Quote from: kodtycoon on April 23, 2014, 07:18:59 PM

Quote from: patmast3r on April 23, 2014, 07:13:27 PM

Quote from: msunxter on April 23, 2014, 07:06:49 PM

I'm not sure a multi pool is in NEMs interest. The value of this technology should be derived from the underlying technology. The value should not be derived from an influx of BTC/NEM buys at the onset. To me this screams pump.

Be involved in cryptos, I thought we are all capitalists here. Let's let the markets decide price and value.

Why ?

hes a big fat cat miner and doesnt want pow to die lol

220k nem pledged. anyone else want to pledge toward the pool?

possible dev on board! will inform when more is known! 220k is not enough we need more!

Lets not be too hasty now, i think they make perfectly valid points. However, in light of what you said, a multipool really has more pro's than cons, at least when used for a PoS coin like NEM. I'm eager to see how NXT handles using the same idea.

Also, i'd be happy to pledge to this cause - I'll pm you with what i'd intend to pledge. I'd also be happy to put forth more as and when more information becomes available, such as who will be organizing this multipool, managing it and running it. I'll be watching this idea develop, assuming it does.

Quote from: utopianfuture on April 23, 2014, 02:31:15 PM

I would personally support NEM multi pool since as I understand it would give miners automatous access to NEM without paying for NEM directly via an an exchange. That is a valuable service to NEM making it accessible to everyone with different tastes since I think some people are averse to the idea of buying a cypto directly.

Green marketing ploy started with Peercoin people and continued by Nxt people but never actually caught on. imho, the issue should be rephrased better under the term of network efficiency. NEM network is more efficient than Bitcoin because it takes less power to maintain and still have the same level of security. The efficiency gain comes from utilizing POS/ POI foraging algorithm instead POW algorithm which consumes much more power at the same time gives rise to a computational arm-race whenever bitcoin price is increasing. So we can say the "green" aspect comes from the algorithm each network utilizes not really related to the method how an individual choose to obtain the coin.

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Couldn't agree more. Although buying directly is also a good option to have - keeping options open is pretty important.