Quote from: captchunk on December 31, 2013, 12:02:21 PM

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Quote from: Tripmode on December 29, 2013, 08:38:19 PM

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Big thanks to both WTParker2 and Tripmode for your excellent investigation.

This has put my worries about the DMD possibly being hi-jacked to rest.
All your scenarios explains very well why I have received less DMDs than 'usual' over the last few days.
And it also reinstates my trust in the DMD.

May the DMD finally get that big price-jump it rightfully deserve being a truly rare entity..!
I guess when it eventually nears it's end in 50k+ units time it will indeed rise to much much higher value..

There is a good team behind Diamond - Zuper, PalmDetroit, Myself... Last time there was a forking issue we were on it within minutes. If anyone is fucking around we would know about it! No one is able to cheat and generate superblocks, I can assture you that.

As for pool operators not paying bonus blocks, that has nothing to do with the coin - when researching a pool make sure you do your homework!

Based on the way MultiPool has responded and is paying people back for missed coins, it seems an honest mistake. They run many pools and I am sure they didnt know that Diamond paid bonus blocks...We are glad to have Multipool as part of the Diamond community

i was going to make a video for DMD, but i have decided it might be better for me to just fork out some cash and pay for a professional company to do one, do you think this is a good idea? for a small fee we could run it as advertisement on youtube, i think that would work well, if you agree this is a good idea, what do you think the video should contain, i have the money but im a little bit blank when it comes to promoting a coin, i have made video's in the past for youtube, but not anything like this, and that's the reason i think it would be best to pay for it instead i think we should promote DMD as the next btc, like the DMD site says a commodity for the store of your wealth, i will need to write a basic script for them and any help would be much appreciated.

A video is a great idea. I think it should be a little bit sexy/flashy as opposed to just a dry "Alice pays Bob" video. It should point out the technical advantages of course, but also shouldn't shy away from using the inherent marketability/appeal in owning "diamonds". I don't think it's really necessary to directly promote DMD as "the next BTC" - many people will already have that feeling without it being said, and it would probably if as few people thought of it as just another "copycoin" as possible. Just my opinion anyways.

The main DMD site's listed features:

- DMD is an ASIC-resistant scrypt coin.
- It combines proof-of-work and proof-of-stake, providing excellent resistance to 51% attacks.
- No pre-mining or instamining! 100% fair currency!
- It is super scarce: only 4.38 million DMD will be created in eight years (starting from launch in July 2013).
- Linear creation means early users do not have an unfair advantage (no block reward halving ever).
- Block time is one minute and each block contains 1 DMD.
- Every day, 10 random blocks contain 2 DMD (bonus blocks), 3 blocks contain 8 DMD (super blocks), and one block contains 30 DMD (super + block)!
- Difficulty re-targets at every block.

These are good, I'd also highlight:

- The environmental benefits of being scrypt (no ridiculous and wasteful ASIC arms race). Also, no Blood Diamonds!
- The speed/low transaction fees.
- How PoS and scarcity makes it a "saving" currency.
- Diamonds are a girls best friend?
- dmdpool.net has a great line on their site: "If BTC is gold, and LTC is silver, DMD is well, DIAMOND!"

Depends who you target the video to. If it's the crypto coin enthusiasts, then all the above should be highlighted to show the advantages of Diamond against other coins. If it's the general audience, then a very short (1-minute) video explaining what you can do with Diamond, like the original Bitcoin video (www.bitcoin.org), with animation, a clever script and no technical jargon is needed.

My thinking is that 2014 will see a huge influx of people hearing about and becoming interested in digital currency for the first time. Given the drawbacks and difficulties associated with Bitcoin, a few other serious candidates will emerge, based on acceptance by this large audience. I think it is THIS audience we should make a video for. This will help Diamond grow steadily, organically and without the pump-and-dump nonsense of most other alt coins. It is a long shot but, if successful, this will establish Diamond as the most serious digital currency out there. Judging from what I see by the new dev team and the discussions of the community in this forum, this is probably the most serious alt coin that currently exists (perhaps with PPC and WDC, which also seem to have serious communities around them).

If you can take over the artistic part of the video development, I can have a go at the script. PM me if interested. Let's help Diamond realise its true potential!