You girls seem to forget that WBB has broken all 3 laws of the holy marketing trinity:
1. Branding:
WILD BEAST BITCOIN!
oops, sorry, we take that back because we second guess our own decisions constantly and can't make up out mind which changes on a daily basis, and don't want to be seen as just a copy cat gimmick leeching off the hottest fads of the day, and will change all our storefronts and make your favorite T-Shirt obsolete at the whims of our egocentric centralized god-master who is anonymous and can disappear at a moments notice.
strike 1 (banished from the top 10)
2. The old "Bait and Switch"
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=bait+and+switch&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=tIllegal on most planets and it happens when a company sells new equity (prints new "money" just like your trusty old central bank) and basically dilutes all prior shareholders.
Let's say that I was "all in" (or gung ho) as they say on WBB because I honestly believed in Peter's integrity as a human being, then all over sudden, Peter announces that he is selling equity in 1EX COIN. Then suddenly, I have to dump my WBB at a huge loss just to continue investing in the work of the man whom I wanted to represent my capital in the first place. This happens all the time when a CEO issues bonds to pay his bonus, or issues new equity and their stock price plummets.
Now don't get me wrong, I still belive in Peter, as I have test drove WBBOS/1EX and they completely rock (continuous updates), but let's face it kids, the holy grail here is also a trinity:
1. unstoppability (more than 80% miner munity required to do a hard fork because no single miner ever sees a full copy of the chain)(IOTA is working on this in their mesh network)
2 easy anononymity (bytecoin/monero is easy enough)
3. user friendly smart contracts (insertion?)
All 3 of which Peter claims to have conquered.
Scalability is no longer a big deal since many projects are now adequately scalable.
Sure marketing is a big deal. Actually, no it's not.
Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Which brings us to law number 3:
Don't invest in vaporware. Becasue let's face it fellas, WBB V4 is no better performancewise than Tame Beast Bitcoin (number 1098 on the coinmarket 1,000,000). And with the halving approaching, the "what have you done for me today" mining guilds won't be supporting this coin much longer at these prices.
But if V5 performs as advertised, then this coin will never leave the top 10 in your lifetime, because currently, no project is close to such a "too good to be true" goal.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=build+a+better+mousetrap&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=thttps://encrypted.google.com/search?q=too+good+to+be+true&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=tIn the meantime, quit pumping this on a Friday, I'm trying to get some cheap orders filled:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1624078.0;allI love your summary and I must say I have similar feelings about WBB. A lot of potential and really great work done (thanks Peter!), yet you have the feeling this coin should be in the different league right now. Very valid points, especially I share your view stated in points number 2 and 3.Re-branding should be less of an issue, and taking into account we are still before the marketing campaigns (?) that should be no issue.