Hi All
For those of you that dont know me, I've been a member of this forum since 2010. Way back when Satoshi was still here, and difficulty was still 1! I'm not a core dev, but have interacted with some of the dev team in the past.
I was alerted to this project and have been reviewing it for the last 2 days.
My first thought was, 'meh, yet another alt coin'!
But as I've read through the docs, the code and 65 pages of forum posts, I have become increasingly more interested.
I've donated btc to 3 projects to date: Open Transactions, Trezor and now this one. Here's why.
I originally became interested in bitcoin as a way to allow the internet to have its own money system. Things have gone way better than I ever dreamed. But there's still some functionality I'd like to see to make it scale massively. For example, I enjoyed the bitcoin twitter integration and I think this tip I gave to Nassim Taleb was the equivalent of a Mark:
https://twitter.com/melvincarvalho/status/415195563722686464?refsrc=emailHe even favourited the post! That tells me that this is an idea worth spreading.
We've yet to see this functionality grow into bitcoind, bitcoinrpc or the bitcoin eco system in a decentralized and scalable way. *core devs take note!*. Satoshi was working on a reputation, advert, review, order and market system before he left, and we've yet to see that hit the core.
I believe this project can help facilitate this through running code. And the idea will be compelling enough to be back ported into bitcoin core and other alts, without political wrangling. Just show the scalability and let others say, 'yes we want that'. What perhaps excites me even more is that this is just the beginning, with these scalability enhancements, crypto currencies can spread the same way the webmail spread email to the masses.
In short, this is the first alt I've seen with significant innovation to get involved. I've donated to the project and offering my time and coding to help make it a reality.
Look forward to working with you all!
