We desperately needed a concise symbol for ₥arking, something recognisable which reflected monetary value whilst not being overly explicit.
Perhaps a little ₥ on a button will look quite neat and provide a condensed icon meaning you can mark this, then later we can buy a coffee for 1.99₥
For interest, b is the official symbol for bit, and we have re-purposed our ₥, so now b₥ translates as bitmark, ₥ as mark, and ₥b as markbits if we ever need them.
If you can buy coffee for 1.99₥ then it means that a whole b₥ is worth 1000$. Am I wrong?
That depends on the price of the coffee in $ I guess. Let's not get concerned with the price, it was meant as an example of how people first see it as reputation then later as earned valuable currency.
I prefer to consider adoption. As we start 2019 there will be roughly
17 million BTM and 17 million BTC. 5 years, half a decade.
As a source of reference I like to look at
this list of social networks and users, then I like to consider perhaps how many small sites may adopt, and perhaps how many medium sized websites within say 5 years. I class soundcloud, deviantart.com, last.fm, etcetera as medium size. If even one of them adopts then 1 BTM will be very rare, if three or more, or larger within five years, then a person holding 100₥, 10₥ or less would be rare.
I guess it is worth considering that we are creating a viral by nature reputation+money system that can be integrated anywhere, we're adding support to most open source programs, with a self funding system that pretty much allows people to make start ups for free, we also layer on support to any existing website's we please via extensions and apps, then there's the markets like games and services and digital consumables, before looking at integration in to larger sites. That's on the reputation usage side of it, then there's the traditional usage as money side, and also the point that it's forwards and backwards compatible with anything sharing bitcoin's api.
Forget about price and focus on usefulness and simple adoption, that'll distribute the tokens further and give us something enjoyable and useful to do, the more they are used and distributed the rarer they become, and we all know what that entails.
Made a post on the support forum, no reply but looking through the other support posts, that is not unusual. I've moved off there until they get their shit together.