I've been messing with that bot on CoinEx a little, and it gets particularly aggressive whenever we hit a price point that would show us being especially profitable. I think it is most definitely aimed at hurting Noblecoin, not just driving the price down to buy it cheap.
Between that, being removed from the block explorers, DDOS attacks against our website during exposure (until we upgraded to top-notch hosting), not responding to requests for paid advertising/promoted stories in media and not being listed initially on certain exchanges to be added I wouldn't be surprised.
When our Twitter sums us up as:
'Philanthropy & eCommerce, Charity Movement & Water Project Initiatives, Bullion & Multi-Merchant Marketplace, Public Ledger & Public Developers/Community' the p&d community and anonymous players in this scene don't like us. You'd be surprised at the amount of PM's and underhanded stuff we often have to deal with on our end especially from some very close and 'apparently friendly' competition.
To be frank we're beyond that now - the marketplace with Amazon cards, Newegg deals and now bullion merchants will allow cryptocurrency users to 'cash-out' their NOBL in alternative places. External promotion like eSports sponsorships and our work so far with The Water Project is drawing new community members in outside of the regular train-hopping users of this forum. The deals will also draw in buyers/speculators/new community members when they see the benefits of using NOBL. We're one of those coins that you can actually use beyond exchange speculation so our short-term goal does not have to be exchanges in a hyped attempt to survive. The people with us now are those who want to stick around for something a little more meaningful than a clone being P&Dumped and bailed on in 2 weeks.
While I won't deny getting listed on larger exchanges (especially in China) is not doing us any favours I really can't continue to look like a fool and email them with votes, requests and costs each week with zero response. We're just going to continue to grow via the old-fashioned way of merchant adoption and global use of the coin, the rest can come if it will. Sooner or later (and some already are) people will clue on to what is going on and we'll stop getting labelled by those who haven't even looked at our website or ANN thread.
I do personally feel like we've failed in that we never got the attention or exchange listings we pushed for like the rest and for what it's worth I apologise, but I promise you we did everything in our power to get there. Everything besides paying copious amounts of BTC to get listed because frankly I would have rather used the 20BTC+ necessary to get onto Cryptsy and Mintpal on an ever-rising buy wall for our coin rather than into an already wealthy exchanges pocket.
When we begin giving details about the
Noble Project, where the marketplace is going next, Australian (and ultimately global) business relationships, external investments and our long-term approach to cryptocurrency that
will last as long as the internet/government allows for cryptocurrency use, sooner or later we'll be noticed and people will begin to wonder why a coin like this was never on their radar to begin with.