Why then they didn't call it so explicitly? To me what they are doing is lumping it together with
Bitcoin and popular altcoins Litecoin, Dogecoin and Tether
, so it's not center stage anymore, and therefore they will not fulfill the promise they made to investors in the original project.
I mentioned the "why" in my post. It's pretty safe to assume that since the combined company will go forward as simply "GoCoin" that the Ziftr brand will cease to exist...and therefore, calling the coin "Ziftrcoin" would confuse things. Ziftrcoin was always meant to be a method for getting new users interested in - and using - cryptocurrency, by giving it away and giving it built-in value, regardless of what it trades for on the exchanges. Because GoCoin now (thanks to this merger) can offer credit card payments, people making purchases with credit cards using GoCoin as the payment processor will automatically receive the loyalty bonus of Ziftrcoin (or whatever it's ultimately called), which gives them an incentive to use the coin. It's a major value add that no other crypto payment processor can boast.
Also, I don't want to go into too much detail responding to comments that are likely on a few ignore lists anyway, but how can one company be legit and the other be a scam? From the press releases one can see that the merger took over 6 months. You'd think that would be enough time for the companies to vet each other, investigate finances, tech, etc, wouldn't you think?
You would...if said users were actually THINKING. Which they aren't, and which is why they show up as "This user is currently ignored" on most of our screens.