(I've been told by Dash that BBP is struggling to find its identity)
Found it, I meant to follow up on this long ago
Yeah, that was Chris, but now that we have PODC and DSQL I think we have found most of our identity, but, I think we still need a community prayer room, Pay to preach, maybe a proof-of-preaching feature, unbanked cancer mining and tithing, and the video voting room etc.
But to expand on this, I do agree we still need to end up with an actual stable brand in the future. The transition from DarkCoin to Dash, was actually missed by hackers (who didnt know much about business), but caught by marketing firms and the general public. They went from launching as a clone of bitcoin with privacy then governance & masternodes bolted on (but clearly to appeal to the original hacking flavors of litecoin, bitcoin, and 'dark'coin) and found their identity when they decided they would be 'digital cash', with a catchier name of Dash, and created a 'brand'. (Their use case is now digital-cash, widely accepted form of payment that is fast to receive).
I agree that to do that with BiblePay, we need to find a (different) and very solid use case and create a boilerplate message, be known for that use case, and launch that particular brand. The problem with us right now is we cant really call ourselves 'the go-to wallet for Christians' because a Dash clone does not really offer anyone an alternative to Dash, or to bitcoin. We are a 'cool novelty toy' for hackers who want to experiment with PODC, and for those lost souls who dont know what sin is (who may want to figure out how did we embed the list of sins and the KJV bible into the cryptocurrency source code and why)? This is really a community for night time tinkerers.
So what still needs to happen is we need to make a spreadsheet with all of our heavy-duty goals. Then we need to stress test each one that we believe makes us a top 10 coin with that single use-case message being tested by the user. What really makes BBP useful that others dont have. Then we need to become that niche, and make that our boilerplate and our brand logo. I'm not *against* eventually rebranding, as long as the mantra is: We accept everyone from all walks of life, as everyone is a sinner, but when they get around us we tend to share the gospel of Jesus. (This is what Jesus would want anyway, as he ate and drank with sinners to expose them to the Kingdom).
Another words, we could potentially move as dash did from Darkcoin to DashPay, from BiblePay to N. But all of this talk should be delayed until we fulfill the above paragraphs.
So in the mean time what the community can do is try to think of something that really makes us special, the goto wallet for Christians, but why? An embedded prayer room alone wont cut it. Something major. We have a lot of good ideas but what it boils down to is we have to evaluate use cases that actually facilitate the use of the digital coins. A lot of the ideas in the past have been related to just mining, or development, or gospel features in the database, but not completlely tied back to use of each token. I think the killer use case will involve the use of the token. With Ethereum for instance, their gas fee became the marketplace to grow thousands of new subtokens all requiring more gas. So their killer feature is smart contracts requiring the spending of the gas. This sort of gives an idea where Im going with this; the feature must not only be useful but use our currency.
