don't change the name of the coin. the name is amazing. the ticker "888" is amazing. it just needs to be fixed and handed off to a group that will produce some results. ie. marketing, development, drumming up support etc.
if anyone knows of a group that can get this done right, get on it.
we'd all probably have to donate a % of our octo so that they can sit on a "pre-mine" equivalent for their work, and so they're actually invested in seeing the price grow.
what if they have it trademarked?
and yes i'm sure a dev would want some BTC and def needs to have some Octo so they are invested.
I'm pretty sure 888 is already heavily trademarked, it's the name of a gaming company that's listed on the London Stock Exchange;
http://www.888.com/Octo has probably just been completely under the radar to their legal team and they haven't bothered with it. When the dev started talking about gaming months ago I mentioned 888.com and asked if it was connected, the dev (let's call him bholzer for now) completely ignored the question and just let the suggestion sit out there and work its magic, worked on me anyhow, more fool me. Thinking about it, I wish I had made 888 aware of Octocoin and the implied link, at which point they'd have either taken legal action or done nothing, which would have confirmed or denied the link for me. Though at that point I was happy to just keep accumulating before anybody cottoned on.
"Octo" ought to be OK as a name and you could probably still keep the logo but just change the ticker. If anybody starts claiming copyright on the logo or name they'll have to step up in person at which point a casual nod in the direction of the sec.gov website ought to be enough to get them to step down.
