lol needed that

I would respectfully disagree with this.  RC4 is a release candidate.   Its beta, and you've probably been around software development before, I assume.  Evan and the dev team stated what was going to be included in RC4 and they have delivered, there is expected to be bugs in mainnet because NO ONE can replicate mainnet real world in a testnet enviorment. As you must be aware...no where does anyone on here state that this is a final release.  I'm sure there have been individuals on this forum and possibly others that may have been pumping that as such for their own gain...but no one from the official team has EVER mentioned that.

Again...Beta is a Beta...can we at least agree on that shojayxt?

I agree it is. A release candidate and therefore classified usually as beta

I don't think it's gotten cloudier. It simply arrived at it's destination and has nowhere else to go since it refuses to innovate further. Speaking of BTC.

Most people can still barely send an email. Over half the population doesn't even own a computer. Of those who do, how many maintain them in a manner that putting money on it would be safe?

We are less than 0.01% of the population, and that's just how it is. The idea of "mass adoption" is and always has been a pipe dream. BTC only got as expensive as it did due to speculative investments, not mass adoption.

Most people would fill their winblows computer full of malware and lose their coins, just like they do with everything else they own and don't know anything about, then abuse until it fails. We are the people that, absent technology, would be self-sufficient farmer types. We learn. We improve. We take care of. We don't work 80 hours a week to blow money on dumb shit and then destroy it out of stupidity, whine to customer service, not get our way, buy another somewhere else only to repeat the cycle of failure hoping not to be told to grow up this time, or at least get our way an have the thing we destroyed replaced at the cost of someone else.

This is the kind of person you would need to reach if you wanted mass adoption, because they are the mass. The mass does not learn. The mass does not accept responsibility for anything, ever. This is why it is content to be a slave of the state; freedom from responsibility means giving up the rights and freedoms you would have to take responsibility for in the first place! They're all too happy to give it all up to be a slave and have it all taken care of for them. This kind of person is the opposite of what cryptocurrency can service. Crypto just can't reach these people, because they refuse to step up far enough to reach crypto.

I always see it as ...if its not a RTM/GA release...especially General Availability to public its still in development stage.  So technically your right that I used the wrong terminology.

+101

Worth remembering that in its 5 years since its release, plus 2-4 years of development work, Bitcoin was an overnight success.  

It was such an overnight success that even those who contributed to it, Adam Back's hash concept, didn't think it had any chance of taking off until several years after it launched.

Having purchased his first bitcoin for $100 in 2013, Adam Back was one of the few invited to mine Bitcoin by Satoshi when difficulty was 1.

I think Satoshi has remained anonymous (how about that for irony) because he instamined Bitcoin, he also only had a bloody windows client at launch. Cheeky bastard.


Still one of my fav pieces of Bitcoin history, the guy whose hash is central to Bitcoin, and all alt-coins, didn't think it was worth mining at difficulty 1.

Sellers - come back to DRK when the price is a lot higher, lol.

I think current price is part of the less dramatic and safer spork. You get to release and fix. Which is great. But there isn't the build up followed by the finality of it works! Or fork argh! The drama. Which plays to the crazy psyche of the crypto markets. Instead this is going to take a few more updates to kill all niggles. And then RC4 is properly launched. Right now I think the market is looking at this and going does it work? Doesn't it?
Essentially looking for the finality.

Which will take a few days to get it purring but we aren't far off.

.29 so far is working a lot better for me at least. And the more happy customers and positive feedback the closer we'll get to that big tick of it's a go!

I think Kristov's review will be key. That provides the rubber stamp.

I think the market needs a proper success story at the moment . And if niggles can be removed quickly and we can get the word out DRK will be that success story.

That's exactly my point. Even when it hits them square in the face, they still don't know what they're looking at... They're too stupid to even realize what it is, much less make a call on what to do about it...

This has been my only long-standing concern for DRK; are even the crypto-people too stupid to see what it can do?

Anyone selling something interesting?  

Got some eCash burning a hole in my wallet.