Add that to my earlier arguments
By the way, darkcoin is giving away coins too
https://www.darkcointalk.org/forums/general-discussion.2/
and they don't alienate certain parts of the community when doing so.
The engineer in me is somewhat tempted to take a closer look at the technology and figure out exactly what problem is being solved, but if its not completely decentralized
and controlled solely by the community as a whole, I doubt I will dig deep.
That's your choice and your future knowledge base. If I was an engineer, I'd be trying to study all the tech I could but that's just me. As for your "alienate" comment, Bitcointalk was the first and largest giveaway to single members. Many receiving 50,000 XRP all the way down to 2000 or so. It was a huge giveaway and a lot of people here made good money.
Either way, it matters not. The crypto-community is only a fraction of a fraction of the world population and for people who talk about "mass adoption" all the time, many of you certainly do think small. This is global baby and that means spreading the currency to as many of the 7 billion people on the planet as possible. This about changing the world, especially for the unbanked, under-banked and the millions financially oppressed. If that offends you, so be it. Enjoy your darkcoin, I look forward to seeing on the Ripple network where all currencies are welcome...but before long, you'll likely be utilizing Ripple and you won't even know it.
EDIT: I want to thank the mods for keeping this thread up here this long. I hope we don't have a trend of XRP, blah, blah, blah threads but it's good to have discussions on solid tech here nonetheless. I'll just be glad when this BS polarization in the digital currency world is over....or one can hope because fundamentally, we're all on the same side.
Cheers.
I get the impression you don't like "my" darkcoin. Personally I find any coin that adds features of real value interesting. There is a lot of coins out there that doesn't add anything significant to the original bitcoin protocol, and then there is coins that doesn't even respect, or value, the core pillars that makes bitcoin a revolutionary technology. And thats when I start to get wary.
In my opinion, mining is one of those core pillars that makes bitcoin disruptive and to work for everyone.
It may not be optimal, but in addition to the decentralized aspect, this is essential in order to avoid involving a central third party, which is obviously key.
Its about putting power into the hands of the little man, without making yourself a God in the process.
That can't be done without breaking a few eggs. You simply can't please everyone and have a revolution at the same time.
After watching the video referenced earlier I can't say I found anything that doesn't already apply to bitcoin or some of the other coins out there.
When I realized that RippleLab "happened" to mine the entire currency for themself, thats when I started loosing my focus completely.
I mean seriously, how can anyone compete with that?