I am not butthurt at all. What is there to be butthurt about? BlockNet sounds like a joke. Maybe its not. But if it is what it sounds like it is, I'd like to know who you are going to get to invest in it EXCEPT for XC holders who are hoping to get 10% on their money. And, yes, if you can convince enough people to do that it will pump XC. However, on the other side of this "ICO" what is supporting the value? Nothing that I can see but AIR, just like every other alt coin in the world.
Why is this attractive to anyone besides large holders of XC? What leverage - either in dev know-how or respect within the altcoin world do the current XC devs have to pull something like this off? Thats why it doesnt sound like a legitimate attempt. It sounds like a joke.
Blocknet doesn't sound like a joke to me. I am not sure what I find funny about coins, each with their own specialization, collaborating for R&D and creating what sounds like a new way of distributing content and supporting interaction - all of which is not going to be beholden to standard data mining techniques. It's an infrastructure that is being built.
The entire summer, I watched the XC thread and there were many points where people were dissatisfied. Why? Because they were expecting a pump. They were expecting something right then and there. But I also saw continued development. Relevant tech doesn't just get built over night and XC didn't get built over night. I wonder what would have happened if XC had delivered REV1 and been happy? We would have continued from coin to coin with many scams and much volatility. Instead, we have a solid foundation that is looking like that "Bulletproof" claim is going to hold water. Not only that, we have a coin that is set-up to distribute content in the near future. The base is there and the tech is going to be something that I will
use...much less other coins that I have invested in and then bailed on because I didn't see think that the dev had vision beyond a flavor of the month feature (not to diss them, I feel the crypto currency community is the largest R&D movement of our time and aside from obvious scams we need all of the input we can get).
Which brings me to my next point. The coins on the list have unique features that can not only benefit XC but other coins...and ultimately the end user. Util is working on programing how to filter malicious content to avoid risk to people who use their VPN (and now Blocknet). SSD came up with stenographic transactions - coin movement embedded in pictures taken from pictures that you take from your smart phone. XST has some pretty awesome SMS capabilities. Fibre beat keylogging programs by creating an android like swiping pattern password for their wallet and have also released their own OS. LXC decided to work on sidechains (sidechains!). And my mentions aren't the sole focus of any coin I referenced or the full spectrum of what the combined dev force of all the coins included are capable of. But these are all features that people want to use...and while I speak for myself, I think that they can come up with features that I and others will want to use.
Enabling the devs of each coin to work on what they do best to create something that will work together and bring an ultimately friendly and secure user experience is awesome. I don't see a joke here. I see the beginning of another development process that will create the foundation for more innovation...and everyone working together only gets us there faster.
Judging this endeavour based on the social persona that has developed in the crypto community this past year (chasing pumps) is disingenuous...because they aren't trying to behave in the fashion that everyone has come to expect, in my opinion. Because that way didn't work.
Looking forward to more news...