I think you guys are missing the point. Anyone who wants to mine (and knows how to do it) can mine the good old way with a standard qt miner. People can and will start mining pools etc and mine Neucoin just like any other PoS coin. Even PoW actually in the first year.
No one has to sign up for any growth accounts. In fact, if you know how to mine why would you? Just mine they way you normally do.
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Sure, but if you read posts like this one:
Gizfreak: When I read the white paper, I understand that Proof of Stake is aimed to be a big thing for NeuCoin.
However when I take a look at the current QT wallet, I see a quickly done standard QT wallet, that is even very hard to get it staking for an experienced crypto enthusiast like me.
This is far from being understandable for Joe the average staking user, who is attracted by the promise of high stake rewards.
Is there an easier way of staking/minting in the making?
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arcanis:
What exactly would you want the Qt client to do? As I see it, it's hard to be simpler than it currently is, as far as staking is concerned: providen your keys are in the wallet, and the wallet is unencrypted (if it is, then we assume that you know how to unencrypt it), then the client will automatically stake whenever possible without intervention.
Of course, feedbacks are always welcome to better understand what exactly should be improved, UX-wise.
Gizfreak: Well like eg. having a menu item to unlock/unencrypt the wallet,
instead of having to unlock it via the debug window.Also do I miss information about the staking going on. Yes, I know I can
get it with the command "getinfo" in the debug window, but that is also not really user friendly, is it?
And what about the rumor going on that you'd have to have a minimum of 50k coins in your wallet to be able to stake?
http://forum.neucoin.org/t/more-user-friendly-method-of-staking-minting-coming-soon/1891/3 I don't know the Neucoin-QT, but I would expect if a project claims to be the new Mainstream-Crypto with a focus on "easy-to-use" I would expect exactly that, plus a nice and clean design. I know several PoS-QT's, and as far as I know it's always the same:
Files --> Unlock Wallet --> Staking starts. If it's right that people have to do that in the debug window, I really don't understand that.
In my eyes there could be only two reasons:
- incompetence
- intention
And even if I believe that the Neucoin-Devs are most likely not the best Devs around I would assume, that it's intention... because they want to bind Coins in the Growth-Wallets with just three payout-times, which is also weird.
Think about it... why would anybody need a growth account if there would be a user-friendly QT? If I start staking in my BTCD-QT.. it stakes. And I have my BTCD and I can transact them whenever I want.
I really don't understand what some people see in Neucoin.