Bitcoin (the currency) was designed to BE A CURRENCY, hence the price rise was good enough.
ZeitCoin, as I interpreted it was to be a movement first and a currency second.
If this becomes about MARKETING and PRICE rise as the key components then I'm dumping and getting the hell out.
The driving force behind the price and attention should be what we're achieving to improve civilization and what we're building towards. That's what needs to attract people, not the profit motive. If the profit motive is the primary cause for people being drawn in, then we've failed and from what I'm seeing so far, we're failing miserably.
As you don't appear to be able to see the difference, then we really have failed as you're already here and can't tell!
The reason for the failure? For me, the OP's drawing attention to the wrong things, not focusing or promoting the right things and certainly not active or transparent enough.
There seems to be 3-5 people here actually putting up ideas (some I don't personally support but I see they're aimed in the right direction), that's certainly not enough people with wide enough skill sets, if it was, we'd actually have something of to show for ourselves, which we certainly don't.
Well what exactly are you guys trying to achieve then, specifically, in terms of immediate goals? This is something that I never really hear about. Where are the plans for the techno cities that can be built today, with today's tech, if only they weren't so "expensive" to build for greed-driven, artificial market scarcity reasons? Where are the free 3d printers (and the raw materials needed to make them work) that's supposed to enable me to produce everything under the sun (like iphones and super computers and desktop computers and food) without the need for me to order anything but digital goods and raw materials from amazon? WHERE ARE THE PLANS TO MAKE THESE THINGS POSSIBLE ON A MASSIVE SCALE!!???
All the things Mr. Fresco and Mr. Peter Joseph talk about is just that, talk. They are just preaching ideas and putting out videos, hoping against hope to inspire some rich person in the capitalist society to donate a lot of money to actually kick start a project with a high initial investment requirement. But nothing seems to actually have happened yet as far as I'm able to tell, based on lack of news.
And as far as I can see, no one in ZeitCoin has yet contributed any value added to TZM yet along these lines. This community is entirely "financial" oriented, by it's very core nature.
It is for the reason of lack of evidence that the proposed "solutions" are actually workable, as well as doubts about some of the assertions they make (for example, their claim that governments will become obsolete.....in spite of the fact that human beings are TRIBAL at our very deepest being and will always trend toward some form of government), that I remain a skeptic about TZM.