you need to re-evaluate cryptocurrencies if you believe aurora and mazacoin are the next best thing, then i hope you dont loose alot. look at mint. look at leaf. These coins are only worth what the hype is worth. Therefore there are only bears and wolfs posting about those two. which one are you ?
A real coin. the one that stays low and matures properly is a coin with a strong dev team and even stronger community support
I think you need to read up more on the economic histories of Lakota and Iceland before you can appreciate why there is a need in those communities for something like a decentralized national currency that is secured by cryptography.
necessity is both the mother of invention and the driving force behind adoption and of course adoption is the key to a successful currency.
this is why I am also investing in KarmaCoin because I think there really is a need being fulfilled by this coin.. a need to get away from the pump and dump endless cycle of greed and deception.. and a real desire to see crypto coins be used to make direct positive change in peoples lives.
now obviously I am not a saint, nor do I claim to be and most of us here are not just collecting KarmaCoins for purely altruistic reasons. but the thing that fascinates me about this coin is that you can take that idea of Altruism, marry it to Free Market Capitalism and then come up with a decentralized unstoppable mechanism for generating wealth and encouraging generosity at the same time. In that regard I think Karma Coin is unique and that is why I am sitting here watching this experiment unfold.
people who say that we need to pump and hype this coin are missing the point... what we need to do, and what it appears we are doing, is create real value for the coin and get it into as many hands as possible.... the more people that have it.. the more people can spend it.. the more shops/charities will accept it and the more the price will go up all on its own.... we need to do with this coin, what few coins have achieved.. and that is.. get it out of the hands of uber-nerds, hackers and speculators and into the hands of women, children and and the less well off...
Why did Aurora coin recently have a higher Market Cap than Litecoin? (of course its lower now but Aurora was still the first AltCoin do to that!) because the creators of Aurora have a solid plan in place for getting the coin into 320,000 new hands by giving it away.
right now yes it is driven a lot by hype and speculation... but who knows where it will be in a few months time if even half that many people take up the offer and start using it.
and just think what would happen to KarmaCoin if 320,000 people started using it!!! right now there's probably less than a few hundred people that own it.