That was a crazy crazy trip of little sleep, delayed planes and quick meetings. I'm just waking up, let me start making the overall lessons learned:
1. Most everyone I spoke to heard about Feathercoin (except angel investors / lawyers which is another topic). This is result of all the great PR pushes from our teams, the press releases going out to mainstream and the FTC community that constant swarms around initiatives.
2. Don't believe the BS that Feathercoin 'tries too hard' as some of our critics like to point out. Please see #1. Those that believe marketing isn't a major part of the success of a coin are wrong. This is not an opinion, this is a fact that reinforced over and over and over at the conference. This leads me to #3.
3. "There are other coins besides Bitcoin, Litecoin, PPC, NMC, Primecoin (very few) and Feathercoin?". I heard this so often it became one of the biggest eye openers of the event. Even those that were familiar with other coins besides Bitcoin/Litecoin didn't rattle off a single competitor. Not one. So all these 'X coin to the moon, Feathercoin is dead' is simply a very small focused community not understanding the bigger picture. Thankfully I had time to educate on the other coins... Phenixcoin and Worldcoin of course.
4. Please read #3 again. Every time you come across obviously trolling in 'certain' forums, correct it and move on. The impact is ridiculously minimal in Feather's overall success. Your time is better spent commenting on articles, organizing swarms and beating down doors in the mainstream.
5. FTC/USD on CoinMKT (posted the screenshot in a previous thread). This is big... it's another step forward that we can use to attract investors. Yes, I have been in contact before with CoinMKT... however, it was the constant show of support of Feathercoin emails that made all the difference. The guys were joking around how they receive constant 'Please add Feathercoin' emails. Community, this grassroots approach matters. While it doesn't always look like your efforts pay off... you could be that last email that makes a company say "Hmm.. ok, let's explore a bit more about Feathercoin".
Proof:
http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=3094.0
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