Quote from: AnonyMint on July 27, 2014, 04:04:57 AM

And here is an example of what I predicted w.r.t. to innovation originating from smaller teams.

Boolberry ~~looks better than~~has some innovations on Monero (at least until Monero adds I2P and copies these features, then Monero has the better name).

1. It prevents the cascade of linkability when other users in your mix don't mix as much as you do (although this could lead to gridlock if not managed somehow).

2. It claims to prune the blockchain by an estimated 30 - 70% (note this is still not enough to deal with the 100s of Petabytes scaling criticism I made upthread, because it is only a constant factor). Edit: when I formerly thought deeply about pruning Cryptonote, it seemed you'd have no way to prevent someone in your mix from not spending forever, thus making pruning impossible in that case. So I have some doubt about his claim.

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I am not sure about 1 but 2 would require hard-fark. Something TacoTime indicates will not be happening anytime soon.

I asked zoidberg to come in and comment on number 2.

Quote from: AnonyMint on July 27, 2014, 10:48:45 AM

Quote from: dewdeded on July 27, 2014, 09:40:46 AM

It's pretty obvious that Boolberrys biggest problem is, it has no team.

No its biggest (first-class) problem is it doesn't have a single feature that can't be adopted quickly by Monero and which makes it extremely compelling "must have" coin. A team won't change that.

The second non-starter problem is the name isn't professional, i.e. it reflects on a lack of marketing.

Boolberry has had a working Official GUI Wallet for some time now. Boolberry has had the ability to prune the size of the blockchain since start. Monero has not quickly adopted either of these features.

If I look outside the Bitcointalk space, I see many products with different names that seemed bad at the time. The products did well. Google used a mispelled name. Yahoo is a derogatory term for a "rough" person.

Quote from: AnonyMint on July 27, 2014, 10:48:45 AM

Quote from: dewdeded on July 27, 2014, 09:40:46 AM

It's just one good coder and a marketing guy. I really give respect for there good work.

From the little I've seen, the marketing guy needs to be fired unless I missed something major. ...

I doubt you missed anything. Unfortunately, I cannot spend as much time as I would like on marketing. I spend a lot of time doing things unseen by most such as testing, keeping up to date on CryptoNote happenings, watching altcoin observer threads and reading all the XMR fanboy threads.

Quote from: drawingthesun on July 27, 2014, 02:59:07 PM

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lose to Monero to be the first fair release
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There is no clear winner in the first fair release argument.

Bitmonero was announced on 4/9. Bitmonero was launched 4/18. Bitmonero was taken over around 4/24 and renamed Monero.
Boolberry was announced on 4/21. Boolberry was launched on 5/17.

There was active development on Boolberry since the announce. No meaningfiul changes were made to the Bitmonero core until after the takeover.

Quote from: drawingthesun on July 27, 2014, 02:59:07 PM

Also, BBR has not enough of a lead to overtake Monero, this is the Litecoin vs Bitcoin argument all over again.

No. BBR & XMR came out at the same time. BTC had a 2 year lead on LTC.