Ziftr sounds scammy.
Maybe so but it is basically legit and, for a change, they actually make coherent statements about their offer (which I include here as an exemplar):
“ziftrCOIN, the gateway coin to mainstream cryptocurrency adoption, aims to onboard the next 10 million cryptocurrency users by putting cryptocurrency into the hands of consumers and enabling them to conduct simple, secure transactions at their favorite online merchants.”
fwiw, I consider that to be a competent and clear expression (notably contrasting with the usual incoherent babble of bct OPs).
Doing Business As (DBA) statement from
www.ziftrcoin.com: “This User Agreement ("Agreement") is a contract between you ("you," "your" or "user") and myVBO, LLC , DBA as Ziftr and ziftrCOIN ("ziftrCOIN" "we", "us" or "our") and applies to your use of: (a) the ziftrCOIN website located at ziftrCOIN.com, the ziftrCOIN API, and any associated ziftrCOIN hosted websites or mobile applications (collectively the "ziftrCOIN Site"), and (b) any of the services provided to you by myVBO, , doing business as Ziftr and ziftrCOIN (together with the ziftrCOIN Site, the "ziftrCOIN Services")”
myVBO -
www.myVBO.com registered details:
http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=105672715Tactics are: a giveaway to drive distribution, provision of a payment system and a list of signed-up merchants. Should be a total no-brainer for any ambitious cryptocurrency effort, anything less is in danger of being the cryptocurrency analogue of a child's kerbside lemonade stall, charmingly naive and winsomely trivial.
I'm left with a few questions about business involvement in launching a p2p app, like “What’s in it for them?”, “Which parts of the process do they control?” and “If the business owns rights in ziftrcoin, then those rights can be sold or otherwise traded, yes?” They're certainly very free with their rights claims and the wording has been carefully drawn in their favour, as they are bound to do.
Perhaps less of a community and more of a customer base? The production values are certainly a lot higher than the vast majority of altcoins and serve as an excellent example of the scope and depth of logistics support that must accompany an adoption drive if it's to have any real chance of success.
Cheers
Graham