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WANTED! DEV/programmer GENIUS
To partner in launching exciting portfolio of new & innovative ALT coins

Are you a script genius based in the UK eager to launch your own coin.
I'm looking for a partner who can think outside the box, enjoys programming innovative features and who loves a challenge. Please PM or leave a message here.


These are just four concept coins from the portfolio that I have branded and registered dotcom names for
(many more to come on this thread but this is just an introduction).

Firstly let me introduce myself... I am based in London UK and I'm a creative entrepreneur with 25 years experience in graphic design, corporate ID and Art Direction. My skills are branding through top level design and I have recently invested in 50 exciting generic dot com coin names which I want to develop in partnership with a tech genius and experienced scrypt programmer, so with all the talent on this forum thought this was the best place to start my quest to partner with a crypto-guru to create and launch exciting, fun and strong coin brands.



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StocksCoin.com (STX)
The number 1 coin for trading global Stocks.
As Max Keiser and his guests on RT news have pointed out in recent weeks there will soon be coins for global commodity and currency trading so Stocks Coin is the key generic for global trading in stocks... I have many other financial key generics.



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UnitedSafeCoin.com (USC)
The Safe Alternative To The US Dollar [Super safe encryption, a coin that gives wider consumer investors stability, safety and confidence in their investment... possibly based on a United Wallet or 'SAFE' that serves to keep and convert all your ALT currencies in one place and in one coin]. OK I know there are many possible 'flaws' to this concept but it's only at concept level at the moment and predicts a future where investors and users can have 'multi-wallets' or 'SAFES' to keep all their ALT crypto coins. Feedback from the DEVS would be great on this topic.



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BombCoin.com (BOM)
A fun game/gamers coin that can be used for many game apps including the popular 'Coin Bomb' concept. Possible unique function could be that on sending the coin to another wallet the bomb explodes and helps to mine some additional coins which are auto-added to the wallet. As in real gold/coal mining there would be different 'seams' to be found some rich and some that are small. Have no idea if this is technically possible and it is only a concept idea. Feedback please. (also see coinbomb.com and coinbomb.biz).



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JPYCoin.com (JPY)
Japenese Yen Coin (JPY). Central to the portfolio are 12 key global currency domains. The portfolio includes generics for the major currency markets. These are not ‘ALT’ or fad coins, these represent coins that are perfect for exchanging real currency on the global financial markets:



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FunkyCoin.com (FNK)
The Funky Coin brand is about energy, vitality and fun.
Funky Coin is specifically targeted towards the younger generation and the coin and wallet has multiple skins and dynamic funky animated graphics.



• Partnership will include percentage of profits [and or] large bounty from each coin depending on level of commitment and involvement.
• Bounty from any future coins will be paid for anyone who can put me directly in touch with a top coin developer that results in the successful launch of any one of my coins on Cryptsy.

There are many more exciting and ground breaking projects based on my domain portfolio and this is just a taster of the ideas I am working on and wish to develop.
My prediction is that 2014 is going to see an exponential explosion of ALT cryptos that will extend well beyond the investor 'pump and dump' market and the portfolio of names I am sitting on is perfectly positioned to capitalise on this growth and place the DEV team in number one position.

In addition to the above and the portfolio of names that requires development I have 3 killer concepts that are currently not on the coin market and need to be developed quickly so if you are out there or know one of the Key ALT currency DEVS please let them know of this post...
If you are as excited and passionate about ALTs as I am please PM me ASAP so we can get started!
Many thanks for taking time to read my thread. I look forward to hearing from you.

Steve :-)

All designs and graphics in this post are © Stephen Rumney 2013

Why can't people just use Bitcoin instead of all these coins? I don't understand why we need to own all different coins for all kinds of niches.

1. The same reason why we have a diversity of global currencies (USD) (GBP) (JPY) and we have a DIGITAL crypto platform and FIAT working beside each other.
2. The world is a diverse place and the ALT currencies reflect this... would be like say everyone should wear the same cotton shirt or all animals should be cats!
3. The ALTS also allow creative development in the marketplace... for instance Quarkcoin is even safer than BITCOIN in its algorythm...
4. The originators of Bitcoin are the main benefactors in the global explosion of Bitcoin. The ALTS allow new entrepreneurs to share in that wealth if the ideas and brands are reliable and move the market on.


The brands I am developing move the market on, are new creative concepts and introduce innovative diversity to the crypto biosphere.

There are too many alts I'm afraid - diversifying is OK but to such an extreme is just confusing for newbies entering the market. In a way creating new, unnecessary coins deflates the ones already in existence.

I understand everyone who is new to this game wants to just create their own coin so they can see a large profit in the altcoin game. There has to be unique features to your coins or it will get pumped, dumped, and left to die on the side of the road by people who have been playing this game for longer than you.

Same argument that I have already covered... in a nutshell there is always natural evolution. Without innovation and entrepreneurship the world remains static. New ideas and innovations bring about evolution. My ideas and concepts are part of that evolution. It would be like saying in 1928 we have a great ford motor car why do we need other manufacturers and models. Look where we have come since 1928.

Evolution and diversity is essential... granted that some of many of the ALTs will come and go as FADS but there will be many that will evolve to overtake Bitcoin in the long run in the same way that Ferrari and Lambourgini which were not even conceived in 1928 are now leaders in the field with cars that could not have even been envisioned in the early days of Motor car engineering.

Wallets will become unified, algorythms will become safer and cross market diversification and applications for different market sectors will evolve.

Watch this space!  :D

This is why I wish to come in to the market as I have many unique ideas and features that I have not seen in any of the ALTS so far. I need to act fast as I am not a programmer myself but I have the ideas and the branding skills to make the coins a success. If you can help me find a top level DEV I would be very appreciative of the help and I'm also offering generous future bounty for anyone who can put me in touch with a leading DEV.

For obvious reasons I have not discussed or detailed all the innovations here as they are original concepts. I have just given a taster of the concepts to illustrate that my ideas are forward thinking and fresh.

Unifying wallets is a horrible idea IMO. Why would I put all of my money into one target for hackers? There is this amazing new concept of being able to have as many accounts for as many coins as you want, spreading out your wealth over multiple deposits and keeping your money isolated. This is an amazing features of crypto currencies. If there was free bank accounts and free credit cards I believe that people would spread their wealth out over multiple accounts and use different cards for different purposes. Putting all your eggs in one basket is usually thought of as a poor investment strategy. It may make things easier for a few people out there, and if you feel that it is an important concept you can pay to have it developed, but I warn you that a large number of people avoid these sorts of things like the plague. Also, saying "Super safe encryption" is going to be seen as a massive trolling statement. If you know nothing of cryptography how can you honestly think to improve things? If you go purely off what a developer claims to be secure you have no real knowledge of how secure it is. Most real cryptography is exposed to peer review and only the good survive such examinations. You can use existing cryptography methods but then what makes your coin new or unique? I like that you want to make something, but if all you do is rip off other peoples ideas you are not making a real product but simply trying to copy other peoples products to trick people into spending money on your product instead.

Do we need a different dollar to buy shirts and a different one to buy petrol?




Yes, but all these alts and yours are not evolving or showing any unique characteristics. If they don't adapt or are superior they they will go the way of the dodo.

I think most new coins promise something new or innovative, but never do. Maybe you do have some good ideas, but without actually hearing them there's no way to tell. You're going to have to tell people or developers to get them behind your coin in the first place any way, so if somebodies going to rip you off they will do.

Why don't you give us a little more info or some hints on why your ideas/branding are original or unique?

Many thanks for you input and I agree with much of what you say. However imho when the crypto market hits the main consumer rather than the current 'savvy' investor and pump and dump opportunists there will be a huge market for 'unified' and simpler wallets that will attract consumers to keep and spend the diversity of currencies they will accumulate by way of rewards, coupons gifts from friends etc. Its one reason I registered VoucherCoin.com.

I am looking forward well beyond the current market once the main banks create products for the consumers who will want simplicity.

Anyway the unified wallet is just one of my ideas and again it is just an illustration that my concepts are looking forward and not just lifting or cloning current coins to get a piece of the action.

I hold my hands up... I am not a crypto expert but my statement above was based on the advances of SHA-4 as detailed on wikipedia which supercedes bitcoins SHA-256 algorithm. I may be totally wrong here so please correct me if I am... my point was that the crypto world is in evolution and that I am looking forward and looking for a dev partner who can run with my concepts and branding to create new innovative products.

nahallacman: Any help with finding such a DEV would be much appreciated

 

When you are able, post in the services section requesting one.

Many thanks for joining my thread and showing interest in my ideas... Once I get the opportunity to personally sit down and meet with a top DEV face to face then I will share my ideas with a confidentiality agreement. I'd be crazy to post it here for the world to see when I personally don't have the means or scripting expertise to launch the coins myself so simply by revealing the ideas here someone can jump on them and get the coins out before me. What should be evident in my post and the concepts I have given as tasters is that I am a forward thinker and very serious and passionate about launching these coins. These coins also represent a small part of the main project and should be seen as just a taster.

I am offering a large future bounty to anyone who successfully puts me in touch with a top alt developer so any help to achieve this would be appreciated and well rewarded. The person who does this has nothing to lose by helping me make this contact and hopefully I have already been able to show that I am serious by the amount of time I have invested in the branding.

Saying there are too many alt coins because Bitcoin exists is like saying there are too many web sites because yahoo/google/whatever exists. Many will be created, suck, and die but some will survive.

Although I do agree that the main reason why anyone creates alt coins is to get in early because they missed the older coins and want to make new ones easily. When people realize how easy it was for the first BTC users to generate millions of coins and horde them they feel cheated (and rightly so I guess).

All I can say is that two of my ideas in particular (as far as I know) have not been developed yet. For the same obvious reasons as stated above I have not laid out the full concepts. At present I am simply trying to find a top level DEV to give me some time to present my ideas and concepts. Even taking away the aspect of my ideas being original and unique, as you will see by the quality of the branding it would not take much for a DEV to take the names and brands I have developed and simply launch the coins as the branding and generic nature of my concepts makes them ideal for success in the current market. I have seen many ALT coins do well with what I can only describe as very poor and amateurish branding (logos and brand IDs). Some coin logos and brands look like very poor 'Clip Art', but have somehow managed to fool people into believing they are worth investing in!

Key to market success and longevity is a logo and brand that people can trust and reflects strength and quality in the brand. Quality branding is invaluable to the success of a coins launch and this is one skill set I bring to the table.

I am very glad to hear you are taking the input of the forum so far. I respect that you have these ideas and what you are trying to do with them but be warned it might be a lot more work to implement them then you think. The problem is, the only thing you are offering for your work is future stake in your coin. Someone really has to believe in your coin to work on it that much. You may have a lot easier time offering a more immediate solution like paying in bitcoin. I would personally never commit to an idea that still has to have all the technical details ironed out and with such little knowledge about the end product. You may get lucky and find someone but why would someone develop a coin for you instead of developing it themselves when the entire profit comes from them completing the project? Also to give out these rewards you have to premine a coin, something that will cause a coin to die fast or generate a lot of hate from the mining community.

nahallacman: One of the main attractions to partner in my projects (apart from the innovation aspect) is the branding and generic nature of the names which will attract 'coin' investors and speculators. As discussed earlier my skill set is branding and many coins are launched that have poor and amateurish branding. Longevity is based on not only the pump and dump investors buying the coin but it reaching and penetrating the wider consumer user/marketplace. A coin that looks like poor clip art will not survive in the larger consumer market as consumers and end users are looking for strength, quality and reliability.

I am aware that many of the current coins have been developed by programming experts who like me are weak in their symbiotic skill sets that lead to overall success. Branding and ID are key to a coins long term success and at the moment I completely lack the tech expertise to compliment my strengths on the branding side.

The relationship between tech experts and design/branding experts is very important and I'm looking for a DEV who can see the potential of my branding abilities so that the relationship is mutually complimentary and the formula of our success. Again going back to my Ford Car and motoring analogy design and streamling the chasis is as important as the mechanics and machinery underneath that make the car work.

End consumers are usually less worried about what lies beneath a product and exactly how it works... they just want it to work, perform well, look great and be a great ride. the same applies for nearly every product on the commercial market which is why design and branding is key to success.

Did you check out the branding concepts which I have uploaded to my hotmail Skydrive.
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=7EDDC4E32F15408%21122

Would appreciate your initial feedback here.

The images actually look quite good. As a programmer though the very last thing I look at when evaluating a coin is the picture and brand name. This may not be true for everyone but if you want a coding specialist my suggestion is to start looking at how people alter an existing coins software to make new coins. You may not be able to understand a lot of the concepts but in my experience, the more you are effectively able to communicate your wishes the more receptive a programmer will be to working with you. The absolute worst is to work on a project with very poorly defined variables. An example would be "good encryption". That is a very generic term and unless the person you are talking to knows a good deal about how encryption works already they won't really understand your wishes and the project might end up being different then what you wished. I would begin at looking at things like proof of work and proof of stake. If all you wish to do is replace a current encryption used in a coin, the dev you are talking about might know exactly how to do that, and you should consider yourself lucky if you find someone like that, or they might have no idea and spend a lot of time trying to figure out exactly what needs to be changed. I suppose since your entire business model is to provide people with a future stake in your coin, you need to figure out how to provide them with that portion of the coin. If you are doing a premine it might upset people and your coin may not garner the attention you hope it will. It seems that many coins recently have been premined but as soon as people figure it out they tend to lose interest in the coin, claiming developer greed. At least that is the way I have seen it so far. A more experinced member of this board may be able to tell you more. I recommend you move your discussions out of the newbie forum as soon as possible. Everyone posting here is doing so to get out of the newbie forum. It is an excellent place to start but you should get better information in other places. Just be warned they may not be as nice.

Honestly though? In my opinion I think you should find a dev to do the coding, or you should find someone who is already working on the programming end of a coin and offer to be their PR rep. Do all the stuff that most programmers don't like to do. I hate doing graphical design. This may not be true for all coders. I tend to find two types of software programmers, UI programmers, and information programmers. In the end though, most programmers don't do graphic design, they leave that job to the graphic designers. Independent coders may not fall so cleanly into these lines as they have to work on a far broader spectrum of work on a single project.

I like the ambition. If I ever start a project of making an alt coin I will get a hold of you.

nahallacman


PROPOSAL: Putting the larger project aside for a moment lets co-develop a coin together on a 50-50 ownership partnership. We can draw up a simple ownership contract. No pre-mining and let the market forces do the rest.

I'll do the graphic design work for the coin and if we can simplify the coding by using an existing open source code it won't be too much time investment on your part.
I know nothing about the coding end an this would be your department.

Let me know the market sector you'd like to target and I'll do the branding and find the perfect 'name' for the coin. This should be something you are passionate about as it will help us focus on the coins success. I find that creating the concept ID gives the project a life and vitality and begins to make the 'vision' materialise. This is why I invest a lot of time in getting the initial design concept looking 'real' as though you can actually touch it.

 :D

If I find the time I will let you know. I am currently working on a project to store long term stats of cgminer. It is pretty infantile so far but I am able to pull values from an active miner over the internet. Between that and school most of my time is consumed.

nahallacman

If you were to do a coin what is your main passion in life that would align your passion to the coin or give me the seed of an idea you have for a great ALT coin... answer this and let me create a concept and source a name for you that you can have to mull over. No investment on your side... I'll just create the concept for you to pick up when you are ready as a thank you for engaging in my thread... you'll have no obligation to run with the project.

I think a point of interest here is that you seem to think each coin needs a very specific use. I find this to be very limiting. A truly useful crypto currency can be used in as many ways as you can think of. Instead of trying to start multiple coins you may do best consolidating your work into a single coin that you put all your effort into. If you find out it wasn't what you hoped, use your new experience in the field to make an even better one. I will put some thought into what I would want a crypto currency to do that hasn't already been done. Honestly, off the top of my head, we need a crypto currency that has a value of 1:1 with an existing fiat currency. In effect the purpose would be to make it very easy for someone to make a purchase online without the vendor having to worry about the conversion rate of the coin to normal currencies. This of course has many holes in it because there is no true way to limit the amount of the coin that would exist. The same danger of a business like the Federal Reserve increasing the amount of money in the system occurs. However, if the exchange rate is ALWAYS 1:1 and there is no limit to the amount of the coins that can exist the coin could be successful. However it undercuts so many of the idea I think are very important in the crypto system such as having a coin cap. The only real use of the currency would be to use payment systems with very small or no fees. It would also require a lot of security to make sure people don't just magically create money. All in all this system seems limited at first, but you could add additional features to it to make it useful in ways besides exchanging directly for USD or whatever base currency you chose.

Well funnily enough then we are on EXACTLY the same wavelength as the existing portfolio has some of the best key generic currency domains on the planet like JPYcoin.com, RubleCoin.com AEDcoin.com, and this is exactly where my project is heading for the 'bigger picture'. I missed USDcoin.com and CNYcoin.com but still picked up USDcoins.com and CNYcoins.com for when this convergence takes place and to feed traffic into my main project.

From your last post I think you'd be very excited to know the full extent of the portfolio and realise that our thoughts on where crypto is heading are spookily in tandem.

The reason I was asking about your main passion is this is a good place to begin, but you went straight for the jugular and identified the exact direction I am already heading

:D

Actually a unified wallet would be awesome.

One wallet, a graphical bitcoin wallet that has skins/themes ability.

Then all the marketer/hype people can go wild making umpteen themes/skins addressing different demographics and niche markets and so on, yet all are totally compatible because under the hood they are all really just different names for bitcoin...

-MarkM-

This is like offering a yellow Dollar bill which can only be used to by bananas.  Why would I want to use that instead of a regular dollar bill?

As crypto becomes more mainstream and general public adopt it dollar bills are going to eventually have little or no value, it will be the successful trusted crypto brands that will be successful.

Okay so how many millions do you have invested in specialised gear to secure your coins?

Will they all be merged together so your one type of specialised gear will be able to secure all of them or will you be creating a different ASIC for each?

(Or do you simply plan to scam people into trusting instead of actually being secure?)

-MarkM-

Thanks Mark... you've identified a key aspect of my project which as I have explained is innovative and new...

You may have noticed my name is FunkyCoin... well there's a good reason for this as this is my field... creating funky designs.
One of the parallel projects is to create 'Funky Coin' [FunkyCoin.com] and a Funky Wallet to go with it, it's all part of the unified wallet idea... a coin and wallet with multiple fun designs and a personality that the younger generation can tap in to and identify with.

United Safe Coin is the daddy of this concept for the maturer crypto user and investor

Is there anything preventing the current bitcoin wallet from being skinned? Or any of the alternatives?
I think the real point of a unified wallet was to store every single kind of crypto currency. Sort of like how coin exchanges allow you to have multiple types of currencies at once.


That's pretty interesting actually. Who knew. I think there are too many problems involved in this still to make it a project but I do like that we had similar ideas. I will keep thinking of things I want a crypto currency to do but almost all of them come back to the keyhotee model that is going to be used by bitshares. Bitshares are the evolution of protoshares and I think you might like some of the concepts. I will keep contemplating though.


I think this is a dangerous assumption. I see a world where crypto currencies and current currencies live side by side until one system crashes. It seems that the assumption of most people is that fiat currencies will eventually run themselves into the ground. I believe too many wealthy influential people are too invested in the current system to just abandon it or let it run into the ground. JP morgan decided that we would have a fiat currency to fix the problems of his day. He was a very wealthy and influential man, so much so he was able to remove the gold standard in the US basically by himself. Who is to say there are not groups of people with near as much influence in this modern day and age?

As mentioned earlier in this thread I'm looking for an experienced DEV to run with my creative concepts and brands. I have no experience in the cryptography side or the server security side which is why I am looking for an DEV partner.

I understand this an ambitious project which is exactly why I am trying to make contact with an experienced DEV. However, unfortunately, being a newbie I can only post here to begin with which is why I have not moved the thread on to another part of the site or been able to make direct contact with experienced DEVS yet.

Hoping that will change soon. In the meantime any help with contacts will be much appreciated.

Steve

Actually it appears this thread has been moved to alternate cryptocurrencies. Should get more visibility now.

Many thanks to all who have contributed to my thread, fed back and elevated my thread from 'Newbie' section to 'Alternate cryptocurrencies' in a matter of hours, this boost is very much appreciated.
I already have one PM offer to help get BombCoin off the ground... so watch this space... this community is great!

steve  :D

Have you checked out this site... fascinating...

It is a visual representation of FIAT currencies migrating to bitcoin in real time!!! Check fiatleak.com to see how much real cash is streaming out of the global currency market (USD, CNY, GBP, YEN etc) in to the safe haven of the securely encrypted digital market place!

fiatleak.com (http://fiatleak.com)

Crypto-coins and crypto trading in all commodities/stocks will challenge the traditional fiat global currency market. IMHO market share of Bitcoin and its associated ALT (Alternative Currencies) will erode the stability of the older financial institutions and the model on which they built their wealth and plundered from the people. We are just at the very beginning, so like early investor’s in Bitcoin the secret is to develop successful coin brands early and now is that unique moment in history.

My portfolio of names is tailored to capitalise on the currency markets switching to digital transfers and being locked in to the value of its digital counterpart.

Have added possible 'unique function' to the BombCoin concept... please read and feedback:

BombCoin.com (BOM)
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=7EDDC4E32F15408%21189
A fun game/gamers coin that can be used for many game apps including the popular 'Coin Bomb' concept. Possible unique function could be that on sending the coin to another wallet the bomb explodes and helps to mine some additional coins which are auto-added to the wallet. As in real gold/coal mining there would be different 'seams' to be found some rich and some that are small. Have no idea if this is technically possible and it is only a concept idea but it would be great publicity to tell people they may get more than they send when sending Bomb Coin. Feedback please.

perhaps the bomb should give coins to both parties, a small bonus and a small refund. might be annoying if you trying to send all your $$ at once tho :) but I like the idea of adding coins from tx, you would have to limit the frequency of generation though, otherwise ppl just bounce coins around all day to collect bomb $$.

maybe the bomb could be triggered by an 'exact amount' which keeps varying every second or fraction of a second. This would minimise the aspect of bouncing just to get a bomb and ensure that anyone trying to send different amount variations would have to try for a long time before they hit the bomb amount.

It would need a huge amount of wallets and transfers to hit the exact amount and I'm sure extra factors could be built in to minimise the abuse of the function even further. Like IP address monitoring and traffic monitoring so that the bomb actually goes off when there is the least amount of activity.

Yes I like the idea that half is deposited with the deposit wallet and half is deposited with the withdrawal wallet... this makes perfect sense and it would be great to send a payment only to find you still have money in your wallet after the payment is sent.

Ah more coins..bring it on!

At this rate we will soon have 1 coin for each individual forum member then we can all just mine our own coins

Bomb Coin...

Every day there could be different bombs that go off. Bomb payouts are monitored in real time on the website and shown by geo-loaction on a world map going off!
Copied this from wikipedia...

    semtex-grenade (sticky)
    TNT
    General-purpose bomb
    Bouncing bomb... Bounces the coins to random wallets
    Bunker buster (can be nuclear) Manages to penetrate a completely random wallet on the network that is far away from the withdrawal depost wallet
    Car bomb
    Petrol bomb
    Cluster bomb Sets off small amounts to many random wallets
    Flour bomb (made with flour)
    Gravitational bomb
    Glide bomb
    Pipe bomb
    Smoke bomb
    Stink bomb Stink bombs range in effectiveness from simple pranks to military grade or riot control chemical agents. Gives you the smallest amount possible... its a real stinker
    Suicide bomb Pays a dividend but its the only bomb that gives all the money to the recipient and does not share it
    Suitcase bomb
    Thermobaric bomb
    Tank bomb or slap bomb
    Barrel bomb

Types of noncoventional bombs:

    Naquahdah bomb (Fiction)
    Atomic bomb
    Cobalt bomb
    Dirty bomb Gives you a payout but changes your wallet's skin for 24 hours to look completely wrecked
    Electromagnetic bomb
    Hydrogen bomb
    Neutron bomb
    Nuclear bomb The big weekly mega payout that everyone is waiting for... as an animation on the home page and records the actual lucky wallet and geo location where the bomb explodes     

individualcoin

u make your own coin, and its worthless, but you can have as many as you want.

yes having different kinds of bombs would make it interesting. its these kinds of "features" (simply modifying distribution structure) that can set a coin apart from others. I know I immediately was drawn to the concept of checking wat sorts of bombs would be going off today. if you think of it in terms of how it could affect the market it is interesting, as on certain days or times there would be more incentive to trade. this could be good or bad.

Why does EVERY altcoin has to have COIN in it's name.

I have a better name for your BOMBCOIN

KABOOM!


Still pointless releases in an already saturated market with pointless releases. But gl anyway!

I've also added the branding for JPYCoin (JPY) [Japanese Yen]. Please take a look at the link below.

JPYCoin.com (JPY)
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=7EDDC4E32F15408%21192
Japenese Yen Coin (JPY). Central to the portfolio I wish to develop are 12 key global currency domains. The portfolio includes generics for the major currency markets. These are not ‘ALT’ or fad coins, these represent coins that are perfect for exchanging real currency on the global financial markets:

Steve

I think you should have just asked for a DEV and not released all your ideas at once here.
Also focus on one single coin at a time.

Bombcoin? Stockscoin? JpyCoin? I am waiting for FuckCoin, WhoreCoin, PissCoin... Who needs all those alt coins???

YoyodyneSystems
Many thanks for your input in to my thread.

Can you recommend a good good DEV to approach or can you give me a personal introduction, that is what this thread is really about.

These are just some of the ideas I have so actually there is much more to the project than I have illustrated here. This thread was is intended as a first step to make contact with a DEV and as I don't know who the key DEVs are I thought best to start here.

The thread is just an initial showcase to sample my branding and design strengths.

What I have found is much of the branding of ALT coins is like amateurish 'CLIP ART'. Dodge coin is a good example of this.
I am trying to create coin IDs that have the brand value of quality and reliability and have long term future investment potential rather than being 'FADS' thrown out there to make short term gains on the ALT market. Strong branding is a major factor when planning for long term evolution.

This is one reason I put so much time in to the initial BRANDING and DESIGN as I see this as key to success and to be taken seriously.

Funnily enough I did look up FuckCoin.com a few weeks ago and it had already been registered.
Guessing you could still pick up PissCoin.com and WhoreCoin.com although although I havn't looked myself.

I have now added photos of the coins to the the front page of this post.
Steve

A good way to cash in on your skills then could be to develop good branding / creatives / logo / etc for an existing coin that already does actually work and is actually secure.

There is such a wide spread of coins available that, as you yourself say, need skills such as yours applied to them.

Some of them you can pick up lots of dirt cheap.

If as you seem to think your skills can enhance the value of a coin, you should be able to make fortunes just picking up large numbers of dirt cheap coins, giving their clients, websites and so on a facelift, nice new logo, landing-pages, motto (I forget the name, a catchy string of words) and so on.

If you cannot do that then I would have to wonder about your ability to carry-through, to continue making the brand's "creative" fresh and new and appealing and responsive to what is going on around it. (Like for example how DOGE comes out with new timely memes in response to what is going on in the world even such things as religious or secular holiday-seasons and such...)

The under the hood stuff well heck as you say the end user just cares that it works.

So it would make more sense maybe to go to town doing awesome branding for Bitcoin itself, that already works and is closer than any other coin to actually managing to secure its blockchain, than to waste your awesome abilities on something that is vulnerable to attack.

-MarkM-

So far you sound too much like all the kiddies throwing out coin after coin after coin to crash and burn.

The impression I get is that you want to churn out even more crapcoins, but make them look slicker so they sucker more fools into losing their money.

Before even one coin is actually up and running and secured already you are on about more different coins.

No ASICs taped out yet to secure the first one, less than half of the hashing power still - none at all that you have mentioned, actually - and already you seem to be moving on to yet another coin.

So basically a serial scammer with a slick con-man plan to paper-over the intrinsic fundamental lack of ability to actually secure even one coin with a plan to keep churning out newer slicker scams leaving a trail of victims holding a series of pretty bags.

The entire cryptocoin community all working together is incapable of even just supporting the coins we already have, let alone securing them, yet your plan is to kick all the victims of all those ponzi schemes to the kerb and wow them with newer better ponzi schemes that will victimise more of them faster and maybe even bilk them out of more money per victim than the existing scams.

Sounds like a scammer olympics in which you aim to be the slickest scammer of all...

How about putting your skills to work doing something constructive, like rescuing some of the victims already strewn all over the landscape, putting shiny attractive skins onto something that might actually be secure and worthwhile, basically use your skills to try to ensure that the public does not get sucked in by more and more scams but instead recognises at a glance the most secure places to store their wealth and finds them more attractive than the scams constantly being spewed out?

-MarkM-

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For these maybe either the Mastercoin platform or the Bitshares platform might work, depending on whether either of those platforms does turn out to actually work itself.

Both platforms have among their target features the ability to attempt to "peg" a currency to something.

Thus if either works it ought to be possible to run your twelve fiat-related currencies as actually being pegged to the corresponding fiats.

Japanese Yen Coin for example makes little or no sense if in fact it is entirely unrelated to Japanese Yen.

Mastercoin and Bitshares are two different technology platforms aiming to implement such relationships.

Of the two and assuming they actually turn out to work, which remains to be seen, I tend to prefer bitshares simply because Mastercoin calls for "trusted oracles". However they also plan "contracts for difference" as an alternative approach; I am not sure yet whether their "contracts for difference" also involve oracles or whether, like certain setups of "long coins and short coins", they will operate without needing to know the "actual prices" of things or even whether markets even exist for such things.

(With "long coins and short coins" people just trade the long and short coins, the system needs no information about what prices the things being shorted or longed might or might not have out in the world, it is possible for both players to profit even since each might know of a place where they can get a good price for one of the things, so that each ends up with the thing he or she can get the best price for. There is no need for them to reveal to each other what those best prices are nor where or how one would go about getting such a price. At most you could deduce, if the players are rational, the approximate prices those specific actors "must presumably think they can get somewhere" for the thing they choose to walk away with. Like "Oh gosh he paid that much for one of those? He must know a place that pays a lot more for those than people in my neighborhood do!" kind of thing.)

-MarkM-

markm


Many thanks for your very thorough and considered analysis of the current project position. I take it all on board and agree with much of what you say. Without a smart DEV coins become 'just another coin' that has very little intrinsic value.

This thread is not about finding someone to simply clone a current coin and chuck some more coins out there. The ideas I have are innovative and require more than cloning and patching. I understand that in a fast evolving market place like this I have to move fast and in the short term if I cannot identify a genius I may have to move my project on with someone skillful who is still on the learning curve but like me to passionate about what they do, hungry to learn, develop innovate, solve problems and troubleshoot successfully.

As the thread title states I am looking for a genius... not a motor mechanic from the local garage to build me a kit car, but a lambourghini engineeer who understands the importance that without the vision of the chassis designer the engine is nothing more than a engine on wheels. Great for other engineers to appreciate the craftsmanship of the engine but for it to turn end user heads the product design is an essential part of brand's success.

Yes it is true, an engineer who makes the engine can buy the services of a chassis designer and vice versa but in this instance I am looking for a partner who I can work with. This is the simple reason the thread has been started, not just to air my ideas or get feedback on them even though this is very useful.

So I keep coming back to same question as this is what the thread is about. Do you know any genius DEVS personally who you could me a n introduction to?

Thx,
Steve

It is easy to find the genius Devs: they are the ones dedicated to genius projects, busily hiring all the best coders they can get hold of because there is no way they can write all of the code for the genius projects all by themselves.

You might consider Jed for example, who created MtGox and sold it, created Ripple and is rumoured to have moved on from that too.

What did he move on to, though? I do not know. Evidently not to your genius projects?

The genius devs seem to usually pay top dollar to get the best coders and cryptographers and such, maybe you can convince them that it might also be worth their while to hire the best graphical artists, logo designers, catchy-phrase makers or whatever else it is that you do.

Do you also do marketing, by the way? As in high clickthrough ratio landing pages, high response email campaigns, maybe even to vast targeted email lists that you have built up during your career?

Maybe if you demonstrate your value by helping a genius dev maximise the value of the genius project that is currently taking up all their time you can then attempt to convince them that your genius projects deserve a place closer to the front of their queue of genius projects yet to be worked on rather than falling way off the end beyond all the projects they already have lined up but just don't have time to get to... (Until, maybe, a genius like you accelerates their current project's success so they can move on through the queue faster?)

I think there is an article out there somewhere though about the ability to even recognise genius devs (aka hackers), I will try to find it for you.

EDIT: Maybe it was this one: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

-MarkM-

Thx Mark for the input even though there is a strong undertone of skepticism as to the value of what I bring to the table and whether a top DEV would give me the time of day.

I have read the Paul Graham link [quote above] which is very interesting and it highlights the importance of why image and product design are so important. Apple were there first company to understand this in the programming world and to this day they have made this a key parameter that drives their evolution. Apple have made 'beautiful design' a core brand value... it took the return of Steve Jobs who understood the importance of design to get them back on track and look where they are now!

Look how even Microsoft and Samsung have learned from the interface and product design of Apple only finally catching up in recent years

You have actually identified the exact reason why I come to this community from the design angle and what this thread is focused on achieving and the quote below speaks for itself in that give a DEV a clear defined 'end' vision and the carrot of the brand already looking like a quality product will give the project it's own momentum towards that vision.


The crystalising of the 'skin' and creating something that is bespoke, real and beautiful gives a clarified vision to both the DEV and the end user. Design is an integral part of creating the brand and the brand's success. I am looking for a DEV who recognises this and is inspired by the brands I am developing. Of course there will be many onlookers, watchers and haters who are sceptical like yourself of my motives and the value I bring but my mission is simply to find a DEV who is inspired to take the projects on.

Granted, at the moment they are just 'skins' but like a coder I bring a lifetime of experience to create each one of these skins so I'm not just knocking out new coins and ideas with clip art. If you look at current ALT coins on the market there are many that are achieving their moment of success and their visual brands are no more than crap clip art. When the big players come in to the market these brands will be eclipsed and die off unless they get a good ID 'makeover' which I predict many of them will do as they become more successful.

I think a problem here may be targeting. Many people who are knowledgeable about coins care very little for the packaging. The real limit to getting a coin into real circulation is getting to the knowledgeable people first. They inform other people and get the idea out there because it interests them. There is no simple package to shine up like a phone. There is a UI to shine up but that won't be enough to sell knowledgeable people on your product. Once it has gained a moderate audience it can be the thing that drives it to the more uninformed users but there is no easy channel to get it to them. Companies like Apple already had products and funds available. They were going to make more products anyways, they just made those products better and gave it a unified brand name (iPhone, iPad, iCloud, ect.). You have no existing channels of distribution or income in this field. That is a very large barrier to overcome. When Apple started it was because they had a unique, competitively priced product to ride on (Apple I). I also agree that you should try to start at another product that already has a following to try and overcome these problems or find a way to overcome these barriers to beginning your product.

This is a factor today but as the market grows a branding will become more important, It is no coincidence that companies spend billions a year on brand consultancy and let specialist companies handle branding and logo development. Large companies will have abook produced for them which will outline all the rules of their corporate ID. We take design for granted but there is a science and art to communicating your brand through design and media.

I agree that the image is important for widespread adoption but how will you reach that point without getting through the necessary hoops of getting the information to them?

The genius devs have already built the genius code under the hood, but are you capable of wrapping it in brands and skins and marketing campaigns that will make it catch on?

You don't need a developer, you just need a user interface editor, which, conveniently for you, QT supposedly has.

I have no idea what exactly it does, but presumably it aims at being like CSS is supposed to be on the web, an abstraction layer that lets graphic designers screw around with the cosmetics without needing programmers, code rewrites, and stuff like that?

A skinning system, or something like that?

If so you should be able to basically proceed through all the most well-established coins buying up some then releasing an awesome new theme, skin, logo and so on and so on, and make fortunes.

I'd still suggest that you start with Bitcoin, because if you double the value of a puny alt you make a few people a few thousand bucks richer maybe, but if you double the value of bitcoins you make lots of people a heck of a lot richer. So the scale of gratitude possible seems like it would maybe be a heck of a lot higher with Bitcoin.

Its about disposable income. Seems like a lot of folks playing with alts don't have any disposable income, and you'd have to multiply the value of their alt some massive number of times before they'd begin to come close to having some disposable income.

But with BItcoin tons of people have lots of disposable income and many many many more will have even if the value only doubles.

Even just doubling the value of Bitcoin would likely create many people who would be able to afford to pay the 3 bitcoins you want for branding an alt for hundreds upon hundreds of alts if proliferating umpteen alts is actually a good thing to do.

(I mean one person paying for umpteen brandings, not oodles of people able to afford one branding each.)

For example if you release a super-attractive branding of Bitcoin that doubles the value of bitcoins I could afford to buy a branding for each of the child chains that one merged mines alongside it. (That is to say, NaMeCoin, DeVCoin, GRouPcoin, IXCoin, I0Coin, CoiLedCoin and GeistGeld.)

-MarkM-

EDITED: Listed the child chains that are merged mined alongside Bitcoin.

If I had been on top of Bitcoin from the start I possibly could have done, but Bitcoin already has a very strong and slick brand ID. I've actually just started another thread which is more focused on advice than finding a DEV partner and I talk about the success of the Bitcoin 'B' there'

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=390797.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=390797.0)

Of course, if invited to do so I would gladly have a stab but there is already a great bitcoin 'coin' image [see below] that I see is used in many places including Ebay.
Bitcoin is in my opinion spot on with its branding.

This is a great photo and if I had the money myself I'd do samples of my coins then photograph them for that additional authentic feel, as this is a photo of a physical bitcoin it has that real look with scratches and imperfections which I love adding to the authenticity and strength of the brand/image.

http://thestatelessman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/bitcoin-logo-3d.jpg


Steve

:D

OK fair enough, everyone here hates fiat.  But what are you offering here over bitcoin?  Why should someone choose to direct hashing power at your blockchains?  What value is provided by a "Stockcoin" to buy stocks and a "JPYCoin" to buy yen?  How will these be more successful than just bitcoin?  What is your plan for "colored addresses" and the related contracting protocol being developed in bitcoin?  All I see here is some websites and some logos-- but what, if any, markets are you creating?  You do realize that do any of this, not only do you need a "genius programmer"-- you need a team of them and a few hundred mil to create, secure and back the markets it seems you want to create.

So let's take JPYcoin as an example.  How would this be pegged in any way to the JPY market?  Crytocurrencies have fixed inflation, not so for fiat.  Are you going to put up the millions of yen to establish a market?  Is your plan is to pay people in yen who mine your JPYcoin and then, where does your profit come in?  I'm really at a complete and total loss on how you expect this to work.  Is your plan for a P2P distributed market using colored addresses and the latest unreleased bitcoin contract protocol?  Or do you plan a funded central exchange?

It's one thing to make a joke/fun coin like funkycoin/bombcoin/dogecoin (in which case why are you hiring a genius?)-- but an entirely different matter to actually create a real functioning financial market using a brand new cryptocurrency.  My suggestion is to take a look at what is being developed around colored coins, and put your noggin' thinking about how you can build on top of bitcoin to create these markets. 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=106373.0
https://bitcoil.co.il/BitcoinX.pdf
http://coloredcoins.org/

CaptEmulation

Many thanks for you very interesting and thought provoking in-put. You are absolutely right in that my strengths are on the branding and creative side and it is the reason why I want to team up with an experienced DEV to tackle the issues you have outlined in partnership with me. Ideally I am looking for a DEV who is inspired by my ideas and can see they are worth working on in parallel to their other projects. I understand your concerns but these are actually issues I want the DEV to guide me on. This post is about finding a DEV who sees the projects as interesting and challenging.

Are you a DEV yourself or would you be so kind as to make a personal introduction to one so I can present my ideas.

Again, thank you for taking time to outline your concerns. This is steep learning curve for me and all in=put is appreciated,

rgds,
steve

I have a decent idea for using a coin pegged straight to a fiat currency. Do one of these concurrent transactions with the bitcoin client type of coins and keep all the ledgers in there exclusively. This is a bit rough and may have already been mentioned but I believe that is the only way you can really get away with making a coin without giving people something to mine.

because its too damn expensive..
and holders who don't need to cash out - hold
and most who saw how genius it is only recently - can't buy in..

it's probably open source for a reason :-)

Hey, I have the skills you're looking for. Email support@l8.lv if you want to chat.

Same here , please send me through pm your skype address so I'll add you and we can talk about it.