Quote from: Rampion on July 16, 2013, 06:58:46 PM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on July 16, 2013, 06:47:34 PM

Quote from: Rampion on July 16, 2013, 04:25:03 PM

And BTW: I'm no programmer AT ALL, and its not so difficult to understand the basics of how crypto works, and how to make a Scrypt clone... It just takes a little bit of reading, the code is not so difficult to understand even if you are a profane - just stop writing nonsense AND READ. Can you make that exercise? Stop posting for a week, slap your hand when you have the temptation of writing a post, AND JUST READ AND LEARN.

This. While a background in software development helps there is a lot of technical information which is not in code form. One can spend a week just looking over the wiki to learn "how" Bitcoin (and thus any clone of it) works. The ability to improve knowledge is there. It is useful for project managers for example to understand at a high level how the systems they are managing work even if they aren't writing any code.

Some examples would be that vlad believes:
a) that a blockchain which has a reward of 100% until 7 years at which point it drops to zero is viable.
b) that making the outcome of the block random changes the EV and thus favors small miners over large ones.
c) that random block rewards are impossible with proof of stake.
d) that an entity with 51% can change the rules of a protocol (i.e. a government making Bitcoin trackable and transparent).

None of these are programming concepts they are high level concepts (and they are all false BTW). Not everyone needs to be a software developer but I would imagine (or hope) that the Winklevoss twins learned more about how Bitcoin works before buying a large stake and/or trying to launch an ETF. Reading through the public doc it would appear they either personally understand or have hire experts who understand at least most concepts related to cryptocurrency.

That's very spot on. Vlad, just stop a little and read the above points, you will realize that your time will be much better used in reading and learning, you are lacking a lot of basic knowledge for even having the absurd idea of launching "another crapcoin".

Do you think the bankers launching Bitcoin ETF are gonna go get a degree on software programming or maybe they're gonna hire a programmer they trust? I have 6 years of college, I'm not 25, I'm sick of school and programming is very difficult - it's basically an engineering degree.

I just assumed if I found a programmer I trusted that the rest would be done per my specs ad my chosen features. I had not a clue that the people here could not program to that level. If they could have there would be no problem. What I need is to find a real programmer that can do it all, pay his fee and the job is done. I don't need to spend months learning code where at the end if that time I'll still be a confused amateur meanwhile at the speed this is moving ill be laughing a coin into a market with 300 alt coins instead of 50.

There's a matter of urgency here so even if i wanted to learn all this stuff, there's simply no Time. I just need a reliable and very competent programmer. That's the best and fatest way. But thanks for the advice, under different circumstances it may have been a practical idea.

I'd like to talk to you more a out your ideas. Thanks.