real world? show me a real world corporation that is 100% marketing with no product? that's called snakeoil and vaporware
Well this may be a bit excessive.
If you guys are feeling pissed because I mentionned Apple. Then I'm sorry. Look at Dogecoin. Litecoin clone. Nothing amazingly technical. But successful marketing and position.
Dogecoin success sits on a ridiculous dog face. This is the power of images and visual communication !
Having the BEST product won't necessarily makes you the winner. In that sense marketing is critical. Yes.
I'm not saying it is bad, or good. Just the truth (seems)
I don't care about the apple thing so feel free to drop it.
I agree dogecoin does have some pretty good marketing, but behind the marketing, they have community. Which we don't have. They successfully created a trend where people use it to actively tip others to inflate transactions, which is what drove up adoption.
Darkcoin does not have that. Our community consists of 750 pages of people arguing over the color of a logo.
I'm not suggesting we parallelize our marketing strategy with dogecoin (jeez, please no). I'm saying we're at the step before the marketing phase. We need to build community.
We need more people to get off this post and use darkcointalk.org, where we have real forums that people can branch out and talk about other things that build community around darkcoin. We need more people to build more sites that accept darkcoins for whatever purposes.
Right now, newcomers will read about darksend then see that it's not ready. The only people who are going to go for this are speculators. What do speculators do? They pump and dump, or even worse, they fall into pump and dump traps, and lose their money. We need to attract people who see darkcoin as a currency. What makes darkcoin viable as a currency? Darksend. There it is.