Quote from: danosphere on April 16, 2014, 07:25:50 PM

Quote from: TheMightyX on April 16, 2014, 06:09:27 PM

I have been pretty vocal several times about what I felt were key issues and roadblocks in kittehs path.
I offered to help strategize a plan of action but was not taken up on the offer. That in itself was disappointing as I believe that there were many forms of action we could have taken. Mergemining was not one of them.

Quote from: shai_ on April 16, 2014, 07:08:02 PM

so why do you people only offer to do stuff ? and not just doing ?

+1 I am sick of people saying they have offered to do this or that but didn't because [insert reason here]- JUST DO IT. Coordinate with the community. This has to become more of a decentralized effort. If me stepping down is the only way for people to GET that then so be it. It seems like AdamG has the right idea- the community needs to drive this thing, not me, not one person, not 3 people, a community.

Quote from: TheMightyX on April 16, 2014, 06:09:27 PM

We all have lives to live and other responsibilities so it would be selfish of us to hold it against the team for wanting to move on with their lives and careers. We can't necessarily expect someone to waste their time on something solely for our benefit. As much as we may not like this move, we all need to do whats right for ourselves first.

Thank you. I do appreciate the fact that someone here has the sense to see this- I picked up an open source project with no intention of it becoming what is has become. I'd never compiled a freakin wallet when I picked this up sometimes in January... lots of learning has happened! Its cool it got so big, and I would like the community to keep pushing it forward- but its unfair to hang this on me just because I took the time and proactive steps to make things happen when other decided to sit back and watch or just let Kittehcoin die. Now because I decided to try and help out and things were a smashing success beyond anything I was ready for- I'm the bad guy... for wanting to explore more innovative things in crypto with my very limited free time... really not fair to me or the team especially when we're trying to do what's right in how we transition away from Kittehcoin.

If I were a dev with free time (college kids I'm lookin at you) I'd be stockpiling MEOW and then announcing plans to takeover. Just a suggestion! But like I mentioned, I won't hand over Kittehcoin to just any schmoe, I'm lookin for a solid developer/team that will take good care of MEOW. There is an opportunity here to really make profit since Kittehcoin is so cheap at the moment, and lots of bagholders have already dumped their coins.

As mentioned earlier I will speak with AdamG tonight on IRC, that may yeild more interesting news in terms of where things are headed.

While I feel like I could have lead the project better than you, are you saying that I should have just what, stolen the source code, forked it myself, all the while learning C++ and convincing everyone to switch over to my fork?

Yea, I'll get right on that.
I'm not much of a programmer, and you are not a business person.
We all have our individual skills and talents and frankly I feel you relied on your programming knowledge/experience to try to solve a business/marketing dilemma.
It's also entirely possible you volunteered to take on this project before adequately considering how it would finance and promote itself.

Now it's very easy to just say "go do something, take action".

How hard would it have been to fork the code with a different algo to prevent multi-pools?
Everyone would have agreed to these changes as the coin has been at rock-bottom for a long time now.
How hard would it have been to create a multi-pool to create buying pressure on the coin (this strategy is not just for PoS coins)?

This next comment is not directed at you but the community in general. It's shocking how every nerd who knows how to create a cryptocurrency thinks that means they should make one. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. The majority of these "developers" are programming students with little or no real-world experience. How do I know that? It's evident in the way they speak, their actions and their reactions. The base goal of all crypto currencies is to flourish and to become an international world currency. You know what would be nice to all those programmers trying to build "Money 2.0"? If they knew a little something about business, marketing and economics. Wouldn't that be nice? If those people in charge of creating the worlds new money knew something about money themselves?

Again that was not directed at you Dano as you've proven yourself very capable. I just don't agree with how things were handled on this project.

Cryptocurrencies are a natural evolution of money. As such, as an EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISM we shouldn't be concerned if the coin has to relaunch two, three, five or twenty times. As long as it keeps getting better with each evolution. In fact, cats have 9 lives don't they? So what, you relaunch again and kitteh has 8 lives left? Wouldn't that play into the whole Cat theme anyway?

I suggested relaunching the coin with a new multi-pool proof algo, implementing a hard block reward tax like einsteinium for wildlife protection/development.

As I mentioned before, these are strategies I wouldn't like to talk about out in the open as any coin developer can then take these suggestions and implement them into competing coins.

More could have been done. You only needed to step back and take off your programmer hat to see this.

Just because someone is not a programmer does NOT mean they don't have ideas or can't be useful in strategizing a profitable plan.
Lets be brutally honest, programmers don't make games, programmers don't design the software and programmers don't make marketing decisions.
Programmers program, and that is what they are good at.
So expecting a programmer to do EVERYTHING (Design, Programming, Marketing, Finance, Legal) is just asking for failure.
But this is what happens in the crypto community. Every programmer goes off on his own and makes his own currency.
No one can do everything.

Was that a rant and a half? Sure was.
But I'm sure there was some point in there somewhere.
Whoever steps up to the plate needs to put their ego aside, admit they can't do everything and build a team to round out their weaknesses.
Guess what, Steve Jobs was a useless hack, he didn't have any programming knowledge, but you know what he had? Creativity and ideas.
Where would Apple be without him? Nowhere, thats where.