What is the point to Masari? What does it improve on Monero?
The thing that Masari has implemented compared to Monero is a new DAA that could now be added to Monero (
https://github.com/monero-project/monero/pull/2887).
The plans for the future from what has been promised will be about on-chain scalability.
The point is that Masari wants to contribute to the development of Monero where some things I think can't be tested directly, and provide a fork of Monero stable and maintained over time
Why even create a new coin fork when all you need is a test net?
I'm not here to convince you lol This is a fork of Monero and will take the road he wants . otherwise according to your reasoning we will not even talking about monero (fork of bytecoin) now
What? I asked a simple question, you make no sense and I see no direct answer to my question. Makes me think twice about putting BTC towards a test net for Monero.
I'm not the developer, put your btc wherever you want. The rodmap is on the website, it is not a simple test net, dyor
Part of "do your own research" is coming to a place where the developer frequents and ask questions which are not found anywhere else.
Masari is not even listed on coinmarketcap, so now can someone answer the simple question of what is the purpose of this Monero fork?
Hello,
Masari is an experimental coin with its goals not intended to compete with Monero, as they don't really overlap in objectives.
Masari's most recent improvement however does overlap, and surfaced exactly because of adversarial market effects on Masari's existence and not due to randomly fiddling with a testnet, seen in the pull request above, replacing an inefficient difficulty algorithm implementation in Monero.
The purpose of Masari is for on-chain scalability initiatives that have not been delved into in the CryptoNote space, starting with uncle mining using a variant of the DECOR+ protocol, followed by research into sharding/partitioning potential of the transaction outputs into a "blocktree" structure (pending a whitepaper draft and peer review).
Although there will likely be more upstream contributions (bug fixes, minor features, etc.), these goals differ greatly from Monero's as its team pursues 2nd layer solutions. I'm not one to say that on-chain scalability is a better pursuit, nor whether or not 2nd layer solutions are the best, and we're seeing new innovations coming out all the time that may take market dominance in the future (i.e. blockchain alternatives like Hashgraph, Raiblocks, IOTA, etc., ignoring decentralization concerns.).
I'd like to re-iterate that this is an experimental coin, with value outside of just being a local testnet, and for all intensive purposes is not necessarily intended to be one for you to invest in - there is little to no marketing here outside of organic community growth.
I hope this answers your questions.
Cheers,
Thaer