I just wanted to post some thoughts. First, Im excited to continue adding features that bring value to fly.
Everyone asks "what is the purpose of fly?". I think they are hinting that some sort of new technology should be added, or things should be able to be purchased with fly. When I had been in crypto for about 1.5 years, I had the same experience that many of you had. The scam coins, the lies, the empty promises, the bagholding, the stolen coins. The reason I created fly is a safehaven where people could store their funds and generate a handsome interest rate and feel safe with their investment. That is the true purpose of fly. The day it launched I swore to uphold the integrity of fly. I have gone to enormous lengths to ensure not one person has ever lost even 1 fly coin. I have paid out to users over and over and over again, should they have lost coins of any amount large or small. I can easily fill this page with names and situations where I have stood up and made so many wrongs right, when I had nothing to gain, and everything to lose. I have poured enormous amounts of my money and ONLY my money into the development of fly. No one else paid the developers but me over the past 12 months. I did an amazing job at keeping inflation in check. We added only 50,000 coins in 12 months at 50% pos. But, I look over the past few days and there is no vol on Yobit. NOT 1 COIN traded!! I thought for sure when I went to extreme lengths to prove the integrity of fly that we would have a big and active community, and this is not the case. So, Ive done the right thing over and over and over again, and 1 year later, there is no movement on the exchange. So, Ill be honest, I dont know why. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to explain why. In my mind, there is no safer place to put your money.
Vegas
Whatever happened with the multipool mining idea? The problem I see is we have this exclusive coin that only a few have. The few of us that purchased the coin have taken such a loss that I know I have personally lost around $2500 USD from my initial value. I am on the sideline staking waiting for something to make Fly different from all of the other altcoins out there. The only reason I joined Fly was because of your (vegasguy's) passion. However, passion alone is not going to make people want to buy Flycoin. There has to be something unique about it! Vegas - you are a business owner - what makes your businesses different than your competition's? Do you believe that your uniqueness has led to your success? I think if you apply something unique to Flycoin then the people will come! Think of it instead of cloning a coin rather inventing something!
Ok let me address some specifics:
Multipool: I have asked many devs if they can build us a multipool. I sent a PM to Jimmy that owns Scryptpool.com as I have spoken to him many times, and he is a real good guy. Some of his servers went down, so it sounds like he could use the money right now. Havent heard back yet.
Griffith: was going to build the multipool, and then moved to another state to take another job, and doesnt have anything setup to code right now. It sounds like about a week before he will be setup again.
So if someone knows of someone that can build a multipool, I have the backend servers and a private fiber optic network, I just need it coded.
As far as uniqueness goes, what made fly unique was the "Antidump" system. That ended up being a "double edged sword". Yes, it provided safety from dumpage, and it also caused MAJOR technical headaches that in the end, it HAD to be removed. So, it does prove that I can be very creative. I have loads of ideas, the problem , is if my idea is so far out there, people might think "ohh here we go again, with more crashing wallets". So, I need to be very careful about what extreme new technologies I implement. So, thats why I am asking you guys what technologies you like in other coins, that are proven already , so we can look at them and adopt them. To focus on fly, I sold off all my other coins, so I dont follow all the coins like I was. I know many of you do. Thats why I need to jumpstart a discussion. So far Vcash is looking good. A very scaled down version of HODL and timelock is possible too.
Ultimately, What I want to do is take all of your favorite technologies from the different coins, and roll them into one. Imagine a "swiss army knife" of coins. It has POSP, it has Vcash, and HODL, and Timelock, a built in chat system in the wallet, with real time prices in wallet. You can choose what you want to do with the wallet. It will take YEARS of work, and that is ok, as fly is at least a 10 year project at a min.
But where I am struggling is I need to know what technology is popular so I can add it. Please post, it only takes a few seconds.
I think what drove some people away is the troubles with the anti-dump system. I dont blame them. It will take time to restore that trust , and the word to get out that the fly wallet is working flawless. XDE2 was very controversial, and now I see, that was an erroneous choice on my part. But, XDE2 does exist, and I made a promise to continue development on that too, and I will. Fortunately, I do have the time for both. Fly ALWAYS being the primary. Lesson learned.
I Also got a PM from a long time fly user that told me the blunt truth. He was not cruel, but brutally honest. He told me that taking over XDE2 caused damage to my reputation , as I had stated fly would be my only coin. So, as hard as that was to hear, I sent a PM back thanking him. So if your not comfortable posting here, then please send a pm to me. But posting on the thread is better to jumpstart a discussion. In about a week when Griffith is setup to code , we will start coding again. Griffith has confirmed we CAN update the core of fly AND add all of these technologies WITHOUT a swap
Meanwhile lets talk about ideas. Thank you for your time.
Vegas
