Quote from: instacash on August 05, 2014, 01:06:57 AM

Quote from: TaunSew on August 05, 2014, 12:52:37 AM

Reality is people don't read the news like they used to. Especially obscure internet news about cryptos which are hard to come by unless you know where to look for them.

People don't even watch YouTube videos like they used to. Most popular Bitcoin video on the internet is from the early 2010s and only has a few million views

Well, don't forget that Bitcoin is actually not that popular yet (on top of that people generally have a hard time understanding how it works, not to mention having to download a huge blockchain unless they use Electrum/Multibit or the like). From Feb '14 [1]:

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How many Bitcoin users are there? Well, a safe guess for the upper limit would be the total number of Bitcoin addresses with more than 1 mBTC (or 0.64 USD). That upper bound of total Bitcoin users is about 1.2 million. That number is actually fairly optimistic, because many users may have multiple Bitcoin addresses with balances greater than 1 mBTC. At block 180,000, Bitcoin addresses containing less than 1 mBTC (what Bitcoiners call "dust") make up more than 95% of all addresses and together hold 173 BTC.

It's definitely interesting to see Stellar coming up "over night", its message being pushed out to Businessinsider, Fortune, WallStreetJournal etc. More publicity on the net is impossible.

https://twitter.com/rabois/status/494880635786256384

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Keith Rabbis: We never accomplished our original vision at PayPal. Time to fix that: https://www.stellar.org/blog/introducing-stellar/

Some of the more prominent members of Stellar's team:

Keith Rabois, executive roles at PayPal, LinkedIn, Slide and Square
Jed McCaleb, creator of eDonkey, original developer of MtGox
Patrick Collison, cofounder and CEO of Stripe
Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab
Greg Stein, Director at the Apache Software Foundation
Matt Mullenweg, Founder and CEO of Automatic (Wordpress)
Naval Ravikant, Founder of AngelList
Sam Altman, President of Combinator
Jackson Palmer, Dogecoin Co-Founder

Never heard of Slide and Square. Paypal was worth nothing until Ebay bought them out. LinkedIn.. isn't that just a resume website?

As well strong assumption that some former disgruntled executive is the samething as having that actual company on board.

eDonkey who?
Strip what?
MIT media who?
Angellist what?
Combinator who?
Dogecoin co-founder? Lips sealed

Worse of all you're still assuming that the mainstream public cares about any of the above. Paypal and Linkedin could get some attention from certain people but the rest are unknowns.