Golem has a fat money bag 🎒 for advertising a product that still doesn't exist other than on paper and in small scale tests. Gridcoin was never premined and doesn't have any given money for ads or developers. It has a foundation fund, but it's not marked for anything in specific and was supposed to be spent on competition rewards etc.
Gridcoin has no paid developer and is fully community based.
That's a cool approach to it. Surely though, and I'm just playing devil's advocate here really, no paid developers is a huge negative. I get that just because somebody is paid full-time doesn't mean they're the best but how can you guarantee the quality, consistency and reliability of the code?
What's the roadmap for Q3 & Q4 of 2017 look like? I hold some Golem but they've failed to release Brass by the time they said they would (despite already pushing it back once!). Obviously, I'd rather have a working product late than a buggy, failing one early but I still wouldn't mind moving some Golem into something else as a result!
I don't have the roadmap details where I can easily get to them, but check on coingecko and sort on the developer column, Gridcoin is at number 14; not bad for a coin that has been around for such a long time.
Gridcoin has a passionate following, people do it because you might help find a cure childhood cancer, AIDS or Ebola, or detect an asteroid that will collide with earth, or discover the next Higgs Boson. The Devs care just as much :)
That's a fair point! I guess to some an almost philanthropic driver is going to be more powerful than a monetary driver :)
Yup, and we don't all bail if the price takes a wobble
Best part!