Wow, I keep posting in threads that end up getting locked and I sit there reloading wondering where everyone is LOL
I think everything is going perfectly so far, but we need to rebrand now before we really start promoting this. I like my suggestion that I put forth a while back in previous threads:
Node
Next generation cryptocurrency platform built on Node.js
This is simple, easy to remember, doesn't contain "coin" and capitalizes on the popularity of Node.js.
We need to get a properly branded web site ASAP! I'd be willing to help with this as I've worked professionally as a web developer and technical writer since 1999. I recently rebuilt the Devcoin web site for a devcoin bounty:
http://devcoin.orgAs far as promoting the best features of this platform, besides the speed and scalability of Node.js I strongly suggest we get even a basic marketplace put into this platform and promote the heck out of it. Have you noticed how much "DarkMarket" and now "OpenBazaar" are being mentioned in the crypto news the last few days? People are tired of centralized, web site based exchanges, marketplaces, auctions, etc - it is obvious the future lies in decentralized, peer to peer exchanges where everything is done inside the client thereby eliminating the counter party risk of a web site.
If we can make "Node" the next gen cryptocurrency platform based on Node.js that can be added to by developers (like with NXT) that contains an anonymous marketplace/exchange, I have no doubt it will be a HUGE success!
Got you covered! We are on this idea! The name change is just a detail! We will organize a campaign in the next days! Also i see that there is not a single person that will disagrees, so green light!
NodeCOIn it will be!
About the market place, thanks to node we can embed this functionality into the client! Thanks god for the modularity!
Since it is you idea, how are imagining the branding campaign, or how do you think we should make this public?
Thank you!
Hi Koop! Personally I like just "Node" because anything with "coin" in it seems to give connotations of being a copy and paste clone. We can actually have the best of both worlds and call the platform "Node" and use just Node in the branding but call the tokens spent on the system "Nodecoins". So basically you buy "Nodecoins" that are used on the cryptocurrency platform "Node". The same sort of debate happened with NEM, and they are just calling it NEM and not NEMcoins. I think the currency abbreviation of NODE is also better than NDC (for Nodecoin).
As far as branding/marketing, once we have a nice looking web site up with properly written copy we can then:
1) Pay a small amount to have advertising articles published for us (like what you see on PRweb, Cryptocoinnews, etc)
2) Start channels and campaigns on Facebook, Youtube and Twitter
3) Look into building a multiple-algorithm accepting multipool that would allow people to mine for Nodecoins by pointing their hashing power at a pool that mines POW coins and sells them for Nodecoins. This seems to be a necessity now after Blackcoin did it (NXT has one as well).
I can take the initiative and scan your current site (and Node.js) for content and then rewrite the content in a more advertising-friendly sort of way and put it up on a visually pleasing web site. I am definitely not a social media guy so maybe a bounty could be offered for a social media person to maintain the facebook/twitter/youtube channels? They could basically just take the content from the web site and then just maintain those pages with news updates.
Let me know what you think. Like I mentioned, I worked professionally as a web dev and tech writer for many years so this stuff comes naturally to me now (I'd often have to take loose content from various sources, rewrite it and put it up on a nice web site that I built from scratch, sometimes in a matter of hours for demanding corporations!)