In my experience, attempting to please the people having panic attacks is hopeless. They each sit around with their hand out complaining and at some point, as a developer, you have to just begin ignoring them. They contribute to the destabilization of the currency, unfortunately, but it's unavoidable. They do not understand the planning and effort that goes into moving things forward and nothing will make them truly understand. Even though the majority of them are actually invested in the very currency they are disrupting, they lack the cognition required to realize their contributions negatively impact morale, the community, creativity, and progress while increasing frustration for all and driving away new interest. A large percentage of their growing frustration is a direct result of their own actions. As an example, I have been receiving a consistent flow of hate mail (literally) for months due to the ongoing delays I have encountered attempting to secure an official endorsement for Murraycoin - eventually I simply stopped reading the messages. I am doing everything I can to move things along as quickly as possible - why add to the problem?

VTC will be just fine - it's important to realize negative people tend to make more noise but that doesn't necessarily mean they represent the majority. Yes, we need to reverse the ongoing trend... but there are constructive ways to approach things and it's time to begin shifting focus toward the positive aspects of VTC and the talented developer(s) involved. Impatience is a staple of the cryptocurrency world and grey matter, for whatever reason, is seemingly at a premium.

The only thing this community need in the future is someone directly connected with the devs that can answer some questions from the community.

Bristow, you seem like a good guy, and I know you got some great family news recently, but I have to chime in on something. It seems like you are placing a lot of hope on the success of Vert. But objectively speaking, that hope is slightly irrational. The chances of Vert to reach a marketcap of even what was 2 months ago are extremely slim. Even with the upcoming changes. You seem to have more enthusiasm for the project than the developers (a few of which have moved on to other coins as lead devs, a few that have not interacted in months, and 1 which became disenchanted altogether). Trying to rally the troops at this stage is sadly fruitless.

I know you put a lot of money into this, but perhaps its time to move on. The overall Crypto marketplace has dramatically changed since January, and its increasingly looking like Vert has been left behind. Any progress that is being made on it is insignificant anyways, and wont lead to a major spike in price.

Sorry man, I just thought I would try to give some objective analysis for you so you are not sitting around waiting for months and months. I have been there, but sometimes better things await.

What do you think to adapt Proof of capacity (PoC) which is included in burst coin. In few words you can mine with your hdd instead of GPU. No asics, very fair coin distribution, and less energy consumption. I need to dump all my vtc and i am all in in Burst coin now its revolution.

hi!

is there any chance that vertcoin will reach 5-8$ each coin again?

Still kind of unusual that single exchange would be holding > 20% of all coins in existence, no?

All the pros got out about 100 pages ago at 80,000-100,000 sats...
And took all the remaining sanity with them.

You're biggest problem is not the 20,000 sat price...
It's the total lack of volume which is now <  5 BTC/day = total lack of interest.

You guys built this Medieval Catapult to fling cheese at the moon...
But the BotNets kept stealing your cheese and munching out on it...
So you kept building bigger and bigger Catapults...
Which only made the BotNets big, fat and happy...
Then, finally, you guys built rockets to launch flaming cheese at the moon...
But that just started a big fire... and it all burned down.

At least CoinGekko has you at #11...
Which proves how completely worthless their algo is.

You have NO IDEA about the strategy that the devs used since the inception and why we are here. The whole algo change debate came up recently, so stop saying that this was planned and the strategy. that is outright false. Vert was on a downward spiral before this even came up as an option. They are trying to think outside the box to stop the leaks.

No. There was a big discussion regarding the wording of the original vote.

 http://www.reddit.com/r/vertcoin/comments/2bth1o/thoughts_on_vertvote_and_more/

To all:

Yes, a voting is open for 'Subsidy Change'. Please spread the words.  It would be an important change to the coin if the majority vote for 'yes'.

Are you being serious? holy shit...

"5000+ readers"

...with a collective IQ that doesn't reach that same number.  


"~30 people posting"

...which often means that there's actual intelligence being expressed and the multitude of readers get their answers before having to post. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

...and the idiots think twice before posting crap.


Add: so in reference to my first question/allusion on the matter, if a Dev gives more importance to reddit than BitCoinTalk, then

1) he/she is afraid of the technical level inherent in BitCoinTalk
2) he/she is frivolous, juvenile and only interested in being "virtually" popular (i.e. "liked")
3) he/she is not interested in serious intellectual interchange regarding coin development
4) all the above


(Now you have the full version of my original tongue-in-cheek humor - please show your intelligence when responding.)

Jumping in with multipool issue. I personally voted for adding 1 week to the block maturation. But looking at the exit-poll - majority prefers no changes! WTF, multipool owners overvote the Vertans?

Another thing - are there only 95 VertVoters (according to 2014, July 25)?

for people like me that are not reddit fanboys....


NEWS:

https://vertcoin.org/pow-algorithm-upgrade-lyra2/

So are you saying growth of coins (ie bigger subsidy) or less coins (smaller subsidy)?

The first one wouldn't make sense-  and the second one has already been heavily discussed.

The network hashrate currently does not affect the number of coins mined  in a day. You are aware of this?

Please visit my bitcointalk thread in order to view updates regarding the upcoming publication called Cryptocurrency "The Alt-ernative"

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=483187.0


Below is the teaser(preview) section of Vertcoin VTC.  Any feedback is welcome and donations towards the publication are highly appreciated.

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I voted for 3 days, just because 14 seemed to extreme. I'd prefer to see the maturity time linked to the sharkbite algo, so if hashrate shoots up, then maturation time is 14 days, but under more normal circumstances it's more like 1-3 days.