Hmmmm.... Facebook masses don't give a flying.... duck about crypto, they only care how many "likes" this selfie they took with their brand new iPhone is getting
And, since you don't belong to the Facebook mainstream, who "has never even heard of cryptocurrency", how the duck do you know what is pretty great for them?
drag... drop... multiply....
damn, it is too complicated, get my Visa card and let's get over it
Face the facts: the average FB user doesn't care about anonymity, privacy or security, they have given up a long time ago - otherwise they wouldn't be using social media, Chrome, Google or Windows 10
They don't give a damn about decentralization, dodging bank cartels and their unethical practices etc etc etc...
My point exactly. The facebook masses are different and want different things. Like it or not, but without mass adoption cryptocurrency will remain a niche phenomenon. Whichever coin gets the most users will win.
I believe that the future of Crypto won't be just about one or two projects. There will be several, maybe ten great projects for different purposes. One will be anonymity and that won't be the Crypto with mass-user-adoption but it will be huge. So, Anon-projects are still interesting but unpredictable. I see Dash and BTCD as most promising, but nobody knows.
Another one could be what Neucoin wants to be. But it won't be a project with 100% interest and 97% premine and a a few early adopters complaining about the tech. And if you talk about Facebook-User and the growth account. There is maybe a contradiction. Because if people would use it to tip, they won't store it in an account they aren't able to touch if they want their interest. Another problem is, even if Neucoin would be a better project: Facebook has absolutely no need to implement a project to make the few owners rich. If Zuckerberg wants something like that he can develop it in a short timeframe. Neucoin is not a real decentralized Cryptocurrency. It's highly centralized.
By the way: There is a project I've just found out and read about it the last 20 hours or something like that. Factom... it has it all what Neucoin just claims to have. It's not with a focus on tipping, but on Blockchain-Application... build on the BTC-Blockchain but with it's own currency Factoids. The most interesting project I've seen so far. Very smart... also unpredictable, but also with a huge team behind it and every aspect I understand so far is really innovative. Like Ethereum build on Bitcoin.
And Ethereum itself... the idea, could be change Crypto in general. I'm not sure about it as an Investment, but the idea is big.
And there are several other projects... I don't see any chance for Neucoin and I don't say that to write it down. It's just what I think about it.
I believe that the future of Crypto won't be just about one or two projects. There will be several, maybe ten great projects for different purposes. One will be anonymity and that won't be the Crypto with mass-user-adoption but it will be huge. So, Anon-projects are still interesting but unpredictable. I see Dash and BTCD as most promising, but nobody knows.
Another one could be what Neucoin wants to be. But it won't be a project with 100% interest and 97% premine and a a few early adopters complaining about the tech. And if you talk about Facebook-User and the growth account. There is maybe a contradiction. Because if people would use it to tip, they won't store it in an account they aren't able to touch if they want their interest. Another problem is, even if Neucoin would be a better project: Facebook has absolutely no need to implement a project to make the few owners rich. If Zuckerberg wants something like that he can develop it in a short timeframe. Neucoin is not a real decentralized Cryptocurrency. It's highly centralized.
By the way: There is a project I've just found out and read about it the last 20 hours or something like that. Factom... it has it all what Neucoin just claims to have. It's not with a focus on tipping, but on Blockchain-Application... build on the BTC-Blockchain but with it's own currency Factoids. The most interesting project I've seen so far. Very smart... also unpredictable, but also with a huge team behind it and every aspect I understand so far is really innovative. Like Ethereum build on Bitcoin.
And Ethereum itself... the idea, could be change Crypto in general. I'm not sure about it as an Investment, but the idea is big.
And there are several other projects... I don't see any chance for Neucoin and I don't say that to write it down. It's just what I think about it.
I agree with that. Definitely there will be several projects for different purposes. Maybe Dash for super anonymity. Ethereum for sure, if they ever get to realize the vision (Vitalik's last post,
https://blog.ethereum.org/2015/09/28/the-evolution-of-ethereum/, sounded like the foundation is out of money and now it's all up to the "community").
And IMO, Neucoin for the casual, game-playing, selfie-liking, tipping facebook masses. It doesn't matter that some hardcore miners don't like the standard QT client. And it doesn't take Zuckerberg's implementation or even approval to get something going on facebook. I've read all the neucoin material and I've seen the online wallet. Hell, I've even tried the growth account! And there's something to it. Something that feels more web 3.0 than crypto. If they can get the games integration and mainstream marketing right I think they can get a lot of users fast.
I agree that there will be many projects that bring different things to the table to move cryptocurrency forward. And I think Neucoin can be one of them. It has the best shot I've seen so far at getting lots of mainstream users.