I think anyone mining this is wondering what the coin might do moving forward?  If it is just a new thing to mine a bunch of and then get it on an exchange, who will buy it?  Why would they buy it?  Please provide some details as to where this might be going.  There must be people with billions of these by now...

Mining, but curious to see more info posted...

Evil...  I have been doing engineering FEA and animations for 20+ years.  I would like to think my idea has merit on its own, rather than to be lumped in as a joiner.  I simply am doing a project with what I know, and what there is already a market for.   A lot of these coins have to fabricate a market on their own.  I have been talking about doing this for 2 years, and maybe fear of missing my window via some of the other projects has resulted in finally pulling the trigger.  I used the term supercomputer as I thought it may resonate better than distributed computing.

Great point, verification would be critical as users will be reliant on accuracy of the data computed.

I can offer that one difference between this and other coins is that applications that are in wide-spread use already will be the main usage of the coin/network.  Imagine what currently takes a small render farm (6 computers) one week to render a short sequence in 1080p.  Now leveraging a giant network/farm of computers and accomplishing that same task in hours instead of days.  Time is money, cutting down lead times of completing by 10x, 20x, 30x...   In my experience, companies I have worked at are always looking for ways to speed up/streamline processes.  Now take away the need for employees/users to learn new software, but instead leverage a supercomputer network via the software they already are well versed in.

First, thanks for the repost.  Second, I am working on getting together details.  As I stated initially, I think I need until mid-June.  The aim is a website and a detailed scope.

Those CPU's will likely be put to good use for this coin, at least at the outset.  A lot of the rendering and FEA applications I am aware of are CPU based, with a few exceptions.

I think it is too soon to make that statement.  I can't say I have seen anything definitive about applications that will be able to leverage the network.  I am targeting the ability to use existing software that currently contains the ability to do distributed computing, but instead of pointing it to your own small army of computers, you can point it to the to tens of thousands of computers on the FPU network.  By targeting existing software, you can speed up the process of viability, most companies aren't going to just switch to some newly, non-vetted software for these types of problems.  They have already invested the money in the front end software they currently have, this would just extend it's capabilities outside of the home/work office.

My plan with the website is not to pull back the curtain and show you everything, but to show you many of the venues that would be pursued, some of the competition, and basically make my pitch for you to invest.  It doesn't do me any good to be anything other than direct with this.  Eventually there will be some bounties, etc.  But for now, the ball falls solely in my court.  Feedback is encouraged on your feelings of the prospects here and confidence in investing.  I will do my best to stay on replying to posts and answer questions.

Once I feel confident, I will try to lock in dates instead of months like it currently stands.

I see Elastic was possibly having some backlash for taking donations and people being some level of dissatisfied.  Without them, I may as well throw in the towel now.  I am going to need to hire a couple devs to make this happen, while working a full time gig already and I (like most people) am not sitting on disposable income.  Your comments are welcome regarding donations...










Like a lot of other ventures, they start out as investing in an idea you feel could be something.  Ultimately, being rewarded with a large amount of that coin as a result and if it proves to be successful then you reap the rewards.  I personally have not had much luck in this department with investing upfront, typically lucky to break even.  I know this can be a successful, profitable, game changing project.  To make it happen will require some investment upfront, also some outsourcing requiring upfront funds.  I think that as these things come to fruition the lead times will shorten to going live.  Once the website is up in the coming weeks, I will have a good gauge for level of interest.  Post has only been up 2 days and it already has 1000+ views, so I am feeling good about the prospects.

I think having the guy lifting the H on the coin could be something?  That is what I am working on with the ant, having it lift an H.  Just thought I would share the idea.  Nice work.

I like the idea of using metal, solid structure.  Maybe a 3rd dimension to it?  I may 3d model and render up your idea, so it looks like metal and actual bolts, etc..  But it is still your idea.  Although maybe a logo should be easily vectorized?

These were my basic logo ideas early on, I will expand upon them if people like the idea in general.

http://i.imgur.com/CwIntLe.png

http://i.imgur.com/B59FHH0.png

It says only the east and west servers are supporting gpucoin.

I am hoping to finish it up this weekend.  I could post it tomorrow without the live stats, but I feel those are a must have...

That is a bummer.  Another week isn't so bad.  I thought about spending some BTC on c-cex, but I don't think it is going to spark trading...

The website will be up this weekend!  Here is a sneak peek.  Any additional suggestions, pm me.

http://i.imgur.com/5umhj3x.png

I look at this activity of trying to sell as there will be some volume when this hits the market.  I even think it would be difficult to trust sending BTC to smoeone and waiting to receive your BTQ, or vice versa.

anyone interested in buying BTQ?  I will sell 500btq for 1btc.  PM me.

wts, I will sell/trade in blocks of 50 or 100 BTQ for either BTC or VTC....  PM me with offers.

Once I hit 300 (Thursday, I am making about 100 per day as of Tuesday early evening), I will throw a little your way for your efforts to make the coin.  I would be interested in helping out if I can with any graphics or web design if needed.  I have a strong graphics design and engineering background, plus I have a recording studio (not sure if that applies).  I have some great communication/sales skills I would also be glad to donate to getting exposure if they would be helpful at all.  This is the first coin I have been in on at the start and would like to do anything to help it succeed.