Quote from: optomus on April 23, 2014, 03:47:40 AM

Hey guys,
I have been reading this thread since the start and was conversing on the mIRC channel with the old Dev.
Clearly it will take time for everyone to get back on track after the "switching of Devs" debacle but I have no doubt the fork at 200k will take care of that.
So glazing over that and commenting on some of the other points that have been made recently in this thread:
1) Logo
-The colouring is and always has been far too easy to pass over. Even when I am looking for it on coinwarz, I miss it far more often then I should. Something on it needs to be Darker, and to be honest it doesn't really matter what it is, change the S to a midnight blue, background pink seriously, specifics are less important than the fact that in order to be more noticeable, the colours need to change.

2) Website
-Super glad we have something solid and working. I am grateful to the dev. for getting that together and up, but from looking at it, well it looks like a programmer made it haha and though I have no idea aside from perhaps psionin who made it I am sure they are a great programmer before a developer.
A comparison can be found here http://www.fluttercoin.us/

Both of these, seriously, are cosmetics and ultimately will do very little for SmartCoin at the moment. With out a solid foundation, all the beauty surrounding a coin will crumble.

3) Advancements?
-I had read a couple comments regarding making SmartCoin interesting, enticing, ATM, phone, app etc... and that is all great folks, and should be pursued in the future however, I believe the basis of crypotoCURRENCY is being over looked. We have the basis of an economy here, little to no transaction fees, anonymity, really not much more you could ask for aside from an actual economy "the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services." (yeah that is totally a quote).
-Who wants a coin that cannot be spent anywhere aside from exchange markets!? Before work goes into making things look nice, a market place is a MUST. A number of other coins have a market place running where their currency can be used to make purchases (such as FTC) and that is what drives the value of their coin because people can buy or mine that coin and get real world possessions.

We, as a community run coin, need to get a market place together and for the time being, sell good quality used items. There is not a chance in hell any merchant is going to risk accepting a 4 month old coin in the dumps as payment for the items they spent real money on with the very good chance that tomorrow they are going to have an amount that is worth half of what it was at purchase.

So, having said that, how do we get this going? I have, for anyone who remembers me, stated in the past that I can actually code. I am finishing one degree and am returning to finish an in progress Comp sci. degree and am willing to put some work in however, I lack the knowledge of exactly what needs to happen in the back-end when processing cryptocoin payments, along with the free time to spend researching said topic. If someone could help point me in the direction, I could start working on this in the very near future!

Glad this community is still around and still fully believing in this coin. I have been mining since Feb 6th and will continue until the fork, when I will switch to others so that I can buy more SMC to get the prices increasing!

Thanks, and I hope to hear some feedback!

(feel free to tear my comments apart)

Hey optomus,

This is some good feedback, I'm glad to hear it. Yes, it would be great to have some help on the development side, and I'm working on getting the platform set up for collaboration on this project. See http://vimeo.com/5579829

By the way, we do have a new forum, and it may be a good idea to start migrating there from this thread and to start individual topics for things like mining set up and exchange updates, so that it's easier to follow. See http://smartcoin.cc/forum/

Putting the coin to use in actual payment systems is a general issue within the whole community and there are challenges that take time to overcome. I think that right now it is best to focus on making the coin itself a good coin and to integrate it with as many existing bitcoin services as possible.

The website and logo can use work, but I think they are good enough for now, and so it is a matter of priority, as there are other things that are more important at the moment. If someone wants to give it a shot in the meantime, that's fine too, but keep in mind that the baseline for accepting a new version would be something like the mentioned http://www.fluttercoin.us/.