Investors. Later demand for commerce. The key is viral adoption growth.

Btw, I'm #44 on the Top 50 list at Steem this week:

https://steemit.com/steemstats/@lukestokes/exchange-transfer-report-08-07-2016-to-08-13-2016

This is relevant to our discussion:

https://steemit.com/steemit-ambassador/@hisnameisolllie/how-to-explain-steem-it-to-a-friend

It seems Monero feels so threatened by Zcash that it started its campaign to discredit Zcash early.... i predict a flame-war from Monero towards Zcash
on this forum, that will make the Monero-Dash flame war small in comparison.

Anyways i think Zcash will have an impact on those cryptocurrencies that have anonymity and anonymity only as core-element
  

And how can you leave after I pioneered a new Steemit subforum:

https://steemit.com/trending/anonymintwilldisagree

Forgive me for my ignorance but who is FluffyPony and anonymint? My point in saying when someone is known in the cryptosphere are people like Peter Todd or Gmaxwell. Even the founder of zcash is someone considered highly respected.

They will maybe have the same negative opinion on Ethereum but if people are looking for somebody to listen to it is them or the people in the same level as them.

So if I'm reading smooth's comment correctly, couldn't multiple ui's interpret the information differently, allowing for decentralized use? I mean you could go after steem, but that (eventually) turns into a game of whack-o-mole.

(I understand things through words, so forgive me if I'm missing mathematical parts.)

Who is he? What projects was he involved in? I would like to read a person's technical comments in something but it must be that person is a known crypto developer. No offense to him. I am only skeptical because of all the FUD that is happening all over this forum. It is hard to find out what is the truth anymore.

I'll just admit I am a literary dunce and can't decipher your poetry.

Jeff makes a very astute point at the 32 minute mark, where he reminds me that some allege that Facebook messes with their following and reach, so they build up their followers and then are at the mercy of the whims of Facebook.

Whereas, with a blockchain this will not be the case.

That is a major selling

the/e point to make

 to bloggers that forever they will be in control of their investment into their following.

For readers who don't know it, Polonius in this context means "blowhard". So he is insulting me.

I have explained why the name can potentially not be nitpicking. It depends on how the masses perceive the importance of bad connotations such as porn. I realize porn is very pervasive now, so maybe people won't care. But when you are talking about inspiring people to come visit a site based on word of mouth or a link shared in social media, then connotations may or may not be important.

Thing is that viral can't be contained to only links and visuals. People still talk verbally. I told my Mom "Steemit" and she was was like "WTF?". My Mom is a very literary person, much more than myself. She pays attention to the meaning of words. Then again, she is 70, so maybe imagery of porn might disagree with her more than the younger crowd.

A better name could go a long way towards inspiring an ideological viral spread.

If you don't believe me or are 100% certain of your opinion, I'm sorry I don't have any more time to waste on rebuking you. Carry on with your opinion.

Are you sure I "haven't"?

That was my first connotation also (which is why Steemit didn't originally offend me too much).

But perhaps you've forgotten the data I shared recently on BCT about Reddit's demographics that it is mostly young (white?) males:


In addition, note Reddit's usership is only ~100 million.

So the point I am making is that the females and the older people might not have Reddit in their mind when they hear Steemit.

Before I came into the cryptocoin arena in 2013, I had vaguely heard of Reddit but never used it. It would not have been in my mind had I heard Steemit at that time. I had visited the site once and decided it looked like shit and never returned until I needed to use it when BCT banned me and also when Shen-noether only wanted to discuss over there.

You are a marketing neophyte. You continue to make numerous mistakes.

You're making an analogy between apple pie and baseball bats.

Usually the name of a band is not intended to implicitly describe the type of music the band creates, except perhaps in a very abstract and creative way (e.g. Smashing Pumpkins might make me think of punk rock). The band's music creates the emotional attachment and devotion, thus branding the name.

The name of a company, product, or service usually must convey what it does or is for (at least some connected meaning), as this is very important for viral spread and recall during viral mentions.

Steemit sounds like a porn site.

That is really, really bad. Again I refer you to the females who are stating how important it is that the site not be connotated with scams and negative things, in order for them to promote the site virally to their communities such as the one lady with 500 members in her cause oriented group.


Sorry man but you've been completely off in left field during most of the recent discussion. I can't even understand what you are writing most of time (lately) and thus not replying. I don't mean to be disrespectful and maybe I am a literary dunce in your opinion because your text lately reads to me like gibberish (not referring to the post I am replying to). I was avoiding saying anything, but I guess it's better I inform you.


Grimace is targeted to kids. It is cartoon stuff.

You need to remember to apply context.


Edit: even an abstract name such as Google, is derived or similar to ogle or goggle, which connects some meaning to searching or looking into. Even Apple had a meaning at the start. The logo was an apple with a BYTE in it.

How is it flawed? Can you please explain why? Because if it is really "flawed" like you say that no one can create secure smart contracts then why are there people and researchers from universities interested in the platform? Why would the zcash development team or at least a couple of people from it be interested in developing  zero knowledge proofs in Ethereum?

I am sorry if I am skeptical. Most of the people that say "that is impossible, that is a scam" are the people who holds a competing coin.

The platform is named steemit

I was the first developer to take a look at this vulnerability, and we immediately recognized the flaw  described in the mathematics.
What you're saying is simply untrue, https://github.com/shadowproject/shadow/issues/25#issuecomment-182977494

A flaw in theory doesn't immediately mean that it's applicable to the software in question.
I did not code our ring signature implementation so it took some time to find all the details about the OpenSSL libraries we use.

...they are posting.