Probably that's the reason why iXcoin is still dragging: nobody gets colored coins. Me first. Yes, looks like a great idea, but if I should convince someone about the value of colored coins, why the cryptoworld will welcome them so much, why ixcoin is supposed to end up in the center of this project and not bitcoin, how this project is gonna affect the market, why people will feel the need of it, well ... I could not do it. Why? I am the first with a foggy view of it.
When a nobody like me will be able to get it, it means you had made it understandable to everybody. Can you?
Great point.
I know just the guy. lol. Vlad doesn't have to get it to sell it. He just needs to believe it like be believed laughing stock xCoin could become greater than Bitcoin when most thought it was already dead. We need that kind of believer back - along with this CIA, KGB, NSA, JP Morgan guy (frixtion) and we're well on our way to a great team.
Then just one good code release to show the world xCoin is not a scam and we're good-to-go, brother!
Okay, the name 'colored coins' is really confusing to a lot of people.
We have to come up with a different name.
What this function allows anyone to do is to create their own coin (currency), their own bonds, their own stocks or something that's backed by something else, like for example gold or silver. So let's say I started a company and I wanted to raise funds for that company, I could create 1 million shares of that company and trade it as a crypto coin. What happens is that anyone in the world can acquire these shares and sell these shares in any exchange. So some guy in China who does not have access to the NYSE can actually buy the companies shares.
Shares are one way to raise capital, another is to create a bond where you pay interest on holders of that bond.
What about precious metals? Say you have a 1,000 silver coins, you can create a currency that represents that silver coins. You can sell those coins on an exchange with the stipulation that anyone who has 1 of these coins can redeem it to receive a real silver coin. Why would someone not just buy silver instead? That is because silver is not transportable across nations and silver costs money to store and secure.
Anyway, the applications are enormous.
Why is iXcoin a better vehicle than Bitcoin? Well because Bitcoin is very expensive, if I needed to create 1 million shares, I would need 1,000 bitcoin to do so, that will cost $850,000 which is not affordable. By contrast with IXC, it would cost $120.
Here is a youtube video that may help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmFjmvwPGKU