Topic: ★★DigiByte|极特币★★[DGB]✔ Core v6.16.5.1 - DigiShield, DigiSpeed, Segwit - page 1210. (Read 3058926 times)

This is a draft proposal.




100,000 DGB for every 1 million DGB purchased with fiat (for the first 100 investors to take advantage of the promotion). This would amount to a 10% giveaway, or around $9 USD at current prices. (Once DGB is at 100 satoshi, that would translate into around $45 USD.)

How can this be done? By working directly with the exchanges that accept fiat. In the States that would be Cryptsy, and in Europe that would be LiteBit. Anyone buying DGB with fiat would qualify.

The promotion account could be funded with around $900 USD at current prices (for 10 million DGB) and the promotion would be good for 100 million of newly purchased DGB with fiat, which would go a long ways towards helping price appreciation as well!


DigiByte, have you guys got $900 USD to fund this? And the time and desire to put it together? I can guarantee that you'd get a lot of press coverage (that's free advertising) as a result - DGB would be on every crypto blog and from there to every forum by word of mouth.

What do you say?

http://www.altcoinweekly.com/
http://bitcoinmagazine.com/
http://bitcoinnews24.com/
http://www.coindesk.com
http://www.cryptoarticles.com/
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/
http://cryptosource.org/

And it's not limited to the crypto sphere!
http://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2014/05/28/the-ultimate-list-resources-bitcoin/

Even Forbes does crypto news!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/reuvencohen/2013/11/27/the-top-30-crypto-currency-market-capitalizations-in-one-place/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/05/07/living-on-bitcoin-a-year-later-the-cryptocurrencys-youngest-miner/

And I'm sure I've only scratched the surface.  

We are very aware of these issues. We are working on fixing as well as updating several things all in one update. We will send you a PM to get some details. Thank you for posting!

What kind of problems? Sounds alarming. Did you do that on purpose?

How about sharing these significant problems with us now that you've brought it to our public attention?


BTW, you could just PM DigiByte (and I know you know that too).

     

I appreciate your opinion and thank you for taking the time. With that in mind, please don't misunderstand my very short response – it is by no way a slight of hand, rather it is just a reflection of my desire to stay with what really seems important, to me anyway.

I totally disagree. It takes a lifetime to earn a customer, and about 5 seconds to lose him/her. You're going nowhere fast if you lose him/her before you get him/her.

This is one of DGB's main stated long term goals

Again, one must look at the principal goals put forth by the Devs to have an appropriate answer. I'm not going to repeat what can be found on the OP and in DigiByte's multiple post – it's there for anyone who wants to read it – but I will say that the difference is measured in light years.

And I'm talking about serious business.

Again, I'm talking about serious business, and, as such, this is a DigiByte proposal, not a pass-the-hat and see what we can do as a community proposal.

I'd say foolishness rather than silliness. But, hey, each to his own – if you want to give DGB away, I'm not telling you that you can't, only asking that you at least put something serious in your signature and make clear it's private and not official DGB.

Jeez, now you're getting aggressive (maybe I should edit my start to this response). You're right about the example, and very dogmatic about your declaration that it can't work. Wow. Now that's definitive! When reading your reasoning, my first question is to ask who are we to tell other people what to do once they've bought and benefit from the discount. What are you going to tell the people you tip? Are you really going to worry about that? Have you even thought about it. The price change would not be blunt by any stretch of the imagination (unless you really think we'll have 100 people stampeding together to buy maximum allotments), and your forex intervention example is really a bit wild and completely unrelated to say the least.

I hope you get off it soon, because, my friend, like it or not, this IS A BUSINESS, and if you're looking for a place to play and have fun, you've got hundreds of other possibilities. Why preach here? And please don't call us shibes. Again, there are lots of playgrounds where you can go . . .

While “impose” is a very poorly chosen word, the essence of what I think you want to say is what I'd call a pipe-dream if there ever was one. What? We need to give away DBG to show we're good people? And who even cares? It's not about if you're a nice guy our not, it's about if what you have to offer really protects investors' wealth or not. (Or was that completely over your head?)

suchPotato, I see you're a noob (although I suspect that this is not you're first nick), and that you've only posted here. What's your purpose here, with your cute little shibe name, and your grand illusion to undermine and degrade DGB?

The current version of the wallet appears to have significant problems sending transactions.

Please have a dev contact me to resolve these issues.

Ok, now I see your point. And I disagree, but let me clarify first I'll answer what my ideal good impression is after I made my points.


1) Any impression is better than no impression. I gather none inside the digibyte comunity has the resources to do a massive advertising campaign. Also most said campaigns turn into flops, right after the company advertising a coin stops doing so. A giveaway is the only cheap way I see to actually bring digibyte some spotlight.

2) As per point one, the illusion that some big players will come and back digibyte just because of the tech is ridiculous. They may be interested in a 24/7 customer service for people doing buisness with digibyte, but that implies (again) that people are willing to put enough resources to back a serious company. Trust is a major concern too, the company must be accountable and stuff, can't be done in a day.

3) Dogecoin is becoming more and more money-ish by the day. Merchants accept dogecoins because they know they'll get a lot of extra revenues by doing so, and this in turn gives a reason for more people to change their reserves from BTC (or even fiat) to doge, which is much faster. Now doge has a much too strung "meme" and it may very well hurt its prospectives to become a "buisness" coin, however, noone's that piky about coins so long as they're worth money. The fact it's used for tipping does not tamage its reputation in the least IMO.

3.1) let me remark this: BTC community's "grumpyness" (few and too cheap giveaways) is per se a reason why one would switch to dogecoins. A "nice" coin is better to wor with and also gets more supporters.

4) Every day a new coin is born, what oes digibyte give more than the others? The "multi algorithm" is only interesting for miners, the fact it's safer from 51% attaks and has dedicated devs is important for anybody else, but DGB is not that special in this sense. On the other hand digibyte is ne of the "friendly" coins, with a nice (tough small) comunity, and people may join it for that.

5) You said, in the other post, that big companies don't do giveaways, at best they give samples. A "sample" of DGB is indeed a giveaway, one may want to try out the wallet or the tipbot. Although there's plenty of peope participating in giveaways, they're not there for the money but for the fun. It's annoying going to an exchange to get 1$ of coins, getting tipped instead is much more fun.

6) Buisnessfolk are humans like everyone else, they may as well start playing with a few coins worth millicents and ten put some milions in it (if an opportunity arises). One thing is a bank giving, or worse, getting a few millicents giveaways, that'd be ridiculous indeed, another thing is people doing so. We are privates, we are not "digibyte", the network per se does not hand out tips randomly.

7) tips are another thing. if you walk on the street and some stranger gives you 50 cents you'd be seriously perplex, at best. A kid may be happy but an adult will probably be offended, they're treating you like a beggar! Tips are however another thing, if some random fellow tips you 0.001 cents you'll take it as a token of appreciation. Even if it's a more hefty sum the concept is the same, it's not charity, it's approval. In the case of my giveaway the tips are a welcome, like you'd hand out flyers and/or samples and welcome people with a smile.


ok for the tl;dr: giveaway is nice cheap and does not imply any silliness. Anybody from a kid to a hedge fund CEO can enjoy trading a few millicents for fun.

now about your "think big" idea, I guess you threw it ther as an exapmle, but the probe is it can't work. You're offering a discount on the acquisition of the coin, people would just come buy the coin sell it at market value and buy new coins. The actual value would drop and you'd run out of coins fast. Changing the price in such a blunt way (cause you are changing the price when you give an extra or a discount) simply does not work.
During the cold war Russia kept the ruble at 1$ as an honor point, but the ruble was worth more or less 20 cents, and this caused problems to no end, even in a strict totalitarian superpowr like it was the money black market was impossible to fend off. (ofc DGB can do no monetary police like the soviet union could!)


Now let's go back to the "first impression" I want to give, and also that I got so far, digibyte is a serious coin, with a good dev and a nice community behind. A nice community, not an elitarian group (we're not, end of the story), not a group of people here just for the buisness (it's simply not so). An all-around coin that can be used for tipping as much as e-commerce, and a safe coin that can be used for hedging agains other coins fluctuations. On this past point: many coins just die, thst's usually cause the dev left and the network stopped working, putting money in coins with no history and nobody behind, I want to make it clear that "we" are here and not going away, the current status of the subreddit screams "dead coin", we need some more activity.



If I may add this, I have a "plan", it's a private initiative to which a few other people have adhered, and it's starting Saturday, it does not represent all the community for sure, but it's a serious effort, I only chose to advertise this much cause I think first time events should be kept small, raching 10 people and involving 1-200 shibes during the giveaway would be ideal. It's frst of all aimed at the digibyte people, to shake things up, nothing is worse  than apathy. It also aims at giving others the nice and welcoming feel from digibyte comunity that'd give them a reason to support us.

And here's my roadmap in short: the first event is Saturday, if @24hralttrade wishes he can schedue another one on twitter net week, and it'll be advertised on the first giveaway. It's going to become a periodic event and get more people around in the digibyte comunity, and give a rendezvous point to the comunity itself, something to work for, not a one time fast forgotten thing.
It'll "impose" DGB as the one most organized and generous community in the crypto world, sort of a dogecoin more mature big brother.

I don't see how tipping could ruin a coin's reputation, and ofc I'm not taliking about "spam tipping" but about a serious initiative that requires work, shows commitment, and attracts attention.

I don't really see how "we" as community could get any more professional than this, in any case if you change your mind you're most welcome!

I tried the omarg pool once, and was bothered by the high transaction fees. I got hit with a 6 DGB tx fee. Once was enough, didn't go back.

Omargpools.ca qubit pool works with sgminer v5 - could do with a little extra hash easiest dgb mining I've found so far. just set pool algo to qubitcoin

http://omargpools.ca/dgb/index.php

What company do you know of that does giveaways? Free samples, maybe, but giveaways?

Major companies do rebate promotions, 2 for 1 promotions, or a certain percentage off on your next purchase promotions, but they don't usually get involved in straightaway giveaways. Major companies usually link their promotions to actual money being spent by their customers.

If we truly believe in DigiByte, we need to think big and act like the big boys.

Here's a 'think big' idea:

Link the giveaway to money actually being invested in DGB. How? By giving away 100,000 DGB for every 1 million DGB purchased with fiat (for the first 100 investors to take advantage of the promotion). This would amount to a 10% giveaway, or around $9 USD at current prices. Once DGB is at 100 satoshi, that would translate into around $45 USD.

How can this be done? By working directly with the exchanges that accept fiat. In the States that would be Cryptsy, and in Europe that would be LiteBit. Anyone buying DGB with fiat would qualify.

The promotion account could be funded with around $900 USD at current prices (for 10 million DGB) and the promotion would be good for 100 million of newly purchased DGB with fiat, which would go a long ways towards helping price appreciation as well!

Is the previously announced wallet update coming soon? DGB is disabled again on Bittrex, with the notification " Wallet offline - pending update "

It's all about the impression you want to create. What is a 'good impression' for a crypto to make? What is your idea of a good impression? My idea is that of creating a first impression of a solid coin, with a solid Dev team, with a solid community, with a very solid plan for the future, which has an extremely solid track record of never letting anyone down and always getting things right, that is going to generate very handsome returns for both miners and investors . . .

I think giveaways imply the opposite, and create a bad first impression. They're 10 times more popular with the children who aren't mature enough to appreciate the value of money yet.

And yes, at the end of the day, we're talking about money, real money, or at least that's what DigiByte is supposed to be anyway . . . of course, it'll never reach that status if it's treated like internet tipping tokens.

Think about it. Everyone. Long and hard. What is your idea of a good first impression for DGB?

If it was about the value of a coin Bitcoin would have disappeared the day litecoin was born (heck, even namecoin!) it's pretty much the most obsolete coin in existence, but it's the one with most visibility.

Now, check out *any* coin subreddit, the giveaways are 10 times more popular than the other posts. If you spend a few milion dollars in ads any coin would surpass, say, LTC, the tipping rings visibility at a low cost.

IMO giveaways are a great form of "honest" advertisement. You say true stuff and pay a few cents to get some audienc and to gep people started in your coin. The best technoligies are fast forgotten if you don't put some effort in advertisement, end of the story.


The giveaway is pretty much a token you're not just there to drop your opinion, but are placing some effort.
Urg where did he promise that? I think people should not promise more than they can do, but the digiroadmap was, for the most part, followed which is good.
Anyways, I do think dgb has some serious potential, not placing what I put on doge at 25, I'll admit, but wait I'll wait a few months. Dgb already got its reputation and the community is far from dead, although a bit scattered. It's present in most exchanges (crucially cryptsy). It does not have the the strong "meme" factor, but that's actually not a bad thing.

And chinese who? Investors (chinese or whatnot) will just drop money on what looks interesting to them, there's nothing making doge special. It's a good coin investors put money in, when they realize what they're missing. Or maybe there's no big investors at all, doge stands at a mere 30 milions, may very well be the community's money alone.

2015 looks like it will be a great year for crypto, will dgb be at the front? heck I know not, I sure hope it will