Topic: [XMR] Monero - A secure, private, untraceable cryptocurrency - page 1063. (Read 4671660 times)

Here you go: https://twitter.com/monerocurrency
Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/monerocurrency

Official is a big word. At first Quanttek was handling it, but he didn't have enough time on his hands to maintain doing it. Having that in mind we gathered a new team (dnaleor, davidlatapie, GreekBitcoin, Quanttek (if he has time) and me). After some discussion with the core team, we came to the conclusion that this was the best way to handle it and the core team had no problem with us doing it. Having non-core members handling the socialmedia also lightens some of the workload of the core-members and they can instead focus on more important matters.

PS: I mostly post the things on Twitter and Facebook, but before that we, as a team, first discuss what is going to be posted and how we will post is.

PS2: If you have a Twitter or Facebook account, please follow/like us. Coingecko takes the amount of followers/likes in consideration and liking/following us will thus boost our rank on Coingecko.

EDIT: If you have some additional articles/pieces/posts that you think are tweetworthy, just shoot me a PM and we will look into it. Also if you have some recommendation on how to improve the managing of Twitter/Facebook, just shoot me a PM!

Yes it matters just like any other.

Does mixing from the newly minted coin transaction matter? If so, this is relevant.

GINGEROPOLOUS's POOL SHAME LIST

https://moneropool.com/#payments

mixin 0

http://minexmr.com/#payments

mixin 1

http://hashinvest.net/#payments

mixin 0

http://mro.poolto.be/#payments

mixin 0

http://monero.crypto-pool.fr/#payments

mixin 0

http://monero.xminingpool.com/#payments

mixin 0

(sorry pool ops)



Winner list

http://xmr.prohash.net/#payments

mixin 3

https://monerohash.com/#payments

mixin 3

edited to add:
http://monero.backup-pool.com/#payments

I don't know what your deal is. Mixin 3, then 0 as of recently.

What is the twitter link please? Are you representing the official Twitter page?

I would also like to add that we started a socialmedia team some weeks ago to utilize our twitter/fb/G+ more and also make it a lot more active. We try to post/tweet, next to the weekly missives/digests, informative articles/pieces on a regular pace. So far it has been paying off since we are receiving new interest and new followers on both social media platforms.

We've gotten quite a bit of play in the comments at http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2zrdxz/withdrawals_halted_as_stolen_evolution_coins_make/

which is currently the top post there

This is the kind of thing that can really raise awareness especially if done relevant and factual way that does not come off as spam.

Marketing is super important, it's like half the battle. I agree with you fully, and those that just focus on we are best, (which we are) doesn't matter. I just recently found out about what monero is doing, so unless you have time and ability to sift through BTC talk, you'll unlikely find information. It's not clear and dry to non tech people the advantages, and twitter with other free social media is underutilized.

I'm all for Monero moving up the ladder getting respect it deserves, and missives and interviews are helping, but on top of that, staying on peoples minds, via social media and targeted marketing will do just as much, if not more than tech. Stinks it works that way, but look at massive effort to get noobs into paycoin. It was trainwreck non crypto, and is still traded highly cause these people don't know any better.

We need not overestimate the knowledge base or understanding people have about Monero. I'm not a programmer and half the roadmap doesn't make bit of sense to me, and that is not being negative, but it's some of these goals to me are have no impact on my decision as I don't know or understand what projects will do for coin.

If I don't know this, many others don't.

I will say this, Monero right now has some extremely smart people involved, with lots of ability to get things done, but average joe six pack that will really be ultimate goal doesn't even know what bitcoin is, and let alone benifits of Monero.

My suggestion to those involved here, is that you should consider targeting not only the tech savvy but dumb things down a lot also on social media and marketing, to draw in new people. Clearly state in easy to understand ways why someone looking at Monero doesn't get lost in tech talk, but very simple reasons this coin is the best.

I'll join.

Ok April 18th it is.  I will double the small contribution I've made so far to Monero's development fund.

Please consider joining the party.

First, to your prior mention of thieves using DRK/XMR to wash coins in - Very good point. I was aware of that but that skipped me. With the daily volume on Poloniex, you would think XMR is a target, but not really sure. I guess LTC can even serve that function for a bit.

Regarding your quote above - again, I don't disagree with you, but why limit expression to just this? Totally agree, you get early adopters having lots of extra money then they do with XMR what BTC'ers did with theirs - reinvest and actualize the dream. But all the same, no reason to wait on that when we have lots of possibilities here. Not saying I know what is best, double again, just some brain storming.  

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Monero I'm not going to count as anything at this point, it is just too immature (though in some way that means I'm saying #1)

But as far as Bitcoin, it is clearly still growing and thriving in terms of 1, 3, and 4. It is suffering on 2 for sure. If you want to help bitcoin succeed today probably the best answer is to invest in it; the other legs are well supported.

DOGE has just failed on all four (possibly excluding #1 that they get for free). Yes they tried and made a bit of progress for a while, but that doesn't count. If you wanted to help DOGE today it would be really hard to pick a leg. (Same with LTC)

EDIT: Now that I think about it, LTC and DOGE probably failed most horribly on #1. Yes they had BTC's technology to clone, but that left them without any relevant technology it all. No there there, unless they were going to surpass, or at least approach, BTC on 2,3 and 4 (for a time it seemed DOGE actually had an unexpected long shot at this, but not now).

Dogecoin has valiantly tried to do all four and no one can deny its powerful marketing, high tipping transaction volume, and diverse services like Gocoin, Dogeparty, etc. yet it's down around 90%+, too. As is Monero. Bitcoin's down ~80% in value and transactions are at all time highs with new services/merchants coming online every day. I think the macro-environment (brutal crypto bear market) explains the fact that no coin is having success right now.

Mailed Gizmodo and Vice requesting to have a look at Monero 

Unfortunately I don't have good answer, we don't have good benchmark data, so it is really hard to say what the weightings should be, differences in scale, etc. It's more of a conceptual model than anything else.

If you look at the one good benchmark we have (BTC) these indeed have all grown together. LTC did #1 and #2 and basically nothing on #3 and #4 and ended up being down 95% in value, on its way to 99.9% imo (I think you disagree on this last point, fair enough).

Which one do you personally believe to be in worst shape? IMO, you can hack services/merchants/transaction with xmr.to. Which is exactly what bitcoin did with all the giftcard/purse.io/brawker stuff. You can also hack tech issues like db/gui  with mymonero.com and 3rd party GUIs. This is, again, the case with bitcoin. 3rd party wallets and web wallets are far more popular than bitcoin's official software.
The only thing that you can't hack is liquidity.

I was asked to post this so here goes:

Burstcoin community leaders are reaching out to Monero Devs on their OP. You should take a look. It has to do with Automated Transactions...

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.10836601

Thank you

"Absorb the emissions is the best way to market"

Perhaps, but if more people are into monero, then there are more people absorbing the emissions (and also diverting the emissions towards non-dumpers).

It is possible that Flash memory, SD-RAM, HTML... (all technology notably inferior to the competition at time of release) are the exception rather than the rule. Without rational tools like (well-done) statistics, we human tend to suffer from selective bias - the same reason why a plane crash causes more turmoil than road deaths, despite the latter being much more common than the former).

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This also was a late delivery because TFT wanted to publish on the 17th. I updated the History of Monero.

I see the whole investors-vs-entrepreneurs as more of a chicken-and-egg debate, but even more than that, as a table with four legs (in no particular order):

1. Technology of the coin itself
2. Market cap/investors
3. Services/merchants
4. Transactional users

In my view all of these support all of the others and increasing any of them tends to increase the others. But at the same time, if one or especially two lags badly behind, the table will collapse.

In this model probably the best thing to support is whichever of these you feel is in the worst shape. That's subjective of course.

Raising XMR's marketcap makes Monero more useful, which should in turn raise its marketcap more in a self-reinforcing process. It also has the side benefit of enriching Monero's largest holders, who are likely to use some of that money to fund Monero development and external projects. Thus, the best way to market Monero is to simply buy it. Absorb the emission. It's even better than talking about its merits, advertising it, or accepting it at your place of business. Realistically, XMR can surpass everything but LTC in the mid-term. This is the best marketing possible. You can't ignore #4 on CMC default view. That's when people start to talk about it and when its actual merits become debated by everyone in the wider crypto-community.