IMO there are only two things that will result in the success of the coin - releasing a workable Darksend and getting it noticed by the general public. Everything else is secondary. Brands are built on actions. McDonalds has a PG name but many people think it's one of the most evil corporations out there. If the worriers on this board had their way there would be no Coca Cola. Cocaine was an ingredient of Coca Cola in the early days. It's still in the name but the brand has moved on. Don't even get me started on shiitake mushrooms.

Darkcoin brand will be built on actions - security, price stability, usability + design, marketing, public relations etc. Any possible negative connotations with 'dark' should be ignored. It's already too far down the road. We should all be putting our time into promoting + advancing this thing not focussing on the name.

Same goes for the worriers about the first 24 hrs. Forget about this airdrop thing. The coin would have been dumped to death if there were still big short term holders. It hasn't happened. Focus on releasing a workable Darksend and getting it noticed by the general public.

Who else is up for drafting/proofreading/releasing press notes?
We need to get the ball rolling.

About name change, the only way to do it (if the decision is made to deal with it) is to hire a professional marketting specialist (as limlim said).

May be he can give his advice on the logo either.

here on the forum, we can only gave our amateurish advice, and the one with the biggest mouth is not necesseraly the one with the right call.

I think this is trying to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.

I'm an early adopter, I've been mining since launch (few hours after launch), and during the first 2 weeks I basically sold all the coins from the first 48 hours because at that time the coin didn't seem to have any future. I sold them at ridiculous prices, like 0.05 per 1k XCO, and I'm sure most people who mined during the first days did the same or dumped already, because for many days the coin didn't look like having any future, so after the coin went to exchange markets people dumped huge quantities for quick profit.

Most of the coins I'm holding now are from the 2nd - 3rd week until now, at that time it was easy to mine a few hundreds per day with enough hardware, it was fair and a personal decision to mine this coin or any other coin, I'm sure 99% of the addresses in the top rich list are from people who mined at that time and people who invested in this coin when it was 0.00005BTC per coin, no one should complain about this, it's the way it works, some people decide to risk and invest or mine a coin when it's worthless, hoping that after some time it gets some value.

Just to give you an idea of how it was 2 weeks after launch (I'm the one trying to sell):

http://gyazo.com/2f236bef06096dc66354cdac9435b42f

lol eduffield you have 2000000 DRK and dont even send 100 DRK to your contributors as bounties

wtf

Think you misread what he wrote, go and read it again.

Anyway


I think the air drop is a complete waste of time and a silly idea. The first 24 hours that keeps coming up is just FUD spread by someone that is bummed that they did not get in early on this coin.

Not at all: YOU read wrong my dear

do u want me to post the link to the address in the blockchain explorer?

By all means do it. The block investigation showed the top wallet with 190k coins. But please post your link.

iCash.

Internet cash. Simple. But only as a name for DarkSend. Leave darkcoin now it has been discussed to death.

Plus we get to wave the finger at Apple.