Quote from: Subtuppel on May 01, 2014, 03:47:29 PM

Quote from: barabbas on May 01, 2014, 03:30:06 PM

why create "awareness" of something that cannot be used at all, at the general public level?

Before accusing others to be grredy, lay back for a second and think:
How would people ever WANT to use BC, if they never heard of it? Why would merchants agree to use something neither they nor their customers ever heard of? Just becuase some nerd like us sent them a technical specification?
I honestly cannot understand why some people are that much against creating some publicty. It is not as if an event like the wall street promo prevents anyone from pushing BC the way they prefer?

Agreed. I too am very stupefied by this attitude.

Do we need to support rat4 and maarx in the technical development? YES! Do we need to support TDG (and possibly push a little...)? YES!

Is technical innovation and a slick looking and profitable pool enough to succeed? NO!

Even if there weren't a literal sea of copies, clones, scams, etc... with more being launched every week - we have to also understand that BlackCoin is what it is... and that is a copy of previous work which has been (and currently is as rat4's post indicates) being developed into much more than just another altcoin cloned from BTC (or more accurately an amalgamation of BTC and NovaCoin with some adjustments).

There is only one way the rest of the world has any idea that BC even exists... and sorry, just waiting for the current crypto-currency faithful to fall in step isn't going to get us anywhere. I can understand how someone who got into cryptos in the last year might think that's possible... but for some of us that remember when people were bickering over the "ridiculous stupidity" of someone paying thirteen cents each for bitcoins it's much more obvious. Bitcoin went from bouncing back and forth at values BC is currently trading at for quite a while... then suddenly the media became aware, and things really started taking off.

That world no longer exists... there are coins creating hype and notoriety on a daily basis - and new ones being announced almost hourly at this point (many of which are exact copies - stats wise at least). Attacking on one or even two fronts is not enough now... it's an all or nothing game.

Imagine if a big corporation took the same approach, or a political candidate... just being the 'good guy' or the 'better technical solution' is not enough in our world. How many of us are still stuck using Windows in our workplaces... that's definitely not because it's the best, most stable, most secure, easiest to use OS... quite the opposite - but it is definitely heavily marketed, and often in ways that seem ridiculous from a technical perspective. Wink