Quote from: Kumala on May 24, 2013, 05:56:30 PM

Quote from: GIANNAT on May 24, 2013, 05:43:24 PM

Quote from: GIANNAT on May 24, 2013, 05:42:38 PM

None of them. I think vircurex became a trash can for all cryptocurrencies. You remove some of them and make a better layout for the homepage

The objective of Vircurex was always to promote the alt-chains, and as such it was a natural development to list as many of them as feasible. Unfortunately the recent increase in number of alts has made it difficult to support every single one of them. Going forward we will focus more on what difference the alt makes to the community, only changing reward, speed, etc won't be sufficient. Further listings of coins will require some act of innovation, something new, something that the community is looking for.

Having said that, obviously we reserve the right to delist any currency as and when we see it in the interest of our shareholders.

Quote from: Jcw188 on May 24, 2013, 05:48:44 PM

What's the downside of adding more? It just "looks bad?" Might as well add them and let the market sort them out, then take down the losers.

Adding a currency does take quite a bit of work, technically adding a currency takes less than 30 Minutes, but then what needs to be considered:
- risk of double spend attacks
- hard forks
- "tiny" temporary forks
- lack of block chain explorers
- extra efforts when delisting a "hardly ever traded currency", we are still geting inquiries about SC which we delisted weeks ago
- constant upgrades when the developers throw new versions on the market
- cluttered screen that puts off the users
- additional server resources (running a 16GB PC at home costs hardly anything, but check out what running a 16GB server in a datacenter costs you)
- risk of DDOS and other malicious activites because parts of the community are not happy with the choice of listing a coin
- trojan horses and other backdoors that migth be build in
- and so on and on and on.

Wow I am surprised that you admit that when looking at a candidate coin that you apparently think has merit, it might not be listed because of Ddos fears from people not happy that you added it. That is quite a statement. I'm sure that there are many stakeholders in LTC that would not be happy to see ANY alt added. I bet BTC millionaires probably dont want any other coin ever added either.

I'm just surprised this line of thought is taken when considering adding a new coin, and even more surprised that you are willing to state this publicly. Seems like a self-fufilling prophecy. If you add a coin, you get Ddos to make you think twice before ever adding a new coin, since the attackers know this plays a role in your acceptance policy.