Did anybody else get spammy-tasting personal messages from this guy?
I got:
Because of your some of your posts on BitCoin Talk I believe you may be interested in some of the initiatives my community is engaging in.
My name is Solomon Adekale and I am the Founder of the smart currency and payment system Sollars and Sense. Yes its exactly what it sounds like...
Not only the next Big Thing in Digital Currency but also the Last.
We recently started a pre-sale for part of Sollars and Sense future profits through our crypto-bonds dubbed Sollar Bonds. The sale is happening in the securities section of this forum. You can check out the thread here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=439399.msg4827352#msg4827352Let us know what you think and if you are interested in any of our technical initiatives. Peace!
Did he send this form letter to everybody and their dog? If so can we just brand him a spammer and get the hell rid of him?
Since I've been invited to "let us know what you think," I'm going to say what I think.
This is utterly dumb. Unless you give some very convincing reasons why this will see faster and deeper adoption than Bitcoin, which you haven't, nobody is going to believe that it will see adoption as a world's reserve currency.
This is utterly dumb, again. You're trying to sell something that a dozen altcoins a week give away for free. If you're trying to sell something more than that, you sure as heck haven't said what else.
This is utterly dumb, a third time. You're planning to peg this thing to currencies you don't control. Gresham already explained why that's not going to work, so you're demonstrating a basic ignorance of economics which undermines your credibility even further.
This is utterly dumb, a fourth time. You're planning on results from an amazingly effective viral-marketing campaign but there is no evidence whatsoever that you have *EVER* run a successful viral marketing campaign, let alone an amazingly effective one. If Randall Munroe, Philip Graham, or Cory Doctorow said they were going to run an amazingly effective viral marketing campaign, I would believe any of them. Because they've done exactly that, more than once. Who are you again, and what viral marketing campaigns should I know you from?
Also, the people whom you'd have to sell this to in order to make it a world reserve currency? Yeaah, that's going to take a hell of a lot more than a viral marketing campaign. How many of them already know who you are, care what you do, and are ready to trust you with the future of their nation's economies? Zero. Right. So by what miracle do you expect this to come true?
In order to fulfil these bonds, you need to win people's confidence. I mean a lot of cautious people who have been trusted to run national economies. But that's a problem because your communications as we've seen so far do not inspire confidence. Reading the things you've written rings a lot of warning bells that say things like "scammer" and "idiot" and "narcissist" and "delusional" and so on. If this is how well you do at winning people's trust, I would say your efforts at making your bonds actually become valuable (by winning people's trust) are doomed to failure.
So, anyway, that's what I think.
