Sounds fun to me. I'm in.
I can provide a real time discussion environment in my slack group if needed.
Instead of jumping on the "lets make yet another shitcoin" bandwagon how about instead a team of legends and heroes sets out to update, in chronological order by launch date, all the existing coins, fix all their bugs, see to it all relevant BIPs are applied and so on?
Since a given size/efficiency of team would have some given finite number of coins they could bring up to date before the oldest is out of date again, this approach will probably only be able to deal wit the first so many months or years worth of coins before finding it needs to forget the more-recent ones for now and go back to the start again, maybe this time being able tp update more coins in less time.
So maybe eventually, especially if the team grows, each time through the chronological list they would be able to update more coins before the oldest needs updating again.
Hopefully they will be unlikely to get so fast at this that shitcoins being launched today will ever be reached, but who cares about shitcoins being launched today when there are so many coins launched years ago that not only have not been kept up to date but also have not even been worked on at all but the "developers" (as they like apparently to call themselves) who are ptting out shitcoins today.
Consider for example Tenebrix and Fairbrix, the first and second scrypt coins. Even by the time the third scrypt coin, Litecoin, came out we already were seeing this bullshit of people putting out some new piece of crap of their own instead of fixing the piece of crap the end-users were already invested into.
This Coblee fellow some of you seem to like is actually one of the early perpetrators of spamming out a new scam instead of fixing the ones end-users were already using.
Instead of updating the (really old, horrible) code of Tenebrix and Fairbrix, he just stole their idea and rendered a clone based on newer code (Litecoin), leaving the user-base already invested into the scrypt concept to rot.
Not a nice guy. Did anyone suspect he might just up and abandon Litecoin at some point? Seems like a no-brainer.
So, chronology. Somewhere there was a thread.
Bitcoin, namecoin, ixcoin, i0coin, tenebrix, fairbrix, was it? Or what, exactly? Lets get launch dates in sequence and see what real heroes of the people can accomplish...
Note that Tenebrix's pre-mine, which was the excuse for creating fairbrix and naming it fair, is still out there, so might well be available for bounties for getting Tenebrix out of the stoneage.
-MarkM-
This is interesting, but also a lot of work. And when there's a lot of work involved, people will need to be incentivised. The group doing the work would inevitably buy up the coin, fix overhaul it, then launch the updates increasing the value of the coin.
Which I don't see anything wrong with personally. I think it's a good idea. It would revitalize a lot of dead and broken markets, and do a lot of good for all the bagholders that got screwed over.
I also really like the idea of getting as many Hero+ members into one room, fighting over ideas, and coming out with a new coin.
