http://www.ibtimes.com/how-make-money-bitcoin-wild-west-digital-currency-1507660http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/24/bitcoin-altcoin-cryptocurrency/?section=magazines_fortunehttp://cryptocoinupdates.com/sexcoins-a-currency-with-a-meaning/http://crypto-daytrader.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/ron-jeremy-is-pumping-sexcoin.htmlhttp://www.heavy.com/tech/2013/12/what-is-sexcoin-price-cryptsy/http://www.zive.cz/clanky/kryptomena-to-neni-jen-bitcoin/sc-3-a-171821/default.aspxhttp://e-svet.e15.cz/it-byznys/kryptomena-neni-jen-bitcoin-o-misto-na-trhu-bojuje-velke-mnozstvi-virtualnich-men-1048921 (points out lack of professional payment processing)
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/dogecoins-founders-believe-in-the-power-of-meme-currencieshttp://harounkola.com/ (Press release)
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/173098-bitcoin-value-collapses-as-china-bans-new-deposits (Comments)
I won't bother with other forum posts, and general comments..
I've been around a while, I started mining bitcoins a little after the first crash from 30 to 3 dollars.
One thing I had to get used to was the media. I would hear something, wonder if it could really be happening and check the news to see what the reports were. Days later the media would finally give a report, usually very short or incorrect. The fact that SXC is shareing the same space as serious cryptos is very telling, and it will take a while for it to penetrate the mainstream.
Lets get on to some major players.. How would we explain that yes there are payment processing tools, they should be able to use those wordpress plugins on their site.. They aren't ametuers that use wordpress ?.. Well...
Cashing out ?, well first they would need to sell their volatile SXC for volatile LTC .. No the money doesn't come yet.. You take that volatile LTC and trade it for volatile BTC.. No you still don't have cash.. You transfer that BTC somewhere else and then you sell it for cash..
The plain fact is we need a USD/SXC conversion in one go, and it's being worked on.. by a developer outside the cryptocommunity ... That takes time.. Just the legalities would make your head ache..
That being said, I can see where we haven't promoted SXC hard or well enough within the "cryptoshere". Part of the problem is we don't want to push a "broken" client. Every other coin might be fine with algorithms that are wildly inaccurate, but lava is not, and I support him fully because if this coin is going to go mainstream, it needs to function perfectly. The original dev was a looking to pump n dump, the majority of coins are pump n dump, but we decided early that integrity would be part of the brand. Think about this.. After a 1500% rise, the devs did not dump their SXC and disappear.. We are still holding and we are still here, on boxing day, wishing we could have a day off...
If you bother to read all of the posts in both threads, you'll see we've gone slow and steady, and ignored the get rich quick, hype ridden, scam ridden paths of most coins. Seeing as we are now getting mentioned by the mainstream media, I'd say it was working.
As for grass rooting, SXC has been mentioned to some webmasters of major sites, but not presented as a finished product. The idea behind this is they will be aware, when the coin is sufficiently developed, that this is not some scam that has just been released, but a finished product with considerable investment and time in it's development.