Quote from: NutMasterTardd on May 09, 2021, 10:42:26 PM

...I did get a message for it being "off-topic"....

It was deleted by moderators then. Moderators on this site will delete a post if a more established poster asks them to. Very arbitrary rules.

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On this coin, there are two main groups with an interest. Geocachers and speculators.

90% of the people on 99% of all altcoins are speculators.

Dave is an actual real world geocacher, and there are other geocachers interested in the coin.

Dave and other geocachers obviously have to pay bills, but their interest in geocaching is real.

Things like elemental whatever and various other schemes are not anything to do with geocaching, and maybe that's what irked somebody.

I'm not a geocacher but I think it's cool and I know some geocachers.

When you see Dave involved in side coin projects, ubiq, elemental whatever etc it really weakens the coin. The impression is that he is under external pressure to support some outside projects that have nothing to do with geocaching.

A few years ago I researched geocoin and communicated briefly with Dave. He had a profile on a geocaching site probably long before geocoin existed.

I wish well enough for elemental geo, ubiq, any other project, I have nothing against those projects, but Dave is a real geocacher working on a geocaching coin and getting drawn into those unrelated projects probably for financial reasons.

Maybe it would be better if geocoin dropped all this side shit like elemental whatever, and shifted back to solid geocaching. There should be enough financial reward for Dave and others that they don't need side gigs pumping other projects. People generally do not donate to coin devs, and corporate sponsors are unlikely so the best way to make it financially adequate for geocoin devs is to improve the coin enough that it gains traction.

My best guess at this point is that a definitive solution to geospoofing would launch geocoin into global orbit, but a definitive solution is not likely. Governments currently control the infrastructure around gps however directly or indirectly, and they have their own motives for limiting the quality of data available to projects like this.

Until a solution is easily available, a partial fix is the password/textfield suggestion above. A person would know that spoofers could get any coins sent onto an open map, and they would have the choice to limit who could retrieve the coins they drop. Textfield requirements could even be in other languages so faroff countries could learn geospoofing ****or**** could have a motive to get into geocaching and coins.

tldr Let Dave work on geocaching and geocoin, and leave all these weird bells and whistles like elemental whatever to coins that have nothing else.