Quote from: raspcoin on December 19, 2013, 05:22:59 AM

Set up a Datacoin faucet. While faucets do not add much to the ecosystem, they are good at attracting new users. The faucet could be ran by donations from people who want to support Datacoin and its concept. I hope this coin will succeed, as it actually has a purpose (and so does its proof-of-work system, too!).

We're doing giveaways just now, but after we finish with them, we'll start faucet

Quote from: 4019 on December 27, 2013, 03:07:35 PM

Thought about recent giveaways and the way Datacoin is going...

Cryptocoins generally lack any inner value, today their main purpose is speculation. Easy to see especially with many altcoins experiencing pump and dump schemes. Lots of people buy them hoping for bitcoin-like exponential growth. Datacoin is one of very few different. From initial thread:

Datacoin is intended to be reliable censorship-free data storage and a currency to pay for this storage. Money transfer isn't the first purpose of Datacoin.

Data storage is the inner purpose of DTC, giving Datacoin its inner value. BUT its inner value does not have to be equal to its price. While I appreciate giveaway and cryptsy fight, I think I see you are going every-other-coin-way here. I think you should not promote Datacoin in first place. You should focus all your efforts at Datacoin uses, services, etc. Build a user base around them. Make Datacoin not a target, but *just* a tool for people. That would reinforce its inertial value by making the coin itself simply useful. You should really make this coin a tool first and a coin second.

And sorry to say that I think that going the Dogecoin-way ), with giveaways, twitter, cryptsy and buzz, while may seem desirable on a short time frame, on a long way run may destroy the uniqueness if DTC would became too successful this way. With tool-first approach DTC price would depend on its usefulness and usefulness of all DTC-related ecosystem. DTC price cannot be too high. Don't get me wrong, theres still space to grow here, but it would be quite bound to a data storage function, and here price cannot rise above sanity levels. Additionally, function-bound price could be quite stable. Just these orders of magnitude jumps that would make all this speculation crowd happy would render Datacoin unusable, practically depleting it of its inner value.

Unless we imagine a dystopian future, where people are willing to pay many thousands of dollars for every byte of decentralized redundant censorship-free storage...

I know all of that, but we need to attract as many developers as we can. When we started twitter buzz and giveaways, number of mails from 3rd parties developers increased a lot! So, of course, we can do nothing like promo and do everything ourselves, but it will be so slow. And yes, miners are interested to sell their coins, but many of them don't want to go to bter. If we are not listening to miners, coin will be vulnerable to attacks and fail.

Quote from: fifivotch on December 27, 2013, 03:30:02 PM

it is preferable to change the logo, which represent a currency, and also email contact address , it's not professional , gmail !

what's wrong with logo? And yes, forgot to mention that our mail is now support@datacoin.info (it redirects messages to gmail, but nobody cares

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Quote from: mahieddine on December 27, 2013, 07:25:25 PM

hey gentleman give some coin to the lady

hahaha, are you the first lady in Datacoin? Cheesy

Make us smile, take a photo of yourself with paper with words on it: "Best regards to Datacoin team!" Nothing vulgar, just ordinary photo

Quote from: snoogans310 on December 27, 2013, 07:31:04 PM

force everyone to use datacoin instead of the dollar, then knock everyone out who supports litecoin and bitcoin. worth a try Wink

you're joking of course

Coins sent to everyone above this thread (except mahieddine - no address and no photo

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