Quote from: nsummy on January 19, 2019, 11:51:06 PM

Quote from: togoshigekata on January 19, 2019, 10:38:12 PM

Quote from: bible_pay on January 19, 2019, 10:32:44 PM

We wouldn't have spent so many hard hours on PODC if we knew we were retiring it. It felt like the way to go when we were creating it, but maybe its better that Gridcoin takes this part of the market.

No sense in bashing each other over this - lets all calm down and try to get along.

The bottom line is, let's face it, we had an original vision that any old PC could mine BiblePay right on the CPU with the original POBH algorithm. The only thing that stopped us was the botnets copied our software out to hundreds of PCs and we didn't like our standard users getting hurt like that. With POG, we go back to that original vision. So please dont be upset, just switch to POG. The idea is thousands of commodity PCs and users can participate without any mining knowledge, its great!

For anyone new to Proof of Giving (POG), here are some references:

Past Discussions:
- https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=319.0
- https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=323.0
- https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=327.0

Testnet thread:
- https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?topic=335

Wiki Pages:
- https://wiki.biblepay.org/Proof-of-Giving-for-Beginners
- https://wiki.biblepay.org/Proof-of-Giving-II

Thanks for posting this, I have been confused by all of the POG talk. Honestly though this, coin gets more and more confusing. I know that's a common complaint but I read both of these wiki pages and it makes little sense. If this requires a centralized pool whats the point of it even being a crypto currency? I think the developer(s) are honestly chasing their tail. There isn't a single coin out there that "whales" haven't exploited. And I hesitant to even use the word exploit, since they are just following the rules. The fact of life is that those with more resources have the ability to earn more.

The coin is getting simpler and simpler to understand.
The coin is getting more decentralized.
POG is 100% decentralized and requires no web pools.
The devs are straightening things out (in response to challenges).
POG is easy to understand and simple enough for a baby to understand, and simplifies our infrastructure.
We're not saying a whale wont make more than a small user, but what we are saying that is novel is this: A botnet is not going to exploit POG, that is the main consideration. If your a big time investor then you will get more rewards with POG, yes. The main feature that POG solves what Vertcoin experienced (being overrun by botnet exploits).

Sometimes the complaints that surface on this thread are from people who made assumptions.

The thing to realize is we need simplicity first in order to write good documents (not the other way around).