The guys in iceland knows better, but I think we will get newspaper covering not long after May 1 - and from there we expect multiple media attention. There is very good things brewing that we can't disclose yet (media related) that would give auroracoin very good coverage and credibility.
Outside Iceland, medias are contacting us. At first i was proposing paid press release/article, but it is now obvious that it is worthless. We will get full coverage without asking anybody.
Where is all this? I can not see anything.
I am not talking about one or two newspaper, multiple media attention?
Where is the Saturday TV interview? Also, Where is the video about the but stop campaign? I have not seen a bus stop right in the city centre, all are in isolated area with no passenger, I like this coin to succeed but we can not talk without evidence as you lose credibility and people will think is al white smoke. You need to show to the world you mean what you are saying. Only words are not valid. Need to be backup with events and facts.
Sorry to say guys but our main focus is not providing evidence for people here on BCT. We have had tons of requests from users since we opened up the exchange and started to have articles in the papers and news sites and spent a lot of time to handle that and to meet people.
You will not see mass adoption to Auroracoin in a week or a month this is more likely to take a year or two to get decent widespread adoption if you want to be realistic. Of course people outside of Iceland matter in all of this and it will be good to have a live foreign market with Auroracoin but again that is not our main focus and I don't see many people jumping in here to help. I nor anyone on this dev team has any obligation to anyone here. Nobody here is trying to sell or promising you anything. We are all with our day jobs, family and we donate a lot more of our time than we have to this project because we believe in the tremendous social benefits of a cryptocurrency project succeeding. If you like that idea and you like to contribute to this project in any way it's great but if you consider Auroracoin to be some sort of stock that you invested in and expect the group of people here that is donating their money and free time to try and make this project a reality to owe you something, then you are barking up the wrong tree.
I don't know if I sound rude here or not but that's certainly not my intention but I (just like others on working on this project) have reduced my real life work and I cheat my family of time to work on this project because it is something that I passionately believe in and I feel that if we can get enough people involved we can really make a difference in a push for a change. So it sometimes buzzes me a bit when people here act like I owe them something.
The video you mentioned has been recorded. I personally paid someone 1.000 AUR to record it for me because I didn't have the time. It has not been edited because frankly there hasn't been enough time as we are being drowned by work on the exchange, requests from people, we are organising a meeting and other events along with all sorts of development like merchant tools, new wallets, basecode cleanup and updates, website work, foundation work and just a whole lot of other work that needs to be done. Currently we just have so many hands and that is why we are focusing on people here in Iceland as we want to get more people to be really involved and to take part in all of this.
Regarding the TV news video then it was supposed to be shown on Friday but was delayed because the news schedule was packed. I got a message from the reporter saying it would be shown during this weekend but he didn't specify a day. Then as it turns out the weekend news were packed with drama in the upcoming president election that will take place in a couple of months so I wasn't surprised that it wasn't aired during the weekend. I'll contact the reporter today to see when it will be aired or if it will be aired at all. Remains to be seen and we will certainly let people here know if it will be aired and provide a link to it for those who are interested.
Again I truly don't mean this as a rude gesture towards people who are following the progress here, I just felt like I had to straighten out a few things.
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