Coins cannot take center stage. They are meant to be expendable. They are meant to be spendable. At the end of
the day, a successful coin is one which can be spent. It is good to create a bond of affection with the denomination
you use as currency, but it is not good to form such a bond that it becomes painful to release them. You should
feel affection for them, find comfort in their presence when you have them, but ultimately be able to spend time
apart from them. Like cats.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/31o7innys2fnani/catcoin_logo.png?dl=1&token_hash=AAHY1y0ScidxcqQs-bzLBPt21OZ2USQuNqbiKx2D3Ts_zwThe catcoin is not like dogecoin. Doges scream for attention. They are ridiculous looking fluffy creatures who have
had their hyperactive excitability turned into a meme. Their coin is high-volume, borderline ridiculous, and
eminently dogeish. A cat will not be in your face 24/7, and neither should its logo be ridiculous. The current
logo is a mistake. It is a 4chan logo, plucked from some purgatory between eastern and western cultural influences.
It is ambiguously oversexualized, juvenile furvert fluff. Catcoin needs a serious logo, not an anime trope. It does
not need to play up the lolcat meme, because lolcats express only a small part of a cat's true nature - the playful
side that emerges after 9 hours of serious hunting and sleeping. Lolcats celebrate the essence of the kitten, which
recedes as the cat matures, and conserves more of its strength for true combat.
I have no interest in a kittencoin, a kittehcoin, a meowcoin, or a juvenile catcoin. I am interested in stability,
predictability, and utility as a currency. These are traits of my cat. It is why I own a cat, and why I am not
a dog owner. I do not want to walk him every day. When I make love to my wife, I want him to fuck off. I do not
need something that needs me so badly. I want to give away catcoins like I sometimes want to give away my cat.
I want something serious, because I take cryptocurrency increasingly seriously. I don't want bitcoin, for the same
reasons we're all into altcoins - its boring, its out of reach, and its probably already totally taken over by
The Man. But I want something that takes itself as seriously as Bitcoin, tries to solve the increasingly obvious
flaws of Bitcoin, but stands on its own as an independent creature. Catcoin has all the makings for this; it has
the right mix of ingredients. The groundswell of internet catlovers, a positioning in the crypto-ecosystem that
puts it at end of the spectrum for sane economic growth, with a budding community of developers committed to
discovering solutions for real problems facing decentralized currencies in 2014. The developers take themselves
seriously.
We should be showing off our seriousness. There is no additional marketing effort required for the lolcat spirit of
cats - that is already in everybody's mind, as subtext. And it should remain subtext for us and our crypto, while we
position ourselves as a serious player in the market. It can add depth to our delivery, but we should never be so crass
as to point it out directly. A cat wouldn't. A doge would.
My logo is clean. It is recognizable at a distance. The essential shape of a coin is preserved, the body a perfect
sphere, but the design is playful enough to add ornaments (the head and tail), which take it outside a traditional
coin shape. It is Bitcoin orange, as it is intended to be reminiscent of the King of the castle we play in. The ç symbol
is UNICODE, typable on a keyboard in every major Operating System (thus usable in forum posts, IRC messages, etc).
Lets take ourselves seriously.
I have begun working on a re-skin of the catcoin-qt wallet GUI, that conforms to both the style of this logo, as well
as attempting to capture the ideas of "wallet overview", "send something", "receive something" in a non-parodical
but species-accurate idiom. So I hope you vote for it.
Let's abandon the pre-coital maneki-neko logo, and go with something serious. If you want to make ludicrous images
to promote us, go ahead. Make your posters of lolcats to promote the coin: there's honestly no better advertising
mechanism on the Internet. Doges are trumped by lolcats, if it comes to it. But the logo itself should be singularly
reputable, projecting stability, seriousness, and self-identification as a currency.
Vote for this.
