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Any farmers out there who own a lot of BlackCoin willing to sacrifice some corn? 

Crop circles. +1

I think this was my idea in IRC weeks ago.  Just need to find some farmers...

No doubt some marketing is required.. if anything, one of my biggest mistakes of the past was not spending enough on marketing and too much on product development..

I'm just saying we should be doing both.. need to be sure we're making progress on enhancing this coin.  differentiate as much as possible.


I do agree that hiring a PR retainer with the kind of budgets we are talking about is likely to yield very few results.  With a "startup" of our size and the funding (uhh what funding just donations).  Guerrilla marketing , and word of mouth seems like the only viable way to go about it.  IMO likely a pr firm in 3 months with 15k will not result in much...

Although i still don't know about the whole girls on wall street thing... I'd prefer... crop circles..

Let me paint this picture for you...

Our friends from IRC got the great idea to start the almighty multi-pool. They realized if they can convince the community the multi-pool would be able to sustain the BlackCoin price, everyone would mine there. The plan actually worked and now the multi-pool is earning a lot of BTC, but mostly for the people running it. So to keep that BTC flowing in they keep offering prizes and all kinds of wonderful stuff.

I came along and started shifting focus from the multi-pool/dev team to community initiatives. I started getting way too much attention and that made a few people very nervous. I was asked to "stop posting as much". When people from this community realized the core group were not focusing on what they should be focusing on, the core group viewed me as a "threat".

I originally went to the dev team and the "foundation" to fund Wall Street event and they were all for it until I wouldn't back their "Meet Black" campaign. They felt the only way this community would go along with the Meet Black campaign if I presented it. When I decided to decline, they snubbed the Wall Street event. So obviously I came to the community to fund the event.

My move put them in a very bad predicament...if the community funds the event and it goes off as planned, the community would realize they no longer need the core team or the multi-pool. So they they got Gritt to comment on the CoinTelegraph article: "I want to point out that the march on Wallstreet is not officially sponsored or endorsed by Blackcoin Foundation" to delegitimize the event and slow down funding. http://cointelegraph.com/post/blackcoin_s_smooth_and_sexy_nyc_charm_offensive

When I realized what was going on and I proposed we make BlackCoin less centralized that made quite a few people nervous and upset. When the CoinDesk article went live today http://www.coindesk.com/things-alt-ponzi-schemes-blackcoin-usbs-time-warp-attack and had no mention of the BlackCoin foundation or the BlackCoin dev team, they realized they had to do something fast.

So someone came up with the "brilliant" idea to post the PR firm announcement and got everyone from IRC to come here and post to pump up the community. Half the people posting now I never seen post here before... They figured if they can generate enough buzz maybe they can stop the plans to make BlackCoin decentralized....

It reads like something out of a novel and sadly it is true...So while I am here genuinely trying to get this community together and accomplish big things, this small group of people are trying to keep control purely for greed....

"Hey we have a PR firm and we want you to donate $15,000 so we can secure their services. We can't tell you the name of the firm but trust us it will be awesome"!

Crypto is a kind of "decentralized business", and it only works well for this fact. Centralize things and it will do not work right! However there needs to be some leadership, but leadership has to be earned and not forced, the things is going from bad to worse.

I already had many WorldCoins, 200K but the "Worldcoin foundation" was shot in the foot !!!

All, please remember we are looking for donations AND suggestions. We are hoping to compile a list of key messages for an upcoming strategy session. Please, we want and need as much help from the community as possible!

Thanks!

It's not low, and in fact one of the foundation members from WDC is here. So no, I'm not taking low blows. Give me a list of pros as to why we need a foundation, and how it will be run? Foundation will trump all ideas and peoples innovation, marketing, help. All ideas will be run like a business from people that are not business savvy. So yes, there is need for concern. Some self appointed people come on here saying don't worry we have it all worked out, just sit back and relax and we'll take care of it with PR. I was not impressed with youtube video and base my opinions on this and past experience with foundations.

There is one thing that annoys me these kind of analyzes, DUDE, This is Crypto, This is Crazy!!!

Are you sure that you can use these theories in it ?

Interview with Blackcoin: Succeeding in the altcoin market

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/news/talking-to-blackcoin/2014/04/14

Thanks, I'm glad you like it.

If there is an error in the translation to English of the video, tell me how I could change to make this better

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Be the catalyst

Why cannot we have unofficial teams? Like marketing team, people working together. NO TOP AUTHORITY. I really, really hope the so called foundation doesn't start. This coin is good as dead i believe if we go that way, heck and what 30k is HUGE amount of money. Best think what best options are if one is using that much money to advertise, shouldn't be let's just let this PR firm do it.

I'm not totally against it, just think it's very expensive and wondering exactly the terms and conditions are. What will they do for us, how much, when do they get paid, before or after? What sort of guarantees do they have for us.

I just feel that we already have things to do here for FREE, like twitter, facebook, ect. social media. I don't see you guys using it much. WHY? Where is the tweets about wall st event, where are tweets about advertising our articles, or vault of satoshi, or any news. It should be daily and often when news breaks. Anything we have, it's free press.

I was told that in IRC chat that transation of websites was too much work. Hmmm, Call me crazy, but seems to me that nobody was interested in doing this, though it wouldn't take much work to have static websites out there for multipool and website.

Look, i appreciate all that is being done by those running things, just think that we don't need you guys to run this coin with a foundation. Everyone can help where their skill set is, but to add take over as being in charge of millions of dollar without some sort of vote is insane, and we should all be upset, this is not like a local charity, it's coins valued in millions of dollars, run by unappointed.  

There's the 29998 re-test which unfortunately did NOT happen "shortly" after my posting. And now that saying is...."to the moon" I believe?

+1 We need a united front. Show how strong the community is...where creativity and risk taking set us apart. I mean look at the surge in the market already - about to touch 30k. Big things are happening - some will be hits but some will be misses but that's how things grow. What's the cheesy saying, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take"?

Woohoo! Love it. That was sexy! Thank you!

Good night! Sorry for uploading the video so late. But I could spend little time on vide for my job and took seven hours to finish, keep in mind that I live in Spain and here are six in the morning. I have spent this time because I'm so busy I spend is the deadline for BlackCoinCard limited edition (great work, Iconic ) and made ​​me really angry. So I hope to get a gift for my boyfriend.
Hope you like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9i6Rd_6uA4&fmt=37

Sorry for the English, as I use google translate.

Thanks to all the Black community for their work.

Again from before :


Use some logic for a second here. Comparing this to WDC is low.

The BC Foundation is nothing more than a group of large investors who collaborate some ideas, and then spend THEIR OWN MONEY, to try and better this coin for themselves and everyone else. Nothing is stopping you from doing the same. They are not the owners of BC, but just a group of investors like everyone else in this community.

Don't take the term "foundation" so personally.

WHO APPOINTED THIS BOARD/FOUNDATION, AND MAKES THEM ABLE TO PLAY WITH MILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENTS?

Decentralization, no central foundation. I hope this is not ego thing, cause everyone should be able to do something here, a foundation is not a good idea, nor do i think those in charge now need to be. Why can't everyone just be on same level.

I was around Worldcoin, and there foundation is a joke, and also created a bunch of bagholders doing pat me on the back meetings without any community effort to help. Why not? Cause when you have a centralized foundation nobody helps out, they see that people are running things, and ask permission to do things.

Oh, by the way guys, smooth move trying to move this coin forward smoking on your interview, high class there.

So pissed fact a group of people that don't know anything about business are running million dollar investments, soo flipping pissed.

Interesting indeed

I vowed I would conduct myself with decorum and civility, and I will stick to that vow. I raised valid points and the response was cheap shots and juvenile responses. I asked legitimate questions, but instead some resorted to personal attacks. But hey...I wasn't expecting you and the boys from IRC to sit back and watch it slip away....so no need to explain. I suggest you and the boys from IRC think realistically for a moment. March 23 is when I first started posting here after watching this thread for a few weeks. April was when I started taking the initiative to help the community. At that time I wasn't  focusing solely on BlackCoin. In less than 2 months I issued two successful press releases, got us 2 major articles, and launched the BlackCoin card all while handling my other projects. Do you really think it is wise to take a shot across my bow? Anytime half of your IRC channel comes out to the forum shows me how bad things really are. As they say...desperate times calls for desperate measures...

But once again good luck with the PR firm...