more activity on every aspect.
Joining supernet does not make xcr, "supernet XCR" the plan which developers have for XCR it just makes it stronger and more used.
Going PoT > CC > ??
CCs are great and bottomline thats why were all really here, but will they be widely used this way?
That's why I proposed CC/snet > PoT because I believe in this order it can be all done in 5 weeks and then they can focus on the more things they want without people inquiring about things every single day. Why I am PMing them is usually because I feel a lot of people don't know what's going on you know?
They won't do that when the "idea" we invested in, becomes reality, then we can build on that.
Supernet isn't a "cheap trick" or to "get out of this baghold" if I wanted that, I would be kicking and screaming for developer to put up "buy support" with their ICO BTC. I believe in this and want it to suceed there isn't more to it, and I believe supernet would be incredibly good for XCR.
I'm like many of others in here, not in this to make a "quick buck" then I would go to Bittrex, and spam F5 on announcement section on BCT to jump on the next PoS BC clone.
I actually wanna contribute the way I can, to make the value (not price but it comes naturally) of XCR increase substantially and to strengthen it all across, because I've long wanted to get behind something different and make it happend. THe only reason as to why I don't really fancy joining the foundation, or for that matter categorize myself into some team of sorts is that I'm just an entrepreneur outside crypto, and I have real problems working for someone else period.
But to say the tech team sucks or whatever, it's just new code n all that, even Satoshi wrote shitty code in start that had to be fixed, today theres 1 bilion stupid alts built on the same clone, ofcourse they are 100% bulletproof when code has been worked on since 2009, that's why XCR tries something different, fine PoT did not work as they planned but they're fixing it, not weakness since they know where it's wrong and it will be dealt with, but still, I have laid out my arguments for supernet as it can be done before PoT, and CCs can be done before PoT, and its not about "HELPING" XCR because XCR doesnt need "Help" it's just fucking good all around for XCR you know? It's not a hailmary pass, it just fits very good to both supernet and XCR.
Also what you're right on is that nobody can tell me why it would be bad = ) and if something does come up I can bet my left leg the good outweighs the bad 100 to 1. The only thing I can see is just personal grudges standing in the way for something that would substantially benefit= the XCR network, the forgers, the developers, exposure, new developers building with CCs, the supernet network, the investors on both sides, etc.
So you know, to me it's pure insanity, I can bet anyone who tells it's bad haven't read more than 3 paragraphs or they bring up something personal.
I have yet to see a single person tell me why it's bad for XCR (because it isn't, it's insanely good)
It's just the troll level of arguments "its jl, its bad" "its cheap" "its just pump" with no underlying reasoning at all, because these people don't really care about the project anyway. they've just decided "ok I dont like this guy, so I am not even gonna read this, I'm just gonna assume it sucks, oh and I am gonna tell people it does too."
It's just the general consensus of the crypto community as a whole to try to bring down promising projects because they can't stand watching "some" people they deem is not eligible to making money, make money. As most thing businessdeals would have it, often when you make a deal, it will benefit you, but also benefit the one you do it with, usually both ends feel they are making the best deal, else there would be no partnerships.
How I've come up to the conclusion that it's somehow personal is the reason why that's the only reason I can think of because there are nothing else that makes sense. Which is kind of ironic, because it really does not matter if it'd be jl, clint eastwood, justin bieber or britney spears behind supernet.. there's like probably 20-30 different developers involved in and outside of it and several other coincommunities.
And if that is the stance XCR wants to take, it's very unfortunate, since ethereum is coming out with something similar (?) the only real advantage XCR has is time to form a community and follow their timeline, and with SuperNET it is a great step forward to do so.
Since they also raised 30,000+ BTC, it's not going to be money or amount of developers at disposal.
I think it's time to recognize that, we don't have endless amounts of time to be first on the market what Crypti aims to do.
Even if it's closed source, someone is going to do it sooner or later and then the only thing that will stick is if it has a good community.
There's just no excuse not to expand the network so we are creating a headstart for ourselves if someone else comes by tomorrow.
It's not about: "well at that point we let competitors worry about us" I am just saying it's the right decision to make.