I think this is a great idea - I read up on ProtoShares right after it went live and i just liked the whole concept of CPU mining and DAC's, but i quickly realized i was too late to the game by just a few days. I looked forward to being an early adopter, but in this case early adopters were the ones who began mining the first 24 hours.
And as other have said, it's not the botnets that will support ProtoShares in the long run, it's a dedicated user base.
It may be too late to be a big ProtoShares lottery winner but it's not too late to be a wily ProtoShares investor.
Many opportunities for ProtoShareholders are inbound like planes at a busy airport, no matter how you wind up acquiring them.
You're missing the point - I want to mine and be a part of something. I'm not looking for a random investment, I want to build something up as a part of a community. If you have to reside to buying shares to be a part of something that's only a few weeks old then something is wrong.
If I would have bought bitcoins two weeks ago and sold them today I would have had a massive profit, but I'm not into speculation. I want something more.
Fair enough. We didn't expect it to be such an explosive start and had designed it to take 2 years. I guess there is such a thing as too much publicity with all our conference announcements, website posts, articles and newsletters in the months leading up to this first event! But as you can see from this forum, there is a lot of work being done to improve things with a variety of ways to participate:
The difference between mining and buying shares is what I want to point out, and in this case, I would rather have had a full premine and buying shares directly from you than from the very miners that ruined everyone else's chance to mine.
If i had 500 shares, even if they were worth 0.000001BTC, I would do everything i could to help (Graphics-Coding-Etc) without any payment and I know there are thousands of people like me. Right now, since I really believe in ProtoShares, the best thing for me would be if the value went down to almost nothing so I could stack up.
Don't worry though, I talk about ProtoShares a lot
Just want to make sure you really understand why I'm frustrated. Not because I wanted to win the lottery, but because I wanted to contribute and be a part of the beginning and future of ProtoShares. And BTW, it's really cool that PTS gained this much attention in the flood of altcoins out there