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I guess we are going to find out tomorrow!

I think Icelanders won't care
They all know about Auroracoin already (Iceland is not big), but they still don't really care all that much

The mainstream will never care about crypto in my opinion and I can't blame them, it's pretty boring

 Isn't that one of those fake bus shelters they place in front of Elderly Care Centers in Germany to prevent the Alzheimer's patients from running away?!  Who is in charge of this campaign?

The Auroracoin Foundation: http://aurarad.is

It's hard to believe Auroracoin will rise again.  Good luck.

It will be interesting to observe the resurrection)
Only here the legend about Iceland, it's too much.
I communicate with people from there, when they may not have heard about it.

Well, 2016 is turning into the Unbelievable Year.

I would love to see it happen. I don't hold much of that coin since I did buy it when it was rather more expensive. However, it would be great for crypto if it could even come close to achieving what they are aiming for.

I think many governments will dislike the idea.  >:(

They love the idea of checking everybody's underwear to see how much he/she hides a little too much to be okay with this.  ;D

Back in 2014, they distributed 281,000 coins in Iceland:

http://www.coindesk.com/price-iceland-auroracoin-fall-50-bitcoin-airdrop/

But the Icelanders just sold them immediately and the price dropped. No-one bothered to start an actual economy (shops accepting them etc).

I think that was always going to happen at the start. Takes time for new tech to become viable in the minds of most people. Now hopefully it can start to grow over time there. It's good they are still trying anyway.

But did they actually spend the last two years getting shops and supermarkets on board? Or have they not done anything all this time, but suddenly decided to wake up and cash in on the trouble the Iceland govt is having with the Panama papers this month?

Well, it actually has been a little over a year we have been working on preparing the re-launch of Auroracoin. This time we focused mainly on securing the blockchain technology by porting to multi-algo and building the necessary platforms to support actual usage. This includes a dedicated AUR-ISK exchange and a payment provider that directly enables all merchants to start accepting AUR without any hassle or risk. We also have been building on marketing strategies, of which this campaign is the first of many to unfold.

If you take the time to read our ANN you'll see we have been building things way before the Panama Papers got out. The release of those papers and the fall of the Icelandic PM actually was something that got us scared, it could have easily ignited a new hype that we especially don't want! Fortunately it didn't happen and we are good to start building steady growth :-)

And it's also good to see our campaign is already producing the expected results! The largest business paper in Iceland puts us on the frontpage with a cover story: Auroracoin Returns.

http://vb.is/frettir/auroracoin-snyr-aftur/127243/ (http://vb.is/frettir/auroracoin-snyr-aftur/127243/)

http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac108/LTEX/Schermafbeelding%202016-04-28%20om%2013.39.53_zpsfih3vnf1.png

Just wow. You've got yourself a pretty good photographer there. I hope one day I'll see a poster of a crypto-currency just like yours in my country. I'll be waiting for your time-lapsed video.

Now that is good news! Have you had a lot of Icelandic merchants signing up to your payment processor?

actually i think it is not a good ad at all.
it is nice to see cryptocurrency being advertised in real world (offline) but i think s simple clean image with just a name, especially for something new only make a vague advertisement which is not going to be effective at all.

(it is a white space with a logo (F) and a name under it)

this works for a well known brand like Mercedes but not something that nobody knows except people on altcoin board of bitcointalk!!

if i weren't info bitcoin i would still be thinking what this auroracoin is upon seeing those ads.
i may google it if i have the time to simply pick my phone out my pocket.

not a very ceative ad though, you should at least put some text to it probably, "your wealth auroracoin"

And how do you think Mercedes got well known? The brand (star) is recognized subconsciously for people have stored it in their memory. This is not a one time "Lets sell Auroracoin in one blow" add. It's a subtle start of a wide range of campaigns that is just there to make the brand real in Iceland. People will now recognize Auroracoin because they have seen the brand with their own eyes at all busstops around the country. It's now no longer "some thing on the internet"

Next round we will ad more details. This is just to get people curious and aquatinted with the brand.

I'm sorry but I just want to say that most logos nowadays have minimalistic design. If the design of their Advertisement is full of designs (abstract, imaginary things and stuff) then people will become interested with the design, not the product itself.

I'm sorry if I strongly disagree with you but I believe that their logo is pretty good for an Alt-coin. If someone sees this Advertisement in the waiting shed, then he surely will read the name of the alt coin because it's the only thing written there. And the logo is really really simple, you can have one glance and remember it on the other day.

Our mind automatically registers what we see everyday especially if it's really easy to remember. Like this logo, once it becomes popular, people will talk about it and once they see the logo again, they would remember that they saw this in a public place before.

Nevertheless, if a logo of an alt coin is complex/complicated, we might remember it somehow, but we will not remember it fully just like this logo which is according to you is a "white space with a logo (F) and a name under it".

Just to add another note, those popular companies who have very minimal design all went through this phase. The not-so-popular phase. ::)