Does size really matter?

[First.Bitcoins]

The only way a coin grows in long-term value is with real user community growth.

AppleByte is now 6th out of all coins!

Coingecko Rankings as November 17, 2014





Other recent industry recognition:

A nice twitter acknowledgement from a friend in NYC



GoCoin Chairman & Co-founder, Brock Pierce twitter acknowledgement





More AppleByte Details:
Announce Thread: Announce Thread
Website: AppleByte.me
Facebook: AppleByteMe FB Page
Twitter: AppleByteMe Twitter

[okbit]

I am impressed with this coin and have been accumulating AppleByte since they launched. They keep doing what they said they would do from the beginning, and that is focus on building a real user community.

I think in reality, they probably rank #4, if you take out the coins that are primarily only followed by crypto nerds.

If you do that, it would be:

1. Bitcoin
2. Doge
3. Redd (but as a direct competitor to Doge, I don't know if they will last)
4. AppleByte

If you look at Applebyte's FB & Twitter communities, it is amazing, how they have engaged artists & their fans. And with the coming twitter tip bot and music site allowing musicians to sell their music for AppleBytes, it will only get stronger.

[claycoins]

doesn't look like this community is buying though does it.. less than 2btc volume a day.

[EyesWideOpen]

A quiet thread and an empty forum, but somehow AppleByte is ranked sixth for community size/growth? For real?

[Febo]

Some coins put lots in marketing. Doge and ApleByte are two of those. And i think s way to go. But there is also way to go to bring something new. Be better then other coins. When this coin will start doing marketing will sweep with nothing new competitors.

[First.Bitcoins]

A quiet thread and an empty forum, but somehow AppleByte is ranked sixth for community size/growth? For real?

That is very simple to explain. As much as we all love these forums, popularity here means very little to building real long-term community use (Doge certainly proved that). AppleByte has focused since day one on reaching our everyday users, for us the artists and art lovers who will benefit from and spend the coin and it is working for us.

When you look at the coins whose community consists solely of the members of these forums, you have to ask, how will they survive long-term?

[EyesWideOpen]

A quiet thread and an empty forum, but somehow AppleByte is ranked sixth for community size/growth? For real?

That is very simple to explain. As much as we all love these forums, popularity here means very little to building real long-term community use (Doge certainly proved that). AppleByte has focused since day one on reaching our everyday users, for us the artists and art lovers who will benefit from and spend the coin and it is working for us.

When you look at the coins whose community consists solely of the members of these forums, you have to ask, how will they survive long-term?

Doge had a presence here and an even larger presence at Reddit and 4Chan. We could see their large community.
They were on the print and electronic media, TV and even Nascars.

Applebyte has not even come close to that level of exposure. Where do your artists and art lovers gather?
How do you interact with them if its externally, and how did CoinGecko measure that?

I have a feeling the two tweets from Brock Pierce and Tyler Winklevoss contributed to Applebyte's score. If so, then it reflects poorly on CoinGecko's methodology.

[First.Bitcoins]

Coingecko simply tracks the number of users each coin has on FB, Twitter & Reddit, which I think is a good measure of followers outsite these forums. They also have another category that tracks activity in this forum, which you can see for each coin.

[Altcoin Prophet]

Coingecko is pretty cool.

[EyesWideOpen]

Coingecko simply tracks the number of users each coin has on FB, Twitter & Reddit, which I think is a good measure of followers outsite these forums. They also have another category that tracks activity in this forum, which you can see for each coin.

How could Coingecko possibly do that? How could CoinGecko possibly identify AppleByte users via FB, Twitter or Reddit?
Even if CoinGecko somehow gained supercharged NSA-like surveillance powers, shouldn't Stellar be on top of the list on account of the several hundred thousand Facebook registrations it has accumulated since July?

It doesn't make any sense for AppleByte to have a higher community rating compared to Nxt, DarkCoin or Peercoin.

Edit: I understand now. The rank is from the followers and likes you purchased for your social media accounts. Dishonesty on your part and incompetency on Coingecko's part.

[Snail2]

Coingecko and social media crap means nothing. Are there any real world services for it?

[HeroCat]

BTC and Doge have markets, because there are users of them in daily life, for example in Dice sites. There are a lot of other coins, but where can users use them ?

[Piston Honda]

A quiet thread and an empty forum, but somehow AppleByte is ranked sixth for community size/growth? For real?

This!

I wondered about the exact same thing TBH.

[First.Bitcoins]

A quiet thread and an empty forum, but somehow AppleByte is ranked sixth for community size/growth? For real?

This!

I wondered about the exact same thing TBH.

Again, it's simple to understand. From the beginning AppleByte has focused on building real everyday users out in the streets. As much as we love all the cryptogeeks (of which I am one), longterm growth does not come from these forums. It comes from real users who use & spend the coin. The Coingecko measurements show how successful we have been building those users.

Take a look for yourself, at our Twitter and Facebook feeds.

[First.Bitcoins]

BTC and Doge have markets, because there are users of them in daily life, for example in Dice sites. There are a lot of other coins, but where can users use them ?

AppleByte users can spend their applebytes in many ways. Here is a screenshot from our forum: Places to use AppleBytes: