I think the key is for us to compare it with Bitcoin so people can understand it. I would like us to mention:
- Must faster transaction speeds compared to Bitcoin. This is more convenient in general but also makes it more practical for point of sale transactions
- Pure proof of stake compared to Bitcoin's proof of work. This makes blackcoin less wasteful of energy (a good figure to quote would be $17 million bitcoin miners use in electricity every day - google for the exact figure)
- Much cheaper in price and market capitalisaion compared with Bitcoin. This means investors and speculators have a much larger potential upside with huge growth possibilities.
Since we want this to coincide with the Cryptocurrency Convention in NYC I think this will be a fruitful approach since a lot of people will already be familiar with Bitcoin so it we highlight Bitcoin's weakness and compare them to Blackcoin's strengths it will have a greater impact.
I don't mine, so am not familiar with energy use costings etc. I'm therefore just responding with what is more of a query than anything else.
Is there any way of calculating the amount / cost of energy used by the BC multipool(s), even approximately ?
I ask, because if we are going to release something for the press ( great idea ), stating, among other things, that BC is more energy efficient, then hadn't we better consider how energy efficient the whole ecosystem that is developing around it is ?
I know that POS makes the coin by itself more energy efficient, but, it wouldn't take even a lazy-assed journo much time to see how much discussion and emphasis is given over to the multipools, link the two, and, if the energy use of the pools takes us up to a level close to that generated by miners working for BTC, it'd be a simple enough step to label BC hypocrytical, etc
We don't want to be setting ourselves up for that kind of backlash with our first PR effort.
