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Should watch Wolf of Wallstreet.. penny stock investors are exactly the kind of people interested in this kind of thing.  .. not that this is a scam or anything, BC actually has merit.  But I'm not sure that crowd would be wooed by hot girls either.  Most likely if we can find people to just cold call a rolodex of people interested in taking risky investments.. maybe even sell it as a penny stock. 

Or even if someone starts a BC penny stock fund, collect USD$, call people to invest in it, and then use the USD to buy BC for the investors.... that would be the way to go.

Agree.. have to be careful about the target audience.. although any publicity is good publicity.. In a resource constrained situation (as this obviously is as we are taking donations), it's advisable to hit the right mark.  

50 busty girls might work well to market Energy drinks to young men/teenagers..  I'm not so sure about them getting investment in cryptocurrencies.. may want to think about a better strategy to get investors interested.

Although I definitely agree with JL's contrary opinion as far as Wall St. is concerned - I do feel this (IE's) approach has merit, the only suggestion I would have is moving venues.  Although you are quite correct about there being tons of money on Wall St. - the reality of the matter is that truly successful investment brokers already have (most likely) a black book with girls in it that look even better than some rental booth babes are likely to.

I think if you ran the same promotion, but moved it into Times Square - you would likely have a better response.

Because let's face it... someone with 100M they move on a daily basis doesn't get to that level because they make judgments based on how hot the girl is that handed them the prospectus... and this won't be a prospectus anyway, it will be more of a "Here's something cool, but completely unproven and risky... but you might get rich later on".  The reality of the matter is that even the market cap and growth of Bitcoin itself is yawn-able to a hedge fund manager.  They move billions around on a weekly basis, some manage funds with assets in excess of 10 times BTC's market cap.

On the other hand the things that are the true appeal of crypto currencies (grassroots efforts, early adoption opportunities, decentralized nature) are much more likely to attract 'average joes' - and these are exactly the kind of people dumb enough to throw some money in something that a pretty girl told them about!

In addition, I have another concern about the 'market to Wall St.' direction.  If there was a single investor that really saw potential... they would only be thinking of that potential in a sense of monopolization.  It's how they work - and how I would too if I had more money - and they don't invest in things where they can only be a minority holder with no management rights.  On the other hand, the 4 'frat bros' on holiday... they'll throw $2K at almost anything with mammary glands - and even more if they think there's an outside chance of them getting rich at the same time.

I think the approach needs to be:

1) Infrastructure and adoption - i.e. supporting the devs and donating to bounties that lead to new and exciting technologies which can be branded and 'bonded' to BlackCoin itself.
2) Buzz and marketing to many smaller investors and vendors. 

No one with even a net worth of $2M is going to care about spending $100K to possibly have $1M at the end of the year, but also possibly have $10 at the end of the year - on a 'stock' that has been in existence less than 3 months!  Especially when the biggest gains have happened (or at least that's how anyone looking at the charts would see it).

Hell, I bet you could do 1000% better by sending the same girls and the same information to a ComicCon or a GunShow - although they might be for different reasons... both of those venues have a crapload of people that are already fans of cryptocurrencies (or what they represent at least)... but many of them don't even know they exist, or more accurately, they don't understand that there is still plenty of time to get in early! After all, the mass media has already largely written off BTC has having peaked and currently bleeding out... an opinion that does indeed have evidence to support itself. 

I agree with parker928. These girls will have to sit through a seminar about cryptocurrency, yet alone Blackcoin, to be able to grasp and reiterate in detail their knowledge of the subject to be taken seriously. I imagine a camera crew promptly interviewing one of the women and she has the opportunity to shine by exuding her knowledge or get flustered and spew out some unintelligible jargon, chagrining the community. Wall Street is a major venue. The girls should bring their A+ game. It's possible, and we would all like to see this work.  

CMONNNN GET IN CAH! WE GO REALLL FAST!

One thing i keep asking myself:
What do most people here expect from "Investors"?

It can't be someone who buys shares since there is no BlackCoin company and some "Investor" who simply buys up all available BlackCoin is certainly not what we want or need.
BlackCoin does not need some venture capital company to get started.

What we need is use-cases and users, so it all comes down to arousing interest for BC amongst merchands as well as their (potential) customers.
If merchands adapt a new payment method but no one ever heard of it, it will likely be nothing but yet another button/option on the merchands web shop while people continue to use Paypal or their debit/credit cards.
Merchands on the other hand will probably be way more interested in BlackCoin if they somehow heard of it before one of us approaches them with a press release/sugesstion to add it to their payment methods.

I wonder how the car shows ever made it with those bimbo's In front of the cars?

I'm amazed they must have it all wrong....


Anyone feel like eating some chicken wings?

Wish these damn hot girls would leave....


Yeah marketing has never used hot girls... Geez


BTW i rest my case

Yeah that's a lambo

Iconic-I have been a huge follower and supporter of yours for a while now but I want to raise some concerns incase noone else does

-What will the girls be wearing? I do not need to elaborate any further...

-Are you going to educate them, or just pay them to prance around wall street looking pretty? Here is how the convos will go:

Girl-hey, hows it going!? Have you heard about blackcoin? *bright smile* *pretty girl* (instantly grabs dude's attention, and we all know they're the ones with the money)

Potential investor- No, I have not heard of it, would you care to enlighten me? *wink and nod* *charismatic smile* (dude's just trying to fuck)

Girl- "Well, uh, it's a cryptocurrency, like bitcoin or whatever. They said it was the first proof of like, steak, or pork or something...they told me to tell everyone it was better than litecoin or whatever, and gave me these cool looking cards to hand out"

Potential investor- "Great, I'll take one, if I can have your number too =P"

Girl-"uhhhhhhh"


Are the women going to actually be used for anything other than a tool to pass the cards out? I don't mean to be sexist or whatever but a small brochure can effectively communicate more information than a woman could in 2 hours, why the heck would we use women for something like this? I understand they will attract men, who are the ones with the money, but the men will mostly be trying to hit on them/fuck them or whatever. Think about it, when you see those fine ass girls that reb bull hires to drive around in those stupid mini coopers and hand out free redbull, they get hit on every time, noone cares about the redbull they all just want to hit on the girls.

What are you doing to prevent this foolishness?

Also, 2 hours? weak...

I say make em' work, make em' sweat. 8 hours, and that's being nice =P

Think about how many cards 50 good looking women could hand out on wall street in 8 hours. 50,000-75,000?

Jesse you make some excellent points and I really hope the dev team considers them. I'd be in the camp of trying both activities.

Yeah Hot girls have never got any guys attention that have money .... Right?

Yeah investors don't like hot chicks. OKay


Yep Hot girls can not get a investors attention. Boy Oh Boy
Need I go on. I could with pictures for days or the richest men in the world they generally like hot chicks.
But hey If you don't ?

For real though, he makes a good case.

However. why not try both routes? Chances are actual wall street views this shit as juvenile anyway. A little shock alongside something more serious wouldn't be a totally bad thing, no?

edit: In truth it's probably better to take the current monies and go that route instead of needing to build it twice.

agree on all points.

can't stop iconic though. they did the same thing on a smaller scale in china with bitcoin and some exchange.

God damnit I laughed way too hard at this response.

Hey, at least BC is doing something? Instead of just copying another coin and wasting effort that could be used to advance crypto? But please do continue to throw away more market cap into the garbage can every single day, which will eventually lead to a collapse of crypto as a whole.

Getting a bunch of bimbos running around Wall Street serious investors aren't going to bode well. Good luck with this endeavor.

Keep feeding Iconic's ego and greed.

I'm out.

Why not get both of them up and running?  Diversify our endeavors!

Now that is something I will donate towards

There's some truth ...

X11 mining is going really well on the CryptoAlts pool. All minor bugs from the first two days have been sorted out, and payout went flawless tonight! Thank you all who have helped and I hope you enjoy your (GPUs) hard earned BC and cooler running GPUs!

Now we are working on some transparency updates for the remainder of the week, and hopefully we can gets sha256 up this weekend.

I know, my apologies, I still haven't gotten Blackcoin-Qt up and running. I just went for a swim down at the beach to relax the nerves after thinking I'd lost it all. As soon as I have Blackcoin-Qt working I'll be transferring the 50BC to you though - never fear!