Quote from: GroinCoinGuy on June 18, 2014, 04:27:00 PM

We have been following your coin with interest for a few weeks since our coin launched a few weeks after yours. We had some ASICs and needed something to put them on since our coin is X11 and will not work with them. We did not want to sell them and looked for a good scrypt coin to mine with them. So we are mining GUN and have bought some on Bleutrade (where we are also traded), when the prices were low. We were very pleased to see the prices about double this morning and we sold some for about twice what we bought it at.

We are a CHL holder in Texas and have high hopes that your coin will be successful (as well as ours...LOL). We agree with all your thought processes we have read except for one. We saw in an earlier post about member concern that your coin features might be outdated and subject to an ASIC attack (don't worry about me, my hashing power is not that overwhelming). We noticed someone in our pool showed up with 35MH/s this morning to mine GUN - probably an ASIC I bet. With so many coins out there it is tough to stand out. I am curious why GUN does not take some type of fork to upgrade to newer features? It seems you have a good following and a stable coin - now might be the best chance you have before retailers jump on your coin. For our coin, we chose to go the X11 and DGW3 route with ours. Already, we see X13 and X14 coins coming out and are pondering if we need to upgrade or wait for something bigger. PLEASE, there is absolutely NOOOOO criticism here - nor any intent to promote our coin, just another supportive GUN miner/user hoping to see some serious upward movement on GUN and looking towards the longer term.

It's fantastic to see you GroinCoinPeople on board of the GuncoinShip too Grin

I was reading your BitcointalkTopic and look through your specifications and goals for the coin and I can say you have an interesting cryptocurrency. Hoping you'll have success too.

I probably kind of agree about forking.

Some posts before I wrote down my thoughts about anonymity. I'm simply reading at people's posts and start to reason, trying to help the coin anyway I can, even just with my mind.
About anonymity-suggestion I said "I disagree" and you can find my "This is not a coin for Tor or Silkroad" post, easy.

about forking I think it's not a bad idea at all.

It's true what GunCoinSupport wrote about ASIC:
One thing people also need to understand with ASIC miners is that they are becoming more widely used, getting more powerful and the prices are dropping fast. ASIC's will not destroy the world of Scrypt. If anything, it may increase the number of miners. Mining is always evolving and that is not going to stop any time soon. Rest assured, no matter what the algo, there will be ASIC miners developed.

and, for sure, it's true what damm315er wrote:
Add a couple asics to mining gun coin, and my mining went from 7% to under 1% of the take on the mined coins. Not worth it for me to mine them anymore, with over $2g of GPU's in my rig.
Simple math.
I'll still follow the coin, but I can't compete with asics for mining scrypt.
Cest la vie

In my humble opinion, I think we should keep reasoning with a "long-term mind". Keep reasoning like we already are in the future in which GunCoin is strong as Bitcoin is; Used by all USA OnlineGunShops and anything else we can imagine about it's success.
I think we must start think this way, even if we haven't yet reached our goal, because WE WILL REACH THAT GOAL, I have no doubt at all about that.
So...we can't arrive at that goal-point with "pants down" (italian adagio...imagine you go to the toilet and something important happens when your pants are down and you had absolutely no idea that "thing" could happen at all...and absolutely no idea that "thing" could happen right in that moment!).

So...if we think we already are one of the strongest coins out there: do we think it's a big problem having a scrypt Algo or we do not?
is it easy to make us go down with a 51% attack right now?
What is bitcoin doing to protect itself? what we can learn from our big brother? (because we will reach him).

A long-term investment needs protection and needs to not lose anyone (like damm315er) on the road to reach greatness.

Again...in the end I don't think the point is "making things because they're hot right now" to make price go higher.
Guncoin price will skyrocket because its purpose. No matter what we will do, from now on (if developers keep going to develop features and things...of course Cheesy

LOL)
I think we have to "make things" because OF THE PURPOSE.

I don't know if I managed to explain myself and concepts in my mind...sometimes language is really an issue for me, poor damn italian guy,
but please, share your point of view about that (even a "I didn't fucking understand a single word you damn idiot!" Grin

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