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Re: [ANN] [VIA] ★ Viacoin ★ ~ the future of digital currency ~ ★
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Marcus Augustus
on 15/07/2015, 21:43:01 UTC
Quote from: ktfutura on July 15, 2015, 09:03:06 PM
Quote from: Marcus Augustus on July 15, 2015, 04:58:51 AM
Quote from: barabbas on July 15, 2015, 04:50:40 AM
The one admonishing this dev as only crypto-toilet paper would be, is names Adressen, Gavin Andressen. Look him up...

Can you link that? I've looked through the commits for this coin. I've checked out a lot the development. All development here has been top notch. It looks to have had some ICOs, and maybe the funds were not carefully handled. That happens in all ventures. But the business dealings of the developers are of no concern to me.

I look at coin itself and the actual code. I look at maintenance. I don't really care if someone lost some money on a coin. That's not what gives it value.

Among alts, I have found only a few that are in this class. Some are better, yes, but VIA should be a top 30 market cap at least, going purely by features and development.

A shitcoin doesn't work as a coin. A shitcoin isn't even the same as a coin that has nothing to offer.

From everything I've found about this coin, it is in neither of the above categories. I know that investors are important, but I also know that it's the coin that makes the value.

you know all the commits are just cloning from bitcoin's code?

development has stopped after peter todd was paid some ico money to do some work.


You have oversimplified development. It is good that btcdrak has kept VIA current with the newest fixes to the bitcoin core. That's not a minus. It's a plus. Integrating good ideas and inventions from others is a strength, not a weakness. It is a strategy seen all over industry. For example, the LCD screen in my iPhone was not invented by Apple. But the fact does not reduce the value of my phone, it adds to it.

The pervasive shitcoin mentality is that all new commits must be original. This attitude harms the crypto landscape. I think it actually stifles progress.

The reason I like VIA is that it attempts to pull the best ideas (in the mind of the VIA devs) from cryptocurrencies and integrate them sensibly into one product. There is no distraction with novel, partially working bells and whistles that serve little purpose other than ornamentation. The features I like about this coin are precisely those you probably dislike.

Also, development never stops on working coins that have even a modicum of a community. Want proof? https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=860075.0 (That's not an endorsement of flappy coin.)