I agree Honeypot, and with all due respect, we have emailed and gone through the voting rounds on major exchanges for six weeks now. Community members have even emailed with the hint of 'prices' to get listed. We have emailed almost a hundred (literally) crypto media outlets, every single one that has run a story on the Dogesled and the Worldcoinwell actually, with the full story about our Water Project beginning, Marketplace deals, and the successful wrap-up of our Water Project donation drive (of which I cynically continue to point out, coins with 20x our market cap struggled with and still have not 100% delivered on themselves).
We are getting zero response from exchanges or media (BTCGeek & CryptoArticles are exceptions we are very grateful for). We're not even getting responses regarding 'pricing'. We're getting down-voted constantly on Reddit, by other communities I imagine. This is why I continue to ask our community to keep getting the word out there. We are being held down, on purpose or subconsciously, but the longer we stay here delivering the good stuff (more of which is coming) the harder it will be to ignore us forever, and sooner or later our time will come. Unfortunately, a number have left, unhappy the Marketplace did not make them rich, ignoring the larger picture (BTC & Mtgox) and declaring us a failing coin.
On a personal level, it is getting frustrating and I am getting a little cynical as 100s of BTC pour into s*** like Panda, Stackcoins & Max, but there is no way in Hell the devs and ambassadors of NobleCoin are going anywhere soon no matter what happens to our price. If anyone for a second thinks the first month and a half is going to be the culmination of how much we put into this coin, they are very wrong.
Okay, this next post is my own personal thoughts in which I do believe honestly.
Just remember to keep your head high and look forward. This is something special, we have low hashrate at the moment, quite little attention and small market cap. That is something special with this kind of alt coin. It gives time for the miners to grow their stashes. Those miners who are the backbone of the coin and those who might have been here from the beginning, from the launch day of the NOBL, those who believe this coin, it's devs and community. Of course every coin is dependent of it's dev team, but it's also dependent of the miners and I'm 100% sure that you Rofo know this but I wanted to say it anyway. And I'm saying this because on this stage it rewards the true long term believers, investors, supporters and even merchants if they keep their Nobles.
There are many crap coins with the same or bigger market cap that Noble has. And by crap coin I mean pump&dump coins with no intentions or future plans. They are there for some time, they might have astronomical hashrate compared to Noble, people mine and dump and wait for "to the moon" or "train is leaving" but there might not be either. Miners lose their interest and seek for new opportunities and now as the miners fade and community get smaller, eventually the coin will die off. At the same time new crap coins pop out every day and the loop keeps going.
But in the mean time Noble grows steadily with the future plans, updates, fundraisers, merchants, community, exchanges, hashrates etc.. And also gets more and more pages on this sub forum. I know that it's not a big deal but it still matters when you have hundreds of pages, it tells about the coin's popularity. People will come and see the massive first post with all the info, charities, merchants, marketplace etc. And to the top of all this include the social media like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit which spread the word even more. It's all about time now, it might take a month maybe two or six or maybe a year but it will happen. I've been mining over a month now non-stop and I'll keep mining. I believe in this coin and believing is the key for the success in everything.
I tend to agree with this. Although, Honeypot has very valid concerns, we need to tread carefully and not fall into the trap of incurring so much "artificial" growth that is damages the coin in the long-term. At the same time, the community and the coin will need even stronger organic growth; in particular we should utilize the positive developments and articles that occur for this coin. It would be great to see more people involved with the community commenting and engaging with others whenever a positive article on Noblecoin is released.
I still believe it will take a little bit more time for everything to come to complete fruition (maybe not a year, but I think a good target for strong market penetration is sometime around Q2 2014 based on the current road map). As it is now, remaining patient and continuing to work hard, growing the community organically through positive releases and strong engagement with others, continued development of infrastructure on the business side, and staying true to the coin's mission and ethos is fundamentally important and will determine how successful NOBLE will be in the long-term.