Topic: Bottlecaps 2.1 UPDATE REQUIRED - HARDFORK JULY 4 2014 to 200% Annual PoS - page 147. (Read 388610 times)

Agreed. I put my thinking cap on.  

A new name;

(1) Must associate value and worth in this increasingly competitive market.

(2) Should not detract to much from the original theme / name to remain recognizable.

(3) Should incorporate the PoS 'savings' aspect over time.

GoldenCAPs ?

CAPs as in - Capsule - a Time Capsule.

I think this is a workable name and introduces a more marketable concept.

Also thinking about digital gold i.e. DigitalCaps, or just DigiCAPs ? TimeCAPs ? eCAPs ?

I am all for a new name (and symbol). I definitely agree with Vivisector999, need to try and stay away from food named coins (and metals).

I guess a new name would be good.

I'm not sure you know what short-selling actually means.
A short sale is one where you offer to sell something you don't actually own, with a future delivery date.
A short seller is betting that the price will go down, so that when they have to deliver, they can buy on the open market at a price lower than they have agreed to sell for.
Cryptsy does not support short-selling, you can only sell coins you actually have.

Which is why I'm glad I got out -- this community clearly lacks basic branding concepts. It's a currency -- not a game. It will never exist as a currency that is taken seriously with the name "BottleCaps."

Yes, I realize a pump is in progress right now; surely, it has to do with this thread -- BottleCaps have gone nowhere but down for a month and I lost 90% of my investment which I made under the impression that the name would be changed. This is the first time that a community killed my investment in a mutual interest...but altcoins never fail to surprise and I learned a (fairly cheap) lesson.

Too many options out there to waste time, energy, and money here. Hopefully you guys wise up and turn things around -- I love to see altcoins succeed even if I'm not on the boat (especially coins like BottleCaps that weren't just designed to make the dev rich.) It's sad to see a quality, fair coin suffer because of something so trivial...and sadder yet to see how many people would rather go down with the ship than bring logic into the equation. I love everything about BottleCaps except for the name and the numerous naive members of the community that got in the way of a swift re-brand where everybody would have won.

Only bad thing about naming them after a food type is they kind of get typecasted.  Much like BBQ Coins.  I have only seen a few BBQ restaurants and BBQ Sauce vendors take that coin.  And I don't think the coin is taken serious because of that.

Ouch, I finally just saw, first hand, the power of a name... I just got mocked-out of a trade chat, for offering to buy CAP coins, which I just had to explain was bottlecaps... But I guess there is something there to the name, that seems to urk people or degrade the seriousness of the coin.

Yet they openly trade "CopperLark" and "MinCoin" and "DevCoins"... (I didn't realize devcoins still existed. lol. Though I saw them listed.)

Well, their loss, I just offered them $2 on the $1 for any CAP they wanted to pick-up or sell... I'll wait to see if anyone else likes the idea of Cappuccino's as a name, before I start pushing the coin again. I don't want them remembering a name that isn't going to exist in the future, if it does get changed... But the existing name now, doesn't seem to have much actual branding except to those holding the coin. (Unfortunately, those holding are not making themselves money or adding any actual value, they just want it done for them, it seems. That is not towards any of us actually doing work. We can make the reward all our own, by doing this off-exchange. But doing it on exchange will work for all.)

Ok, headed out the door now, back in a few hours...

I'm still on the no side to name change but Cyberdymes and Cappuccinos are both great names if it comes to that.

I like cappuccino... A big swirled cup of joe/java/coffee as the logo... seems real "euro modern", like two-bucks.. um.. I mean star-bucks...

Also sounds kind-of fun... (I like the imagery of espresso too... tiny glass of HELL YEA!)

But I think Cappuccino has a more unique unused potential to the name, like bottlecaps was intended to be.

Ok, I am awake now, but I have to go to work for a few hours... Retirement isn't all it is cracked-up to be.

I will get started on a generic site, and some ghetto variations, tonight... both as Bottlecaps and Cappuccino, since I like that name the more I say it. It's easier to swallow than bottlecaps too. I'll sell Coffee-grounds for Cap coins, to promote it, at a loss to me.

Cappuccino's: The coin that keeps you wide awake, keeps you up at night, is sure to rise with the sun, keeps you warm all winter mining, and is faster to make than Espresso!

Just a side note, CAP's on the rise on cryptsy... Guess everyone stopped looking at BTC enough to see that it was smart to grab them while the value is low, which will drive the price up, making their purchase of low-valued coins a wise investment. I hoped it would stay low for another two weeks, when I get my next paycheck... but hey, time for the devil to rise, I guess!

Or maybe Expresso.  The Cryptocurrency that gets you hopped up for the day.  And it sounds fast.

New name proposal:

   Cappuccino

This give the feel of something common (reason why some seems to like bottlecaps), while not being cheap.

As a bonus, font-awesome (used widely by web developers) has already a clean and simple coffee symbol in it ( http://fontawesome.io/icon/coffee/ ). This may facilitate consistency and integration in web sites later. That is, a price followed by this coffee cup icon would be the branding for cappuccino coins.

(Not pushing for a change, just adding a proposal on the table in case there is a poll)


_{Edit: I did fix the spelling of cappuccino}

hey hey there slow down....

i'm posting here because i'm annoying and i'm right

i'm a more brief version of Anonymint  with a less confused view of the world, and a more confused view of coding.

if Anony ever actually does anything we surely need to work together no ?

"Capcurrency" or "Cap Currency" is an experiment in the resilience of a DAC.

I will make a bet , it still exists in the future.

Cyberdyme
Credits
Technocredits
Cryptocap
Tokens
Webbuck
Interbuck
Virtualcredits
Virbuck

I know alot of them are very bad, just throwing some ideas out of my head.  Lol, I wish I hadn't wasted the Nuggets name on Vlad.  

OK, I am working on a generic website... Just so there is something to show.

For now, I will ignore the name of the coin, and just host the site on one of my existing names...

Any opinions on which name to list the information at?

I own the following...
WamPow.com
Dabify.com
MYeLIST.com
Curbay.com
PlanetEnine.com

If there are no opinions, I will throw it up on www.MYeLIST.com I guess... For now, I must get some sleep.

The fact that you are here, posting, shows you care... (As we all do.)

Wives are so overrated... Trade her like a coin... Cryptsy takes wives... it's the top traded item... The letters are BCH... (Just kidding, I just couldn't resist. I like wives. I buy them drinks all the time!)

Seriously though... If you still have some coins left, and some time to invest... Are you willing to contribute to the coins value, other than offering it to other investors at a great discount?

Couldn't agree more -- I don't think it needs to be associated with anything, really. It just needs to be its own name with its own identity and use the fresh re-branding as a launch pad to get things moving. Like I mentioned earlier, search for "BottleCaps" on Google and you'll be digging around a while before you find anything about the currency. Even with a quality website in place, it's not going to be a top search result.

Goldcoin/etc seems pretty cheesy to me. Like I said...while "BottleCaps" implies something of low value...that's not my primary issue with it (although it's still an issue.) The primary issue is that it represents a lot more than just BottleCaps the currency. Also...not that this is a "big picture" issue...but my wife is just getting used to the fact that our basement is filled with piping hot computers burning thousands of watts of electricity to mine "Bitcoins", "Megacoins", and "Litecoins" -- if I told her I was mining "BottleCaps" she'd probably divorce me 

In other news...I'm managed to move about 25,000 of my BottleCaps on Cryptsy over the past couple hours...so there are people out there still willing to buy. There's no doubt in my mind the value will creep back up a bit even without a name change...but I'm telling you guys...it's more important for the long-term success of CAP than you realize. This isn't my first rodeo...

What about just "Crown"... or "Crowns" (I like Crowns better... allows the drop of the cheap sounding coin word... implying they are their own thing...)

Not crown coin... and keep "CAP" as the letters...

Like Kings crown, Crown Royale, Crown victoria, Crown a knight, Crown (the top of your head), Cap (Which is also a crown).

Search for crown logo's (Just to get some visuals to go with the name)
https://www.google.com/search?q=crown+logo&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&biw=1253&bih=696

Flashback seeing the hallmark crown in that list of images... lol. I worked there for years, at the northern new england warehouse... Nice place to work!

As of now, the community is nearly 100% investors and 0% users.

The only way to use CAP is to trade it for BTC and buy something with the BTC. Which can be completely automated through any exchange with the exchanges API. However, that requires "selling" the CAP at the "selling price", which simply makes it look like its value is falling. (Because you sell at the asking price, as opposed to holding it and setting a bid higher than value.)

However, going the other way... using a dollar-to-cap automation... The price would always appear to rise. Since they would be buying the bid value "sell". Which is the other end of the chart.

As of now, it is only us trading for future investment, and bots trading for differences of bid/ask values. (Bots use small amounts and instantly move purchased coins to the other side with the 20% gain. Thousands of times a day. lol, battling each other for the top spots.)

The price is low, I am willing to take your caps for anything physical... You want steam-dollars, xbox-live passes, prepaid-creditcards, paypal-cards, ebay-cards, video-games... let me know, I'll get them in exchange for CAPs. But please don't just sit back and do nothing, and complain that we (the other investors) are not "making your investment better". It isn't the job of the coin to add value. The coins job is done, it's a coin. A gateway, a method of transferring value. It is YOU/US who has to give it value.

Any more suggestions that others are willing to DO, are welcome. Need a hand, I'll help. But anyone can have an idea. Ideas are cheap and free. Everyone thought about the lightbulb, only a few actually made them.

Well if an awesome name was brought up, I am sure it would persuade a few people and get the ball rolling.  But so far I haven't seen anything that makes the name stand out from the massive crowd of Alt coins, like Bottlecaps does.  Perhaps a bit more brainstorming could be done.  Just please no more precious metals followed by the name coin.  That's been done to death.

I checked and at least 3 of the stores on the first page still take Bottlecaps.  The big problem is, after we had our problems (Which now seem nicely resolved), we haven't had any cheerleaders pushing to get Bottlecaps back in the forefront.  We need to have someone that has an association with the Coingas/sextoy store to get our coin back up there.  I know I need to start offering more cards on my Apocalypse Pete's site so I can start moving some coins.

Who knows if we have a decent programmer in the crowd.  I have heard it is possible to Merge mine scrypt coins, just like it is possible to do it with SHA-256 coins.  Would be cool if we became the first coin to Merge mine with Litecoin.  I have been currently suggesting to my LTC pool that is going to be offering Multi-pools shortly (I hope) to add Bottlecaps to list.

Anyways, I will try to think of a few names to add to the pot.  Lol, who knows maybe POGS.  LOL, or maybe something off the wall like Beans.  Since you have bean counters, Store a hill of beans, Beans grow over time, and the are environmentally friendly, like the PoS part of Bottlecaps.  But that is the tiredness talking.  I will see if I can thing of a few more names that might work a lot better.

How will this effect the community ?