Please go to reddit. You have to understand we all have our roles.. I personally know very little about development timelines and schedule... So I only focus on PR stuff. On Reddit I can pick and choose what to spend my time on. This forum is a terrible medium for communication. Today 2 foundation members did an AMA on reddit...

Please everyone show up for this AMA. It is an opportunity for everyone to talk about things directly with the PR agency. This is your chance to really be an active participant in the PR campaign that all of you paid for! Please come on by!!!!

Once the DRK bubble bursts we will see some money return. I have to say I have been somewhat surprised by just how long the DRK bubble has lasted though. But if you look at the max chart, you can see it is growing at an unsustainable rate.

Valid points Storm. I think it will be in our best interests to ensure that any 'green' talk is kept as a positive for BC and not, as you put it, a smear campaign against BTC.

As for the multipool.. as long as their are PoW coins there will always be miners. The larger are multipool the faster energy efficient BC takes over. The multipool can very easily be seen as a tool that allows us to bring the crypto community towards energy efficiency even faster.

I agree whole-heartedly. I am not one to make too much of a fuss about large sell or buy walls or manipulation in general. It is what it is, do your best to not get involved.

I do find it sad, however, when a lot of beginning crypto folks lose their shirt on a pump and dump scheme.

That's very true fortune143 and not a way I had looked at it previously. Thanks for the insight.

Hi Zuep.

The PR Firm actually like the Black Shield concept. I myself have reservations but they thought it would provide a warm and fuzzy feeling to a lot of would-be investors.

Like I said, I am not sold on it. I like the idea of a free free market, but at the very same time the maniulation tactics used by large groups is unsettling. Should thedoge fight fire with fire so to speak? I don't know... I think at the very least it will be an interesting experiment.

I do not have any relationship with any employee/management from that said PR firm.

I would ask why you assume the worst for everything? Why am I automatically some nefarious villain who is stealing from the poor and giving to the rich? I have answered every question (that I have read) asked of me on this thread and countless others and still I am maligned by assumptions of greed and treachery.

I do one thing. Promote BlackCoin. I have proven this time and time again. If you have legitimate concerns, please present them without baseless accusations of the worst kind.

To clarify: I work for a company that has used the services of this, and many other, PR firms in the past. I have sat (as a technical expert not a marketing associate) through many pitches. I have never had direct contact with any of the individuals at MBA (up until this campaign). I also don't own stock in MBA, in case you were going to ask.

Also, no kickback or bribe was exchanged.

I also, do not eat babies.

1.) I've answered the need for redacting contract terms here: http://www.reddit.com/r/blackcoin/comments/25i24u/mba_pr_firm_transparency/

No company wants their internal, private contractual terms out there. Simply good business sense.

2.) I will tell you whatever you want to know here: http://www.reddit.com/r/blackcoin/comments/25i24u/mba_pr_firm_transparency/

I am very confused about the 1k per trans question? Please restate it on reddit or have someone post it for you.

The PR Client is through an intermediary business owned by a member of the foundation. A company needs to deal with another entity or company. The Foundation was not officially recognized by any state at the time and so we moved forward by having someone stake their PERSONAL company in our stead. Really a very generous and bold move by that individual (who I will most certainly not divulge, this is his personal company and his personal address etc.)

In all regards though the PR firm works for BlackCoin. The BlackCoin foundation will obviously be mentioned but in press releases we have instructed the Firm that they represent BlackCoin.

These are the only questions I will answer here. Please please please ask on reddit. It is so much simpler for me.

Hi All.

I was at the PR meeting yesterday and will answer all your questions if you bring them to http://www.reddit.com/r/blackcoin/comments/25i24u/mba_pr_firm_transparency/

This isn't a matter of me trying to move the community to reddit, this is simply a matter of ease of use. I hope you can understand that, and join in, or at the very least have someone post your questions for you!

Thanks

RJSchex can speak for himself on reddit but after emailing him, knowing his real name etc. I believe he does not have any BC as he has stated. He is a very generous and kind individual. Please consider thanking him via reddit.

All please check out this post: http://www.reddit.com/r/blackcoin/comments/24ym20/pr_firm_name_here_you_go/

Someone can paste the content here if they deem it necessary but I will be fielding questions primarily from reddit. Sorry, its just easier for me to follow a single thread that stays on topic.

I like your overall sentiment. Here are my responses.. I am not a member of the foundation but merely an investor group heavily in BC.
1.) The dev is in the foundation. The talk of this being a land grab/power move is ridiculous. These same people have been here since day 1.
2.) I'm on a group of investors. We have never considered ourselves separate from the community. We are a large part of the community.
3.) Frankly, if someone wants to come up with their own plan and share it please do. We have internal documents but nothing comparable to a full fledged business model.. I have two other jobs? I am doing my best here..
4.)
5.) 'That would have gladly lent their expertise' This sentiment, frankly, causes me to get very angry. This is not some closed door process. I got into this investor group by going to blackcoinpool and defending BC against people spreading fud. After a day of offering reasonable and insightful comments, providing assistance to people on how to connect to the multipool etc. Soepkip offered me a small donation. I declined and sent him one instead. A few days later I asked soep if he would consider starting a fund (later known as black friday) to offer extra incentive to the pool. He said to me, 'sure go ahead'. And so I asked around for donations, got to know members and was eventually invited into a channel that was reserved for people who showed initiative. That was it... I showed initiative. Anyone here, anyone can do the same. Please come help us. PLEASE. But don't expect to just come to us with an idea. Come to us with an idea and FOLLOW-UP on it. That is how I was vetted, and the same process still applies.

I was never sent a memo, inquiry nor received a recommendation. These people I have been working nights with for the past 6 weeks are brand new to me, and wonderful. It is an absolute shame what this forum has said about them.
6.) I absolutely agree with you. I spoke with the PR firm about IE's wall street form and actually linked them directly to his post. I also said to be careful and not spend too much time on the site because it can have bad links posted by a few malicious members... The truth of the matter was I would have been embarrassed to have them read any of this rubbish.

Again, I liked your overall sentiment. A lot of my anger is not really even directed at you. I am sorry if it seems that way. I guess its sort of tough when I feel like I am working on the community's side and so many of them are not working on mine.

Just to get us back on track a bit.. Please donate:)

I agree mrmate. However, I personally (again only me) plan on winning the community over with my continued support of the coin. Actions, in the coming days or weeks, will speak louder than words.

brammien, I am not pushing you to reddit but there is an explanation there. Your concerns have been heard and I, and the investor group, have been separated from the foundation. You, more or less directly, caused this.

Also discussed improving wallets, android wallet etc.

How can we possibly convince you we had no part in something completely fabricated? That's like proving there is no aether in which light propagates, or perhaps a more mundane example, that there is no God.

I have provided a link to my wallet in the past. You can see that for the past 4-6 weeks I have had the exact same amount of BC that I currently do (well not exact it ranges from 450kish to 410kish). That is about the best proof I can offer anyone and I don't see IE posting his HUGE wallets (or so he claims) etc. My official stance on this (official only onto myself) is to ignore baseless accusations.

I have talked with most of the people accused on a conference call today... What did we talk about? Improving the landing pages for blackcoin.co, blackcoinpool.com, and what type of articles we want the PR firm to promote. This was a much better use of our time, I promise you that.

You have posted that PM time and time again... In it by the word 'attack' I meant argument as you had just engaged in days of pointless arguing with the people mentioned. You are crazy if you think that PM puts me in a bad light... I don't understand these tactics at all.


Again, I was extending an olive branch to you, as I have done countless times, in order to have some relative peace on these forums.