Topic: [ANN][DASH] Dash (dash.org) | First Self-Funding Self-Governing Crypto Currency - page 6742. (Read 9723776 times)

I have no position in this coin, just found it via that cryptolife article. But to think about trying to rebrand it to something more mainstream would be such a disaster. D-coin? Suck my D-coin would be just as good.

The one thing you guys have going for it is the anonymous transactions. The devs and the coin should be transaction neutral and if anything the branding should hint towards the dark side.

Auroracoin is a silly idea but their branding is spot on. Can we take some hints from the website for the darkcoin website?

http://auroracoin.org/

http://darkcoin.us/io/

Namely...

fixing the logo in the top left
reducing font size
coming up with logo/image downloads
changing the main colour (blue looks like a bank)

congrats on the work so far.

how about this for a colour scheme...

http://colorschemedesigner.com/#4k51TdJg0yiyi

That is exactly the point I was trying to make.  As soon as the name hints that it may be used for a particular purpose, it actually makes it less useful for that purpose, especially when it comes to anonymity.  Take sexcoin for example LOL may as well have 2 for 1 hooker vouchers in your wallet and hope the wife doesn't notice  

Good one Now it only needs a little push.

great coin! great dev!!

Eeeek, I'm late!!

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.