Quote from: 4019 on December 27, 2013, 03:07:35 PM

Thought about recent giveaways and the way Datacoin is going...

Cryptocoins generally lack any inner value, today their main purpose is speculation. Easy to see especially with many altcoins experiencing pump and dump schemes. Lots of people buy them hoping for bitcoin-like exponential growth. Datacoin is one of very few different. From initial thread:

Datacoin is intended to be reliable censorship-free data storage and a currency to pay for this storage. Money transfer isn't the first purpose of Datacoin.

Data storage is the inner purpose of DTC, giving Datacoin its inner value. BUT its inner value does not have to be equal to its price. While I appreciate giveaway and cryptsy fight, I think I see you are going every-other-coin-way here. I think you should not promote Datacoin in first place. You should focus all your efforts at Datacoin uses, services, etc. Build a user base around them. Make Datacoin not a target, but *just* a tool for people. That would reinforce its inertial value by making the coin itself simply useful. You should really make this coin a tool first and a coin second.

And sorry to say that I think that going the Dogecoin-way (

), with giveaways, twitter, cryptsy and buzz, while may seem desirable on a short time frame, on a long way run may destroy the uniqueness if DTC would became too successful this way. With tool-first approach DTC price would depend on its usefulness and usefulness of all DTC-related ecosystem. DTC price cannot be too high. Don't get me wrong, theres still space to grow here, but it would be quite bound to a data storage function, and here price cannot rise above sanity levels. Additionally, function-bound price could be quite stable. Just these orders of magnitude jumps that would make all this speculation crowd happy would render Datacoin unusable, practically depleting it of its inner value.

Unless we imagine a dystopian future, where people are willing to pay many thousands of dollars for every byte of decentralized redundant censorship-free storage...

maxsolnc - DTC addres is the same as is on github I showed to you at bounties thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=365049.msg4159290#msg4159290), that is: DMy7cMjzWycNUB4FWz2YJEmh8EET2XDvqz

well i agree with you. I dont like the dogeway either. i suppose this is happening because cryptsy for some reason is ignoring datacoin. Cryptsy has added a hundreds of retarded coins and will continue to do so but not Datacoin... so we take the dogeway i suppose until cryptsy adds datacoin. Because the coin needs a slightly better exchange really...

indeed more services for datacoin would be perfect. And i hope that people will soon come with more ideas and services.