Why are we using women? It seems trashy and gives BlackCoin a bad image.
Lets face it sex sells and almost every brand uses sex to sell. Women all dressed alike will garner the attention of everyone and that is what we want. The women will be dressed in black BlackCoin T-Shirts and black jeans or leggings. They will not be dressed trashy, nor will anything inappropriate be exposed. It will be tasteful and the women we hire will have a certain professionalism. No matter if you agree with using women or not, men love to see attractive women. And men will stop and talk, interact with the women, and of course take pictures. By the end of the day BlackCoin Beauty pics and videos will be all over the net.
Good point about the pictures. I didn't think about that. You should let the ladies know to use a specific hashtag when guys are posting up the pic. Come up with a good one like #blackcointakeover or something.  Have 1 lady hold up a huge sign with #blackcointakeover so any random bystander who takes a pic will have the correct hashtag or QR code. Very good idea! Actually we can put it on the T-Shirts once we agree on the hashtag. This is the kind of brainstorming we need.... |
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Why are we using women? It seems trashy and gives BlackCoin a bad image.
Lets face it sex sells and almost every brand uses sex to sell. Women all dressed alike will garner the attention of everyone and that is what we want. The women will be dressed in black BlackCoin T-Shirts and black jeans or leggings. They will not be dressed trashy, nor will anything inappropriate be exposed. It will be tasteful and the women we hire will have a certain professionalism. No matter if you agree with using women or not, men love to see attractive women. And men will stop and talk, interact with the women, and of course take pictures. By the end of the day BlackCoin Beauty pics and videos will be all over the net.
Good point about the pictures. I didn't think about that. You should let the ladies know to use a specific hashtag when guys are posting up the pic. Come up with a good one like #blackcointakeover or something. Have 1 lady hold up a huge sign with #blackcointakeover so any random bystander who takes a pic will have the correct hashtag or QR code. good ideas!! just brainstorming a bit but to add, iconic mentioned earlier a possibility was to go big and maybe do a $$ giveaway in blackcoin or something as a promo that day. maybe after a hashtag is decided upon, we can do a smaller giveaway for those who tweet with that hashtag (can that even be tracked to do?). Just thinking of how it can get trending/more exposure virally. or do a QR code or something that directs them to the blackcoin facebook page and a giveaway will be done for those who 'like' it? First thing's first is getting the funds to even do the Wall St. even but just thinking out loud! Could just randomly add BC to BlackCards handed out that day? 1 lucky guy gets 1000 BC. 2 with 500 BC. 4 with 250 BC. At the worst, you get a bunch of people figuring out how to check their balances in their BC wallet. All great ideas...and I am okay with whatever the community decides. |
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Hi all I've just opened a web and logo design service here on Bitcointalk : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=590322.0 and I'm allowing people to pay in BlackCoin. My rates are : 700 BC for a Logo
2200 BC for a WebsiteAnd just to promote my service a bit here's a quick graphic I did for the podcast tomorrow. *Notice the rocket and the moon   +1 GJ keep up the good work... |
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Wall Street Takeover UpdateInstead of replying to multiple comments, I decided to address some concerns in one post.
Why are we using women? It seems trashy and gives BlackCoin a bad image.
Lets face it sex sells and almost every brand uses sex to sell. Women all dressed alike will garner the attention of everyone and that is what we want. The women will be dressed in black BlackCoin T-Shirts and black jeans or leggings. They will not be dressed trashy, nor will anything inappropriate be exposed. It will be tasteful and the women we hire will have a certain professionalism. No matter if you agree with using women or not, men love to see attractive women. And men will stop and talk, interact with the women, and of course take pictures. By the end of the day BlackCoin Beauty pics and videos will be all over the net.
Why not move this to Times Square?
Been there, done that. My favorite place to have a drink is the Living Room Bar @ The W Hotel Times Square. I am a regular there and as many of you know that area is flooded with people. There is something going on there almost everyday. The problem is 50 women in Times Square will not garner the same attention as Wall Street. Also, as I pointed out we want the backdrop of Wall Street in our photos and videos. We want to associate BlackCoin with wealth. If we really wanted attention we could also give away $5000 worth of BlackCoins to some random person.
This is a waste of money, why are we doing this?
You have to spend money to make money. Yes we could place an ad in a magazine or a newspaper, and yes we could send out dozens of press releases. But this is something that will create instant buzz and give BC notoriety. It shows that this community can think out the box and we are not just another alt coins. It sends a message to the crypto community BlackCoin is on another level.
Will the women be able to explain BlackCoin?
This is not a "lets educate Wall Street about BlackCoin" campaign. We could care less if the women will be effective at explaining the mechanics of BlackCoin. Lets be honest, half the people who are invested in BlackCoin could not effectively explain the mechanics of BlackCoin. That is why the women will have sell sheets and the cards. People who receive the sell sheets and cards will eventually do their own research when they are winding down and near a computer. The purpose of this event is to attract the attention of the media, and using the images/videos to go viral.
How do we know you can pull this off?
It has already been pointed out I have a huge ego.  So my ego will not allow me to do anything less than a successful event. At the end of the day I want this to be perfect because it increases the value of my portfolio as well.
What if it is successful but we do not get the media attention we wanted?
We tried and that is all that matters. We can keep doing the same thing everyone else has been doing, or we can continue setting the bar higher. To be successful you have to take risks. If you are not willing to take risks then crypto is not for you.
We have a chance here to make history. If another coin copies us, we will still be the first to have done it. I say lets go make rypto history!!!
Below is the donation addresses (Please make sure you use the addresses from this original post or my signature only. Previously scammers have attempted to replace donation addresses with their own addresses when replying to the post.
Donation addresses:
BC: BQQsUdYaqCGUDhdXPADto1gKwvEA2a92TP
BTC: 12jhNVMj5kk7akem2wxDwnpQvGdro3NzJ4
LTC: LT4hiypMuPLYQT2gu3gdMjvAMqhC1w12yJ
DOGE: DRJnZVTP64phDfdoWu5VnKUUSM7p8Tf4MT
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 BlackCoin Is Going To Wall StreetThis is an outline of what my wife and I have been planning for a few weeks. Please take a few minutes to read.
I have been promising something big in May, and today I have decided to present my project to the community so together we can make it a reality! My wife and I have been working on this project behind the scenes, and it has never been done before in crypto. We want BlackCoin to be the first Cypto Currency to pull it off!
So what is the big idea?
We want to hire 50 attractive women dressed in BlackCoin T-Shirts, and for 2 hours these women will converge on Wall Street and hand out Wall Street Edition BlackCoin cards and sell sheets describing BlackCoin.
Everything I have asked this community to do has lead us to this moment and now it is time to explain my master plan.
1. I rallied this community together to fund the press release projects so we can introduce the BlackCoin brand to mainstream media outlets, and at the same time learn how to focus our energy towards a single objective.
2. I created the BlackCoin card because I knew in the future we needed something "physical" to allow people to touch and feel. It is hard to get people to believe in something that only exists virtually. The cards are loaded with software that will make it easy to buy, manage, and trade BlackCoins.
3. I rallied this community to contact strategic companies like Vault Of Satoshi because I knew for us to succeed we needed a direct Fiat to BC service here in North America.
4. Now that step 1 -3 has been accomplished, everything is in place for the main event.
What will the main event accomplish?
This plan is to kill 3 birds with one stone.
a. The cards and sell sheets will introduce new investors to BC. Although Wall Street is the location we do not care if "whales" on Wall Street invests in BC or not. Wall Street is just the backdrop. We want BC to be associated with wealth!
b. We will attract the attention of mainstream media. Not everyday 50 beautiful women dressed alike converge on Wall Street. The event will be covered by local and international media outlets. My wife will be calling media outlets the day before and during the event.
c. We will be making crypto history and we will show the rest of the crypto community how determined we are to make BlackCoin #1.
What is needed to make this a success?
Casting studio rental for day (Cast girls for rvent)
50 Girls for 2 hours
50 T-Shirts
Water For Girls
1000 Cards + Retail Packaging
1000 Sell Sheets
Misc expenses: transportation..snacks...etc..etc
Total budget: $9540
Approximately 73,000 BC at the current exchange rate.
Note: I am not profiting off the cards we get made for this event, these will be community made cards at the wholesale factory price. I set 1000 cards as the minimum, but if we can raise more than $9540 I will get as many cards made as the donations allow.
Note: If we can raise $12,000 or more I will be able to hire a professional camera crew to follow the girls around. We can use that video to plaster all over the web and go viral!
This community has wanted something huge and I strongly believe this is what we need. Our recent partnerships with various companies have been great to make BC stronger, but it has done very little to get the "BlackCoin brand out to the mainstream. We can have all the partnerships in the world, but if no one knows about us then partnerships mean very little. I think this event will give us the most ROI, and this will be the tipping point for BlackCoin.
To make this happen we need to raise the money by May 17th, and my wife and I would like to do the event either the 29th or the 30th of May. If you have any questions please feel free to ask, and all comments and suggestions are welcome since it will take this entire community to make this happen.
Below is the donation addresses (Please make sure you use the addresses from this original post or my signature only. Previously scammers have attempted to replace donation addresses with their own addresses when replying to the post.
Donation addresses:
BC: BQQsUdYaqCGUDhdXPADto1gKwvEA2a92TP
BTC: 12jhNVMj5kk7akem2wxDwnpQvGdro3NzJ4
LTC: LT4hiypMuPLYQT2gu3gdMjvAMqhC1w12yJ
DOGE: DRJnZVTP64phDfdoWu5VnKUUSM7p8Tf4MT
We have raised approximately $3030
We have at least $6510 more to go.
I want to thank everyone who has contributed and every donation helps!!!
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We are having a live telecast of the Community Manager and Multipool Dev team answering questions this Thursday at 7pm, Do you guys even Know that?
Iconic I personally pm you and one more time would like to speak to you before the telecast Q&A. Ive said it before you are very passionate and have brought allot of projects to the table. It is important that we talk about your projects and this current situation. In my humble opinion, For the good of the community this misunderstandings have to stop.
I'm trying to arrange a meeting with u today so that we can all be on the same page moving forward. Everyone wants the best for BlackCoin.We just have to come together to promote BlackCoin.
Please PM Wizfarm in IRC.
Thanks
I spend very limited time on IRC. It is easier for me to respond here because I keep this forum open on a separate monitor, and from time to time I check for new posts. I honestly do not have the time to do the telecast...I am shipping cards, handling my own company business that I can't ignore, and working on securing key partnerships for BC. Wall Street is not the only plans I am currently working on. In a few weeks when everything settles down I will be more than happy to participate in your telecast. |
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I think this is a good step forward - however, despite having some difference of opinions with IE... I fully support his endeavors without reserve. I agree that the coin as a brand needs a coherent team behind development - but that's what the "DEV TEAM" should be involved with. If BlackCoin was a corporation with a board of directors and officers... with a commercial product, etc... then I might feel differently. However, I think the relatively overnight success has blinded some people to the facts. Like all crypto currencies (even Bitcoin) there is no central board of directors - and even when there are... you don't see anyone (except Apple possibly) running all over the web trying to discount enthusiastic individuals' efforts to promote their brand/product simply because their marketing department didn't "bless it appropriately". As there was no true 'premine' with BC (despite what those late to the party would like people to believe) the road ahead seems very simple to me. If you support someone's efforts - do it with your BlackCoins! I would propose, rather than a "BlackCoin Foundation" that all members have individual BC addresses posted - so that they may operate on the budgets indicated by donations to those. I know I've donated a few times to both Soepkip and rat4... as well as to TDG for multipool promotions and to IE for past efforts (and will again in the future undoubtedly). I would further propose that we have some 'bounty donations' for improvements, especially to the wallets to make them stand out feature-wise against those which have subsequently copied and pasted their way to limited success. However, bickering one way or the other doesn't really help. If you believe there are better ways IE could approach something - suggest it (I'm sure he will consider other ideas) - and if you're convinced you could do a better job... then just do it - and let everyone know about it when you do. Same goes for the 'foundation' group... if you think things should be different... contact Soepkip directly - that's his 'job'. If you think IE could use more/less support - then contact him directly. If there is anything that will kill BlackCoin - or help it succeed - it's the community or lack thereof. Although having lurked around this and other Bitcoin forums a couple years ago... this is nothing new and all of this basically has to happen for cohesion to develop... much of which will only occur after numerous 'shakeouts' of weaker hands. Granted it's different now with all the competition arising daily, but people are people no matter where you go.  Thank you for your comments. I do not expect everyone to agree all the time. All communities have disagreements and that is the nature of a community. It is impossible to agree on everything and disagreements will erupt from time to time. However, we all want to see BC flourish and we are suppose to work together to achieve that common goal. I do not care about the "spotlight" and I encourage other people to come forward with cool ideas and I will support their ideas like most people support my ideas. If someone doesn't agree with something someone proposes then a healthy debate is needed. But I am tired of the personal attacks and the deliberate sabotage. If you look at my previous posts I never criticize other members projects. All I care about is getting BC to #1, and every time we go one step forward someone seems to want to push us back. |
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I agree and addressed this to Gritt yesterday. There will be a foundation which will "officially support" (and invest in) projects and it will most likely be a community driven effort with some key figures addressable by investors and developers.
However, at this point any mention of the blackcoin foundation is NOT official.
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Troiste, keep it down. I support the Wall St. promo and so does Soepkip. rat4 is the only real developer/ core team and I don't know what he thinks- but it's not the point. The rest of the team is everybody here.
Some people are willing to control the coin more than others and that is what we see here. It will be futile in the end, no one guy can try to steer this. I will as less support a foundation that doesnt reflect (at least a good part of) the community as you will. As will everybody here.
We are the team.
I do not want this to turn into an US vs THEM debate. However, I did not see one post from SoepKip supporting this event, nor did I see any mention of it on the official website. The first "official" response I read was the asinine comment by Gritt. So you must understand why I am pissed. My wife put a lot of work into finding everything we need to pull this off. A lot of thought and planning has gone into this. So I am annoyed that it is being undermined by someone who has no clue what he is doing. Also, as some have suggested this is personal. Gritt asked me if he could create "clones" of my cards and I told him no. This was before I even got them back from the factory. I explained to him it will cause confusion and I would rather he didn't. I expected clones from other coins, but not from our own community. |
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Agree 100% these Foundation guys are acting Like idiots, really idiots, someone pushing this up, a huge event never seen before and this guys don't support it....  ?? I mean what the hell? Are they Jelous because they are not able to get the same attention as you are getting? Really I don't understand and I'm very disappointed with these Foundation guysYou are saying "they", "these" and "guys", this is just one guy. Let's try not to create a "them" and "us" situation. This is a problem with a single individual. Many coins self destruct when things like this get out of hand. No he is right...it is not just one person. A lot of people here are frustrated but scared to come out publicly because they are scared to be flamed. That comment made by Gritt is the sentiment of most of the dev team. I was emailing friends at well known companies the article to see if I could get BlackCoin some official sponsors for the event, and I was embarrassed to have them read that BS. This is not true. This is one guy. The foundation does not even exist yet. +1 This is one guy. Let's stop now guys. How is this helping blackcoin? This has to be sorted publicly. I make it very clear I do not speak for the "official" dev team. However, Gritt posted his comment as the "official" comment of the development team. If the development team did not authorize him to do that, then he needs to go because he is making comments without authorization. |
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Agree 100% these Foundation guys are acting Like idiots, really idiots, someone pushing this up, a huge event never seen before and this guys don't support it.... ?? I mean what the hell? Are they Jelous because they are not able to get the same attention as you are getting? Really I don't understand and I'm very disappointed with these Foundation guysYou are saying "they", "these" and "guys", this is just one guy. Let's try not to create a "them" and "us" situation. This is a problem with a single individual. Many coins self destruct when things like this get out of hand. No he is right...it is not just one person. A lot of people here are frustrated but scared to come out publicly because they are scared to be flamed. That comment made by Gritt is the sentiment of most of the dev team. I was emailing friends at well known companies the article to see if I could get BlackCoin some official sponsors for the event, and I was embarrassed to have them read that BS. This is not true. That is why I said most. Maarx I know you have been supportive, but we both know I am not exaggerating when I say "most". |
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Agree 100% these Foundation guys are acting Like idiots, really idiots, someone pushing this up, a huge event never seen before and this guys don't support it.... ?? I mean what the hell? Are they Jelous because they are not able to get the same attention as you are getting? Really I don't understand and I'm very disappointed with these Foundation guysYou are saying "they", "these" and "guys", this is just one guy. Let's try not to create a "them" and "us" situation. This is a problem with a single individual. Many coins self destruct when things like this get out of hand. No he is right...it is not just one person. A lot of people here are frustrated but scared to come out publicly because they are scared to be flamed. That comment made by Gritt is the sentiment of most of the dev team. I was emailing friends at well known companies the article to see if I could get BlackCoin some official sponsors for the event, and I was embarrassed to have them read that BS. |
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This Counterproductive Behavior Must StopThis was brought to my attention from a concerned member: http://cointelegraph.com/post/blackcoin_s_smooth_and_sexy_nyc_charm_offensive#.U2DICvldV0xGritt N. Auld • 15 hours ago I want to point out that the march on Wallstreet is not officially sponsored or endorsed by Blackcoin Foundation. It is an idea by IconicExpert who is a community member on our forums. It is also currently being funded by the community. You can check my tweet here. https://twitter.com/BlackcoinG... Please if you can change this information to reflect this. Thanks, - Gritt N. Auld, marketing This is the reason why 99% of all coins eventually fail. People who have never had any marketing and/or business experience are entrusted to maintain a multi-million dollar community project, and they do not have a clue what they are doing. It makes absolutely no sense to comment directly on the article that everyone will see:"the march on Wallstreet is not officially sponsored or endorsed by Blackcoin Foundation". We got a reputable news website to write about the event in less than 3 hours after announcing the event, and the "official" response from the development team is: " the march on Wallstreet is not officially sponsored or endorsed by Blackcoin Foundation". Why even comment? This is not a popularity contest, nor is this a game for me. Millions of dollars are at risk and it seems some people here are just concerned about "maintaining control", or worse "popularity". With all do respect to the dev team but your marketing efforts are not working.1. You sponsored the Doge event and that had no effect or media attention. 2. You announced the "Meet Black" promotion and that had no effect or media attention. 3. You released a investment package and that had no effect or media attention. 4. We will be added to Vault Of Satoshi, where is the official press release? Why haven't I read about it on CoinDesk? CoinDesk will finally do a piece on BlackCoin and part of the reason CoinDesk is writing an article on BlackCoin is because of the BlackCoin cards. This is not my assumption, this was expressed by CoinDesk. The only time Cointelegraph has written about BlackCoin is after the Cryptorush fiasco and now the Wall Street event. My wife and I, and other active community members hold a hell of a lot of BlackCoins, more than the entire development team combined. So I have every right to propose positive projects that will help BlackCoin grow. So many people are tired and annoyed with this development team, and I am doing my best to keep morale up and convince people publicly and privately to keep supporting BC. So excuse my frustration when the development team makes an asinine public comment that effects the value of BlackCoin. The only reason why I do not dump my coins and holding strong because I believe in the community, and I think this community will determine the success or failure of BlackCoin. It will not be me or the development team, it will be you.I want to make it very clear, it has always been the community. 1. The press release was a combined effort of the community, and it would not have happened if everyone didn't chip in. 2. BlackCoin would not have been added to CoinKite if the community didn't raise the money. 3. BlackCoin would not have been added to the Vault Of Satoshi if we all didn't email and Tweet the hell out of them. 4. Moolah would not have added BlackCoin to all of their services if we all didn't trade on their platform. 5. We would not have BlackCoin cards if some members didn't take a risk and have a little trust. The Wall Street event and any other project will not succeed unless this community is behind it. BlackCoin is the community and it belongs to the community. It does not belong to one person or the development team. Because if every community member decided to move on, all BlackCoin would be is just a bunch of 1s & 0s. The community gives BlackCoin value..... Agree 100% these Foundation guys are acting Like idiots, really idiots, someone pushing this up, a huge event never seen before and this guys don't support it.... ?? I mean what the hell? Are they Jelous because they are not able to get the same attention as you are getting? Really I don't understand and I'm very disappointed with these Foundation guys Let be clear here...there is only one "founding" member and that is rat4. The others somehow placed themselves on the team. When I did the phone interview yesterday they thought I was the developer, and I made it clear I wasn't. They were shocked that I am putting in some much effort and I am not the developer. I have been approached by 3 investors to create a new coin. I was offered upfront 50 BTC to create a new coin and run it, but I am still here. I have been called greedy, but when I has the opportunity to "chase" the money I stayed here. The dev team is naive if they think others are not paying close attention. |
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This Counterproductive Behavior Must StopThis was brought to my attention from a concerned member: http://cointelegraph.com/post/blackcoin_s_smooth_and_sexy_nyc_charm_offensive#.U2DICvldV0xGritt N. Auld • 15 hours ago I want to point out that the march on Wallstreet is not officially sponsored or endorsed by Blackcoin Foundation. It is an idea by IconicExpert who is a community member on our forums. It is also currently being funded by the community. You can check my tweet here. https://twitter.com/BlackcoinG... Please if you can change this information to reflect this. Thanks, - Gritt N. Auld, marketing This is the reason why 99% of all coins eventually fail. People who have never had any marketing and/or business experience are entrusted to maintain a multi-million dollar community project, and they do not have a clue what they are doing. It makes absolutely no sense to comment directly on the article that everyone will see:"the march on Wallstreet is not officially sponsored or endorsed by Blackcoin Foundation". We got a reputable news website to write about the event in less than 3 hours after announcing the event, and the "official" response from the development team is: " the march on Wallstreet is not officially sponsored or endorsed by Blackcoin Foundation". Why even comment? This is not a popularity contest, nor is this a game for me. Millions of dollars are at risk and it seems some people here are just concerned about "maintaining control", or worse "popularity". With all do respect to the dev team but your marketing efforts are not working.1. You sponsored the Doge event and that had no effect or minimal media attention. 2. You announced the "Meet Black" promotion and that had no effect or media attention. 3. You released an investment package and that had no effect or media attention. 4. We will be added to Vault Of Satoshi, where is the official press release? Why haven't I read about it on CoinDesk? CoinDesk will finally do a piece on BlackCoin and part of the reason CoinDesk is writing an article on BlackCoin is because of the BlackCoin cards. This is not my assumption, this was expressed by CoinDesk. The only time Cointelegraph has written about BlackCoin is after the Cryptorush fiasco and now the Wall Street event. My wife and I, and other active community members hold a hell of a lot of BlackCoins, more than the entire development team combined. So I have every right to propose positive projects that will help BlackCoin grow. So many people are tired and annoyed with this development team, and I am doing my best to keep morale up and convince people publicly and privately to keep supporting BC. So excuse my frustration when the development team makes an asinine public comment that effects the value of BlackCoin. The only reason why I do not dump my coins and holding strong because I believe in the community, and I think this community will determine the success or failure of BlackCoin. It will not be me or the development team, it will be the community.I want to make it very clear, it has always been the community. 1. The press release was a combined effort of the community, and it would not have happened if everyone didn't chip in. 2. BlackCoin would not have been added to CoinKite if the community didn't raise the money. 3. BlackCoin would not have been added to the Vault Of Satoshi if we all didn't email and Tweet the hell out of them. 4. Moolah would not have added BlackCoin to all of their services if we all didn't trade on their platform. 5. We would not have BlackCoin cards if some members didn't take a risk and have a little trust. The Wall Street event and any other project will not succeed unless this community is behind it. BlackCoin is the community and it belongs to the community. It does not belong to one person or the development team. Because if every community member decided to move on, all BlackCoin would be is just a bunch of 1s & 0s. The community gives BlackCoin value.....
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What did I say people were going to do if you put your addresses in your post again?  Yes you called it, but I also put a warning in the original post. |
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ty...I added all the address in my signature
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BlackCoin Is Going To Wall StreetThis is an outline of what my wife and I have been planning for a few weeks. Please take a few minutes to read.
I have been promising something big in May, and today I have decided to present my project to the community so together we can make it a reality! My wife and I have been working on this project behind the scenes, and it has never been done before in crypto. We want BlackCoin to be the first Cypto Currency to pull it off!
So what is the big idea?
We want to hire 50 attractive women dressed in BlackCoin T-Shirts, and for 2 hours these women will converge on Wall Street and hand out Wall Street Edition BlackCoin cards and sell sheets describing BlackCoin.
Everything I have asked this community to do has lead us to this moment and now it is time to explain my master plan.
1. I rallied this community together to fund the press release projects so we can introduce the BlackCoin brand to mainstream media outlets, and at the same time learn how to focus our energy towards a single objective.
2. I created the BlackCoin card because I knew in the future we needed something "physical" to allow people to touch and feel. It is hard to get people to believe in something that only exists virtually. The cards are loaded with software that will make it easy to buy, manage, and trade BlackCoins.
3. I rallied this community to contact strategic companies like Vault Of Satoshi because I knew for us to succeed we needed a direct Fiat to BC service here in North America.
4. Now that step 1 -3 has been accomplished, everything is in place for the main event.
What will the main event accomplish?
This plan is to kill 3 birds with one stone.
a. The cards and sell sheets will introduce new investors to BC. Although Wall Street is the location we do not care if "whales" on Wall Street invests in BC or not. Wall Street is just the backdrop. We want BC to be associated with wealth!
b. We will attract the attention of mainstream media. Not everyday 50 beautiful women dressed alike converge on Wall Street. The event will be covered by local and international media outlets. My wife will be calling media outlets the day before and during the event.
c. We will be making crypto history and we will show the rest of the crypto community how determined we are to make BlackCoin #1.
What is needed to make this a success?
Casting studio rental for day (Cast girls for rvent)
50 Girls for 2 hours
50 T-Shirts
Water For Girls
1000 Cards + Retail Packaging
1000 Sell Sheets
Misc expenses: transportation..snacks...etc..etc
Total budget: $9540
Approximately 73,000 BC at the current exchange rate.
Note: I am not profiting off the cards we get made for this event, these will be community made cards at the wholesale factory price. I set 1000 cards as the minimum, but if we can raise more than $9540 I will get as many cards made as the donations allow.
Note: If we can raise $12,000 or more I will be able to hire a professional camera crew to follow the girls around. We can use that video to plaster all over the web and go viral!
This community has wanted something huge and I strongly believe this is what we need. Our recent partnerships with various companies have been great to make BC stronger, but it has done very little to get the "BlackCoin brand out to the mainstream. We can have all the partnerships in the world, but if no one knows about us then partnerships mean very little. I think this event will give us the most ROI, and this will be the tipping point for BlackCoin.
To make this happen we need to raise the money by May 17th, and my wife and I would like to do the event either the 29th or the 30th of May. If you have any questions please feel free to ask, and all comments and suggestions are welcome since it will take this entire community to make this happen.
Below is the donation addresses (Please make sure you use the addresses from this original post or my signature only. Previously scammers have attempted to replace donation addresses with their own addresses when replying to the post.
Donation addresses:
BC: BJ3AgKQhNzk4xCVsiZc7M7vBqbixCi5mzL
BTC: 1FZzD7CaP5RRJnSZxGzEtkPrH6pm7VrVun
LTC: LePxYve5QDjhCBaYKtjFkEwbBT54SbBujY
DOGE: DN6jEqLhr2LCfiaCAY35U19xsF2orghXuW
We have raised approximately $2731
We have at least $6809 more to go.
Here is an article written a few hours after announcing the event! http://cointelegraph.com/post/blackcoin_s_smooth_and_sexy_nyc_charm_offensive
People!!! Would you try to actually read this? Same stupid comments and questions about something crypto-world have never seen before. As always, idiots are trying to bash good ideas without actually reading it. If you cannot do something yourself instead of just bashing other people's ideas, donate! If you don't have anything to donate or cannot produce and implement ideas, just shut the hell up! +100 I really think this could be MASSIVE, I hope people join me in donating and we exceed the donation goal set! |
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It is 4:22 AM and I am up working on BlackCoin related stuff, and reading some of these responses make me SMH. I do not think or expect everyone to always agree, that is not how the world works. However, please stop waiting for other people to present projects and then criticize them when they do. If you have ideas please present them to the community, we need more positive projects. However, if you are going to criticize other community members efforts please present something better. It is very easy to criticize and point fingers from the sidelines, but it is much harder to develop and execute ideas. I presented something that would get everyone excited and focus on a common goal, but then people who have a history of posting negativity and never offer anything of substance attempts to tear it down.
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I honestly think that I like the passion, determination that iconic brings to his projects. I do however believe that ideas have to be well thought through before asking for donations from the community. There has been way to much over promising in the past and some community members have felt misguided. I believe Iconic should be talking to the developer team and community about his ideas and get a feel for them from the community before we send donations out. We have to be more targeted and be wise on how we spend our BC.
The points that have been brought forward in this post have allot of valid points. Guys in wall street walking to work or lunch can care less about a crypto promotion. Not even bitcoin has made it in full yet. If to legitimize Blackcoin for the investment industry is our route we need to be serious about this project and funds should be routed through the dev team for proper implementation. Iconic should continue to bring Ideas in to the community but this type of gimmick that can potential cost in excess of $10,000 USd for a few hours can buy us way more in massive PR. Let's Stop the madness with asking for Donations without the approval from the Development team or Community Manager, it makes us look desperate and brings confusion
Thank you for your comments. You incorrectly assumed I didn't run this by the dev team, and your assumptions are wrong. This has been worked on for a few weeks before I presented it to the community. Also, BlackCoin is a community project, and it lives or dies based on community participation. With all do respect to the devs I do not need their permission to rally the community and organize a promotion. Most of the community see value in the promotion. |
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Getting a bunch of bimbos running around Wall Street serious investors aren't going to bode well. Good luck with this endeavor.
Keep feeding Iconic's ego and greed.
I'm out.
Honestly your constant bashing and personal attacks are just sickening. I have no problem debating the merits of the promotion, but you are more focused on me and my ego. “Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.” ― Paul Arden |
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Warning regarding Iconic's misguided "Wall Street" plan: The investment industry sees this type of thing he's planning (ie- hiring pretty, but likely clueless, women who really don't know what the hell they're peddling) as very gimmicky and very juvenile. The investment industry in reality these days is not "Wolf of Wall Street" and is boring and cares only about two things: returns and playing by the SEC's rules. Investment professionals do due diligence using these simple 1-pagers ( http://www.harborfunds.com/docs/international_fund_fact_sheet.pdf and this thing called a prospectus http://hosted.rightprospectus.com/HarborFunds/Fund.aspx?dt=SP&ts=HIINX. SecondMarket realizes this and will have their public Bitcoin ETF up and running later this year after convincing investors and the SEC that Bitcoin not some gigantic, scammy, ponzi-scheme. Secondmarket knows that the best way to legitimize Bitcoin for the general investment world is to get the regulators to okay it first and then market it as a returns-achieving security that is safe to hold in a high-risk portfolio. With Iconic's plan you'll likely get another pump, followed by another dump, and overall nothing will have been achieved. A better plan would be to send those donated BC's to the Blackcoin development team, with the intention of them starting Blackcoin on the path of ETF-creation or a BlackCoinPool Mining Investment Fund. This would be a huge endeavor and would require many expensive securities lawyers and potentially years of work and patience, however it would help the coin in the long-term versus Iconic's plan. Hell, I would bet every Blackcoin I own that if the Blackcoin Developers made a simple news release that they were going to hire a securities law-firm to help them start on this long process of legitimizing Blackcoin for the investment industry, the price of Blackcoin would spike up higher than this plan of Iconic's, and, unlike Iconic's plan, the price would stay up because it is so unique and ballsy and would add ridiculous value to Blackcoin in the long-term. Just my 2-cents. Source: I work in the investment industry and read thousands of prospectuses, fact sheets, 10Q's, 10K's and annual reports, and I need to file a 13h and 13f. JL Thank you for comments. Please read the previous responses and comments before commenting, it makes things a lot easier when responding. The dev team has been focusing on partnerships...etc..etc, and as a community we also have to focus on publicity. The problem is we focus way too much on pools and partnerships. We can have all the pools and partnerships in the world, but if we do not let the rest of the world know BlackCoin exists it doesn't matter. Maybe 100,000 people or less in the world know about BlackCoin, so in the eyes of the world BlackCoin doesn't exist. There are more people that work on Wall Street than people who know about BlackCoin. The purpose of the promotion is to create buzz and bring outside attention to BlackCoin. With all do respect please stick to facts and do not make assumptions. Unless you are psychic or a fortune teller you have no clue what effect this promotion will have on the price, nor do you know if the dev team announced they are hiring a securities law firm it would have a positive effect on the price. Also, your idea is counter intuitive to the spirit of crypto. The point of crypto is to avoid large financial institutions and your plan is to get in bed with them. You do realize before a securities firm were to even consider taking on BlackCoin as a client BlackCoin would have to be a registered Corporation first? If BlackCoin ever became a corporation it will die because it is a community project that existence depends on a community. Please do your homework.... |
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