Quote from: JakeThePanda on October 03, 2014, 07:44:48 PM

Quote from: MemoryShock on October 03, 2014, 07:29:55 PM

Quote from: Longenecker on October 03, 2014, 07:21:33 PM

People need to stop cherry-picking my statements because the main point I was making is that XC has absolutely no business collaborating with a coin such as utilitycoin that is 1 week old, has an anonymous dev, and whose thread is only 10 pages long.

Seriously people? Come on...

Did you read any of that thread? If they are working on Content Filtering (primarily to avoid the stigma of users having to deal with illegal content/malicious data being handled by their network) then XC has a very good reason to want to be involved with such a topic and development (for XC's decentralized data distributing network). It makes perfect sense, regardless of how long the coin has been in existence or how long their thread is (incidentally, their OP mentions that they have submitted for POD from cryptoasian). I also think that Dan is probably a good judge of character and can discern the quality of the dev before going full on into anything.

I don't share your concern in the least and actually think that the collaboration, if it gets to happen, will benefit XC greatly.

+1 to collaboration

Most of you are definitely missing the forest for the trees. As the crypto world grows it can only help XC if Dan/XC collaborates with other innovative developers and projects and becomes a well respected code reviewer. Crypto innovation hasn't even scratched the surface yet, so if you think it's good for XC to just stay stuck in it's own cocoon you will be in for a rude awakening. Nobody has a monopoly on all the great ideas and that includes Dan Metcalf, as great as he is. Collaborating ideas and new technologies with other projects is what will keep XC relevant when crypto becomes mainstream. Also, Dan will become a trusted and respected member of the technology universe, which will go a long way with XC's adoption into the world of the general and typically uneducated mainstream user.

Just my 2 XC, so chill.

+100 I agree.

Some people seem to think it will take Dan's time away from developing XC. If Dan is like other programmers I know, it will not reduce his dedication or time devoted to XC. To him it is probably a nice break from working on XC and only serves to rejuvenate his XC efforts. You can't expect someone not to take a break. If that is how he chooses to spend some of his free time, the more power to him.

Plus, it serves as an income stream for him. Be thankful he, and the entire team, are as dedicated to XC as they are. Go look at other coins whose devs quit or just go missing. I have seen coin communities try and raise money to pay their dev, or hire a new one to make algo changes in hopes of saving their slowly dying coin.