Here's what I consider to be the epitome of stupid childish gimmicks: http://www.reddit.com/r/myriadcoin/comments/2how0u/meat_body_souls_sunday_tip_thread/
First because it takes the cryptocurrency in question down to that level. Secondly, the same as the first. Thirdly, ditto, ditto, ditto.
My thinking is that if we want to promote the coin, we should promote the merits of the coin. Starting first with the fact that it's currently one of the most profitable to mine. We could then move from short term profitability to its great long term prospects, etc. Beyond that we could mention any or all of the following:
- 1st coin to fork to multi-algorithm mining (Most fair distribution).
- With 5 unique algos & independent difficulties a 51% attack is significantly mitigated and becomes much harder to carry out.
- 1st coin to develop & implement DigiShield (asymmetrical difficulty adjustment).
- 30 second blocks are better for merchants transactions.
- Professional & dedicated development team since launch on Jan. 10th 2014.
- Strategic long term road-map & vision alongside pending global corporate partnerships.
- 1:1000 ratio with Bitcoin, better for micro transactions.
- No more premine as it was given away to users & charity and used for initial development as stated from the beginning until outside funding was received.
Now, in my opinion, that would be giving others a “tip” that's worth everybody's time, including the person you're giving the tip to!
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