The name of the coin will remain DopeCoin.
I realize that this sometimes rubs new people the wrong way but the reality is that we have been around for a long time and we have been through a lot. Rebranding the coin as something different would cause a lot of confusion and would make little sense as it would be better to just make a new coin...
Our dispensary partners love the coin and have no issues with the name. We are currently working on payment API integrations and educational videos as we work to bring new shop owners and users to the project.
Should be an interesting month, I will keep you updated with any new developments as they are taking place and completed.
Problem is dope was never really meant towards marijuana, it has a longer history use with smoking the poppi and it is more related to heroin or meth use.
You hardly hear somebody say "let's smoke a dope joint", instead you might hear "let's shoot up some dope" meaning heroin or "smoke dope" meaning meth.
Really think about it, not just "dope is legacy, never going to change it".
With all the creatives in here, I'm surprised no one has come up with something more creative and proper.
So why do people make movies about DOPE (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ait4q9HYRMw ) and Magazine's dope (
http://www.dopemagazine.com/) . Those two things have nothing to do with heroin and meth use ? Any explanation why people with millions of dollars would use the word 'dope' and 'weed' together if it has nothing to do with weed ?
- Turning to dope in its specific drug sense: in 1886 (according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang), we first heard of a
dope fiend – a drug user. A few years later, we find
dope referring to opium or a morphine derivative. The link between the syrup and the drug may not be immediately obvious, but it relates to the ‘the thick treacle-like preparation used in opium-smoking’; as early as 1872, dope had referred to ‘a preparation, mixture, or drug which is not specifically named’.
In 1933 we encounter dope addict. Dope eventually stood on its own, coming to mean any drug (1900) or medicine (1902). Dope came to refer specifically to marijuana only in 1950 (according to the Historical Dictionary of American Slang); to the extent that dope is used today to refer to a drug, it most commonly means heroin or another opiate. In this general vein, dope has long been used as a verb,
first meaning to poison (1862 in HDAS) and then slightly later to administer a stimulant or sedative to a racehorse. The meaning has broadened in recent years to include the use of any banned athletic performance-enhancing drugs by athletic competitors, human or not.
-Oxford Dictionary - http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/06/dope-etymology-history/Let's try not to be edgy, nothing against the plant but if you want to be taken seriously then you need to conform a little and be professional. Think outside of the "hotbox" and about those customers who would rather not be judged by using a currency named Dopecoin.
It did wonders for DarknetCoin when it was rebranded to PIVx.
