A solid game plan to make VeriCoin relevant, development, and proper marketing channels are the 3 areas where I feel VeriCoin can start to brand itself.
We need a plan to make VeriCoin needed in crypto, not just another crypto. Our goal is to go mainstream. We need to have a product (development) that is unique, and needed in the marketplace. When we get this product, we need a organized, new approach to market it. Having a few disorganized community members and our developers talking about moons will never get us to where we want to be. If VeriCoin wants to be taken serious by professionals, we need a avenue to express ourselves PROFESSIONALLY! We could be the legal, legitimate, professional, mainstream coin of the future. Or we can be another coin in the bitcointalk forum.
We need to get a serious professional who has run a media business, or another business of some relevance to talk to the community leaders, and developers of VeriCoin in a way that will make them understand where we can unlock value, and where we can stop shooting ourselves in the foot. I have great ideas of where to make VeriCoin relevant and not many of the skills needed technically. Where do I go to express myself? To find others working toward the same goal? Disorganization is killing crypto in general, its killing vericoin. "Decentralization" Has been such a clutch for prior crypto coin investors that they lack to see where society has deemed centralization relevant to the extent it is nearly everywhere. The people who say "bitcoin is decentralized" usually fail to grasp the point they are trying to make is on a centralized service...
The world is messed up, and mixed up. If we slow down, and find our weaknesses and create strengths, If we work hard to fill our voids, If we work hard to show the world our strenths VeriCoin will reach its potential.
Our next community goal while the developers are working hard to create value through development should be on how we can better work to organize our thoughts. How we can better market ourselves in the future. This should be an effort led by the community with the guidance of developers as we are all in this together. I think it would be a great show of commitment back to the developers giving so much to us. Think about them for a minute, they have worked hard, developed, and kept taking criticism (right/wrong) and coming back for more.
Its time to take the lessons we have learned from the past months and put them to use. It's time to take the ideas we have tossed around and vetted and figure out a easy, sensible, clean, streamlined approach to make VeriCoin great.
In general, I agree with you. But you seem to imply that making of VRC not
"just another crypto" and instead
"a product that is unique and needed in the marketplace" is within the realm of capabilities of this developing teams and this community and, quite frankly, we are light years away from that, so to speak. Sadly, we are, in terms of product, just another crypto.
I have stated, many times, that the only value of this coin resides in the community that supports it and the dev team... not because the dev team is the best, wisest that there is, but because it is the first that came out, identified themselves and offer a transparency unheard of in crypto. That in itself is now a standard and, consequently, just an anecdote of no intrinsic value. Except that, because of that, and because of the "rollback", these guys, the devs, can claim the mantle of being "the good guys" of crypto. And, in my opinion, there's value and marketability in that.
Problem is these guys are arrogant to extremes almost inconceivable: They know more than anyone. Of everything. And they want to be everything... while lacking the capability of actually being anything in term of coding features that people in crypto really want. Mind you, there is a significant amount, I'd estimate probably around 3/4 of the entire crypto community, that will be behind "the good guys" all the way, tired as they are of scams, on one side, and crypto practically going nowhere soon, on the other. But there's a 1/4 of that community that have termed our guys kind of verbotten because they did the "rollback". And our guys want to be everything to everybody and, instead of staking their territory and fight those who won't accept "good guys" in crypto, they want to sort of "play ball". So VRC doesn't need, in any way, anon, but they waste time and resources in a short of watered down anon, to please the segment interested in not on the up and up transactions... while, because of that, alienating the 3/4s that want everything in the open. Like the dollar, or the euro, only outside of devaluation capabilities and other state or group of states maneuvres. In others words, they want the protection of being legal but the also want to store their value in a coin that doesn't lose that value with time, like FIAT does. And they want to take advantage of the technology and the (lack of) costs and speedy transactions. Those feel alienated by three kids playing the cloak and dagger game of those interested in the dark world of illegal transactions. So, we have an image we are projecting, where VRC is NOT "the good guys" of crypto but a kind of the good guys, but also kind of the bad guys. An people don't want that at all, since they have clear alternatives on both those directions in coins as evolved technologically, or more evolved than VRC.
Because, quite frankly, technology and innovation-wise, VRC has come so far so short from expectations that there's no wonder outside of choirboys and hopeful bagholders, no one is interested anymore.
So, coming back to your idea, which I subscribe almost completely, in my opinion VRC should make it very clear that just like the set the standard in transparency, and the standard in denying to be robbed and destroyed, they want to set the standard in the crypto coin that not only approves of legislation but actually fights for it to arrive in crypto as soon as possible. So people, inside and outside of the crypto community, KNOWS clearly, unambiguously, what VRC represents: A real, viable alternative to other forms of currency but that aspires to be bound by the same rules and regulations that other forms of currency do, so distancing itself from most of the rest of the pack and, surely, attracting the interest of big, corporate investors and venture capitalists as well as, hopefully, merchants.
But, like I have stated before, these three kids "know better" than anyone so they will continue meandering their ways while the coin all but disappears.
Or worse: Repeating failures of the past. Their own or those of others, such as Blackcoin (I have heard too many times already that they are about to hire some PR firm... just look at what Blackcoin accomplished doing so while becoming the butt of everyone's jokes in crypto).
I'd like to be more optimistic, but as long as these three remain victims of astonishingly arrogant behavior -without a single thing to show in support of it, to make things even worse-, there's no way, no way, VRC can claim a post of relevance in crypto.
There is a chance, not a guarantee of success by any means, but a good chance indeed. My bet though is that they will not go for it.
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