Quote from: mr_random on June 28, 2013, 04:07:46 PM

I'm concerned about this joint announcement. The process should be open, transparent and allow for voting. Instead we are getting a small number of 'key people' behind the scenes calling all the shots and deciding to 'partner' coins together. These coins are supposed to be decentralized. Where was the gaining of community consensus? Seems like we are just getting this shoved in our face.

I will be pretty pissed if I wake up tomorrow and find out that a good, honest, fair coin like digitalcoin is being tainted with the feathercoin brand and wrapped up in some kind of 'partnership'. I for one don't want the feathercoin attackers who executed the last 51% attack to be drawn towards digitalcoin. Or for DGC to be associated with the feathercoin failures. And people who mine for their own respective coins should feel the same.

I understand the feathercoin bagholders are desperate to hype up anything to do with feathercoin but this just smells bad to me.

Gaining the consensus of people who don't do anything? What kind of consensus is that? How is it fair to the people who contribute, to have to make decisions according to the wishes of people who just want to cruise through? A bagholder is someone who wishes to bury his treasure and gain from the work of someone else, sweetheart.

You have it ass backwards. You care about who you associate with, like it's some moral crusade. Wake up, Dorothy because in the real world you have to be able to shake hands with people you might not like. The measure of failure or success is how you deal with reality not how you associate with history.

Voting is what keeps you sedated. Voting is why you have no power or influence. Voting keeps you in board meetings for weeks, while thieves rob your infrastructure. Voting makes you feel like you've done something, when you've accomplished nothing.

There is no centralization. If I wanted to fix a tire, I'd talk to a tire expert. If I wanted to partner with another technology, I would talk to developers. You feel left out because you don't influence anything, but this is by choice.

You are a consumer by choice. You feel squeezed out by people with more initiative than you. You think you should be comfortable as a consumer, because that's what you've been conditioned to think. There is no centralization because in Feathercoin, everyone is encouraged to explore their talents and influence the coin.

You choose to be a bystander. All you want in a coin is just a means of exchange. The problem is reality doesn't care about your expectations. The only way to be secure and successful is to be active.

Here's a place to start: http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html