Re: [ANN] Official Unobtanium Thread Open Again! : Current Release 0.9.4
you are right: it is about raising awareness for uno
i think one big plus is the healthy network and i don't see a problem with having that maintained. Everybody expects everything spoon-fed. FK once said: 'the biggest asset of a coin is its community' and he is right with that.
Uno has a beautiful distribution (look at the top 100 list). Nobody owns a too large piece of it as far as i can see (largest wallet around 6tons, second largest around 4 tons). That is also the reason i am willing to put some of my work into it.
So it is up to the people holding the coin to raise awareness for it and to help building services and improovements. Uno is not spoon-fed. That is not a negative point.
Also: uno evaded being totally controlled by wolong. Wolong is out. The community dumped on his fake pump. That is also a good point.
The community has prooven to be less sheep than many others. The coin is intelligent and was able to fight off abusers and maintain a good distribution.
Uno is not instamined and not premined, it is fast, it never forked, it is a safe place to put your money. It is bitcoin on steroids. What elese do you want? Uno is going to be around for a long time. Maybe longer than the USD and the EUR.
I prefer a stable coin, that is working like a clockwork with a healthy network that is going to be around for years maybe decades any time over a one-pump-wonder with a short hype and with a lot of new gimmicks that do not work when you want to use them and a wallet that does fall out of snyc.
So i would define uno as a store of wealth. It doesn't get any better than that. Let's raise awareness. If everybody just does what he/she can do best to improove the coin it'll be a big success.
Uno is fair and honest - that sets it apart form maybe 80%-90% of the other coins. Look at the litecoin-story. Why is it there? Because it was fast, fair and honest. What i am saying: the fundamentals for Uno are good.
If you want things spoon-fed you need to turn to the government or the authorities. It is up to the community to give the coin more value. Build some services, raise some awareness. Don't be a lazy cunt.
Sitting on your hands and criticising the work of others is not an accomplishement.
You don't like the vid? Do a better one.
How about a video contest? Let's everybody donate 1 or 2 uno to a fund and have a contest for the creation of the best promo-video.
I don't know so much about the spoon feeding. I am holding uno because i am interested to see how a coin with such rarity fares. That is what originally interested me. I was around for the launch and had a bunch of block erupters and mined it like mad. Not so much spoon feeding as it is coat tail riding. I feel the same as the dev, what ever guys, do something with it. I hope there are other bag holders out there that are more willing to do the work because they want the reward that much more than i do. I am rather complacent either way. I come on and hem and haw because it is something, helps bump the forum, gives people something to discuss. At least if you put something out there, if people love it or hate it, if it stirs them up enough emotionally they might get involved a bit more.
Is awareness enough? I like bitcoin because i can actually buy shit with my bitcoins if i want. They are not just a store of value. They have practical application. I have bought quite a number of things using btc now that i really think about it. Now perhaps uno is going for some type of product differentiation and doesn't wanna be a bitcoin clone. That is fine, but the store of value thing, i just don't agree with that.
Honestly the whole "store of value" concept is like bitter hypocrisy as we saw how easily the market can be manipulated due to the number of the coins. How and why it bounced back, no one can say for certain. It is all speculation and it could have very well bottomed out just the same. It remains relatively stable @ .005 but it is ripe for manipulation. I would like to think that each time a pump happens it raises the potential of the coin and what people see. I feel a majority of people will dump the coin if it hits close to .05, not that it would be bad as the coin would then gain a new wave of distribution, but how many people are going to buy it at such a price without there being any utility for it?
I do agree that the community is what tends to set the coins apart. I like to see active boards with people discussing and so forth. It is depressing to check for news or exciting going ons and find no updates for a number of hours, sometimes days or weeks! It is nice to know people are actively engaged in thinking about the coin, perhaps one thought will lead them down a path that no one has yet discovered?
To address the video. I think it would be better to have no video, than to have one that looks like something someone did in high school. It doesn't help the coin, it makes it look like a joke imho, but i am a rather judgmental person.
My thanks for the time and efforts put into the video are sincere, because as you said, i am a lazy cunt. I won't deny that. But that really has nothing to do with anything. I am also a bit of a perfectionist and wouldn't make something if i didn't feel it was the "best" promo video out there. I also can't make a video, i don't know how, don't want to learn. Not my area of expertise. It is like someone who throws paint on a canvas and considers it a masterpiece because they made it. Nope, sorry. Still crap. Let's be honest.
Criticizing the work of others surely is no accomplishment, never portrayed it as one. But then again, neither is that video! Need some aloe for that burn
?!I do like the video contest and i have no issues supporting a bounty for a better video. THAT is a good idea. Hopefully we could get a few submissions and set up some type of survey for voting to determine the winner? If i was sitting on my hands, i would have issues typing these things up, no?
I am more of a verbal activist or a cheerleader. Let's go, uno, let's go, rah rah rah! Whew, if that isn't doing enough, i dunno what enough is!