Topic: Mass Market Appeal Coin - SantaCoin - page 2. (Read 1961 times)

Release just prior to xmas

OP hasn't heard of China coin.

Cmon man, just go with your CatholicCoin, people are really going to take you a lot less seriously if you keep throwing all these joke coins out there.

Sorry. This is BS. You can make as much hype as you want around your new coins if there are no pressure/demand for your coin. Even if I'm catholic why on the earth I should start messing with your catholiccoin if I can make my offerings in the church with ease and I can buy any kind of religious stuff if I want? Same thing applies to soccer...

Your chosen market segment what you targeting should be an existing one with considerable demand for your service... and your service should be something what a lot of people really needs.

An example: In Iran lots of people struggling because of the high inflation rate, many of them sees bitcoin as a loophole where their money can escape inflation and their own government, but they having difficulties with getting bitcoin and funding their accounts because of the US export regulations and the UN sanctions. There's a high demand, a lot of potential customers but no solution. So let's make a coin what using a not regulated strong crypto algo, wrap communications it into I2P or Tor, translate the client to Farsi, bring the coin to a Russian or Chinese exchange, make a big marketing hype and start spreading it between the Iranian diaspora or in Iran if you can. Wham! You will have more than 80 million potential customers very soon, many of them eager to use your coin. You fulfilled an existing demand, you made a couple of people's life easier and you can get rich as well.

Oh no, jack, you found me.

I didn't say features were worthless, just that people put too much value on them when it's obvious they don't matter that much: ie. see Bitcoin's value, which has the least features.

And yes, shaw256 is the best way to go.  There's gonna be lots of idle GPU's with ASICS coming online and also, if you can have your coin merge mined with Bitcoin there's less to worry about as far as a weak network and 51% attacks.  

Now if you can tell me why any of that thinking is flawed, I'm all ears.  TIA.

Vlad already stated that features are useless
Also, he wants a SHA256 coin, because only exact Bitcoin clones can bring investors

Snail2, correct the Launch and then how you market it is crucial.  You have to be generous and offer people things they've never gotten from their money before.

Like I said before - there's nothing to produce - no overhead, so you can be generous and even if you give away 40% on marketing you still have a huge successful business plan.

Good point. Especially liked the feature comparison between PPC and BTC .

As we can see in the case of CraftCoin, targeting a market segment is a good idea, but a name worth nothing without some related "real world" services.
E.g. You can use your CatholicCoin for buying indulgences, with your BSpearsCoin you can get 5% cheaper brain implantation or 10% off on bleach, etc...

Nothing lasts forever, but currently I must agree.

Thanks for your input.  I disagree. I think bitcoin has too many things lacking but I give it props for creating a whole new industry.  Many other coins will make people more money than bitcoin and a few should become bigger and more popular.  We'll see.

But there's definitely room for many more coins and a few really good popular ones.  This is going to be a new industry - it's gonna be bigger than the Internet.  I think few people realize this.

I second the vote.    Bitcoin is it.  Always has been, always will be.

I don't see anyone but techies buying coins for their features and most features can be turned on at any point via a hard fork so its not really a big issue.

If people bought coins for their features then PPcoin would be $80 and Bitocoin would be 20 cents.

When the masses come in next year they're gonna buy into ideas that either sound good or ideas they agree with.  Some will buy a coin just cause it sounds cool or its associated with someone famous or has a good rep.  Hardly anyone is gonna ask well, does this one waste less energy than this one and are the transactions on this one faster than on bitcoin.

So I'm all about adding good features but when it comes to bringing in the masses, most will not care nor understand all the tech talk, they'll just want to make some money on a speculative coin like bitcoin and if they can do it while investing in a great or cool coin then that's even better.

And that's what I'm trying to come up with - an instant hit, something most people would like off the bat.

All over, like where?   Is someone running out of space? 

Lol, you're funny dude.

These are separate coins with different target markets, different purposes, and slightly different business plans.  Those interested in a soccer coin may not care about a CatholicCoin and vice versa so one big thread cluttered with 5 different completely different coins would be pretty ridiculous and show a lack of common sense.

Maybe you should try some positive input instead of senseless hater advice which nobody in their right mind would even consider.

Lol, you're funny dude.  But yeah, finally a guy who sees this.  All these alt coins have had some good success and some a lot so imagine just one coin with instant mass appeal.  A common household name which has no trademark.  

This is how I got to Santa from Jesus.  Not a lot of big names like that you can just use for your personal coin.

But I agree, if I can't find someone to help me out on this someone else will see this potential and do it themselves. It's coming - it's just too obvious and too big to not happen. Something like an NFLCoin would be huge if they market it right.  

I'd love to steal that domain cause its open but NFL is a trademark so I would be holding it for them for free.  Sorry, no free parking.

Why not just condense your 12 threads about "awesome coin names" into one, so you stop cluttering your bullshit all over?

Are you just taking the piss now?

How do you get from Jesus to Santa?

Maybe do both and then try to set up some sort of contest.

I think it's not a bad idea.  It's my secret weapon I'm going to come out with an altcoin that will have immediate mass adoption because of the name.  Every day I wait for someone else to think of it before I can start. But no one does.

Someone is coming very close

But you are picking names that people get very emotional about.

It's ok if you make a jesus coin or a santa coin.  You just have to be ready for haters.  To be honest you could make "your mom coin" and every one would hate on you for it even though everyone loves their mom.

Oh, shit.  Your Mom Coin.  Oh man I'm outta here i got to go find hazard.

I vote for Bitcoin as the "Mass Market Appeal Coin".

What are the features of the coin? If it's just another scrypt clone I don't see the point.

I'm really surprised nobody is excited in the least about the idea of a mass market appeal coin.  I thought a sports coin or a religion based coin would excite some people but it's not happening.

So how about a benign mass market coin which isn't offensive to anyone - well, some people get offended by oxygen.

What about SantaCoin or SantaClauseCoin, as I have both domains?

It doesn't get more mass market or harmless than that?  Come on, there's gotta be better, way better ideas than naming a coin after a bird feather.  Yet feathercoin is worth nearly $1 million after less than 60 days.

Can't anyone see the earth shattering potential here for a mass market coin if it's launched right and marketed properly?  The potential is enormous.  Thanks for your voting efforts.


What say you?