the scratch game is ready, enjoy!
http://coinok.pw/scratch/bc/
please send the 4k bounty + 500 reserved for prizes to: BF9wUrrEDs37gSBiCnMRiKoq9opccUpE3x
thanks!if someone is enjoying the game so much other donations are welcome of course
2000 BC more sent for prizes, and I'm about donated out for now.... sent 5k to bounty fund, 1k to Busoni at Poloniex for testing/listing, 2372 to Luckyjerry for promotion in China, and now 2k to Coinok.pw.
I believe in the potential of this coin and have donated about 10% of my holdings in total to help promote it. I highly encourage everyone to just forget about the price for now and consider BlackCoin's actual potential as a stable currency that has a low rate of inflation, is already in full circulation, and has very low production/maintenance costs. Would anybody want to hazard a guess how much electricity goes into the BitCoin network to produce its 21,000,000 coins (and there's been less than 12,500,000 mined so far... there are years left of huge production costs) compared to the amount used to generate and distribute BlackCoin's ~75,000,000 coins?
Having such a currency at our disposal allows us to move on to the next part of this whole cryptocurrency experiment, past the production and initial distribution phases and on to general populace adoption for real world use. Let the vast majority of other coins continue on their path of being little more than vessels for speculation and those that treat the entire crypto world as just a place to make a quick buck. BlackCoin, as a collective (the community, the investors, hopefully the dev too), should be promoting the coin outside of the larger crypto community. Here BlackCoin is one of hundreds of coins... to the outside world, BlackCoin can be the cryptocurrency it needs, the one that BitCoin and Litecoin are paving the way for it to be.
BlackCoin is now in a perfect position to tailor itself to being adopted by the masses for general use, and anything that makes it more user friendly and accessible to the public will be good for the coin and its users. BlackCoin does not need to be on more cryptocurrency exchanges where it is nothing more than yet another crypto, with its value set by traders and pegged to the value of BitCoin or LiteCoin, it needs to have its own fiat/BlackCoin exchanges that allow people to bypass the mass confusion of the crypto world at large ("Gee, that BlackCoin sure looks interesting, and I'd like some, since the site/service/vendor that I'm shopping at accepts them, but lets see now... ah, I can get it on a cryptocurrency exchange, but first I need to buy some bitcoin to trade for it? Or, it looks like I could trade it for Doges, Karma, Aurora, Foxes, Rabbits, or Mints too... WTF?!?!? All I want is some easy to access BlackCoin to pay for my purchase!!!"). BlackCoin also needs some merchants willing to accept it, so that the common person actually has a reason to want it.
I'm not a marketing or PR guy, and that seems to be what this coin and community need the most right now. I have contributed what I feel is a fair share to help with our current promotions and would encourage anybody who believes that this coin can and should be more than just another bullshit coin to do the same. I have no interest personally in running a web store or exchange, but I will go one step further and offer to become the first physical service to accept BlackCoin as payment... I am a hardwood/laminate flooring installer with over 13 years of experience, located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. If anybody is local, has some BlackCoin to spend, and wants a new floor installed, I'm your guy!
Until such time as there is an operational exchange for BlackCoin/Canadian Dollars or BlackCoin/USD, pricing would be determined by two different exchange rates... the rate that I can exchange the BlackCoins for BTC and the rate that I can exchange BTC for Canadian. Though I am willing to accept BlackCoin as payment for my labour, unfortunately I can't use it to pay rent or buy groceries (yet!), so the ability to exchange it for fiat one way or another is essential. I'd just prefer to cut out the middle man (BitCoin).
Only through acceptance, more widespread usefulness, and the desire to rise above and out of the cesspit of useless altcoins will Blackcoin be able to harness any real value. But that's just my opinion. I believe in BlackCoin's potential... do you?!?