I pretty much agree with everything you've just said secoccular
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Without Rob there is no developer to continue BiblePay developing with the same time commitment and passion,
and as investors that is the risk we have taken investing into the project
(as opposed to Dash coin, that has a team of developers and large monthly funding to pay developers)
[I feel like maybe people didn't understand this risk when they invested though]
Theres the ideals of what people want things to be, and then theres the reality of how things really are
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I very much value freedom of speech and open communication, and I have never silenced anyone (other than spammers)
(Sun decided the other day to ban Rob from Discord... I unbanned him)
If Sun is going to keep pushing his ownership/control interpretation though, I will keep pushing my interpretation, I do not want people being misled
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I believe many in the project have been overly critical, and have spent time talking a lot,
which is okay, discussion is good and great ideas can come from that,
but we need to help spread the coin, to help grow the coin and increase the value,
we have lots of people with opinions (and many lurkers), but not many doers
I recently documented all my marketing/advertising ideas/discussions again:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg51053114#msg51053114https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg51053212#msg51053212https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2388064.msg51062536#msg51062536=
I dont claim to point any fingers, to me its as simple as it being a brutal 1 1/2 year bear market, and us going through a lot of changes
We havent spent much of any time/money/thinking on Advertising/Marketing,
we can have a great product, but if no one knows about it?
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In the past few months I have:
- commented about BiblePay in multiple Bitcointalk threads
- commented about BiblePay on masternode articles
- updated the website to reflect all new changes
- updated the ANN post to reflect all new changes
- updated the mining guides
- posted my charity investigation into the public
- helped test new evolution code in testnet, helped others setup testnet masternodes
- continually post BiblePay updates to reddit and twitter
- clicked like on other Christians on Twitter, replied about BBP to other crypto charity initiatives on Twitter (Dash Text, Binance Charity Foundation)
- posted again about how PrivateSend/CoinMixing works and run one coin mixer
- tried to get Rapture coin to merge with us
- posted on all other Christian coin bitcointalk threads
- posted about cryptocurrency to a Christian subreddit
- confirmed that GIN hosted masternodes can vote
- still run the main block explorer
- contacted Christian / Libertarian websites
- wrote medium article, got us published on Masternode Buzz
- wrote recent email newsletter
- updated our Facebook and boosted a post, tried to get us enabled for ads on Twitter
- clarified our number of orphan sponsorships and how to view them
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1087591;sa=showPostshttps://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1087591;sa=showPosts;start=20https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1087591;sa=showPosts;start=40https://www.reddit.com/user/togoshige/https://twitter.com/BiblePay/likeshttps://twitter.com/BiblePay/with_replieshttps://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?action=profile;u=6;area=showpostshttps://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?action=profile;u=6;area=showposts;start=15https://forum.biblepay.org/index.php?action=profile;u=6;area=showposts;start=30Ive been mainly just trying to keep information flowing from the forums to the rest of our community and to the crypto community
and to help out where I can (updating info, helping test, etc)
I wish there was more funding so I could do more!
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Many of you in this thread do not even have Forum Signatures to help spread BiblePay!
that is an easy first step to help spread BiblePay on the most highly used forum for crypto miners/investors!
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7s1qsy/bitcointalk_forum_signature_guide/=
I think a lot of technical people are against marketing/advertising for some reason, they dont value it or they think lowly of it
I also think people do not like stepping outside their comfort zones either, but we are all part of this startup, we can all try on and wear many hats,
Do you guys really think I have any idea I know what Im doing LOL, Im just winging it