Decred is the only altcoin that is liked by old skool Bitcoiners (Jimmy Song is an advisor, Chris DeRose recently said "decred is the ideal bitcoin"), notsofast, Charlie Lee are fans, etc. Many VC invested in it.
Yet it's very unpopular with the masses.
Why do you think that is?
It has the prestige and reputation of having perhaps the best dev team (the guys who wrote btcd bitcoin implementation!) - it has almost impeccable name, and yet it is kind of ignored (position 30).
Can we make Decred great again? I want it to be the new ChainLink, I want Jow Forumsraelis to stake it and make coins every 28 days without having to buy expensive equipment. Jimmy Song said DCR's PoS implementation is the only one that makes sense.
The informal leadership are paranoid sociopaths who inhibit organic growth at every opportunity because they are afraid of losing control of the project.
Samuel Miller
this is unironically a huge selling point in the current environment
Isaiah Martinez
Cool I bet it'll moon any day now then.
Daniel Sanders
Already mooned
Camden James
DCR is my main holding (actually started in crypto with this in feb 2016). The project is solid and the progress is good. Main problem is that they are not on the bigger chink exchanges and cannot be margin traded.
Aaron Moore
>Main problem is that they are not on the bigger chink exchanges and cannot be margin traded. This is true.
>The informal leadership are paranoid sociopaths who inhibit organic growth at every opportunity because they are afraid of losing control of the project. This is interesting. How do you know this? Any examples?
Justin Wood
>Yet it's very unpopular with the masses. >Why do you think that is? btc is btc monero is private eth is for applications what does dcr do? There's no easy answer
Andrew Foster
>what does dcr do? There's no easy answer True. It's hard to notice because it's not an "app coin". It "does" governance, so that stakeholders (coin owners) can direct future development with on-chain voting.
Easton Long
>It "does" governance, so that stakeholders (coin owners) can direct future development with on-chain voting. This does not appeal to the average normie, but it's crucial for any crypto and DCR does this best. Just sad that no one appreciates this feature.
Angel Thomas
What would you say to someone who says:
>"Why do we need governance? Just fork whenever there's a disagreement and let the market pick the chain."
Luke Perez
yes but why Why does this blockchain exist?
>direct future development what are they developing? who will use the blockchain
Aiden Garcia
It's like working under Stalin. Morale is low among non-devs and most of us are in the process of quietly finding new homes or have already done so.
Parker Mitchell
>most of us you worked on dcr a bit then?
Do you think it will work? voting is neat when people are in agreement but what will stop miners from forking anyway if they don't get their way? Those guys are invested, you're not going to give up simply because dcr stakeholders voted against you.
Dominic Powell
I've heard alot of people say that decree is a solid buy. I've got a few friends who've invested $250,000 in the project. There's a crypto analyst guy named Willy woo who's really bullish about decree. But the price is so high. $1000 gets you roughly 20 decree. But it has a low silly like BTC which will cause the price to increase. My question is can high supply coins like TRX, xrp, xlm, even make it over $1 and maintain that? Or will they just stay around where they are at?
Jeremiah Miller
>38527▶ > (OP) DCR has a built in on-chain governance model. It's governed by the stake holders. If they call a vote and it passes, it automatically hard forks. It's also getting privacy so it'll be a super monero.
Aaron Bennett
This sounds good in theory but leads to endless forked chains because conflicting opinions only get seperated but not resolved. Also forks can be continued and not die out which could lead to confusion among users and reduce the trust in the crypto because who knows which chain is going to survive, if you a small user and pick the dying chain you are basically fucked. Using on chain governance resolves the endless forking by separating the securing of the blockchain (PoW) from the decision making (PoS).
Michael Taylor
>decree
Jaxson Jackson
>on-chain governance model It's an interesting experiment, sure. but there is nothing stopping a community from voting on important issues, we've seen this in btc's uasf
is governance alone enough of a reason to get dcr? right now i'd rather put my money elsewhere ... maybe I don't understand why we need so many pow chains
Liam Sullivan
>... maybe I don't understand why we need so many pow chains What if SHA-256 is broken some day?
Dylan James
Decred was my first big alt win after Ethereum back in the day. The tech is solid and you know a lot of whales hodl it, meaning when alt season comes, they will start pumping it, which will trigger fomo, and result in some nice gains. DCR gains my seal of approval.
I just read an article last night about how they apparently recently dId the very first genuine on-chain atomic swap, with LTC. Really freaking cool, and I’ve never even heard of this coin. Only been serious into crypto since July 2017 though.
Thanks for the tips oldfags, maybe I’ll pick myself up summadisshit
Brandon Gray
I still wait for the real moon With the tech that DCR has it actually should be as big as DASH
Lucas Campbell
DCR is a legit bedrock crypto, but it acts as such. Weak hands will grow restless giving this the time it needs while everything else in crypto flashes up and down around it.
Ayden Lewis
Yup pretty much. Had 2k DCR now diversified 500 into other cryptos for higher gain opportunity (ENG, UTN, EOS) but the rest is still in DCR. I swear if we get on chain privacy monero is fucked sideways
