What services or offerings you guys currently miss in the Monero ecosystem?
What needs to be build to improve Monero today (a bit)?
Name everything:
- doesn't matter if for profit or non-profit typ of organization
- doesn't matter if only a small fraction of Moneros users would benefit from it (maybe only you?) or bigger party up to the whole community
- doesn't matter if such type of service exist or not exist in other cryptocurrency ecosystems (bitcoin)
[obvious what has shown to be useful in other cryptocurrencys and is still missing in XMR, could be benefitial (as it has a shown proof-of-concept), but even what not exists elsewhere should be named, so it can be developed/discussed]
The people who want to help develop Monero ecosystem need to know, what is asked for by the community.
The ecosystem must be activally developed by the whole community. Users must express their wishes, feedback, needs and suggestions.
This is important and should be addressed accordingly.
Its a difficult task/struggle as showm by all other old altcoins (ounce big & popular) altcoins. They all failed building an ecosystem. (besides Doge and Bitcoin, but both their cases cant be generalized)
From my perspective the main problems were e.g. the "endlessness waitings" for the next XYZ:
- "lets wait with development the ecosystem, until the price moves up"
- "lets wait with development the ecosystem, until the next release with blahblablah superfeature x123"
- "lets wait with development the ecosystem, until we have more users"
- "lets wait with development the ecosystem, until we get added at random_payment_processor or random_big_merchant"
- "lets wait with development the ecosystem, until we have trezor support"
- "lets wait with development the ecosystem, until we have multisig/deterministic wallets/2FA/big boobs ......"
- "you dont need to develop/offer this service, there will be no users ..." (from random idiots ...)
- "you dont need to develop/offer this service, this is already in development by TZR since 40 months, but will be ready soon"
- "your service/idea is useful, but it sucks because it doesn't have random_paranoia_request"
- "we are in the hoarding/acquirement-stage of the coin, we just hodl and buy more coins, spending and ecommerce-usage will be done in 5 years, so no need for services/merchanttools/acceptance today"
- "your products are to expensive" (from random idiots to every small merchant who started accepting the own coin)
this coin will only succeed, if we start using it today
if we dont start, it will never take off
every bootstraped operation/networks needs a start and activityness
if we dont build useful services with monero price at 0,5$ today, there will NEVER be a golden future
if people (esp. smart people) who support Monero and want to contribute cant find opportunities (no ideas, no users, no feedback, no appreciation), they will move on and find other projects, were there contribution is rewarded, welcomed and leading to something
momentum can be lost, if community gets to inactive (shown by many coins and other projects), today alot of people want to support Monero (don't disappoint them or drive them away, great negative examples: Litecoin, others: Darkcoin and DarkWallet)
bonus: services and usage today in this early stage, will also help to develop, gain expierence and hardening Monero
That’s a great post. Here’s an idea:
Let’s say you are a researcher and have to do a big simulation or you have hard computational problems, which could be split to smaller tasks and parallel distributed. Let’s say it’ll take years on your CPUs and/or GPUs to deal with it. If you want it distributed to a lot of people you have a great tool for this (google Boinc); however, there is a problem – someone is paying for the electricity/amortization so not many people would help you for free and with x1000 your computer power you’ll get the results needed in a day instead of years. Now comes the good part – you have a big budget and someone just created a service paid in Monero to distribute your tasks (for a fee) to Boinc users and those users are also paid in Monero. The guys behind the service should create an easy to install encapsulated (in a virtual machine) environment for those with the computing power - this way malicious researcher can’t get users data outside of the encapsulated environment. Those needing the power will compete for it, so smaller tasks with a bigger pay would be distributed first. Users could also chose on which projects they want to participate. I hope you get the idea. I’m not sure how many real world users such a service will have. For example I rarely deal with computations which take more than a day or two on a PC, but there are a lot of computations, which would take thousands of years or even hundreds of thousands of years if not massively distributed. This may not be very easy service to do, but you have almost all of it already tested and working (Boinc, Monero, processors with virtualization, etc.).
