It seems like smcardle is quite busy, not heard from him in many days 
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. smcardle is indeed busy - everyone in the team has fulltime jobs, and no, it's (sad as it is), not a fulltime Coino job
So while we are trying to keep the forum active, we cannot guarantee daily news, so don't be scared off due to a little inactivity
You make a valid point there with the major groups of miners nowadays. Looks like our best bet might be to attract more gamers to start mining and trading. Coino is off to a good start with the web wallet and gaming platform. I imagine if I was a gamer and had an incentive to mine, I would definitely put my GPU(s) to use when I'm not gaming. Either that or go buy coins. Therefore, the biggest hurdle is giving those people an incentive. So I see now that changing to an ASIC resistant algorithm might be essential at the moment.
That is exactly what I am thinking - give gamers a reason to mine with their gaming rig, when they are not playing. That will give us a lot of more players (pun intended
) and we can hopefully get some more trading going on.My vision if that the gamers will either be able to directly use their coins, or by using a market to exchange their coins - not limited to only exchanging between crypto coins. I'm thinking like, exchange Coino into let's say pre-purchase Steam cards, so they can "mine new games", wouldn't that be cool? I know this is already possible for some other coins, and most definitely something we will want too.
I know changing to a new algo and implementing new things take time, but we should start a survey to at least gauge what the rest of the community are thinking.
At an early point of the takeover we voted for a change of algorithm, and most voted no.
I would like to hear smcardle and bgades views on making a vote, after we have reviewed some cons and pros. People shouldn't be voting for something they don't know what means, so we have to keep people informed about such.