Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 6742. (Read 9723522 times)

RAINBOW COIN!  I LOVE IT!!!

Awesome

Quote from that very article you linked: "This does not mean Bitcoin is illegal."

Please, people in the DRK thread have been above this "everything else except what I'm holding is scam" attitude.. let's keep it that way!

In a demigod we trust?  LOL

Great! We should update that media release I wrote and send it out Monday if the beta goes up this weekend?

I wouldn't sell DRK at all

DRK will go viral. It speaks for itself… or rather, it doesn't… there's your marketing

I think a fork of dark will be more successful because of how it was launched. More like litecoin to tenebrix.

Alpha testing starts in ~15-30 minutes! If all goes well, I'll release beta for mainnet tomorrow/sunday. Come help out!


ps, the UI supports DarkSend now, there's a checkbox 

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.5415614

Take your scam elsewhere

[PRE-ANN] "DarkRoad" .onion Marketplace

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pre-ann-darkroad-onion-marketplace-493054

Of course the devs have to focus on tech development. It's their job, it's what they're good at. But "screwing the marketing" and promotion is a mistake. Do you think only products like doge, with no new remarkable features, need promotion? Think again. If you believe information will spread itself as smoothly and quickly just because a coin has a good feature, you're wrong and you're ignoring a very important tool.

And marketing & strategies go customized to the product. You wouldn't sell DRK with a DOGE campaign, it's about pulling the right strings, the right way. And the good news is you don't have to fool anyone here, or play cheap propaganda tricks. You can go upfront with the tech, once it's working.

Check out the wiki posted yesterday!  I think it's hard for the average person to understand

Doge is popular because there is a shit tone of them and it is a novelty and everyone can feel like a "winner" because they have some. long term it is a different kind of joke. Branding is important if your trying to trick the masses that don't know any better, like having a relevant seeming statement like "silver to bitcoins gold" to newcomers that are here for profit motive only and don't really have a clue.  "think different" yeah cause apple people are totally about individuality.. people who fall for branding are so funny.

As a side note: The establishment won't use the printing press to acquire the BTCs they need (to control the price and the alt-coin ecosystem). BTCs are very scarce. 1 BTC corresponds to ~500 ounces of gold or 15kg (12mn btc vs 180.000 tons). If you were to increase your holdings by buying your way to a larger share of the pie, the price would skyrocket. People would then say "whoa, look at Bitcoin" and thus would go along with the pump, making the difficulty of the establishment even larger, and Bitcoin would be a "smash" for making people rich. It'd be better than the lottery.

They'd rather do it through shady deals with hackers and exchanges, FBI raids, or by playing the political decisions/news game through which they can artificially crash the currency for a short while to buy their positions from panic sellers. They take the decisions, they show the news etc so from that point onward it's a simple process to exploit the traders addiction to the latest news. They do these stuff in cycles, taking chunks of the pie at each cycle. Additionally, when they are crashing the price, they create negative psychology for the people involved, instead of positive that would be the outcome of buying their way up and raising the prices. That is an essential component of their strategy because, otherwise, even if they paid 100 bn to acquire the majority of BTCs, people would then go to alternative coins as the new eldorado - exactly what happened on November-December of '13. So the establishment would then have to keep up into buying the other currencies as well, making every single alt-coin a "sure hit" because they'd have to buy into it with a large percentage. And they won't do that, no. It's better to play the crashing game, the hacking game, the confiscation game etc.

I like the name. DarkCoin will sell itself. Once word gets around it'll go viral.

Let the devs focus on getting the technology right. Screw the marketing.

UntraceableCoin

Lets go with "purple unicorn coin" then. Put the purple in the black market and make it queer!

I *think* bring the thread concurrency up until it doesn't want to start, then bring the intensity up.  There you have to find a balance.  Watch your output for invalids and also, I've found that just because my miner says I'm mining at a certain rate, my rate on my pool's website (plug in Lotterypool here, LOL) shows lower if my intensity is too high, or higher if my intensity is just right!  The hashing algorithm seems to have a different effect on the settings than scrypt!

While I agree completely that the name is irrelevant when considering the technological and political advances, I don't think you can rule out the importance of a good name, branding, and marketing.  Most startups fail because of distribution issues rather than technology issues.  The more engineering-minded tend to place all the importance on technology, that this product will sell itself.  Very few products actually succeed in selling themselves.  

If you look at Dogecoin, you can see the power of great marketing and branding.  The technology is completely worthless and the coin will no doubt fail long term, but without widespread awareness of a brand name/coin, the coin will also invariably fail long term.  Look at the viral success of Apple products(I know another touchy subject for bitcoin enthusiasts atm).  With Apple, a business model of function following form created the largest company in the world.  I'm not saying in order to succeed Darkcoin has to focus primarily on branding, but it has to be a high priority for the best chances of widespread adoption.

that certainly was the original intention...