This continues to be one of the main issues. The community loves to tell us what to do, and for some reason thinks that we're sitting on a ton of cash...
BURST was not premined, had no IPO, and was done out of the dev's desire to release a coin in the fashion everyone always says they want...
BUT... if you look at other coins that WERE premined, or DID have IPO, they seem to be what? MORE WELL KNOWN! You know why? BECAUSE THEY HAD MONEY!
None of us on the core team get paid for doing anything we do. We are doing it becuase we SUPPORT THE COIN, and we want it to SUCCEED.
We were just community members in the beginning, and we joined the team because we thought we could get some structure behind the coin to help with all the necessary items of work.
WE CONSTANTLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE to contact us, give us ideas, do your OWN ideas, promote the coin on your own, etc etc...
but sadly, hardly anyone does.
Sitting here and waiting for US to make YOU rich, isn't going to work. In order for a coin to be successful, people have to go out and TALK ABOUT IT! USE IT! TELL PEOPLE WHAT IT CAN DO! MAKE SERVICES THAT USE IT!
There are so many things the community can do...
But sitting there doing nothing, and not even being willing to contribute to the promotion and development financially, all while waiting to become rich from other people's work (that are working for FREE, for YOU) just is a really shitty way of doing things.
But this, alas, is what we're dealing with in the BURST community, for some reason. Everyone thinks they can just mine and hold and sit there and do nothing, and everything will happen magically. (or by my hands?)
I can only do so much, and I have a company to run, and a day job (because I need money and working solely for BURST simply isn't an option right now, as we all know.) So expecting me to make you rich is a pipe dream, unless you're thinking maybe in years from now, once a single person can dedicate enough.
Sorry, I had to get this off my chest.
I disagree with that!
To have money is a benefit, but to have no money is not an obstacle!
What should be done now is a massive promotion of small supporters of this community.
Karl started well, but at that time I was busy and could not support him. I am busy again, but can put some time aside now.
My suggestion:
BURST has many features, pick ONE at a time! Like the windows wallet!
Prepare 15 DIFFERENT tweets! with a hashtag for that benefit.
Ask everyone here and on the burstforum to RE-TWEET all they find with this hashtag. Ask for re post on facebook, plurk, ....
Make a graphic or just a picture of that feature, post it at Facebook (yes, twice, with and without picture), Instagram, Google+, ...
Use a Google shortener to make sure Google is indexing that blog page!
Do some strange things, like I saw once:
Offer 100 BURST to everyone who repost the Facebok picture with the text within the next 24 hours, if you have 500 followers. Proof it with a screen shot that you have posted on time, or become a friend to my facebook, then I get the proof directly to my facebook account.
Except the last one, all is free!!!!
The only point is to do that coordinated, all to the same feature, for one week. Then move on to the next feature, ....
