Quote from: no-ice-please on February 24, 2016, 08:41:14 PM

Decred has risen fast on heavy volume and seems to have some very deep pockets behind its development.

Is the following

Quote from: decred on December 15, 2015, 03:10:53 PM

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The premine consists of 8% of the total supply of 21 million coins, meaning the premine consists of 1.68 million coins. ...

justified by

Quote from: Praxis on February 24, 2016, 06:56:19 PM

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Maybe the following excerpts from press can serve as a TL;DR to highlight why people are excited about Decred:

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Some of Bitcoin's developers have left the project and are now starting their separate digital currency called Decred, promoting an open governance model, which they say is missing in Bitcoin.

The new cryptocurrency is looking to solve what Company 0 CEO Jacob Yocom-Piatt said is the biggest problem with bitcoin: Its controlled by a small group of external actors who decide how the service will evolve, often in spite of developer objections and to the detriment of users. To address the problem, former bitcoin developers are opting for a decentralized, community-based governance model. The Decred team also plans to introduce a number of features that include:

- A consenus-based system using proof of work and proof of stake;

- Hashing via the Blake-256 algorithm; Ed25519/secp256k1-Schnorr or secp256k1 signatures to improve software integration;

- Potential bitcoin compatibility.

Simply put, Decred wants to eliminate governance and decision-making issues that plague bitcoin while keeping many of the central functions intact. It makes sense: Bitcoin has garnered enough positive attention and investor confidence that theres no need to reinvent the wheel. Rather, the cryptocurrency aims to coast along on bitcoins momentum with promises of improved security and better collaboration.

( From: https://securityintelligence.com/news/digital-currency-divide-bitcoin-decred-and-the-virtual-finance-future/ and http://news.softpedia.com/news/amid-bitcoin-centralization-worries-core-developers-start-new-currency-called-decred-498137.shtml )

soooo this is all you can come up with for calling it a shitcoin? really?