I'm not putting anyone in a position to defend RapeYourDaughterCoin. I'm making an analogy. Straw man, dead.
I'm not calling you wrong. I'm saying that ignoring reality does not change reality.
There exists a stigma. It's a fact. You've 'embraced' it, but who else will? You're essentially saying "Yes, we mean to be the CrimeCoin for which BitCoin only managed to be a half-measure." When you could be saying "It's no more criminal than cash."
You and I both know that there is no difference. Functionally, they do the same thing regardless of the propaganda or marketing. But propaganda and marketing do affect the weak minds of the general population. They already view BitCoin as CrimeCoin because they are weak-minded, so coming out and calling yourself WayMoreCrimeCoin isn't helpful. I'm not saying the sky will fall as a result, just that it isn't helping... I could wet my pants in a job interview, and it might not ruin my chances if everyone else does worse, but it isn't going to help me... I could just NOT wet my pants, how's that? Just like I can NOT stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork. I can also NOT name my altcoin in such a way as to make people even more stupidly wary of something they're already stupidly wary about... You can't force people to be smart. I've tried...
It's a moot point because changing the name at this point is silly. I still like ChameleonCoin tho...
Personally, I love Crime, and I'd love CrimeCoin. Crime is just the act of taking back human rights stolen by government. I'm proud of Crime. Crime is good. But, how many people understand that and agree with me? Maybe I should get an "I Love Crime" t-shirt...
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reality is that anonymous transactions is the point of this coin. What other selling point does it have.. X11? so implement another hash function then we got X12 no big deal..diffrent algos are common now.
I don't get the mentality, why is somebody going to use this over bitcoin. If one of these "weak minded" people ask what makes DarkCoin better you will come back to darksend (darkness). The job interview analogy is a sales pitch. You don't need to be so desperate to sell yourself when you got the goods and nobody else does. Seems like we already went over that. Sales pitches are for shitcoins. If you build it they will come.
Being ahead of the curve for BTC/precious metals adoption I see being early on the true reason for something like dark the same way. After 5 years continuous snooping revaluations people can feel very different about Drk/privacy just like how 10 years ago nobody was talking about the Fed or at least as mainstream of a topic. Look at "Darkmail" and "blackphone".. dark and black can come to mean security in the lawless world we are living in. Essentially turning the used only for criminals mentality your talking about to the protection from the criminals (inside and outside the governments).
BTW I support re-branding to RYDC or RYDZ.. just kidding I think dark is perfect.. not that I really care.
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I'd still take that over KGW under limited space. After all, the ASIC resistance derives from the algo, which already protects us from multipools (though KGW is still nice for responsiveness).