"BAC" was a sad attempt to copy BARR. Notice how soon they announced, right after we did, and they clearly hadn't put any time or thought into it.
Another one was DGCS Digital Credits. They immediately got listed at CoinMarketCap and C-Cex, among other places, before they had ever burned a single altcoin.
Meanwhile CoinMarketCap wouldn't even respond to my messages. Maybe they recognized that I didn't fit in with their bread-and-butter business of hyping scams to people.
Anyway, it was only a few weeks before the "dev" of Digital Credits dumped the entire 200 million premine down to 1 satoshi and disappeared.
But you are incorrect that BARR isn't working now - it has never stopped working, and in fact you can go buy and sell it right now on the decentralized NXT Asset Exchange.
BARR can never be delisted from trading, as long as NXT exists. So it works better than thousands of other altcoins.
We burned over 100
BTC worth of altcoins in 2015 and 2016, and we redeemed that value in BARR which people were able to trade and sell.
In fact, the main problem was that we made it too good. The price went up so fast, and everything worked so well, that almost everyone sold their BARR and made money.
Being a responsible dev, I didn't continue to burn more coins to generate new BARR when there weren't enough buy orders for another round of dumping.
People had been scammed so much that they automatically took whatever money they could get.
When they started making money with BARR, they probably remembered all the scam pump-and-dump coins that they believed in and lost money on.
BARR is the only coin that pumped and never dumped.
BARR helped fixed the dying crypto markets of 2015, by getting people's investments back, allowing them to invest again, and reducing the number of altcoins crowding the markets.
Right now, BARR does everything other altcoins do. It's held its value (priced in NXT) for 4 years.
Are there any other altcoins that didn't crash a few times in the past 4 years? BARR never did.
So when people talk about money - and crypto - being used as a store of value, BARR is better than most.
My advice to CoinJanitor would be to build enthusiasm among a dedicated group of people.
Get a Youtube channel, make a video every day, and livestream.
People will send you Superchats, paying you money, just for you to read their comments onstream.
That gets them engaged and involved, and they want to make those numbers on the charts go up.
When the numbers go up, people can see that they've accomplished something. It's the same with crowdfunding.
I didn't do that, when BARR launched.
If we had gotten just a few people to hold their BARR and stay excited after the first profits,
BARR would have continued growing, burning more altcoins, increasing its marketcap, and drawing in even more users.
I had plans for accepting BARR for online purchases - I had websites set up to sell ebooks and music downloads;
but when it was all lined up, and I was ready to pay the devs to add BARR to their Wordpress crypto checkout plug-in,
that's when I found out they didn't accept credit card. They only took crypto, of course.
But I had spent all my
BTC supporting and building BARR.
Then when the boom happened, thanks in part to BARR, it left us behind.
But BARR still works like it always has, and I've recently made new plans to give even more purpose to BARR.
I'd love to see what CoinJanitor has planned too.