Wozzek I've watched your numerous negative comments on the re-branding with considerable interest.
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Suggesting that just months after correcting what, for me and many many other people involved in this project was just THE fatal flaw that stopped us from being able to discuss it with almost everyone, there's been no indication of new take up or facilitation by businesses/exchanges now because it's called Dash that previously wouldn't, I think is naive and terribly short sighted.
You can't possibly expect that there will be even measurable take-up that can be directly attributable to Darkcoin now being called Dash! It's way too early within a product name's cycle. Re-branding experts will tell you it takes decades to determine success (or otherwise) of major re-branding initiatives. You can't be serious about expecting to see dramatic evidence after just a few months!
Great, now the "decades" are an argument, decades, in today's world, no less.
Decades ago we did not have the Net, half a decade ago we did not have the Bitcoin etc., but this is not the point. Let me put aside this myopic clinging onto Darkcoin name as the
sole reason why its glorious technology would not be adopted all over the world and equally myopic insistence on an argument that Darkcoin would be used, again,
only for nefarious purposes (well, its technology could be used in the same manner. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet," even if you would not call it a detergent but a Holy Honest Coin) and get to the point(s) I am making:
a) the Foundation members, loudly pushing for the name change were kept telling us a "big exchange" and "several big retailers" would consider DASH (BTW, even then I pointed out that a possibility of "considering" Darkcoin adoption, if it would change its name, without any guarantees as a reason for brand change was ridiculous at best) but since re-branding they did not utter a peep on the topic. No one told me we'd have to wait decades for these "several" big exchanges and retailers, already in talks with these Foundation members. I want to know what has happened since. Were they selling us smoke and mirrors?
This is a
fundamental issue, I hope Self-sustainable Decentralized Governance by Blockchain will resolve, to understand were the prominent members of community deceiving us or not. Granted, I am giving them a benefit of doubt and presume they did not and that they were making their statements in good faith but I would still like to know, WTF had happened with these "big exchanges" and "big retailers." And who they are / were.
b) The video production. We - the community - have plunged a substantial amount of money into it. What are they making, for several months now? (that "substantial amount" pales away given how much time has passed) It's a freaking promotional video several hundred people would see on YT, not Ben-Hur, and I'd like to know where this stands or they are waiting for several big retailers to approve it?
There is a certain discrepancy in between development genius and promotional nonsense, crowned with re-branding. And I do worry. I still have my MN, I still pay my dues to the Foundation, I did pay my share for the video, I am still considering going back to the projects that were Darkcoin related and I am not selling what was f.k.a. Darkcoin I owe outside the MN, but the concerns I share do not make me comfortable. Your branding experts would have also told you how mis-branding often mis-fired and killed many a worthy project.
I need re-assurance I am not getting, outside the core development team that still fills my heart with gratitude.
That's all.
