Quote from: johnwhitestar on March 24, 2017, 09:48:07 AM

Quote from: clockuniverse on March 22, 2017, 11:57:26 PM

I believe that DASH masternodes and decentralized management will help attract development and community members.

I think we have to be careful with this idea, because we can't be 100% sure of the true causes of the DASH's success. Apparently it's in the masternode system and decentralized management, but it can be an illusion as well.

We have already had renewed interest in joining the team since I announced this.

Quote from: johnwhitestar on March 24, 2017, 09:48:07 AM

Quote from: clockuniverse on March 22, 2017, 11:57:26 PM

We are just a slightly changed BTC clone, and after that we will be a mixed BTC/DASH clone and after that we will become unique.

I agree with this idea.

Quote from: johnwhitestar on March 24, 2017, 09:48:07 AM

Quote from: clockuniverse on March 22, 2017, 11:57:26 PM

The Terracoin Foundation is going to have 1 masternode from the beginning. It's profits could be used to pay back investors for the initial development. I have another idea for the profits that I am keeping under my hat right now but if we have to use those profits to pay investors we will. We could set up something like if they put in $100 USD the profits from the TRC Foundation masternode would be split between all of the investors until they get $120 USD or something like that. This could take a while but that it one option.

I'd like to invest BTCs, but I'd need to have BTC profit as result. Another idea here is to offer to the developers TRCs bought with the BTCs that would be invested into the project, so along with the masternode development we will have the rise of the TRC price, in that case I'd rather receive profits in TRCs.

I was just using USD as an example. It could be paid out in whatever. We would just want to set a reasonable percentage of return. I was suggesting 20%.
An investment can come in a variety of shapes too, such as time and effort.

Quote from: johnwhitestar on March 24, 2017, 09:48:07 AM

Quote from: clockuniverse on March 22, 2017, 11:57:26 PM

I know the TRC Foundation will have one, and I personally will have one. I imagine the developer/developers will have one and another person told me they would have one, so that is 4 right there. Another six people in a month isn't a far stretch.

I will have at least one as well

Quote from: johnwhitestar on March 24, 2017, 09:48:07 AM

Quote from: clockuniverse on March 22, 2017, 11:57:26 PM

The initial investment will have to be in BTC, but I think it will be more like 1 BTC to get it up and running. No one is getting paid market prices in the crypto world, though they should be. Almost everyone is working on a coin because they believe the price will go up one day. Hopefully after the implementation people will believe in the project to work for TRC which they can horde for a future time when the price is higher because of their hard work.

I'd say that we are not seeing developers eager to work for the future of TRC, so probably they will not appear. We have to think another strategy here. I personally always pay people what they think they deserve and they always work well because of that. What if we try to find developers using upwork.com? You can find very interesting prices there.

Currently no one gets paid for anything, so lets start at zero and work up from there. We don't want to attract people who want just a single payment we want to attract long term members of the team to work on making TRC unique.

Quote from: johnwhitestar on March 24, 2017, 09:48:07 AM

Quote from: clockuniverse on March 22, 2017, 11:57:26 PM

Why do you think the current market price is fake? I think the volume on Cryptopia is fake. I am almost positive it is fake, but the price seems about what it should be.

The high volumes on Cryptorpia are fake and that volumes let the price not to settle in the right position, that's why I consider it fake. I'd prefer much more the price to go down as much as possible but once the bottom is reached it will go for a long long time up (just think that the price of TRC is 100 times lower than the price of LTC, which is ridiculous), with this fakes volumes we don't have the possibility for the market to evolve naturally. We are just stuck there and nothing is happening. In this way we can't attract new community members because the most of people in the cryptoworld are here to have profits. With a "stable" market there are no profits=no new community members.

I do wish that people would stop inflating the volume on Cryptopia. C-Cex doesn't have that issue.