Quote from: StanLarimer on January 10, 2016, 07:15:40 AM

Actually, If you are going to quote me, you ought to quote the whole thing...

Quote from: StanLarimer on March 26, 2015, 01:17:44 AM

Heh, I remember as a kid hearing my mother hum the jingle to this famous ad as she did the laundry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFZK5VkQes4

(Hint: It's the last four notes in the 1968 classic rock song "Touch me" by the Doors.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bKSqKpdEFI

Funny, I don't remember her ever telling my dad that

1. "The tensile strength of this soap powder far exceeds that of dirt."
2. "This detergent's oder is far more powerful than the smell of your work socks."
3. "Did you know that Ajax can do the same thing as Atlas -- without shrugging?"

So, from nearly sixty years of training in front of the old boob tube, I've become an expert at recognizing the purpose of a good advertising slogan.

If you can get people to ask, "Oh really? In what way exactly is Ajax stronger than dirt?", then you have solved half the marketing battle.

So, if we can get the ordinary, non-crypto-aware consumer to ask a similar question, "Oh really, In what way exactly is BitShares safer than a Swiss Bank?" than we will have done our marketing job.

So, I would appreciate it if you would continue to complain everywhere you can about my favorite marketing slogan. I'd like to see everyone's mother humming that jingle on the way to collect her yield on her unconfiscatable, unrehypothicatable, un-bail-in-able, uninflatable and unbetrayable savings.

BitShares.
Safer than a Swiss Bank.
(Ask me why!)

Glad to see that you still endorse this message Stan.

Quote from: CoinHoarder on January 09, 2016, 06:47:00 PM

Quote from: DecentralizeEconomics on January 09, 2016, 07:43:02 AM

They also continually attempt to market Bitshares as "Safer than a Swiss Bank" and "Your own Fort Knox!" when they know it is subject to the flaw mentioned below.

No one has used that terminology in a very long time, and your use of the word "continually" in that statement makes the statement a lie. It is simply an exaggeration of a past gripe you have with the way Bitshares was originally marketed. These slogans have not been used for a long time, and Bitshares is more careful nowadays to be politically correct.

Stan just used it again about thirty-six minutes ago. You better reset the clock.