Im talking about the interest behind stratis which doesnt exist.
You guys released the full node, something you worked on for 2+ years.
After all that "hard work" the only PR stratis got from a big news source was cointelegraph and it was a PAID ad. Then you have some random no name crypto outlets that wrote about it, probably each with less than 100 views.
If you guys were building something actually cool, you'd see the interest all over the crypto community.
Thats the sad part, nobody is talking about stratis and nobody really cares anymore.
I dont care, i've moved on to better investments, im just here to remind people that stratis is a bad investment. Stratis will be the worst performer of 2019, if it does anything at all.
Aha I see, I was responding to your "nothing technically" comment, which I had understood was meaning that the C# Full Node was not a technological achievement.
That not being that case, and if we're going to talk PR/Marketing, then I guess we need to kick off with some background.
Stratis raised 915 BTC, around $600k at the time, during their 2016 ICO. This is some solid capital for a startup, but tiny when compared with the funds raised by other ICOs at the time, such as the 30,000 BTC raised by one other notable ICO from mid 2016. This meant that to ensure long term growth potential, Stratis had to be careful with money and design a strategy which used the funds raised to maximum impact.
To this end they concentrated all resources on delivering a product which can earn them a revenue (via premium services and associated consultancy), thus making them independent from the funds raised during the ICO and the STRAT allocated to them for development post ICO (4m STRAT).
The trade off was the kind of crypto-centric marketing we are used to. Stratis has always fallen short when it comes to PR. As you have pointed out, people within the crypto space don't talk about Stratis in the way they talk about other cryptos, and it is sad! I agree! Fortunately, I understand the reason why. No money has ever been put towards PR by Stratis, not in the sense we would usually mean, as in money spent and gone, not just money invested in for another day, and certainly not in the sense we have seen with other cryptos. One such crypto spent $8m on marketing and PR last year, and it was VERY effective.
But here's where there's light at the end of the tunnel on the marketing front. Stratis are delivering Version 1 of their product, the Stratis Platform, this month. This means that resources can be reallocated away from development, and focused instead on achieving both adoption and community growth.
It has always been said by the Stratis team that they found it to be financially irresponsible to market a product which didn't exist, when that money was needed for the delivery of the product itself. Fortunately, that time is coming to an end.
So yes, I totally agree that it is in no way doing the C# Full Node justice to just have a few paid articles scattered around. But they're not marketing a release: they're marketing a product. That comes with sustained, targeted PR. Money is soon going to be spent on achieving just that.
They'll soon have the cool tech, then they'll be getting it into the hands of the people who will want to use it.
