I want to know too, can you please explain a little more.
But anyway guys, i think we should hold our hands firmly. Tips is really undervalued.

Really, no one knows what's in Vern's head, but it is just a rumor flying in certain circles. I can say no one buys 20k USD of TiPS on a whim. The *cough* crash of this morning should be some indication. Someone tried to cause a panic sell (successfully) to start buying in lower. Coin is currently valued at 13.2 mil USD according to certain venture capitol groups. More to follow on wednesday.

Good news, China Bter is going to trade tips with ltc and chinese yuan.!! wow, I am sure the chinese money will push tips up to the moon.

I'm not sure what the issues are (besides an annoyingly long initial blockchain download/synch), as I haven't had any.  As far as I'm concerned, there aren't any issues, just user error.  I believe there was a hardfork a few hours after launch and people had issues because they weren't using the most up to date client.

Snailbrain appears to be the primary developer now.  I think he was involved from the beginning of the project, but I'm not sure and I don't know how many others are involved.  MithrilMan is working on an updated client with additional features.  I'm not connected with the project in any way.  I just discovered it here on bitcointalk a few weeks ago and took an interest in it.  Everything I have written in this thread was gathered from my own research.  I was obviously concerned when the news of the primary developer passing away was released.  It's a setback, I'm sure, but the project is definitely still moving forward.

Stop putting the main focus on the coin mixer. Its easily duplicable and not a selling part.

Cryptocurrencies arent all that useful.... the strongest real use for a cryptocurrency i can possibly think of  is tipping content producers on the internet with tips like a youtube video. instead of "tweet this" its "tip this" at the bottom of the page.

The way content producers make money right now is through ads. This isnt very practical at all. Very few people are able to do it because you need tens of thousands of views to make anything remotely. Also adblock is becoming the norm. It will be impossible to make money from it soon. But with tipping you could have like 30 guys that come to your blog/youtube/tumblr but you provide them a serious stream of content that benefit them in some way. Like exercise techniques for example. So you have these 30 guys coming to your page but you are making a living off it simply cuz theyre rich tip holders who have an easy way to spend money on what they truly value

Theres no easy way to donate to people via paypal... you have to have a working paypal setup a lot of people dont... people from different countries have different currencies its not viable to tip them to an american... kids can now tip people wheras paypal requires you to be 18. You dont need a bank account or credit card. Theres a lot of different problems with donating with paypal. Not to mention there are chargebacks and fees and its just not as easy as just clicking 1 tip button. You  cant send somebody 1/8th of a penny in paypal either.

Thats the only selling point a cryptocurrency could ever have. So to say that you shouldnt focus your marketing on exclusively tipping is nonsense. I think anything that detracts from tipping is damaging...like to say THE FULLY ANONYMOUS COIN and supposedly this is where the market comes from.

Or the acronym "Total Internet Private Security" WAY TO THROW OUT EVERYTHING AND FOCUS ON ONE GIMMICK

What? Stop this...

It is TiPS.

The wallet is very slow to download the blockchain and synch when you first open it, but in all other respects it operates fine.  I believe the Namecoin wallet, from which Huntercoin was extended has the same issue.  It is annoying, but manageable.  I understand from the website that a lite version of the wallet is in development.

I got 30 K followers. Not sure how effective that is but sure adds a bit. It's better to get Max Keiser interested so he can mention it on the show as THE precious metal of crypto's.

My Twitter:
https://twitter.com/CryptoTraders

Also I conducted a small experiment.

I have asked 300 people hat they think of when you say fedora, or fedoracoin.


The answer shockingly was "I think of the hat"

I can honestly say only 6 out of 300 people even mentioned the neckbeard nonsense.

So just so everyone knows, the big marketing choice to change it to TIP's clearly had no real world research to it. You guys are just taking the coin and going in the direction YOU all feel is right. I started on this thread with constructive critisism but it was left unheard. Keep up the shit work. I hope when invisibel gets back he demolishes these nonsense plans leading to nowhere for days on end.

I am with ya on that. It's important to spread out to as many communities as possible. This is why I have created a framework to facilitate this. The marketing strategy document centralizes all resources needed to help forward our cause as well as a list of communities which we would like to increase presence with. It also includes ideas that we have come up with so far for viral concepts and community resources that need to be developed. All community input is welcome as far as specifics and I will add them to the document. The problem is that we are all volunteers in this effort and our payment is through tips and self satisfaction. We have been pushing a lot of updates and activity to facebook and Twitter lately. Once the wheels really get rolling I have no doubt that funding will be forthcoming as well as the professional talent it supplies. (and I should note that many members have been very generous with their personal financing of various efforts)

Well ya see there thats the thing. It hasn't only dropped since release.

At release it hit coinedup too soon. Many people dumped and it sat at about 10-15 latoshis. Eventually it hit 1-2 latoshis, at which point it began picking up momentum. Over the course of 3 days it went up to 20 latoshis. Then it went up to 40 latoshis, hit cryptsy, peaked at 250 latoshis, and settled for a short while at 100 latoshis, then it began its decline to where it is now.

BUT

Almost every single altcoin does this because when it hits the market greedy sellers put in a huge price. Poor buyers get sucked in and the dump happens down to a true price that makes sense, and with almost alll alt coins, the price then keeps declining. If the coin is good it then recovers huge and starts the cycle all over again at different platues.

Look at the charts for other coins. This is the lifecycle of a coin. 90% of miners are teenagers. They do not care how much they make or investment ops. They want cash now to go buy their booze, fast food, and drugs lol.

The fact is there is a lot to this coin, but noone seems to notice it. The people that want a new logo only seem to see the potential for the word TIPS, the Devs only see the features. We need people to look at both, because at the end of the day, if you name something dogshit, but it is totally awsome to use and truly has features and functionality, people will buy it.

Everyone remember, the life of this coin was months before it ever saw the light of cryptsy. Coinedup was the exchange that took TIPs to where it needed to go, and coinedup was so slow 9 out of 10 refreshes would give you a server error because the load was too high, and even then people were scrambling to grab as many as they can. Without any idea if their LTC were safe people were willing to risk it. The life of this coin is much more then cryptsy folks. Much more

The developer just released a new wallet and is working on P2Pool and eventually a new GPU miner, and the difficulty has been about the same for a few days despite the price on exchanges falling substantially.

10 places behind APPLECOIN.....really??   just wow