Maybe not to crypto folk, but once the general public at large catches on to altcoins, I think the name Moon will be a solid draw. The altcoin market in six months will look quite different than it does today. People new to cryptocurrency who aren't into the technical aspects will snap up coins with names and themes that represent familiarity and solidity. And the Moon's got all that.
Does it though? I mean, why not Earth Coin then? And if it hasn't been made already, I'd expect a Sun Coin to go on about how it's the hottest alt coin out there...
Am I overlooking something about the name that would appeal to new people?
I do have some moon coin (a baby-sized amount), but again, I just started with this stuff like 2 weeks ago, so I don't have much of anything yet (unless you count colossus, but that's just because it's so cheap it's almost free). I was just wondering what its niche may be. Some coins go the altruistic route with helping causes, some go the meme route... some tweak the code a bit more than others. Just saying the name 'moon' will appeal to newcomers doesn't seem very logical to me. It's the same reasoning goldcoin is using too, and to me, that's just sort of nonsense.
At least it isn't as annoying as Doge's meme and such wow nonsense. This will get old really fast. Mooncoin is a coin for space and science lovers. With over three times as many coins as Doge it'll surpass Doge in the 'huge profits quick' through pump and dumps and speculation section. It has awesome leverage, if you have the necessary pocket change. Therefore, it is a coin for Bitcoin whales as well as small time miners who are not willing to change the market but just want to mine at profitability and speculate on the future value of the coin. The name tells you where it is going, the moon (if 100 satoshis are the moon it is highly likely that it will be pushed to that or ever higher at some point in the future). If you want to trade you can't even make a dent in the market if you haven't got at least 30 Bitcoins to play with. So, MoonCoin is for the big guys as well as the little guys.