Groestlcoin AMA Reflection

Groestlcoin has been blowing up with exposure and the community has yet to hear the voice of a developer. Communication via discord has been nice, but hearing some written responses from developers over an “Ask Me Anything” would be reassuring to those having trouble establishing weather or not this coin is a pump and dump. The openness of the developers also allow for supporters to get a better grasp on what the goals are for the coin.

There have been a lot of questions lately, regarding the coin and it’s ASIC resilience. Thankfully this AMA helped clear things up, and even inspire some people who were considering getting in on this gem, to buy the dip.

My Top Picked Q&A’s

GRS has recently been promoted as ASIC resistant, but FPGA and ASIC implementations (Grøstl-256, Grøstl-512) have existed for the Groestl algorithm prior to GRS’s launch in 2014 ( source ). Is that not a concern and/or disingenuous marketing? Perhaps the community marketing has taken off on its own too much, thus spreading somewhat false info? – Metasophocles

Being ASIC resistant is about having fair and decentralised mining. Being ASIC resistant isn’t helpful if 1 pool controls over 51% of hashrate. That is not fair and decentralised at all and is subject to a 51% attack. There is no benefit being ASIC resistant if 1 pool/person controls over 51% hashrate. We would be worried if a pool would have over 51% hashrate on 1 pool than if there are ASICS for groestl. It is correct that Groestl algo is not asic resistant by itself. An ASIC can be made for any POW. The resistance comes from the threat and promise of changing the algorithm if one gets produced and marketed and if the community decides that we should hardfork. We will not hardfork if the community decides against it. If an ASIC is produced for the Grostl512 mining algorithm and the community decides to change POW, a new POW algorithm will be chosen and a hard-fork triggered. The Groestlcoin name can still be used due to the Groestl algorithm still being used for other parts of the currency (i.e. address creation) or we vote for a rebrand. – gruve_p

Are you guys open to changing the name? – exadude

A rebranding vote will take place in 2018. If there is enough support, a rebrand will take place. For now let the people adapt to the name, not the name to the people. – jackielove4u

What is your view on the development team remaining anonymous and how it will either go on to positively or negatively effect the coin? – IDGAFOS

This is an established coin with a reputable history of accomplishments, not some coin where I would want some arguable degree of comfort by looking at someone’s face. The point of blockchain is to have an open-source trustless privacy oriented system. Don’t trust anybody with your money. Trust the code. Faces dont give any trust to a coin. In fact it gives a security issue. – gruve_p

Can we expect Ledger Nano S to be supported? Can we as a community help expedite this particular process? – Lituation7

We are in talks with Ledger (again) and Trezor. As soon as we have more information we will announce it. – jackielove4u

Dear Dev Team Can we see GRS in Shapeshift or Changelly exchange in short time..if no plz make arrangement that will give more opportunity to hold by the masses – Quaiyum

Both me and Jackie have been in touch with Shapeshift and Changelly. I talked to them earlier today and sent in the form again, awaiting a reply. – andsvik

Why don’t you have a roadmap? If you don’t have a roadmap you arent making real commitments then we can verify progress is being made. Edit: than to then – CaptainEnterprise

We have seen how other coins work with roadmaps. We wanted to avoid the “when, when, when” questions. So we pledge to release at least 4 new releases every 3 months. No questions asked and always on time.

Watch our github closely. That way you know what will be coming. We push everything to it even before release. – jackielove4u

What exciting developments can we look forward too in late 2017 and early 2018? Anything not on the roadmap? – silkheat 

Normally we don’t reveal anything to prevent hype but for this AMA we will make an exception:

Late 2017: Groestlcoin Core update, Webwallet update, Groestlcoin Android update, Groestlcoin android testnet, Groestloin BlackBerry update, Groestlcoin BlackBerry testnet, JSwallet + ios Groestlcoin sentinel update, Electrum-grs 3.0 update

2018: Lightning network Adding segwit support to more wallets – jackielove4u

What is Groestlcoins biggest weakness at the moment? Also, what plans do you have to remedy this weakness? – user_name_ftp

Awareness. We plan to put a dedicated person on Twitter. Start Facebook campaigns. Engage more with community – gruve_p

Conclusion

This AMA has gone flawlessly! Lot’s of constructive questions, and well put responses. If there’s some questions you may have that haven’t been answered by this recap, check out the thread for yourself, here, surely your question has been asked before.

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April 19th 2018, 02:44