1: It looks pretty good, but I don't think anyone here is looking to emphasize Esperanto itself. The name choice seems like more of a play on the idea that it's an auxiliary language meant to serve as neutral ground to provide an equal footing for anyone looking to discuss whatever issues they have. Much like this currency can be used to allow the trading of value-for-value entirely across the world . . without any of the barriers that are apparent with your fiat alternatives.

2: You make lock-and-key look nice for this coin, but it's becoming increasingly harder to get a "look" that makes this distinct amongst the increasing pile of other lock-and-key designs all the other coins use. I just feel like the idea has become ubiquitous . . especially in a landscape based on cryptography.

What happened here? It looks like the middle of the picture is missing?

The eye thing is kind of awkward for me. Any reason you put it there? Looks clean though!

Cool, already sent to the one you posted in IRC.

Where is the address that this money needs to be going to? Someone's gotta step up and take the funds . . generosity usually only comes in ten minute windows for most people

edit: I would totally feel that you'd do great at collecting and managing the funds

Is your bitmonerod program still downloading the blockchain? Has it said synchronized ok?

Listed us here:

https://www.swaphole.com/#!voting

Make sure to copy and paste because btctalk breaks the link if there's a # in there.

Also, if you haven't voted in a while here's another link bump: https://comkort.com/vote

I've been reading your MC2 thread. It's impressive to speak little of it. As far as bad situations go, I'm glad you were who we have now. The incredible amount of help and time you, and everyone else, have put forth is nothing small. If I didn't feel like the MRO would be worth something some day I'd send it all to you guys

I'm sorry if I neglected to mention that the major hook into this, apart from the badass protocol, are the people that it has brought toward it. You, NoodleDoodle, Smooth, Othe, David Latapie, eizh are the reason that this will succeed in my mind. Not just a gui or pool.

That I can come here every day and you guys are posting is more than a reassurance for me. You guys even showed me how to install this on ubuntu, which I'm coming to see is a great alternative to windows.

I'm sure, under your combined leadership, that I will very soon be coming to this thread and seeing hundreds of posts from many new people pouring in.

So what can we do to grow the community? We've had a few nice weeks where the difficulty has risen quite nicely, but I'm not really feeling much on the support end. There's little to no talk and the logo thread seems to have died. Despite the growing difficulty -- I fear we're losing interest. I think we're suffering from a lack of a consolidated vision.

It's going to be harder/more time consuming right off the bat to build support for us because there's not one person we can rally around, and Monero is based off a protocol that's not well understood on this board. This is very apparently a decentralized effort where many people donate their little bit of time available to help out, but we're lacking in having one person who is available full time to this.

I don't consider that a complete weakness, as it's been invaluable to the present life of the coin so far .. but I still can't shake the feeling like we're just sitting around and waiting for people to pop in. Like there's no hooks other than a seriously impressive protocol. I hope I'm not alone when I feel like that's not enough.

This isn't much better than the alternative that this was forked from in that regard (Though we still don't have the ninja-mine).

There's a few hundred other options calling people to one coin or another -- what can we do that brings them here, with the significant hurdles present today?

Most people see CPU only, and are immediately dismissive because of the reasonable assumption that there's a hidden GPU miner -- or optimized CPU miner. How can anyone seeing this for the first time not feel like it's going to go the same route as Quark in a week or two?

Others see the anonymous aspect and are immediately turned off because of concerns regarding illegality, and fear of persecution. The fear of not knowing whether or not it's okay to have unlinkable transactions in the blockchain. How can we make the point that privacy is an integral part of inviting real business money into cryptocurrency (Where your competitors can't see who you do business with, or the contents of your wallet)?

Then there's the lack of usability -- where everything is still using command lines and there's no GUI (not a problem for me, but there's a distinct terror in using the command line that comes up constantly in the community). I understand this is being worked on which is fantastic -- but until that time how can we convince people that it's as simple as "download this file and double-click this batch file".

Following this, there are no pools. With the majority of people on this board being so used to having an immediate reward (however small it is), it's tough to catch one's interest. How can we keep people interested if they aren't getting the same instant mining gratification they get in any of the other coins? The manual faucet is a nice idea, but is there anyone working on an automated one?

Even further, ubuntu gets double the hashrate of windows binaries . . something else that turns away the majority of end users. I understand that there are now binaries available that give a boost, but even only 60% will make any newcomer feel at a loss. I can't really see a way to convince people this is okay, and telling most of the to use ubuntu instead is unacceptable -- they'll just move on to something else.

The problem with the assertions above is that these people being pushed away are the exact people we need to be bringing into this coin. Even tougher is that once these opinions are formed, it's very hard to break from that mindset. It's been two weeks, and by now probably 90% of the board is aware that Monero exists . . and I'm worried that by the time the above problems are solved people will have just moved on, because an answer to each represents a significant amount of programming work or understanding.

With most of the people who have the skill to do this tied up in their own coin/different coin, and the other part being either too inexperienced or unmotivated to contribute -- what chance does this stand to pick up?