Hmm, Florin existed for a year before Blocktech became a thing, and I've been working on the coin from about a month after its release.

It was my design choice to use Florincoin for Alexandria, amidst a ton of pressure to use Bitcoin and other projects (ethereum, etc).

So far I've been happy with the results. Florincoin's properties make it perfectly suited for a project like this.

I've been posting about Alexandria for months now, here and on twitter, probably ~5-6 months before Devon even made his blocktechceo forum account and started posting in this thread. We had a huge presentation in Vegas (Inside Bitcoins, October 2014). It's been in the news. It was written about in a block chain technology book.


re: "Alexandria isn't such a great idea" -- to be honest most ideas and apps aren't breathtaking on paper. Twitter and snapchat are great examples of this. Execution and network effect play a big role in deciding how long anything stays relevant. The features we've implemented with ferross's webtorrent and the protocol structure that powers alexandria (you can see it in the block chain) are very cool, at least in my opinion.

As far as releasing the alpha client goes, I don't really care if someone posts the binaries here, but it's not doing us any favors. It's too early in the software's lifecycle to reach a wide audience. If you're in the alpha group, you're already going into it with the mindset that the software is not released yet; that message could be lost to users who happen to stumble upon it without context.