Quote from: Hashturbater on March 20, 2014, 05:19:53 PM

Quote from: bitideas on March 20, 2014, 04:41:54 PM

There is no trademark or other intellectual property claim to the word or concept of "Pirate".

"Pirate", as it's universally understood, outside of a movement that, pardon me saying, is relatively obscure even in the countries that recognize the party, has nothing to do with politics. In the USA and worldwide, amongst 98%+ of the population, the term Pirate is more of a theatrical/historical concept that is widely appealing.

"Booty Coin" with its sexual connotations would severely limit the potential market.

I strongly advise keeping PirateCoin as it is and removing any connection to the political party. That's my vote.

Start Booty Coin if you want, they can complement each other.

But PirateCoin can stand alone, without any connection to anything other than the "Ahoy, Matey!" image that it conjures up to the vast majority of people on the planet.

Exactly, changing the name to bootycoin basically makes it a new coin with new intentions. When I think of pirate, I think of arrgh, ahoy there mateys! Never heard of pirate party until it appeared in this thread. Guarantee 99+% of people think of ships, beards, parrots, cannons, rum, treasure, etc when they hear the word pirate. When I started the pool for this coin, I wasn't thinking about fat bouncing asses. Keep it about pirates please. On a side note, I do enjoy fat bouncing asses.

Ahoy ya scurvy dogs! There be nothin' preventin' Bootycoin from bein' a coin that's used for anything pirate related. It's what we pirates like to call a double entendre, which is something that instantly opens up tons of possibilities. If the pirate bay had a coin would it sound better if they had "pirate bay coin" or bootycoin? A pirate's treasure is booty, period. Any self respecting pirate seeks booty, spends it, trades in it... period. Just so happens that in the last 30 years a second definition of the word has appeared which also happens to fit quite well for a crypto currency.

I have plans for distribution that will make this thing go viral because of the fun nature. People *love* double entendres, especially ones related to sex. Just like sexcoin there's nothing inherently interesting or viral about a coin so obviously named "piratecoin".

As far as fat bouncing asses and such there can be adult.bootycoin.com and just plain old bootycoin.com where it's general purpose pirate. Honestly we really don't know who would be interested in taking part. But that's part of the fun. The branding can all be tongue in cheek bootycoin with plain old pirates but you can toe the line of sex with it if you like. Just how Disney hides sexual innuendo in their films for adults that caters to kids.

Look, I'm an entrepreneur at the core and I'm looking for opportunity. I simply don't see the greater opportunity in something called piratecoin. It's stale, predictable, and doesn't lend itself to spreading. Why was doge successful? Because it was fun. Now that's just a stupid meme that will be dead in a year and people will tire of that coin. Sex never gets old and neither does pirate speak apparently.

I was contacted about possibly merging Bootycoin with the Piratecoin community and honestly I think it's a great idea. But there has to be a recognition that bootycoin is actually a superior branding for a pirate themed crypto coin or else there's really no way to move forward I guess. Please don't take this as me saying that my idea or coin is better than yours, as I said I just look at what's possible and I just don't see the mass market potential for Piratecoin for the aforementioned reasons.

Now, I put forth the offer to the Piratecoin community to join up and realize the enormous potential in the branding with this coin. I've already been in contact with adult site owners that like the idea and are looking to get involved. I've also spoken with an investment team that helps alts launch and evaluates them and they think that there's real potential for this to be the first mainstream alt coin. That said there's a ton of work to do and a community needs to be built to truly support it. I've focused on the branding part of it and reaching out to partners because simply forking litecoin, throwing it out there with a new name and no branding, is simply not interesting at all. There has to be something unique about it, and here it's all about the double entendre and sex angle. People love plausible deniability and this coin gives you that. Send a little booty to that cutie that you have your eye on. "What, it's just pirate related coin? What's the big deal?" But the subtlety of sex is there.

So I leave it up to you guys. I'm going to press on with or without you, but I'd rather have you scurvy dogs on board because you've shown the same passion for the theme and I think if you really look at the true potential and think about it you'll see what I'm talking about.

So what say ye... ya scurvy dogs? Arrrrr :-)