What innovations would you like to see in Feathercoin?
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[quote name=“Tuck Fheman” post=“52754” timestamp=“1389905076”]
Moved from … [url=http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,6616.msg52662.html#msg52662]http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php/topic,6616.msg52662.html#msg52662[/url][quote author=chrisj link=topic=6616.msg52671#msg52671 date=1389887908]
Does Bush or any person or small group have the ability to control the network in any way? Does ACP have any more features than the control of depth or the off button?
[/quote]The forum had a lengthy discussion on that very question. Ultimately, did it matter what that thread decided?
Did it influence the opinions of those outside this forum or even a majority of this forum to see things other than what I stated above … that ACP is bad and/or ACP is a form of centralization and that’s bad. Have other dev’s not stated this as well in an effort to discredit Feathercoin in some way? Is it not a constant theme on trollbox and other forums when ACP and Feathercoin are brought up? Does it even matter if any one with a differing opinion considers their views as nothing more than FUD? If you are able to find someone outside this forum that thinks ACP still being in Feathercoin is a good thing (or that it ever was), did they then bring up the fact that it came from Sunny King and attempt to discredit Feathercoin in that way?
That’s what I see every where I go.
So to address your question, ultimately what does it matter when the perception of ACP is more damaging to the coin than the the [i]possibility[/i] FTC is protecting itself from with ACP? Especially when it was introduced as a temporary last resort and we now have other alternatives.
If we’re not going to remove ACP, we’d better at least change the name and market it better to convince every one else it’s a great ‘feature’ to be promoted and not a centralized crutch implemented because so many people hate FTC that they spend their time and money attacking the coin … because FTC has failed at doing that so far from what I see.
And as I understand it, ACP was temporary and was a last resort because a better solution could not be devised quickly enough. ACP was agreed upon (sort of) since it was a temporary solution and another solution was on the way and for no other reason as I saw it. Now we’ve had time to come up with another option and from what I’ve read we have other options, yet we still have ACP or we’re still sitting here having discussions where ACP is being defended like it’s still a necessity. When does this ‘never ending journey’ that was supposed to be temporary finally see it’s end or when can we at least begin talking about killing the dragon?
[quote author=chrisj link=topic=6616.msg52671#msg52671 date=1389887908]
The point is that the distributed network is our goal at the end of this never ending journey we are all on unlike the Banks whose sole aim to control. But we will never reach our goal if we are not prepared to make the hard choices on the way.
[/quote]Agreed. FTC made the hard choice to temporarily take on ACP and not go on a never ending journey with ACP. If we now have other options, why not implement them now? Why would we want to promote a crutch in the first place, much less continue life on a crutch? That was how ACP was described long ago, a temporary crutch.
[/quote]+1Rep Tuck this is a very thought provoking post. For what’s it’s worth as a none tekkie (Bottom of the food chain with no voice) you have my vote.
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ACP was one of the biggest concerns I had with ftc when initially looking into which crypto I saw to have the greatest potential.
I understood why it (ACP) [i]was[/i] necessary.
But as I understand things now, seeing the development of LINK and FLUX, I trust that there are other options now.
If ACP could be traded out for something decentralised, it would give ftc an edge over any other coin.
I believe that our two greatest assets are Community and Innovation.
As much as there are many awesome idea’s to implement, maybe, it is time to move Feathercoin into the post-ACP stage of it’s life before focusing on anything else in regards to innovating the coin itself.
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What I have recently been thinking about is maybe not so much of a innovation about FTC but more of an Idea. I do not know if this is being discussed elsewhere right now but I am certain that the community that has the ability to build a fully functioning trading platform like Ali-pay/Alibaba in China will see a huge increase of interest. One of my biggest concerns when buying things with Crypto is safety. So a middleman who holds the coins until it is confirmed by the buyer would give a safer buying experience. The idea is simple: Buy from a merchant, send the coins to the middleman which holds the coins until you confirm that you got the stuff and lastly release the coins to the merchant.
Maybe it could evolve so that normal company’s could sign up as merchants and get payed in their normal currency so they do not need to deal with all the exchange rates and paper work involved. Basically the middleman would exchange the coins automatically. I am also aware that it goes against the nature of what crypto stands for, wasn’t the whole Idea to cut out all the middlemen who makes money out of transactions 8) But the platform would be totally global in the sense that cryptocoin can cross borders into any country without going through banks.
And the biggest question of all is: Does that give any advantage over just using normal money? Example: I cannot order things from Taobao in China because I do not have a Chinese bank account.
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I voted beyond acp. It’s the most pressing concern.
After that, I’d like to see a path to assist with adoption. I see this in two parts. Retailers and Consumers.
I work with retail systems daily and I keep thinking, “how could I sell this idea to my boss”. Every retailer would love cheaper transaction fees, but few of them have any interest in the geek side of things. If we could provide retailers with a simple pos system that could reduce their costs on transactions and spit them out bankable fiat at the end, it would be a much easier sell.
As for Consumers, for the general public, there needs to be a zero fuss wallet. Devoid of any geekery. If the general public can embrace clubcard points and air miles, there’s no reason why they can’t get FTC, but I think the weight of the tech is too great.
