Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 6285. (Read 9724017 times)

think most here would agree that the technological achievements of Darkcoin are FAR AHEAD of the coin's marketing. I think most will also agree with LimLims that such activity needs a dedicated professional person.

I therefore propose the following - from the next fork, X% of the masternodes proceeds will go into a dedicated multi-sig wallet that will pay a salary to a dedicated full-time professional marketing person.

Hopefully, in time, the price of darkcoin will go up, this fund will be able to employ more than one person, and thus also pay the developers, webmaster, etc.
imho, the time has come to become less bootstrap and more professional.

think most here would agree that the technological achievements of Darkcoin are FAR AHEAD of the coin's marketing. I think most will also agree with LimLims that such activity needs a dedicated professional person.

I therefore propose the following - from the next fork, X% of the masternodes proceeds will go into a dedicated multi-sig wallet that will pay a salary to a dedicated full-time professional marketing person.

Hopefully, in time, the price of darkcoin will go up, this fund will be able to employ more than one person, and thus also pay the developers, webmaster, etc.
imho, the time has come to become less bootstrap and more professional.

1. there is not 1 logical answer to decreasing the number of coins.

2. I always respond quoting.

3. when I respond I am a troll if I dont respond you say I dissappear.

4. I am not a troll, I am one of the top darkcoin miners and highly worried about darkcoins unfair distribution.

You think governments and politicians (let's face it, the largest criminal group by several orders of magnitude) wouldn't also like to keep their finances private? Think about it.

Also you are fighting against governments and centralbanks with cryptos, especially with anonymos transactions.
It´s the same thing like it is with precious metal. Price of gold is surpressed over years.

I've got an investor that wants to buy about £5k - £10k GBP of DRK.

He has never done crypto before, but I know him from consumer financial services. I'm having lunch with him today.

PM please anyone that is interested.

There is a very easy way to solve the problem.

undo the last huge mistake.

change the total number of coins back to original value.

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I'm stepping down from my role in the Darkcoin team, which means I'll be passing on this marketing/branding effort to the community & the devs. I wish you the best of luck with it!

I'd planned that next steps would involve selecting a colour palette, then writing a branding guide, then getting a new wordpress template crowdsourced. You may wish to take a different approach.

I volunteered myself for this role not because the work interested me, but because there was an obvious & dire gap to be filled, and the devs either didn't seem aware of this, or had other priorities. Now the gap is there again, and somebody else will need to fill this role. My suggestion to the devs is that Darkcoin needs a marketing team headed by someone with training & experience (i.e. someone with a professional portfolio). I hope they take the marketing side of things seriously and find someone with qualifications. Again, I must stress the importance of not watering down this criteria to something like, "well, I hired a marketer once", or "I can write HTML and operate Wordpress".

Taking on a branding / marketing role was a learning experience for me, and I took some wrong steps. In retrospect, polling the community for every decision was the wrong approach. Lacking a marketing professional on the team, I felt obliged to pass decisions on to the community, but I'd do it differently next time. Far better if the marketing team be given a degree of autonomy so they can progress with work unhindered. Community input IS important. It should be used judiciously, when feedback or focus groups are required -- the community should not be dictating the design / branding / marketing direction.

Choosing a marketing team is somewhat analogous to choosing a psychologist: If you take your time and find someone who "gets" you (and perhaps only then), you'll see progress & improvement that was simply not possible before. And there will always bee a large percent of doubters who think the whole idea is bogus and you can do just as good a job yourself. But at the end of the day, these are not skills you can learn on the fly; they require years of training, experience, and (perhaps most importantly), talent.

Put the initial effort into recruiting the right people, and things will fall into place from there.

1. there is not 1 logical answer to decreasing the number of coins.

There is a very easy way to solve the problem.

undo the last huge mistake.

change the total number of coins back to original value.

I personally think the blue/white scheme looks great.  Helps put peoples mind at ease about the word "dark," allowing them to see darkcoin mainly as a coin which offers anonymous transactions - a highly desired and uniquely innovative feature.