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I disagree with you. Aggressive marketing is just a type of marketing that works very well in a short timeframe and gives a huge boost to brand's awareness. Logically, every new service should come up with aggressive marketing at first, otherwise they won't become famous anytime soon.
@Synchronice what do you think now?
Later they increased the rate and it was 0.00075 until they changed it to $6 when bitcoin price was $30k more and above.
In late 2017 and early 2018 when Bitcoin price was $19,000 to $20,000 only for few weeks, then 0.00075 per posts was a lot but imagine how much bitcoin they already had when they started? The price was even below $1k when they were creating the mixer. They already had enough bitcoin to cover the marketing expense that was calculating in dollar.
Chipmixer was never aggressive. Their growth was steady and normal.
Right now all I think about is that Chipmixer paid up to 731 BTC and even if we calculate all of their spending in USD value at the time of transaction, it still looks like they paid millions of dollars . I mean, what crazy amount of money were they earning to afford pay that much? Or what was the benefit they were getting each week from bitcointalk signature campaign? Hands down, I'm just left without words.
There is a big competition on the market. You have Sinbad, Yomix and Mixtum as a competitors who try to catch chipmixer participants and promote their business through them because Chipmixer had very high quality posters. Even me, as a newbie noticed that everyone who was wearing Chipmixer signature and Foxpup avatar, was always posting genuine posts and over time, I even remembered half of Chipmixer participants and when I see a nickname, I know that some of them were in their sig campaign.
So, when you see that chipmixer is gone but the appetite of Chipmixer signature promoters is very high and there you have other competitors who are ready to increase rates in order to get high quality posters, then you have no other choice but to do an aggressive marketing.