Topic: [ANN] Blacknet | IBO for BlackCoin | New code | PoS | No ICO - page 333. (Read 2509934 times)

I think you are wrong about the technical merits of the coin. Bitcoin is suffering from the limitations of PoW, and PoS solves them to create a superior coin. Peercoin is deliberately slow and expensive, they want to discourage easy transactions. Nxt is closed source, premined, and thus doesn't have a strong community behind it. So there was a void in the market for a PoS coin which could truly compete with bitcoin and rat4 addressed it with blackcoin. It launched in a widespread manner, getting many motivated individuals interested, creating a community and momentum. This has created the perfect storm from which a true PoS competitor to bitcoin can develop.

Being opensource, the technical merits of the coin can be copied (as can be seen by the clone market). What can't be copied is the network effect. That is what blackcoin needs to generate right now above anything. For this it needs marketing. It needs people who missed the boat on bitcoin to think they have a chance to get in on blackcoin early (And I don't mean the pump and dump crowd). It needs people who dislike the PoW flaws in bitcoin to discover blackcoin. Of course, the technical aspects of the coin continue to need to be addressed to ensure it's secure.

Bitcoins had years of headstart in gaining a network effect advantage. Because there are so many altcoins around, blackcoin has a hard job to push itself out from the crowd. It has come so far in two months, but it needs to keep it up, or another PoS altcoin will take up the mantle. Since the community is essential to the coins success, the division in this thread is a cancer that could kill blackcoin. Having IE spearheading a marketing effort and Soepkip spearheading a different marketing effort is fantastic. Having them at odds with each other is undoing all their past and future good work.

The reasons blackcoin is different from all the other altcoins, the reason that blackcoin has a great chance to at least be the top altcoin is not clearly and obviously being communicated. (That's clear from the paragraph above that I quoted.) I think that's why a PR company could be great, if they help harness the disparate information about blackcoin and focus it into a few key points or messages. Then broadcast the key messages to the wider world and have a series of blogs or articles on the website (for those who come to learn more) that explain why blackcoin is the superior choice over the other altcoins and over bitcoin. If the PR company is used well, then blackcoin will still have the advantage of a focused and clear message about what blackcoin is even after the 3 months is up.

Well, I know some/ most of the "generous guys", and I am sure it was not any of them doing this.

And I really hope it wasn't them. It's no use talking/ thinking about it without proof.

You've been around for a while, and I've read all your posts. I'm pretty sure you are on the same page as those "generous guys".

hard to prove it since i am not an admin here.

but lots of newly registered accounts, all attacking one person with their first post, one of them even providing screenshots from several weeks old threads from other coins as first action?
C'mon, you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to see what happened there.

I am an admin in several forums for almost 2 decades now, private ones but also in forums up to 50k users. I'm not that easy to fool.

I agree 100%, especially that Wizguy was kinda disgusting.
Doesn't matter now though, let's donate to all Blackcoin projects and bring Blackcoin ahead.

These generous people produced dupe account after dupe account yesterday...

Prove it.

I dont know who the fuck these guys were/ are, and what they have done or tried to do has been childish.

But I won't believe for a second that these dupe accounts are the same as these generous people.

So, please prove it, if you are making such a claim

+1 and Donation

I agree with a lot of your post, BUT:

"Giving and giving" is one thing. Acting like a total jackass just because one feels "untouchable" as one of the "patrons" is not tolerable.
These generous people you are talking about produced dupe account after dupe account yesterday, initiatedd polls that IE should sell his coins, one of the podcast guys urged him to do so many times... you can put as much money into this as you like, but such actions destroy all credit someone deserves.

Its not as if I always agreed with was IE did/does and he does certainly need to step down in his reactions, but what these people did yesterday did hit absolute rock bottom and lacked any kind of decency.

When do we get the name of the company?

quick, back to your AC && WC scam coins!
we had a peak of almost 9000 BTC/24 h already.

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Also just on the general topic of personal attacks, and to squash any beef and put a stop to some of this FUD (for the sake of BC's market cap if nothing else.)

Like I said, and have stated before, I do live in NY -- I have appeared in person before at the NY Cryptocon, and I am not hiding my face or identity. If certain people have concerns (we all know who I am talking about) they can contact me and I will be more than happy to meet with them in person and discuss any issues they may have face to face (obviously in a well lit public place like a Starbucks or something.) Although I do not run the foundation, I know the members of it, I have known them since the BC experiment began, I will vouch for every last one of them. If this is a wise move or not I honestly and truly don't know. I just want the BS to end, and I want to get back to focusing on what really matters. I have made my public statement on reddit before, I'm not gonna relink it as I don't care to strike up any more arguing and or FUD. If you truly care, you can find it, I did not distinguish it because I was speaking personally and from the heart and not on an official capacity.

I have personally sunk thousands of my own dollars to fund my engineers, although pool fees help alleviate some of those costs, they don't come anywhere near covering them entirely. We are building something really unique, and something I so wholeheartedly believe in, that I am willing to drain my own savings. I have always been extremely hesitant of asking for donations from the community, you can ask hundreds of people who have attempted to donate, and I have politely declined. I believe in what I am building, I believe in this community, and I also believe in the crypto currency revolution. I do not ask anything of the community other than to look listen and learn with us, as we trail blaze this new frontier. I am full believer in the saying that a rising a tide lifts all boats-- every achievement we have as a community and every endeavor to raise the platform is what's going to make us powerful, and really make us a contender with bitcoin. In fighting and credit seeking will only make us seem greedy and foolish.

That being said, I whole heartedly believe in the foundation, because with out the people that now form the foundation (it's like 20 or more people now I think, and is open to any one with a positive attitude and resources to help advance the BlackCoin cause) we would not be where we are today, and although not one single person can take credit for BC's super star success, it is very clear to me and to the people who pay attention to these things carefully, that it's been a core group of people since the beginning donating their time, money (and I mean a lot of money) to help further the cause and increase everyones investments. These people give, give and give and it honestly breaks my heart to see them being harpooned and gutted on the forums, by the same people who are directly benefitting from their actions. These same generous wonderful people are now receiving death threats, and the scorn of some very negative members of the community-- to those people I say shame on you.

I don't know what more I can say, or if this is even worth posting, at the end of the day people will think what they want to think, and it's their goddamn right to do so.

volume on mintpal is fake

 24 Hr Volume
1686.128 BTC  BC/btc

Here you are

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23blackcoinpool&uio=d4

so,Can someone here post link to IRC? i want to know.

You were excellent. Let them troll. Especially the trolls that try to write in a "serious" and "sensible" way in order to influence people ...

Smoking is bad for you.. you should quit

short summary? there you go:
12 y/o boys having a penis length comparison and none of them realizes that the winner is only 1 inch.

No matter how you view "the foundation (tm)" or IE, whoever made the video wants to harm BC or is a fucking retarded idiot.

Let's all start making fun of "the foundation (tm)" as well and share videos etc on twitter and ROFL all together!!1 That'll make us look good.

Juvenile idiots ffs.