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Re: [SDC] ShadowCash | POSV3 | Untraceable E-Cash | NIZKP | HD+BIP32 | ShadowMarket*
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systh
on 03/06/2016, 14:35:30 UTC
The difference is one name markets to a small audience were a more neutral name targets a larger audience...
So if you target only darknet users you will get only them... if we target the general public we get them and we still get the darknet users because they will use us regardless..not to mention the wider the audience, the wider the potential user base and since we are pos that equals are more robust and secure system.
a neutral name will only have positive consequences for this project.

It's all about problems and solutions. Right now, mainstream has other market solutions I've listed in the previous posting operating in their native currencies. There doesn't appear to be a huge problem here, and Shadow project does not offer significant advantages over them. I think it will be extremely difficult to pull these users away from these established markets and it would likely take years to build any volume.

However in the darknet, Shadow solves a huge privacy and anonymity issue and is not such a technological leap from what is in place. You will get much more bang for your buck marketing to those users. It's the niche we need to chase. Having a Shadow Market in Shadow wallet with Shadow currency is just brilliant for this. Darknet users do need ordinary stuff, too. Once the market is up and flourishing, mainstream goods and users will follow. Eventually, shadow will no longer be a dirty word.

Anyway, good discussion and I hope we can arrive at some democratic agreement. Cheers.
Our market is decentralized that's the advantage...and the point, we don't target DM users if they want to use it they cant be stopped but we are just building a platform for people to do business on that is decentralized and privacy centered..we build it and who ever uses uses it..but we are most definitely not targeting DM users..that would be the quickest way to kill this project

I don't see a problem with advertising to both "ordinary" people (promoting crypto and privacy as a side-effect) and privacy-focused users (which will be way easier without that much effort). I see promoting the Market to the mainstream as a main goal, that's for sure.

Regarding the naming, I believe that the right way would be to keep Shadow* as a brand of course, for the underlying tech behind the Market/Wallet and currency. The Market itself could be named differently, as a separated product – which it will be, as there would be 2 coexisting versions of Wallet (one Wallet-only, another with built-in Market).

As discussed on the Community Discussion: Marketplace name thread on our forums, I'm pro for sticking to the mythology naming we began with Phoenix release (and upcoming Aphrodite). Come on in and join the discussion there!