Quote from: miseree on February 12, 2014, 11:06:30 PM

Perhaps I acted out of turn, but I'm tired of waiting for others to help promote this coin. I've made this suggestion twice previously in this forum with no response. This coin needs several things for success, and I believe one of the more important things is some good old selfless philanthropy. Let this coin be known for generosity and take advantage of the publicity that can be made of that. Without that, this coin will be nothing more than any other failed coin that was created for the purpose generating some income. This is why I reached out to the SETI institute and offered a donation of ALN to support their cause. Their site has a list of several types of donations they are willing to receive and they happen to already take securities which this *could* fall under.

Check out: http://www.seti.org/node/564

DEV...if they are in agreement, then you need to show your support for this coin and this community and make a significant contribution from the premine. This is exactly the kind of stuff that a premine is for. We are also going to need a web site, forum, twitter, etc to promote the initial donation and donations of others. Perhaps it would be cool if we could track their donation address through the block explorer and keep a tally of donations on the Aliencoin website

I sent the following email to their donations department:

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I am a member of the Aliencoin community and I was wondering if you would entertain the idea of accepting Aliencoin in the form of a donation. What is Aliencoin you ask... Aliencoin is one of the new cryptocoin currencies that has branched from Bitcoin. Think Bitcoin with an extraterrestrial theme. We hope to develop the currency for use as payment across the internet focused on all things out of this world.

In an effort to promote our coin, we would like to set up a digital wallet on your behalf and donate a lump sum (to be determined) of Aliencoins to it. We would also create an additional address that would be posted to our community and our homepage (still under development) so that all of our supporters would be able to contribute smaller individual donations. We would hope for a small amount of publicity (twitter, blog article, headline on SETI.org, etc) to help further our cause.

We intend to show our community and those that would be willing to invest in our coin that we are striving to achieve great things with this coin. As of now, the coin can be exchanged on two small exchanges for bitcoin which can then be exchanged for fiat currency. Admittedly, trade volumes are low for the time being, however the hope is that the value of the currency will increase over time as the currency matures. It is our marketing efforts and publicity that will help drive the value of the coin up. I would invite you to review http://coinmarketcap.com/ and see for yourself that there are a great number of active cryptocurrencies that have matured into a significant market cap value.

In the future, the donation could turn out to be worth a significant sum if you are willing to take the chance. We are looking for a cause to support and what better cause than SETI. We are more than happy to assist you with setting up your digital Aliencoin wallet. I look forward to your response and please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions regarding this request.

Thank you,

Looks great, we will look into this. The premine will be distributed fairly aslong as the idea behind it is good and supportive.