Agreed. A DNA double helix is an excellent symbol for the coin. |
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$3800 (but I think we will go up a lot in another bubble phase and down again before then...)
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Keep the entries coming in!  |
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Yeah I get where you're coming from, but 'rewards' can often be worthless, e.g. I get texted a to collect "rewards" for topping up my phone but I don't even bother because they're crappy worthless rewards. At least with when the term "money" or "get paid" is used you know it has value. Maybe talking about it in terms of rewards is better I'm not sure, but I would think unless there's a legal reason preventing us from talking about Curecoins like they are money then calling it money would be more effective.
A big reason why I waited so long to get into Bitcoins (and I'm NOT the only person, as tons of others had the same issue) is because sites referred to it as mining for cash. This is a huge red flag for a scam, and made a lot of us avoid it. I had heard about it back in 2009, but because of the scam aspect I stayed away. I didn't get involved until the middle-late 2013 as a result. You have to consider how the outside is going to interpret it. Most things that allow you to use your PC to passively earn cash are scams. We learned that long ago. Fair enough. I'd go for your suggestion then: "Get rewarded for helping cure disease with your computer!" Would it make more sense to have that as the sub-heading, perhaps? I sort of like the tagline, then instead of "CureCoin is a CryptoCurrency based on coupling SHA-256 Mining and Folding@Home Protein Folding" which is a bit dry I could do "Earn rewards for helping cure diseases with your computer!" or something along those lines? In all honesty even though its clever and possibly true to say that Curecoin is the cure for the common cryptocurrency, newcomers wont even know what a cryptocurrency is so it immediately raises a question, without telling them anything about Curecoin, other than that it might theoretically help get rid of some other cryptocurrencies, which isn't what Curecoin is about anyway (thought it may be a positive side effect). Even though it has a nice ring to it with the alliteration, I don't really think it belongs there at all. We've got 1 short sentence to grab people's attention and tell them what Curecoin is all about. I'd go with: Help cure diseases with your PC and earn rewards. Or if that's too long then: Help cure diseases with your PC, earn rewards. Then I'd leave the more technical second line as it is. That way the simple + technical sides are explained. |
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Yeah I get where you're coming from, but 'rewards' can often be worthless, e.g. I get texted a to collect "rewards" for topping up my phone but I don't even bother because they're crappy worthless rewards. At least with when the term "money" or "get paid" is used you know it has value. Maybe talking about it in terms of rewards is better I'm not sure, but I would think unless there's a legal reason preventing us from talking about Curecoins like they are money then calling it money would be more effective.
A big reason why I waited so long to get into Bitcoins (and I'm NOT the only person, as tons of others had the same issue) is because sites referred to it as mining for cash. This is a huge red flag for a scam, and made a lot of us avoid it. I had heard about it back in 2009, but because of the scam aspect I stayed away. I didn't get involved until the middle-late 2013 as a result. You have to consider how the outside is going to interpret it. Most things that allow you to use your PC to passively earn cash are scams. We learned that long ago. Fair enough. I'd go for your suggestion then: "Get rewarded for helping cure disease with your computer!" |
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Who working on the Curecoin website btw?
I've completed (and with the team) just launched www.CureCoin.net. I hope it's a valuable resource for everyone. If there is anything to add, remove, edit, etc. please come find us on IRC - I'm usually there, and when I'm not you can PM me with feedback. Great! Nice knowledge base + stats and nice design overall. I'm not sure if "The Cure for the Common Crypto Currency" is a very informative tag line. Maybe something like "Help Cure diseases with your PC + Earn money" or the other way round "Earn money while Helping Cure Disease" or "Earn money while Helping Cure Disease with your Computer" or "Get paid to run scientific research software" or "Get paid to run scientific research software on your PC" or "Let your computer work for science, get paid" or "Set your PC to work for science + get paid." Maybe something like "get rewarded for helping cure disease with your computer!" Yep that's the kind of thing I'm thinking but I don't know why we need to 'tip toe' around the fact Curecoin is a form of money (whether it's legally defined as such or not), why can't we just call it earning money or getting paid seeing as that's what it is? That would keep people interested much more effectively. I think "getting money" is the wrong approach though. Getting rewarded is better, as it helps outline the fact that you get something; whether you view that as coins or cash is up to you. Pushing the monetary aspect just makes it seem scammy. Yeah I get where you're coming from, but 'rewards' can often be worthless, e.g. I get texted a to collect "rewards" for topping up my phone but I don't even bother because they're crappy worthless rewards. At least with when the term "money" or "get paid" is used you know it has value. Maybe talking about it in terms of rewards is better I'm not sure, but I would think unless there's a legal reason preventing us from talking about Curecoins like they are money then calling it money would be more effective. |
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Who working on the Curecoin website btw?
I've completed (and with the team) just launched www.CureCoin.net. I hope it's a valuable resource for everyone. If there is anything to add, remove, edit, etc. please come find us on IRC - I'm usually there, and when I'm not you can PM me with feedback. Great! Nice knowledge base + stats and nice design overall. I'm not sure if "The Cure for the Common Crypto Currency" is a very informative tag line. Maybe something like "Help Cure diseases with your PC + Earn money" or the other way round "Earn money while Helping Cure Disease" or "Earn money while Helping Cure Disease with your Computer" or "Get paid to run scientific research software" or "Get paid to run scientific research software on your PC" or "Let your computer work for science, get paid" or "Set your PC to work for science + get paid." Maybe something like "get rewarded for helping cure disease with your computer!" Yep that's the kind of thing I'm thinking but I don't know why we need to 'tip toe' around the fact Curecoin is a form of money (whether it's legally defined as such or not), why can't we just call it earning money or getting paid seeing as that's what it is? That would keep people interested much more effectively. |
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Who working on the Curecoin website btw?
I've completed (and with the team) just launched www.CureCoin.net. I hope it's a valuable resource for everyone. If there is anything to add, remove, edit, etc. please come find us on IRC - I'm usually there, and when I'm not you can PM me with feedback. Great! Nice knowledge base + stats and nice design overall. I'm not sure if "The Cure for the Common Crypto Currency" is a very informative tag line. Maybe something like "Help Cure diseases with your PC + Earn money" or the other way round "Earn money while Helping Cure Disease" or "Earn money while Helping Cure Disease with your Computer" or "Get paid to run scientific research software" or "Get paid to run scientific research software on your PC" or "Let your computer work for science, get paid" or "Set your PC to work for science + get paid." |
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Curecoin. It has real innovation, a new proof-of-work that helps scientific research develop drugs for for deadly diseases. Plus it uses less electricity than normal mining. More profitable + helping find cures = awesome coin. But there are lots of other good ones too, e.g. Maidsafecoin could turn out to be great with it's proof-of-storage innovation. |
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Is there any Promo Group for Curecoin? If so I would like to join. If not I would like to create one.
I think this is a great idea, I like the idea of folding for a purpose and I am, but I'm equally interested in CureCoin as a cryptocurrency and believe if we want to attract more people to the folding and the coin, we need to begin promoting the coin as an entity to itself. Related to this, I can't see any Curecoin threads over at https://cryptocointalk.com/. It's a popular forum, worth making a thread or two there about Curecoin. Anyone want to volunteer to starting a thread there? Helps a bit it you're already a regular on that forum. |
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Who working on the Curecoin website btw?
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Been following this since it's launch, interested in investing.
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More entries wanted! |
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Hoping a trusted dev could vet the Mac wallet. Has anyone been using it?
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I am for finding a way to open CureCoin folding rewards to members of ANY team. People need to understand, some of these teams are very old, very passionate, and very dedicated to their teams and about *volunteering* their *donations* to the fold at home project. Please understand that FAH has been going for 14 years. [H]ardOCP has been doing it since 2000. The EVGA team has been doing it for 7 years. We've been doing it for one week.
We're the bull in the china shop right now, and when you talk about recruiting from other teams, you're talking about destroying other teams that have had to work a thousand times harder than us to accomplish what they have accomplished. That's wrong, and believe it or not - it will drive people in the FAH community away, because we've killed it for them.
Now suppose the value of CureCoin does fall. Will you still be folding? Because that's what many of them are talking about when they talk about us. Cheating. Dropping units in the hunt for higher payouts. That we'll just move on to something else three months from now. The best thing about us, to them, is that we're introducing new people to the Folding@Home program that might just stick around after the tide of CureCoin miners leave.
The reactions to us haven't exactly been brilliant. They're floored, for sure, about the hash-power we've managed to drum up. But we're hurting the huge communities that have been built up by dividing them and forcing them to break ranks and join our team if they want to take part in our coin. If everyone joins our team, what's the point of having teams in the first place. Eh?
No. No recruiting from other teams. And until the devs find a way to include members from *any* team, I would encourage people in other teams to KEEP donating what they can afford to their teams, and to utilize the CureCoin program to facilitate their ability to donate more.
Ok, I'm convinced. Making small Curecoin donations to other teams is off the menu. It would be great if other teams could be bought into it somehow, while remaining in their existing teams. |
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Nice entries SomeRelax! I like the main symbol, the coin image to my eye appears a tad 'harsh/gritty'.
thanks @matt608, about the coin, actually i didn't want it to looks like a plastic coin and of course metal itself is a little harsh, so... glad you like the symbol BTW True I did myself suggest to make it not plastic looking. More entries welcome! |
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