Why is there not a need to wait out deadlines? Is it possible to force that and make blocks, and therefore chains containing them, that have not waited out the deadline invalid?
Most of the time, the attacker is going to get the best deadline on a fork, at least initially, particularly with no "Nothing at Stake" advantage, so it would make sense for an attacker to start calculating for the next fork as soon as his own best deadline is calculated.
I still don't understand how the deadline is calculated.. the infographic in the first post seems to indicate how plots are made. I only vaguely understand how they are later utilized though to do the mining.
- We really need to get more than one programmer on board.
I'd love to hear your opinions about the highest priority extensions needed in burst and the burst ecosystem.
I know someone in Nxt who very much wanted to work on blockchain trimming and has done some research there.. but I believe also wasn't sure how possible it was after some discussions. I don't know how loyal to Nxt he is and also I know that Nxt is paying him a salary to program. But if we could get enough money to pay him, he'd be very nice to have on board. Will talk to him.
Couple other projects that I discussed with burstcoin, but am not ready to publicly discuss yet. Nxt's marketplace isn't doing great.. if we could come up some unique selling points there, might be able to steal away that market share and get the network effect working for us.
Also merchandise would be nice. Would be nice to sell stickers and bumper stickers for example. Some study showed that a bumper sticker is worth ~$100 in marketing per year. Maybe we're not there yet but anything to help improve the viral effect is good.
I also agree that more exchanges would be very nice.. we hit Bter and we're going up big time.. that being said, I'd prefer to get more coders on board before this happens. Chinese(and other language) translations would also be nice for appealing to people in their native language.
Some interesting thoughts on ASIC resistance:
http://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/2ly00a/how_important_is_asic_resistance_for_a_crypto/If someone could write up an article explaining why Burst is ASIC resistant to people who don't understand all the internals of crypto.. might be very good for attracting attention to Burst.
And an interesting article on how to defeat network effects, such as Bitcoin's:
http://www.businessinsider.com/network-effects-2011-5One thing that I think would be nice that has helped Ripple, is that anywhere you can spend Bitcoins, you can spend Ripples due to their BTC bridge.
What about you? What do you think are important projects?