It seems to me that you mistook my post as being anti asic, which it wasn't as far as the coin is concerned, besides from my personal mining view which I pretty much discount in the bigger picture.
It also seems that you didn't read the end of it at all where I pointed out that a clear direction for the coin is a key, and just wanted to rant at my alleged ignorance of the bigger picture.
Whatever, we all have views, and don't have to get along to help the coin succeed.
Well, likewise, I am not opposed to ASICs either - that is what I use now to mine several coins including GUN. While I am impressed that so many GUN supporters have come back which was our goal here to get things moving again, I do not picture all of them buying racks of 500MH/s ASICs each and creating a mega GUN mining network. For starters, like has been said, at 30-40 satoshi, there is not a big profit in it. So will they each spend $2000 just to help build a network??? I am not sure. It is a very nice thought though - definitely something I can not do for the coin by myself. But I think the likelihood of that happening is just as likely as the anti-Gun lobby showing up with matching horse power.
What I do agree with, is that either way, regardless of the algorithm, interesting those outside the crypto community is one of our top priorities. Like I have said before, going that direction, focusing on developing tools and resources they can use will catch and keep their interest. Would anyone use Paypal if there were none of the buttons, APIs, help resources? Probably not near as many. That is our goal, but like we have said, unless we start developing these tools and handing them out, we will never get there. Of course, even if we do get there, it will never be fast enough for everyone. So just to give you an example of what goes on behind the curtain of things that you do not see.........
We have spent a SIGNIFICANT amount of time trying to build up our Twitter following. We are at the point now, where we add over a dozen NON-CRYPTO followers every week. THESE are our target end-users. Many have no clue who we are, what crypto is, have never heard of us, but love the idea and philosophy that GUN represents - individual gun owners, gun ranges, gun shop owners, preppers, etc. etc. They are just waiting to be cultivated. Now that being said, it take hours of emails, etc. to educate them and get them to the point of doing anything. We told you about a webhosting service a while back and now we have a concealed handgun site that wrote a nice article on us and is genuinely supportive of what we do to where he added us to his sponsor directory and submitted our article to all the search engines to help us. He originally never knew what crypto was, but is now a great GUN supporter - check these out....
http://www.concealedcarry-ccw.com/GunArticles/ALL/ALL/Main-Guncoin-a-virtual-currency-for-the-firearm-community-/http://www.concealedcarry-ccw.com/our-sponsorsBig deal you say, one guy. Well, that is one more than we had last week and the visibility from this one site is huge. So there is nothing about what we did that any of you could not have done. Simply pick one of our followers that suits you and tweet them or email them to the main site and thank them for following GUN and ask them if they have any questions or if there is anything you can help them with. I promise you, that will do MORE for GUN, than any 500 MH/s ASIC will ever do. General acceptance by the crypto and non-crypto community is what makes a coin. You folks are the core GUN supporters in the crypto community - just buying or mining GUN is great. But this is a decentralized coin, or it needs to be. Is there just one person or group pushing DOGE or LTC or FTC - hardly - their community sets up websites, pools, exchanges, etc. How many Ebayers are selling DOGE "stuff"
So if we have these interested Twitter followers on the hook, how do you convert them? One at a time.......and it is a slow process
1) Show them the users manual
2) Tell them how crypto currency works
3) Point them to our classified ad site and show them how to post some ads for their businesses for FREE (which none of you have done yet)
4) Help them download and set up a wallet and put 1000 GUN in it for them to get them started.
5) Have them put one of our banners or buttons on their website.
I do not think anyone here can deny that all that is pretty easy to do. Especially, if everyone of our Twitter followers has already followed us and by doing so is curious about us. So #6 above I think is where some of us differ in opinion. To me, it seems extremely attractive to be able to show this newbie how to mine GUN with just his laptop. He can go to bed at night, leave his laptop running and wakeup with more coins in his wallet - what a thrill to a newbie - virtually FREE money EVERY day. I would go one step farther and tell them after the first 1000 he mines, you would give him 1000 more. After that he is hooked....To me, none of that is rocket science and what we have been doing in the background - one at a time - some jump on board, some disappear, but unless we jump on these folks to bring them aboard, they will disappear I think. So there were several points to my soapbox speech here and I hope you picked up on them all. The key one goes back to the ASIC question in relation to #6.......If our super GUN network is mining 100 GH/s, we would have to depend on 1 -5 to bring these newbies on board above only and #6 gets thrown away.
Again, I do not expect every one here to agree and like I said, whatever direction we go, not all will be happy with it. I love the discussion and encourage you to keep it going. And hope that whatever direction we do proceed with, that no one looses site of our common support of the 2A and why we all came to GUN to start with.
FYI, thanks to some of your support, we have now replaced our 4 nodes and all are up and running full steam again!
