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Board Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN][BLAKE-256] DIRAC (XDQ) - Advanced Finance
by
sgi02
on 21/05/2014, 13:12:08 UTC
Dear Bryce,

               I feel that I speak for many members in writing this to you regarding Dirac. We are here because we believe in the idea you have proposed, which is why we've been vocal about our concerns. However, I also feel that the majority of them have went unaddressed and you haven't exactly been providing the community with compelling reasons to continue backing your cause.

The pairing of Dirac with NAUT is interesting in many different ways. From a technical standpoint I don't think anyone will question that you are the better developer, with NAUT, BK understood this and reached out for help when he needed it. Dirac (if I understand correctly) is based off of Blake Bitcoin and one of the features that has been touted is...

a specially modified codebase which allows for a process of currency cloning that is simpler than ever before.

With that being said, what real innovation does Dirac technically have, and what exactly classifies it as a "Financial Instrument"? I took the time to listen to your podcast (video too) and these questions still largely remained unanswered. I understand that the Blake256 algorithm has benefits in power efficiency, I understand that the Blake ecosystem allows for large scale merge mineable coins, but what else? Personally im not a programmer and I think you'll find that 99% of miners / investors aren't either, so being told to check out a Github repo does little in the way of boasting confidence to potential backers. We're not asking you to blueprint an ark here, we would just like some solid answers.

When it came to marketing, NAUT had it in the bag with media coverage, and a very active community here which BK was a very constructive part of. With Dirac you've made little to no effort to help and encourage users here (or elsewhere) to support your cause and furthermore you've belittled a majority of users here for asking basic questions about the project. BK manages a successful capital firm, he's a contributor to a major television network and yet he still finds the time to be helpful and answer questions from the community, why not you?

Being the crypto aficionado that you are; I think that you would have learned by now that a solid community can make or break a coin, you're currently dissolving yours.