think most here would agree that the technological achievements of Darkcoin are FAR AHEAD of the coin's marketing. I think most will also agree with LimLims that such activity needs a dedicated professional person.
I therefore propose the following - from the next fork, X% of the masternodes proceeds will go into a dedicated multi-sig wallet that will pay a salary to a dedicated full-time professional marketing person.
Hopefully, in time, the price of darkcoin will go up, this fund will be able to employ more than one person, and thus also pay the developers, webmaster, etc.
imho, the time has come to become less bootstrap and more professional.
I love this idea! But I'd like to expand on it, I think it would be better to go into the bounty fund and that fund would be much more generic. For example, we just needed an icon designed, now we need a website, color scheme, etc. As the price grows, the size of things we need to get done grows just as much. Next we'll need to setup a foundation, retain an attorney to help with legal matters, etc.
I propose 1/10 of the masternode payments go toward a bounty fund for generic uses.
- At current market prices this will be $184.03 per day (259 DRK)
If the price goes to $5, that will be $1296 per day, which should be enough for a full marketing budget, the foundation, a retained lawyer and maybe on office for the foundation?
As an idea it sounds good, but in reality it's negative. Memorycoin2 has something like this (not exactly, but similar idea), and most people would agree that this is one of the reasons why the coin is not doing well. People didn't like, it didn't work as expected.
Again, I like the idea in theory, but I don't think it will work well, so my advice is against implementing this.
The best way to do this, donations/crowfunding for specific tasks. In crypto they normally work well.
