Quote from: Herp on January 21, 2014, 10:25:34 PM

Quote from: prophetx on January 21, 2014, 10:13:48 PM

Quote from: Herp on January 21, 2014, 08:07:09 PM

Quote from: TKeenan on January 21, 2014, 07:37:09 PM

This only makes sense if you'd like to attract silly speculators and mathematical cripples to the community. Let them migrate to NXT and Dogecoin. Those folks make no contribution whatever.

While I see your point and understand where you're coming from, I can't agree with you one bit.

The fact they are buying coins is a very strong contribution to the development efforts. A lost opportunity for Mastercoin. Doge Coin will soon surpass MSC market cap. What a joke that will be.

You guys need to get a good marketing guy on board. Marketing efforts have been very poor so far. Thank god for Ron's presentations otherwise very few would have heard about Mastercoin.

The reason why Doge will surpass Mastercoin is because it is actually listed on exchanges people use and there is a wide wealth distribution. The exchange issue is the same for NXT. When people do not have wallets and exchanges to use to actually obtain coins it is pointless to throw tons of money to marketing. In fact just 2 months ago people were complaining about spending just 18k on a PR firm.

One can see here that the traffic to the website and social media is on par with similar coins, sometimes even higher, however none of this traffic gets converted into wallet users and therefor buyers on exchanges, because the software is till being developed.

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1F0sz4g5D5RxnwJuFgTe5No1l1WDH8Qmij9Ys1rbJ9LQ/pub?w=6663&h=2874

I don't argue the importance of being listed on exchanges, by the contrary. I guess you need to ask yourself why a joke coin like Doge managed to get listed on so many exchanges while Mastercoin didn't have much success in doing so. Perhaps it's an issue that needs a quick fix.

The dogecoin tech is a straight up knockoff of litecoin code, it probably takes about 15 minutes for my mother to integrate it into any other software that's been integrated with bitcoind or litecoind JSON RPC api.

Mastercoin on the other hand is implementing new features and so it has a unique API.

We have had a few exchanges that wanted to put MSC in but we ran into a few problems 1) API was not ready 2) wallets/code had not been tested (happening now!) 3) because of 1 and 2 doing it like how masterxchange did it (Bless their hearts) would have taken a couple smart guys putting in a few weeks and testing. See this: http://wiki.mastercoin.org/index.php/Exchange_%26_Wallet_Integration_Guide

There are a lot of people working on this and it will happen. Unfortunately there is no quick fix unless you are willing to invest a few 100 G's into some places https://angel.co/payward-kraken/fundraising or just wait it out for the testing and API.