@DEVS: The community has been asking for the FORUM button on the wallet to lead to a moderated thread. Is it possible to provide this? Thanks.
We are going to do this so that there can be a non-combative, non-vulgar link in the wallet for the average person. We do intend to keep this thread as well so that there is an unmoderated place to speak freely as well. The thing is we can't convince "Aunt Emma" to use digitalcurrency and then lead her to stumble on massive repetitive and sometimes vulgar fudding at times and is quickly turned off for good.
I may even suggest a link to a support section of the VeriTalk Forum. Perhaps call it "Support", "New to VeriCoin" or the generic "Forum" is fine to. Perhaps pull a dropdown menu up off of the forum, and give them a choice on where to go. A place where a moderator can help people in a reasonable amount of time. You have community members who have shown they are more than willing to give time to help others in the past. This small attention to detail across the board would solidify the brand and make sense to people new to virtual currencies.
What doesn't make sense to everyday people is looking at roadmaps of what vericoin is, and then looking for all the features that they expect to be out, and polished. Only to find that these big deals at the time turned out to be several rushed, premature projects that,
once launched failed to meet every basic objective they set out to have. To this day they are not complete, embarrassingly so.
Good suggestion regarding forum link.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but the only thing that was released unfinished was the fiat feature. This was a misstep I agree. However VeriSMS, VeriBit, VeriSend and variable interest are done, were well tested and are used in practice.
Our current roadmap is on track and reflects the new fiat feature, as well as everything else we are working on.
This leads us to the two biggest problems in crypto. Being able to easily buy it and spend it.
VeriBit solves the spending problem mostly for within crypto usage. This is key. However getting the regular non crypto person to spend is still a challenge. Therefore we will have an optional service for spending VeriCoin with a visa card.
Regarding the cozying up with banking system argument. Let those who do not cash out their crypto into the banking system throw the first stone. This just makes that process easier.
This is how it is and we can move forward faster by utilizing it optionally.
In this context new people can say I get how to use it, now lets start earning interest. Users and demand is what we need more than anything.
Regarding the card there is not too much I can divulge until Coinsis does. However I appreciate the constructive criticisms. I will answer anything I am at liberty to. Though I do not have time to read every single forum post and still be on track with the roadmap.
This is simply amazing. Our stooge #2 and new go-to man is openly accused of trying to con Aunt Emma and of committing fraud while doing so and answers with the usual disperse tactics and common places. Amazing, simply amazing.
Listen genius, there's no way -nor should be- that Aunt Emma is ever going to invest in digital currencies. Nor should she, ok? The digital currencies are not for the consumption or investment of Aunt Emma or even -save for exceptions- baby boomers. At all. Not even remotely close to safe for them to even step timidly into that territory. What your genius idea proposed was that Aunt Emma would invest let's say $1,000 in a "convenient Vericard" and when she decides to use it, a couple of weeks later, discover that she can barely buy 1/10th of what she was able to buy two weeks earlier with her $1,000. And that is NOT INCLUDING FEES either. Get it now, genius??
When I and others refer to Joe and Jane Sixpack we are referring to active members, middle class 15-50 people that has never heard of digital currencies. Get the demographic now? Aunt Emma is not even a consideration, ok? And of those 15-50 people, you first create awareness and hope for piquing the interest of 2-3%. And you have to hit them in the gut... but with TRUTH (what a concept, ah?). They already KNOW and have painfully experienced and continue experiencing the bad that banks and credit cards have/continue inflicting in them. They WILL LISTEN to anything that claims to baypass those. whether they understand the baypass process or not.
But I am shouting in the freaking desert here, so no more. You just don't get it because you are so full of... well, it.
Now sinkraven or whatever, lets make it very clear: Not everyone in advertising is a creative person. First. Then, not everyone in advertising, who is also creative, is good, or talented, ok? That should hit home quite straight. One of the main principles in advertising, true and proven, is that repetition is the most efficient of tactics, bar none. So there.
Your advocacy or good will, team spirit and all is great... for going straight to doomdom. Just being enthusiastic, an idiotic cheerleader, doesnt give you any skills, let alone talent, ok? It doesn't matter how enthusiastic anyone is, if you send all the cheerleaders here to the US Open to compete, none will be selected even to serve as ball boys, ok?
So what we have here? Devs that have no talent/skills to technically -financially much less, marketing-wise even less- do anything for Vericoin. exhibit A. Exhibit B a graphics designer that can't get any work in the real world, exhibit B. A dev, stooge #1 that believes he's so fucking bright he can easily moderate a Google hang out, exhibit C. A guy somewhere that fancies himself as a radio host that puts up a "show" that even in this nest of delusional, demented cheerleaders gets a top audience of ...4. Exhibit D. Another "leader" that purports to publish Vericoin news that only posts exercises in nothingness that clear nothing and confuse people even more... never providing any news. Exhibit E. Stooges #1 and 2# that even after all these weeks and numerous posts still hadn't learn to reflect, restrain and only open their mouth publicly when they have something informative to communicate and do it so in a manner that resembles some intelligence and a hint of professionalism. Exhibit F... I could go on. Is this the "team" you want to assemble? It is already assembled (and I haven't even mentioned toxic boy). And already firmly on the train to Palookaville, ok?
Listen, first attempt at any, ANY solution, when you have problems, the very first step, is to recognize that you have problems. Without that, any progression is impossible because, well, you are convinced you are doing things like gangbusters. Which is the case, amazingly, in spite of the overwhelming evidence.
Stooges, all over the place, running amok.