Cold Hard Facts
I was going to wait until tomorrow to post this, but I decided to post it now after catching up on pages of posts I missed.
Recently there have been some rumblings regarding WhiteCoin. I am not going to debate which coin is better, nor will I debate if WhiteCoin copied BlackCoin or not. In all honesty it doesn't matter if the WhiteCoin dev copied the source code line for line and just named it WhiteCoin. The point is there will be dozens of BlackCoin clones that are going to be released, so get use to it. This is why it is imperative to abandon the idea of slow and steady growth, and adopt a no prisoners mentality moving forward. The major advantage we as a community have over 99% of the other communities is our active dev team, active community, and partnerships with real corporations willing to do business with us. But we do not have an infinite amount of time. We must establish ourselves quickly and then defend the infrastructure we have established.
Moving forward we need more pools put online ASAP. These pools do not have to mine for profitability as the main pool, but to make sure coins like WhiteCoin are done before the get started. Mine & dump will make sure clones like WhiteCoin have a shelf life of two weeks max. Google is not the #1 search engine by singing kumbaya and playing footsie with their competition. Google is the #1 search engine because they eliminate any chance of any startup competing with them. Do not get comfortable with 9th place, we have to act as if we are in 100th place all the time. I took the initiative to buy enough WhiteCoins so if they end up becoming a "threat" I will dump enough cheap coins back onto the market that it will become another MintCoin. Do not feel sorry for any other community or coin. They would suck out all of the value out of BlackCoin if it would make them richer.
I have been contacted by several developers asking me to create a card for their coin, but I refuse because I made a promise to this community we will get to #1 together. This is the reason why I would not and will not release the source code publicly. All someone will do is just copy and paste the code, and then use our technology against us. If they want a card let them figure it out themselves. Note to all developers with competing coins, I am not going to make a card for your coin. It is nothing personal it is just business.
Today I am now willing to share some of the projects I am working on behind the scenes. One of my closest friends is the VP of one of the largest software publishing companies in Europe. His company acquired one of my products back in 2006. We are currently discussing being able to allow customers to purchase their products using BC. I am also working behind the scenes to try and use our other partnerships as leverage to establish a direct Fiat to BC and BC to Fiat exchange that is simple for anyone to use.
My plan is to use our resume of current partnerships to establish new more promising partnerships. This is what other communities do not have, and it is this that will allow us to become in the top 3 before by the end of Summer.
As I stated before the devs and I are planning something huge in May that will make the world take notice. This is not hype or me trying to "pump" the price, this is a promise I am making to this community. The two press releases we did will seem like amateur hour compared to our future plans. If you want to sell now and looking for a quick profit then go right ahead and sell. If you are on the sidelines waiting, then buy all of the BC you can now. Because in June everyone who sold will be posting "I should have listened to Iconic"...and everyone who bought will be posting "I am glad I listened to Iconic"....
You are the man Iconic. Btw just a few minutes ago I posted THIS in the asiacoin topic:
"You'll notice a pattern in this community, a new coin comes along that gets success and then a flood of clones try to cash in on it.
- We saw this with DOGE coin and coins trying to be memes
- We saw this with the IPO wave of coins
- Then we had a wave of "country" coins
- Now the new flavour of the month is 100% POS coins
I honestly think a lot of people are going to get burned if they don't do their research. Either, pick the market leader (for 100% pos it's blackcoin, for meme coins its doge etc) or wait until the next new thing comes along and invest in that. Problem is the next new thing is risky, so you have to be willing to slap your bitcoins down on a coin that is very different and could easily fail.
Best case scenario is they make *some* profit but nowhere near the same as Blackcoin. Worse case scenario is all these coins get drowned out in the sea of new POS stakes and crash and burn after the initial hype. Since we've seen the worst case scenario play out three times already on the past few "coins of the month", I see the same happening again."
