Thx chilo I take that as a pat on back, but all I ever hear is whines about my pointing out problems, never thanks for boosting mining rates etc ...

Hey Chilo,

There isn't much I can do at this time for the coin, I do have some ideas kicking around in my head on low cost, high impact PR type things, but don't think now would be the best time to put into action (as my main idea you could only try once), also the crypto market in general is at a low point and there really isn't that many people using crypto compared to a realistic potential. I agree a dev team and buy pressure is needed, and like what the dev team has done and how they have handled many things that have happened along the way, but these are all just parts that go into making a machine work.

I think distribution is crucial to any coin, although not always required, but at this time, do we know how and why DMD is going to be positioned a particular way? If DMD is to be used for everyday transactions, what sets it apart from the rest? there are other coins that are rare, have POS or have fast transfers or a nice name and good branding, although DMD is a nice overall package, but bitcoin can suit the needs of the average joe. If DMD is to be used as something to buy and hold (which can be done with bitcoin and other coins), then how can it do that better than the rest? especially without causing low liquidity resulting in a volatile and manipulated price.

But, you can't have any of this without proving the security (so good so far) is priceless.

I have a couple ideas that I have thought up about how to utilize blockchain technology within our company, and work in a position that I have contact fairly high up in, in the right areas of a large tech company, I even spoke to some this week about the blockchain. This company, these ideas and these crypto coins are not yet ready to come together, but when they are, I will then be able to speak about these ideas with hopefully bitcoin and crypto being widely accepted as viable technology to use. Why not choose bitcoin then? well bitcoin although great and am fully behind, I do not think that POW is a good long lasting solution, but is good to use while a coin grows (would like to see bitcoin change to something like it in about 8-10 years), so want to see where the various POS implementations go. The company I work for is also very green when it comes to environment and part of its image, so to keep that in line, it would be best to utilize a POS network over a power hungry POW one. So due to this, I'm not only watching DMD, but many other coins that I have acquired. I mined DMD at various times over the past 15-16 months, and just decided to keep them and see what the new dev team does.

My opinion (for what its worth) is that getting DMD secure, user friendly and accessible for if/when crypto really starts to take of is key, although obviously you do need places to spend or transfer them to. I think some of the security concerns could be addressed by looking at what say, Blackcoin has done in regards to POS2 and coin age. Another potential option for growth could be looking at collaborating with CIYAM on these forums that is working on a Turing complete solution that can be implemented into coins that can then be used to build a decentralized exchange, I believe at this time he's looking at using Qora and Burst as a test set.

Just some food for thought, not trying to steer anybody or anything in any direction.

Just thinking about this.. If I want to buy mining shares so I think DMD will go up. There is no reason to buy shares if I dont think it will go up. So If I think that why to buy shares? I can buy directly diamonds from the market and hodl them. I really cant find a reason to buy cloudmining shares!

where are the chinese fpga miners when u need them

please throw ur dmd on market and dump for some nice profit

Calm down everyone.  This is a forum for expressing opinions, helping others and even suggesting new ideas.  Sometimes someone may feel it is necessary to point out something he thinks is wrong.  Is that really so bad?  If any of you think UtahJohn's intended constructive criticisms are hurting the value of DMD then you should think about the true value and strength of this coin if one person in a online forum can cause its value to decrease with a few words.  You may not want to hear this but a Devil's Advocate, that's a US expression for a person who often offers contrary thoughts on something, can be a very useful person.  He's the guy who will tell you the party bus is about to go over a cliff while everyone else is celebrating how great the trip has been.

I don't agree with everything everyone says here but so what?  What makes a community great is diversity of ideas.  Utah has been helpful in my opinion whether I agree with everything he says or not.  He has pointed out some issues and these are questions outsiders, or prospective DMD investors will ask too.  Instead of getting angry or frustrated have an open mind.  Address his points as if you were speaking to a potential investor who is asking why DMDs are a great investment.  UtahJohn has done more than I have to support DMD so I am not going to criticize his commitment and neither should anyone else.

I just caught up with the thread now.

I am quite happy that some people showed utajohn that although his intentions might have been good, the way he expressed himself was quite irritating.

Now that this is settled, I am sure the community will keep going forward as a whole and that DMD is on its course to success !

But there is one thing that keeps me flabbergasted: how can the PR community initiative generate so little interest ?
How can such an important step for us all, for DMD, be ignored ?

We are so close to our community funding goal, why don't we reach it ?

If someone can answer these questions, I will simply stop posting about this initiative and I am sure that popshot and cryptonit will put those BTCs to good use, but I need to understand why we can't just find 1BTC to make DMD go mainstream.

 I feel more people have the right to join the ship and would probably want to if they were informed.

What do you think ?

Hi, everyone,

Just announcing that I compiled some armv7 builds of the wallet/headless binaries since I couldn't find any I am blind and didn't notice pallas had already done so.

If you're interested in an armv7 wallet (for many arm devboards and set top boxes, basically), you can download my prebuilt binaries here: http://starflakenights.net/crypto/wallets.html#dmd .
(Diffs from the official repo are linked in my brief write-up.)

If you'd like to take a look at the source I used, it's located here: https://github.com/feldenthorne/Diamond .

The binaries on my site will be updated periodically/as-necessary. I hope someone else on here finds them useful!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that this build uses libdb5.1, which is *allegedly* used in the official builds, as per the Readme, but the unix makefile readme suggests that they use libdb4.8. So blockchain databases that have been opened or generated with these prebuilts might not work with official clients. But they should.