Quote from: Lantic_Mining on April 03, 2018, 06:03:07 PM

Quote from: Turbogame on April 03, 2018, 03:19:32 PM

Hi! Thank you for your opinion and support! We understand your disappointment. Let us explain. For such a step there are some reasons we posted above. Besides those reasons, we want to gather a community of interested members and long terms investors. When member is being a masternode holder, he has a stronger interest to be steady participant of the system. Nothing impede you to buy masternode now with a pretty low price. It can give a good profit in prospect and possibility to take active participation in development of the project. You can share your ideas, propose it and vote every month. As you can see we don't get reward from each block, there is no such point in reward division. We just have a foundation (50 masternodes) which directed to improve, evolve and promote the project. All the funds from foundation will be used for following modernization and expansion of the platform like system updates, mobile wallets, promotions, bounties, listings on exchanges and all the clauses from the roadmap (https://aken.cash/#roadmap).
It's not about lack of planning, it's about flexibility and desire to move on. We act according to our roadmap.
Of course we need to sell masternodes to extend network and use funds to promote platform, getting it more popular and attracting new community members. Listing on a big exchange takes a lot of money. Let's consider HitBTC for instance. The cost of listing on this exchange is 15 BTC. Marketing is expensive field as well.
Do you think it's not a good move? What can you advise us and what actual steps would you make as a team member?
Let's discuss it. Please, feel free to ask us any question you have. We want to know any point of view of every community member. It's important to us.

Well, there's no disappointment - whilst we briefly put a small rig on it on when launched we don't have any rigs mining Aken now or host any Aken MN's. Our decision was that it didn't offer anything other than a speculative mining opportunity and there were better returns available.

The coin doesn't seem to have any unique use cases and is simply offering another method of payment. The switch to focus almost solely on MN sales and rewards will reduce the community support significantly and correspondingly the chance of the coin being adopted over the hundreds(?) of other coins with an almost identical roadmap and lack of unique uses.

There are currently only enough Aken for three MN's available for sale through your exchange meaning that anyone wanting to host one is going to have little choice but to buy it from the devs premine. I'm not saying that makes the coin a scam but MN sales and premine dumping are the most common kinds of exit scams so you can see why (without any visible community requirement for it on here, Discord or Telegram) today's announcement is a red flag.

Thank you for the point of view! We understand you. You're right, at the start we don't have significant distinctions. The only important thing we have is a voting system which not many projects use.
To develop project and make it more notable we need a strong marketing campaign and we're working on it. Promotion activities take funds, so we need to sell some quantity of nodes. There is no many coins at this moment because the network works for just 20 days.
Thank you for your opinion! We have to consider it. We'll make updates and see how it affects to platform and community. If it brings a huge negative effect, we'll arrange a voting and discussion with community members, then we'll use our flexibility and change the algorithm. What do you think?