Quote from: kjadB on April 07, 2016, 02:29:38 AM

Quote from: DecentralizeEconomics on April 06, 2016, 04:37:03 PM

No "intelligent" person is going to crowdfund someone who posts their genitals on the internet.

That's not true. You obviously don't understand marketing. Getting attention is 90% of the task. TPTB posting his genitals was in the context of his ongoing public disclosure of his illness, so it wasn't exactly a bolt from the blue. It shows me TPTB knows how to play the 'game'

Hahaha. An X-gen version of the boomer Donald Trump frankness of crypto without the boomer-generation totalitarianism of "let me make all the decisions".

As for accomplishing on the technology side, it is irrelevant that I posted a photo of an ailment of the testicles (and obviously not my balls since remember I was username UnunoctiumTesticles at one point).

As for the marketing side, getting enough attention to drive early adoption is important, especially if you can get that advertising for free. Then technological, design choices, and the paradigm of the market matter most.

Also what really matters is being sincerely passionate, bursting with technological & marketing insight (to keep it interesting for the co-workers), being capable (of which repeated instances in past experience can be an indicator), having the correct understanding of economics (including the critical importance of decentralization and the End-to-End Principle), and also actually being a jovial person to work with. Forum appearances notwithstanding. Then again, there are probably certain attitudes that would not find chemistry with me. Start with someone who has any socialist leanings, love of government planned programs, and especially believes in crap such as man-made global warming, "save the earth", or other delusional nonsense that has become the rage lately. Again I have looked at the facts on these issues. I am an advocate for not polluting my local surroundings, and for not dumping my pollution on others. But I think it is ridiculous the hair-brained propaganda that humans affect the global temperature. When I drive my SUV, I participate in the natural Carbon Cycle of the earth.

Spoetnik, it is too late for me. I can never become anonymous again. If ever I earn a lot of money, my life will be somewhat destroyed as it is improved. It would be best for me to not earn too much money. Too much money makes you a target for the rest of your life. What I'd probably do if ever I have too much money, is start giving it away to projects I believe in. On the simplification on the communication side, this is sometimes very difficult to accomplish. It consumes times and effort. For some polished documents, it is worthwhile. My knowledge of "moon math" is not as high as other experts in crypto, but it is sufficient for my role. All major crypto projects hire a mathematician/cryptographer specialist. Note I could likely have become a mathematician, but my other interests and priorities interfered with that focus. I am not a polymath genius as in a Leonardo Da Vinci, Shakespeare, or Galileo. I am more at the level of a Mark Twain or George Washington. I just have a passion for what I like to do, and I like to juggle conceptual paradigms.