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Hey!

I have some significant volume of XDNs. Why? Because I am fascinated by the technology employed in XDN and saw much less sophisticated coins like Dogecoin and more recently Neucoin make millions with outstanding marketing. I am confident that market capitalization of such technologically superior coin should be worth over $100 000 000.

So what can we – the key holders of XDN – do to help XDN reach its true potential? We can help XDN’s market cap to grow with sophisticated and effective marketing. I am a marketer myself that spent most of my professional life working in marketing communications and PR. Last six months I spent studying Dogecoin and Neucoin marketing campaigns to learn from successful projects while developing my own plan of XDN promotion.

I have a plan of making XDN the next Bitcoin. My friends and I worked on it for the past few months and now it’s ready.

My proposal to all the XDN owners community – join me in making XDN the next Bitcoin. Together we can make it worth hundreds of times more.

Wow!! I have been working in the similar direction for some time now. I like the energy, but what makes you think that you can be successful in raising XDN’s market value? What is your plan?

I have developed a marketing plan that encompasses all areas of traditional and crypto marketing. I will post here later some part of my plan.

If you think about it – Bitcoin is a pure marketing product with sufficient technical support. I studied Neucoin and Dogecoin launch plans and they are all based on effective marketing activities. If you track some of these activities, you can trace strong correlation between these marketing activities and surge in demand for the coin.

Where did you get Neucoin's and Dogecoin's promotion plans?

Neucoin’s plan is published on their website. With Dogecoin my team and I had to study their marketing activities. Now we more or less understand what they did to reach the level where they are now.

I think you are fantasizing when you say that you can make XDN worth hundreds of millions. Neucoin and Dogecoin invested millions to be where they are now. How much are you willing to invest yourself?

I don’t think we need millions to raise the value of XDN to hundreds of millions. If you study carefully Neucoin’s and Dogecoin’s marketing activities, you will notice that only a handful of activities were really effective in increasing demand for and raising price of coins. We studied carefully their activities and focused our plan only on the most effective activities, eliminating unnecessary ones.

I have accumulated about 100 million XDNs. So I have significant leverage to do the impact, but the help of XDN holders community will amplify my effort.

100 mil XDN?! Sounds unrealistic unless you are the XDN developer.

I wish I was! XDN would be worth a lot more than it is now. I am fascinated by the technology and started to mine XDN as soon as it was released. I mined over 17 million XDNs. The rest I purchased on the market for around 15-17 satoshi each.

I invested in XDN significantly preparing for this moment raising my stakes and readying my marketing plan. It’s the best time to start and whoever joins me will see his stakes increase multiple times.

Interesting stuff!
I am also quite interested in XDN technology and have been working on promoting XDN for some time. What’s your plan?

My plan includes multiple steps, but they can be broken down in a number of key ones:

1.   Setting up the XDN foundation.
2.   Selecting and outsourcing key activities to the specialized marketing communications agency.
3.   Initiating key newsmakers in top Fintech media about the XDN’s technological breakthrough and mass adoption.
4.   Incentivizing widespread adoption of XDN by service vendors like casinos, traders, retailers, etc.

I will present my full marketing plan after we move over the first step of the plan – setting up the XDN foundation.

what are the exchanges that xdn is active now?

At the moment, XDN can be traded on HitBTC and Poliniex. I know there was some issue with XDN on Bittrex, which traded it before. I am confident XDN will return to Bittrex when the trading volume will pick up.

Our plan includei introducing XDN on all key global exchanges including major instant exchanges like ShapeShift.io

Have you been in contact with the XDN developers about your plan?
I am sure they will be interested to know about it and maybe will provide support for it.

You serious m8? Yet another dark-something coin trying to beat Bitcoin? Geez haven't I seen this one like a million times before!

I have been following this thread, so here are some thoughts I have in relation to technology behind the XDN.

First of all, the XDN the code base for Darknote is completely different from BTC, based on CryptoNote. It took only the best from the CN and improved some important aspects of its nature.

The XDN works on the CryptoNight, a PoW algorithm developed with the aim of equalizing one CPU to one Vote in the network by relying on random access to slow memory. Every new block is dependent on all previously mined blocks, unlike Scrypt or any other algorithm proclaimed to be ASIC-resistant. This way, anyone trying to stockpile memory to increase their mining speed will have to provide for an exponentially-increasing demand.
GPUs have no advantage over CPUs and ASICs are outright impossible to be designed here.

Moreover, nobody can tell how much XDN anyone holds, trace a source of beneficiary of XDN transaction. This 100% intractability and unlinkability is achieved by the use of coin mixing and one-time single public key generation for every single transaction.

One of its most significant advantages is the end-to-end untraceable encrypted messaging system: here you can send messages that nobody will be able to read, because nobody will even learn that they have ever been sent.

Judging by XDN’s evolution, it is likely that it will soon be running on a hybrid PoW/PoS algorithm to stimulate early adopters. Now, personally I don't like any kind of PoS - I am huge fan of POW and TRUE decentralization, but this still sets XDN apart from BTC.

Darknote has already reached its Minimum Block Reward and its price is only determined by the market now. The amount of coins that are on the market right now is everything there will be, no more XDN will be created.
It has the smallest blockchain of all CryptoNote-based coins, freeing you from the necessity of downloading huge amounts of data; it was the first CN coin to have a cross-platform GUI client with integrated pool miner.

So here are my two cents to this discussion.

I was in contact with XDN developers before, but they seem to be more concerned with the technical side of it. They did a pretty good job with the technology, but my focus here is marketing. I believe that this is a way forward for XDN. People won’t know about the note unless you tell them about it.
I see you have also been involved with XDN. Do you have a direct contact with them?

I see you are quite knowledgeable about XDN. What’s your interest in it?

I may be able to help. I'm a image and video graphic designer. I don't mind getting paid in XDN.

Hello, Brian.
Much appreciate your ideas and future contribution.
Our team is focused on technical side of XDN, that’s true, and concept of XDN foundation you mentioned definitely should be pushed forward. Ive heard about some contacts with you from other team members some time ago and we touched the idea of foundation in our discussions. Please, contact us once more with PM here or on darknotetalk.org, we are absolutely open for collaboration.
Thank you.

Excellent! We are looking for enthusiasts to join our team. You XDN stakes should grow in value, after we start rolling. What’s your background, what projects have you worked in in the past?

Great to have you here!
As you have seen from my brief plan, XDN foundation is just a first step that should take us to the next level. I am surprised the foundation is not up and running yet. I have had quite a few PMs already from people interested in joining us. Your involvement would be encouraging and give us additional push.

I worked on some similar projects and have good understanding of the technology and work behind it. I like what XDN’s developers did, I even mined some XDNs. Current results are quite disappointing given the technology behind it. It deserves better. Hope you guys know what you are doing and PM me if I can be of help.

All right, that's not bad, maybe there is something to this coin.


Man, technology is only a part of the formula. What makes you so sure that your plan will work?

There is nothing that we can be sure about in the world. But as I said earlier, we studied two successful altcoin projects (Dogecoin and Neucoin) and developed a marketing plan that includes the most effective instruments of the two projects among other things. We also consulted some top minds in marketing who gave us their feedback on the plan and suggested some additional PR activities.

I myself have over 10 years of experience in PR and marketing communications leading some large scale projects in tech and IT fields.

Parts of the work that we did on the marketing plan is to develop decent newsmakers that we tested on some media. Most of the feedback we received was positive and we are confident that our newsmakers will make it to the top media like the TechCrunch and Bloomberg.

To lift the curtain, we are planning to initiate a story about the widespread employment of messaging technology behind XDN in areas where conflicts or social tension are taking place. We have developed content that lets us justify the claim to the media. Our newsmaker plan is populated with such stories that we hope will make headlines.

Hi Guys!

So were are back again, after an unfortunate BTCtalk downtime. While the BTCtalk was down we managed to find more support on the native Darknotetalk.

Here is the link to our thread: http://darknotetalk.org/groups/xdn-foundation-0#comment-66
With so much interest and support we are moving swiftly into the next stage of our marketing plan – setting up XDN Foundation. We have already started working on it and will soon present foundation’s website. We are moving confidently to our goal.

Soon, we will unveil the next step of our plan.

In the meantime, those of you who want to join XDN community please make yourself heard by shouting out here, PMing me or sending me an e-mail (brian.gerald007@gmail.com). Moreover, those who want to join us in working for XDN Foundation, please drop me your CV. We will consider you for various positions now opening at our XDN Foundation team. We are looking for social media marketers, press consultant, graphic designer, motion artist and PHP developer.

Be brave! Join us!

When do you expect to start? I gotta say, I'm getting more and more eager to see this thing get off the ground. Get in touch with me @ jkyle5701@gmail.com, I have some ideas on Facebook/Twitter promo when you launch (talking from the standpoint of my experience in SMM).

So, gentlemen. I've been monitoring your discussion since the opening post, but failed to surface before bitcointalk went down, so here I am, taking my chance before it does that again.

I was following on cryptonote rather tightly back in the day and I still think that it is a groundbreaking piece of disruptive technology, that should lead the 'Bitcoin 2.0' movement. Thing is, I want to profit from it too. What I wanted to know is if there will be a seed funding run for your foundation: I hold a minor stake in BCN and a bit larger one in XMR, which I could very well invest in you, in hope of seeing a larger return. Now, I won't, of course, do that before I see a tangible, concrete plan/roadmap, because so far you were pretty abstract about your intentions. But if you are indeed going to let investors in on the deal, I'll be sure to keep track of this thread.

I wouldn't call it a market failure at all. The market is working just fine. Most people just don't care about technology, but they do like the cute little dog, so guess what one they buy. A lot of people don't value XDN nearly as much as you do, so they aren't willing to pay much for it. That's just the way the market works. It's not a market failure at all.

I was asked, yet again, about my intentions and capabilities in relation to XDN. This time on the native Darknotetalk (http://darknotetalk.org/groups/xdn-foundation-0#comment-74). I completely understand such skepticism, given the unconventionality of the project. I was thinking of a way to respond to these skepticism and decided that the best way to display my intentions is to publicly acquire additional stake in XDN.


Here are two links that show a significant growth of XDN's market capitalization after I purchased seven bitcoins worth of XDNs.

http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/darknote/#charts

https://poloniex.com/exchange#btc_xdn

http://imgur.com/gallery/lhtpPUe/new (http://imgur.com/gallery/lhtpPUe/new)

Hello everyone!

I'm happy to announce the launch of the Darknote Foundation homepage: http://xdnfoundation.org/

From here on out it will serve as a base of operations and a centerpoint of communications for the team that we are gathering. Like our mission statement and the strategic plan state, there are multiple activities to follow from our side, which will ensure the universal support and financial prosperity of the community and its sustained movement towards XDN's mass adoption.

The first order of business is to select a reliable agency to spearhead our marketing effort and establishing communications with relevant newsmakers. As soon as we achieve reasonable media presence, we'll proceed to the next steps of our strategy.

In the meanwhile, I encourage everyone to visit the Foundation's website, familiarize themselves with our plans and mission and start spreading the word!

Great, we've made the first step!

With the website taken out of the way, Brian and I are compiling a shortlist of marketing agencies that could be up to the task of working with us. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to share them here.

And, like Brian said, we'll need help with spreading the word about this, so I ask everyone involved in XDN's community to distribute the news to relevant audience.

Yo guys, this is great. How did you manage to finish the site so fast?

Well anyway, check out these couple scetches here that I've thrown together: I know you didn't really ask for them, but here you go ;). I like what you're doing and design is my passion. If I put more work in these, we could probably use one of them as Foundation's logo. Consider this to be my resume.

http://s18.postimg.org/hcfzvyeex/duckdarknote.png

To be honest, I am quite impressed by the quality of your work. We will definitely have a public poll with the artworks for Foundation’s logo, but I expect yours to be among the leaders. Thank you!

How are you planning to do that? Bitcoin is around since 2009 and they still have problems with this. Why you think they would be interested in XDN?
I think you better look into deep web, and dark markets - these guys will be much more interested in XDN adoption.

Regardless your studding markets and marketing campaigns of some coins, because of those words I believe you have no idea what are you talking.

Any clue why any of coins will not come close to bitcoin at least not for 5 years or maybe never?

lol. And how are you planning to do that? Another foundation - okay, then what? Why do you think you'll be able to achieve anything. Look at the market right now - now even bitcoin is having hard times. And it's a well established brand already, and you want to introduce a completely new coin no-one ever heard of to the public. I doubt that it can be done, not after bitcoin price crash - people are simply afraid.

Bitcoin is a product of disruptive technological innovation and sophisticated marketing. The legend of Satoshi Nakamota was covered by almost every respected media outlet in the world. It’s a very successful marketing project based on decent product. However, Bitcoin has a number of technological flaws that are now skillfully exploited by global mining hubs preventing its mass adoption and encouraging its centralization against its nature.

XDN is not a superficial remedy for the cryptocurrency world, but rather a more technologically advanced cryptocurrency that is ASIC-resistant and allows fair distribution.

My idea is as simple as that:  1. select the most technologically advanced cryptocurrency; 2. invest in it; 3. market it using the most proven techniques and instruments in the crypto world. We took the best ideas from a number of successful coin campaigns including Bitcoin and added some marketing ideas from different fields.

There is no guarantee that this will work and XDN will come near the Bitcoin. However, I have good experience in marketing and understanding of crypto scene and confident that we have good chance of reaching our goals.

Hey Brian, you still haven't answered JforJoker's question about incentivizing the widespread adoption: are you just going to throw money you're going to raise at the shops so that they start accepting XDN or something? If it's just that, I don't think that you're going to last very long. Do you have ideas for a more smooth adoption?

That is a very good question. I’m not surprised you picked up on it, as it’s one of key parts of our plan, and I was thinking how to answer without giving away details of the whole implementation. The success of this strategy is built upon three key aspects:

1. Selecting operators likely to adopt cryptocurrencies.
2. Incentivizing selected operators to integrate DarkNote into their payment systems.
3. Integrating DarkNote into operators’ payment systems.

A fundamental part of the above plan and the one drawing the most attention is of course the second one – incentivizing operators. The most common criticisms I receive regarding this plan are related to the difficulty Bitcoin is experiencing integrating into the classic economy. In response to this skepticism I usually give an example of auto manufacturing, mobile phones or, in fact, the Internet – the most disruptive new technologies that changed the world, but which were initially met with skepticism and mistrust. It took them a while to truly pick up speed, and it was not the first products in the sector which achieved highest penetration, but rather the most adaptive ones.

I believe XDN could be the one to adapt most effectively in the post-Bitcoin era.

To answer your questions:

1. We selected a number of sectors which are interested or which may potentially be interested in integrating popular crytocurrencies. These businesses include casinos, online cinemas, exchanges, micropayment platforms and others.
2. We will generate a favorable image of XDN through advertising and media presence, supported by thought-leaders we aim to attract with the help of a marketing communications agency, selected via open tender controlled by the XDN Foundation.
3. We will work on increasing the price of XDN with wide-reaching media coverage and gaining the trust of the community and wider audiences.
4. After the media is saturated with XDN newsmakers, we will approach selected organizations to integrate XDN into their payment systems.

I still have some surprises up my sleeve which should make this strategy even more effective, but their potential will suffer if I disclose them publicly at this stage, so, please, be patient.

It would be nice to have an online wallet service similar to blockchain.info. That would make paying with your phone much easier.

We are working on it now and should roll out such system on the Foundation's website in due course.

We are still looking for enthusiasts and partners who can help us promote Darknote. Our team has grown by two talented professional in motion design and marketing fields. More about them later. We have two open vacancies remaining - head of Foundation and a senior marketing manager. Please PM me or send your CVs to my e-mail (brian.gerald007@gmail.com).

Join our discussion on the future of XDN Foundation (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072773.0)

Hello everyone!

I wanted to announce that we have launched a crowdfunding campaign on our recently released Darknote Foundation site: we have a long road ahead of us, making every effort possible to promote the XDN's cause, and all those activities will require funding.

The wallet address for donations is dddDuFCdYkmUYDPzxc52eiWkW3QMpawcF5b93tBjaHai12c6krts7GydAMTtD2qF2xaRMC5UvSrrURp gJQnGxdRG2aNscqke6.

Edit: here's the Payment ID to use with transactions: 28eaca07b76c4b0aeb140cfe4d1496eb3797a7ee5a6131f5d2356021d2aff361 so that we can keep a more thorough track of donations.

Currently we are conducting a market study into how many people are willing to invest money in this project and how much: after we are done with it, we will publish the funding target and the timeframe within which we're going to collect the XDN. In the meantime we are happy to accept just any sums you wish to invest.

In the nearest future we will also publish a plan for our short-term marketing activities, so that everyone can see what the collected money is going to be spent on.

The official page for this campaign is http://xdnfoundation.org/fundraising, please stay tuned to it and to this thread for upcoming updates on the campaign.

Thank you very much, and make the cash flow, guys Smiley Also, make sure to add some commentary to your donations, it can be anything: your name, the name of your site, etc. We'll make a list of donators shine eternally in our hall of fame on the Foundation's site.

P.S. I'll be donating a certain amount from my own pocket, in case if anything's wondering.

If you are setting up some XDN fundraising it is good to use Payment ID. In that case contributors can proof the fact of XDN transfer with blockchain link.

Thank you for this suggestion. We are sure to use payment ID so that the donators can see the XDN transaction with blockchain link.

With the XDN foundation website now launched (xdnfoundation.org), three new team members brought on-board, and the XDN market study accomplished – the capitalization of Darknote now stands at around $1.2 million, having more than doubled since we set off on our mission.

Therefore, today, I am happy to announce the start of the next stage of our plan - the XDN crowdfunding campaign. More information about the campaign can be found by visiting the following link: http://xdnfoundation.org/fundraising.

To facilitate XDN Foundation’s crowdfunding round we carried out a study to learn more about the XDN market, and the stakeholders’ preferences. We did a survey of a sample of XDN holders and received an overwhelming response. The fact that most of the replies were very positive indicates that our mission is being received well by the XDN community, and we are very grateful for this.

The results of our research are quite conclusive, showing that the community of XDN holders is both large and active. However, we felt it was difficult, and somewhat inappropriate, to narrow down the numbers of  possible XDN holders too much, so we have decided to indicate only the estimated boundaries of the community size – from 10k to 100k.

We also concluded that the average stake of the XDN holders is around 1-2 million in Darknotes. The holders with above the average stakes are in possession of around 2-5 million of Darknotes. There are however also some holders, who are in possession of staggering 100 million or more of Darknotes.

This survey gave us some very positive feedback and strengthened our confidence about the success of our mission. It also helped us set our financial goals for the campaign – 50 million Darknotes. With such support from the community, I am confident that we will achieve this goal. The campaign will last until Thursday, the 9th of June 2015.

To uphold the credibility of our crowdfunding campaign we will post screenshots of all the donations dropping into the wallet. We will make sure that the community drives both this process, and the future development of the XDN Foundation.

Join us and let’s make history together!

Hello everyone. Just wanted to double my post from here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072773:

It happened: the XDN's dev has released a major update, tied to their Birthday. Apparently, it includes a rebranding of the coin, since it is now called DigitalNote and a new design, which you can check out here: http://digitalnote.org/

Judging from the Foundation's standpoint, it is a great update, since now the coin doesn't appeal to niche ('dark') communities, but instead is styled as a much more mass-adoption-friendly concept, which means that even though we'll have to work on rebranding the Foundation's site to match, our job is made easier in the future.

Among other major updates I believe worth noting, are the encrypted messaging system, which has become instantaneous, and the PoW-PoS hybridization, which was predicted by Brian earlier in one of the threads.

Overall, I think that this is a major event for the community, one that will prove instrumental in the continued growth of the coin's adoption.

Good luck with that.

As you have probably noticed, the developers of Darknote have done a very bold move by rebranding the coin. Now it’s called the Digitalnote. As part of the rebranding move, the developers changed the design of logo and website. I have also notice quite a change in style of communication. It’s now more sophisticated and business like. I decided to do a brief analysis of Digitalnote’s recent marketing change.

Logo name: This is a third logo name change since the inception of the coin. It started off as the Ducknote; then evolved into the Darknote, which was likely a response to the emergence of the Dark Economy; and now it is known as the Digitalnote, corresponding to the current digitalizing trend. These consistent and timely transitions demonstrate that the developers are well aware of the marketing trends and are keen to keep the logo on top of market evolution. However, any rebranding is associated with some initial brand equity loss. Such bold and frequent rebranding, however, demonstrates that the developers are not so concerned about loosing some of the previously acquired brand equity. According to my own research, Darknote’s, as it was previously known, marketing effort was limited in its scope and outreach, restricting the potential of its brand awareness. Therefore, I conclude that the decision of rebranding is partly motivated by minimal perceived brand equity loss as a result of rebranding. This is something that I intend to change. Our marketing effort in cooperation with XDN Foundation should significantly boost Digitalnote’s brand awareness and strengthen its reputation of optimal alternative to current mainstream coins including the Bitcoin.

Design: I have done numerous logo and website designs in the past, and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the new logo and website design. The selection of colors, layouts, fonts and the simplicity of forms signals a very good understanding of logo and website design architecture. The website design became more clear and user-friendly, while remaining true to the original forms. The developers have done a good job of updating logo and website design in line with current minimalistic design trend.

Style of communication: I saw quite a significant shift in communication style. The messages are now stronger and more provocative. I really like the brave claim: “Based on Cryptonote. Ahead of Bitcoin.” This change of style symbolizes a cultural shift of the Digitalnote’s marketing approach. I wish we would be a part of this change, as I think it’s masterfully done. There are a number of things that I think could be done even more effectively, namely, a stronger slogan. However, the general impression from the rebranding effort is very positive. I would be pleased to work with such strong marketing team.

there is an evolution I can see, good job guys you are starting to get it :)

Marketing is all this is about, and all everything is about if you want to earn. Force it too much and you will got nowhere but perseverance and new approach is good

You have a bold ambition, I would like to maybe take a part in it

Why even mention bitcoin? Kinda strange slogan. If bitcoin is stuck - then there is nothing impressive being ahead of bitcoin.

So, the preliminary XDN market study results are out. Below is the infographics portraying the initial results of the study. We are still waiting for some responses and sending out new invitations to participate in the survey to community members. To those of you who already responded – Thank YOU! If you received my enquiry, but didn’t have the time to respond yet, please spare 5-10 minutes of your time to reply to me. If you didn’t receive the enquiry to participate in the survey, but have a Digitalnote stake and want to take part in the survey, please PM me or send me an email (brian.gerald007@gmail.com).

Don't forget to contribute to our XDN Foundation discussion: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072773.0

If you still haven’t visited the XDN Foundation website, check it out here: http://xdnfoundation.org/

As many of you know, we are running XDN Foundation crowdfunding campaign that aims to collect sufficient funds to facilitate Foundations initial move in promoting XDN globally. If you feel strong about XDN or even if you have a minor stake and want its value to grow, please donate as much as you can to support our cause.

XDN Foundation crowdfunding campaign: http://xdnfoundation.org/fundraising/


https://i.imgur.com/5s4AUtw.jpg

Our marketing effort to the community has given its fruits! We have finished our first fundraising campaign and achieved our campaign goal!

I want to express my deepest appreciation and gratitude to all the community members who believed in us and contributed to facilitate our common mission of XDN promotion.

Below is the infographics with the results of the fundraising campaign.

This fundraising campaign was our first main milestone. We received the support of the community and achieved our campaign goal. This gives us confidence in further evolution of our mission with strong support from growing XDN community.

In our next step, we will use the collected funds to outsource some important PR and marketing activities to professional communications agency in crypto field. We will provide you with the information about the collected proposals shortly.

Thank you all again and let’s keep the momentum going!

https://i.imgur.com/RFXl9Au.jpg

As we dive deeper with the XDN Foundation, all our marketing effort will now be driven in tight collaboration with the Foundation. It is, therefore, natural that we close this thread to concentrate on the [XDN] Foundation thread, which will cover all the aspects of XDN Foundation operations including marketing activities.

Please join us on [XDN] Foundation thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072773.0