OPEN LETTER


There are people on this forum claiming they want the best for BlackCoin and the community but they are the first one’s to throw people under the bus. Is one thing to have an idea that you want to bring forward and another one is to impose your idea on people.  When people don't necessarily agree or have there own opinion they immediately get shut down. They get called names, conspiracies start up and that leads to threats. What are you looking for? what are you trying to gain from this?

BlackCoin or any other digital currency will always be controlled by the people who hold the most coins. Example If you are the first one to buy houses on a block or a huge piece of land you will more than likely control what you want to sell it for.  If someone wants to promote your home for sale, or land or neighbors want to get together to promote the sale of a complex they can either work together or not. If people have any idea on how to promote the sale and they move forward with ideas and ask members to donate well good for them. If other neighbors have other ideas and they ask for donations they are also ok to ask and promote.  In the end everyone wants to sell there home but each has the last call on how much they will sell for.  This notion that the BlackCoin is centralized because it has some members creating a foundation is delusional. Thats like creating a club or a group in the neighborhood. Are they imposing on people to pay or they will get there coins taken NO, Are they imposing rules on how people should act NO, are they controlling people and telling them to hold or sell NO.  People are free to do their own projects in this neighborhood.  People are free to ask for donations for their projects, this notion that a Foundation is better than someone else’s group is ridiculous. They could of called it the BlackShibes for what I care is just a group.  

If the common purpose is to move forward for the success of a project  called BlackCoin, Personal and group attacks serve nobody in this forum.


I've personally dedicated my time and effort to this project, the community and friends because I believe in our collective success. I have stopped my own projects and other endeavors to pour my heart and should into BlackCoin. This without pushing anyone to think or do as I say.

The time has come for  people to step back and think. Think on how we are hurting the BRAND, we're also hurting peoples feelings and above all wasting peoples times. If we do a good thing we either do it out of our hearts or for something in return. I do my things out of heart, specially if i'm in with a group that I care about. I would never be so self centered as to push down people’s throat that is my way or the highway, that my views are right and yours are wrong. On the other hand I step back, I watch listen and learn because everyone can bring forward a good point.


Iconic I'm going to address you

You have taken over this forum, most of this forum is littered with your projects, ideas, and negative and destructive rants. These ideas always have a pricetag that the community ships in for. Coming from someone that has donated to your project I would appreciate it if you could tone your self down.

Stop with them against me and you against them mentality, YOU ARE HURTING EVERYONE.
 
You seem to not understand that you are helping with one hand and destroying with another. People want YOU to bring Ideas forward, comment, be engaged but the way you're going about it sometimes brushes people off the wrong way and is destructive. Please dont tell me how such a marketing genious you are cause with this attitudes your doing the total opposite. You are ultimately hurting the brand. I came to this community to help, bring fresh Ideas and bring some big players and your actions have caused some of my people to step back.  This is the reason Im coming forward to address you. While your getting girls to go to wall street to do your gorilla campaign, I got the people that pay these people to trade their stocks, I got the real entertainers the real producers and I have over 25 years in the industry. I don't hide behind a computer, I come out and show face. When I asked you to come forward to address so called "Transparency issues and your projects" your were to busy. Why are you to busy to promote your projects and address transparency, LIVE ON TELECAST, You are always here glued to this forum. If you got time for 2000 character rants Im sure you have time to speak live. I was going to send you an email but since you want transparency well here you have it.

You have turned my people to think this is a joke and have cast doubt in the people that open the doors for me to see this great community. If youre selfish acts continue guess what you will get your way, you will solely destroy the confidence of serious people that dont care about people spating over gimmicks. If you want to help this community stay in your lane, do your projects, raise your funds but don't throw hard working people under the bus and cast doubt, that my friend is counterproductive.

My actions will speak for themselves but if I continue to see this reckless behavior on your part I will walk away with my people, events and all investments planned.

OMG! So I wake up to this!!!!!! BlackCoin ROCKKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hello BlackCoin Community
 
As the BlackCoin Foundation we have worked hard in the past weeks and I am proud to present to the community at large one of our most ambitious fundraising ventures to date. As most of you know, BlackCoin is a phenomenal alternative cryptocurrency with substantial REAL advantages over its competitors. We are a greener, faster, coin that is ready for retail adoption and worldwide use… Only the world doesn't know this... That is hopefully about to change…
 
BlackCoin will be the first CryptoCurrency to hire a legitimate, brick and mortar, Public Relations Firm!
 
For several weeks the BlackCoin Foundation has been engaging PR firms in order to find one with the right technical expertise to help promote BlackCoin through various target media (think wired.com, theverge, wsj, financial times, and social media as well). After much deliberation we have decided on a company and are in the process of finalizing things contractually speaking. We are not going to release the PR firm's name until things are finalized, but they have a great deal of experience and are truly excited to be working with us. You will not be disappointed.
 
BlackCoin is Bitcoin 2.0. But spreading this message comes at significant cost. In order to secure a 90 day PR campaign (with options to retain services month to month after the initial 90 day period) the foundation has already raised over $15,000 USD! This has got the ball rolling, but we need help from the community! To finish paying for this venture we need the community to help raise an additional $15,000 USD.
 
The funds raised by the Foundation have allowed us to get things started, and over the next few days and weeks we will providing more and more information about the strategy, including key messages and timelines. Our strategy meetings will be 100% transparent and we will be updating the community about our every move. In the meantime, we need two things:
 
1.) Come up with suggestions! We have a powerful PR firm to bounce ideas off of and now is the time to brainstorm. What do you think is an important message? What is an important venue? Give us anything and everything you got, but please do your best to list your ideas in a concise and coherent manner.
2.) Please donate to the addresses below! This is a monumental and revolutionary undertaking that could very well shape the cryptocurrency landscape for years to come. Every little bit helps!
 
Linked below is a very high-level and preliminary overview that the PR firm provided to us in our most recent conference call. Some information has been redacted and the formatting has been altered (worsened) due to proprietary images (e.g. anything that could identify the PR Firm).
 
The Plan
 
The cryptocurrency world is having trouble competing with BlackCoin as is… With a capable and professional PR firm on our side, the sky is the limit.
 
Thanks and please donate today!
BC: BTfqh99d8DcKWrd4hFYLR7D2bAYDdAKV3Q   
BTC: 1MAGvdGMCAaJysMBgA5uFRBUFQ25AkUWQV   
LTC: LSGPviYMYmgF2RiXVuXG1U4iVz3drk3JvR   
Doge: DNkmhknWWx6ogrHaTy9X2SLft9ouwhCNs1   
Make sure to check the addresses in the original post!
 
Be the change you want to see in the world.


WE NOW HAVE: 1082$ Donated!

This is really great guys and brings even more genuine confidence in the long term success of BlackCoin. Great to see the foundation stepping up and putting their money where their mouth is, will be great to see even more future projects from you guys. Keep up the good work!

CAPS CUZ AM COOL

Can't say I would ever quote Mark Cuban in anything related to business. Mark Cuban is an incredibly lucky guy who sold his .com to one of the stupidest, biggest .com's at the peak of the .com bubble. As much as he thinks he is, he's no Warren Buffett and given the choice of having PR advice from the Ogilvy's of the world or Cuban, I suspect most wise and experienced business-folk would go the way of an Ogilvy.

With that said, I'm absolutely amazed and astounded that you can't step back and see how BlackCoin hiring a PR firm is NOT a good idea.
Look at the facts:
-Will all due respect after watching yesterday's BlackCoinCast the BlackCoin team, for all intents and purposes, is made up of ultra-nerds to the power of 10. Their forte is coding and crypto's.
-BlackCoin does not have the capital to hire and pay the ongoing salaries of a Marketing/PR Director and team. Yes, taking BlackCoin to where it should be requires a team with years of social media experience to wrangle the message of why the ordinary man/woman/child needs BlackCoin.
-There are many marketing plans going every which way here on BitCoinTalk, creating a massive amount of noise which is becoming indecipherable, chaotic and overall causing massive disorganization. Over a month ago when the forum was pushing the one message that BlackCoin would be the first, and only (at that time), crypto with a self-made BC-buying multipool the result was a ridiculous panicky buying spree which luckily resulted in a much higher price plateau than from where it had been before that message spread.
We need that organized one-mindedness again.
-No crypto has ever hired a PR firm before because no other crypto (maybe with the exception of Evan Duffeld with Dark Coin) has had developers who have taken their coin so seriously as these guys. These guys are willing to test the suppose 'crypto boundaries' that exist and they have been rewarded for it so far.

Iconic, if you truly had an ounce of business experience you'd either donate your 'Wall Street meets BlackCoin' to this cause or sell all your holdings out and move on because pretty soon you will be coming off like a troll.
JL

Sorry, but me too I have to admit that maybe it's too expensive for now, it's a great idea but each has to go with it's own capacities/capabilities.....and what is going to be worth if we don't have money to execute the plan..

and I'm pretty sure we can find ideas or find someone skilled to do so....

yeah man really exciting things coming for BlackCoin

You had me at "#3: Stock-Market Principles Apply to Crypto-Currency, Too".
Seriously though, here on BitCoinTalk you had one guy going one way with a marketing plan, another going another way with some sort of a plan and a whole bunch of indistinguishable voices clogging up the communication pipes. So what do you do? Hire a PR firm to help organize it all and make it coherent.
F'n Genius move, you guys.
Donation sent.
BC will be on fire in the coming days.

I, for one, will now be posting links to all of the PR's on my LinkedIn. Wall Street will find out what BC is all about pretty damn quick.

JL

Yo The foundation came through man Great NEWS!!!


More news coming too  WOOOO

By the way, I spoke with the agency as well and they were very straight up and very prepared to talk to us. They have a concrete plan to get us properly noticed, and help us attain real adoption.

Not only is this is a complete first for the crypto world, but the foundation has already even raised half of the funds necessary. The entire foundation, and the people organizing this are so talented and committed, that this is what's truly going to increase the value of Blackcoin in the long term, not some gimmicks or attention grabs, but real organized and targeted information, delivered to a proper audience, like a real business. The dedication from the foundation members is staggering. This is not just a slapdash effort to throw stuff up on the web, but this is a serious and concise plan that the community can properly get behind.

This is what we have to do if we want to be taken seriously, and be seen as something other than bored kids playing with computers. I for one commend and applaud the efforts of the foundation and it's members. The amount of work that went in to getting this organized, and the amount of fundraising happening in the background has been staggering and over whelming (in a positive way.)

The Blackcoin Foundation is the only organization that is officially sanctioned by the developers, and that is where we will be focusing all of our community efforts from.

I look forward to entering this brave new world with you gentlemen, let us make this happen, and make history.

-TheBlackDogeOfWallStreet - BlackCoinPool.com

Such a successful coin , but seems am too late to catch the train 

Hello BlackCoin Community
 
As the BlackCoin Foundation we have worked hard in the past weeks and I am proud to present to the community at large one of our most ambitious fundraising ventures to date. As most of you know, BlackCoin is a phenomenal alternative cryptocurrency with substantial REAL advantages over its competitors. We are a greener, faster, coin that is ready for retail adoption and worldwide use… Only the world doesn't know this... That is hopefully about to change…
 
BlackCoin will be the first CryptoCurrency to hire a legitimate, brick and mortar, Public Relations Firm!
 
For several weeks the BlackCoin Foundation has been engaging PR firms in order to find one with the right technical expertise to help promote BlackCoin through various target media (think wired.com, theverge, wsj, financial times, and social media as well). After much deliberation we have decided on a company and are in the process of finalizing things contractually speaking. We are not going to release the PR firm's name until things are finalized, but they have a great deal of experience and are truly excited to be working with us. You will not be disappointed.
 
BlackCoin is Bitcoin 2.0. But spreading this message comes at significant cost. In order to secure a 90 day PR campaign (with options to retain services month to month after the initial 90 day period) the foundation has already raised over $15,000 USD! This has got the ball rolling, but we need help from the community! To finish paying for this venture we need the community to help raise an additional $15,000 USD.
 
The funds raised by the Foundation have allowed us to get things started, and over the next few days and weeks we will providing more and more information about the strategy, including key messages and timelines. Our strategy meetings will be 100% transparent and we will be updating the community about our every move. In the meantime, we need two things:
 
1.) Come up with suggestions! We have a powerful PR firm to bounce ideas off of and now is the time to brainstorm. What do you think is an important message? What is an important venue? Give us anything and everything you got, but please do your best to list your ideas in a concise and coherent manner.
2.) Please donate to the addresses below! This is a monumental and revolutionary undertaking that could very well shape the cryptocurrency landscape for years to come. Every little bit helps!
 
Linked below is a very high-level and preliminary overview that the PR firm provided to us in our most recent conference call. Some information has been redacted and the formatting has been altered (worsened) due to proprietary images (e.g. anything that could identify the PR Firm).
 
The Plan
 
The cryptocurrency world is having trouble competing with BlackCoin as is… With a capable and professional PR firm on our side, the sky is the limit.
 
Thanks and please donate today!
BC: BTfqh99d8DcKWrd4hFYLR7D2bAYDdAKV3Q    
BTC: 1MAGvdGMCAaJysMBgA5uFRBUFQ25AkUWQV    
LTC: LSGPviYMYmgF2RiXVuXG1U4iVz3drk3JvR  
Doge: DNkmhknWWx6ogrHaTy9X2SLft9ouwhCNs1    
 
Be the change you want to see in the world.

So we are on CoinDesk:

http://www.coindesk.com/things-alt-ponzi-schemes-blackcoin-usbs-time-warp-attack/

But.. first they talk about DogeCoin (like always) then they talk about WhiteCoin and only about BlackCoinCard after...

And they even mix us in the title with Ponzi-Scheme word...

Well, better than nothing, but could be much better to be honest, kind of disappointed with these guys