With all due respect, I'm not sure you understand the definition of volatility. Take a look at the chart from Oct 2015 - Oct 2016 = https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/potcoin/

The coin was essentially abandoned and some of the original devs literally left the project after discovering the difficulty of getting any sort of mainstream use within the marketplace.

Regardless, it's Saturday night and I'm on vacation in Thailand, it would be foolish for me to continue this conversation with a newly created forum account with 3 posts.

I wish you luck and suggest you buy more PotCoin if you truly believe in the development team and their recent actions.

The only real manipulation has been holding down POT prices. With just one news development like Canada going legal, POT will rage again to new ATH. Be patient and accumulate until the good news comes!

this coin gets pushed higher with all the new interest in altcoins

The difference is that DopeCoin has admitted the failed business model of trying to be a mainstream payment system to buy marijuana from dispensaries.

Instead of offering false promises and telling the community to "just wait guy's, any month now and we will be accepted into dispensaries and magically birth a mainstream user-base that will use PotCoin over cash, credit, debit or even Bitcoin. Just trust us"

This is the same thing that has been told by Potcoin and all the other marijuana cryptos. An unrealistic business model that has been attempted and been a total failure.

Fox news's business analyst nailed it 3 years ago - check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fKICIXsqsU

The business model was a failure and I, among others, was wrong.

Now here we are 3 years later... Nothing has changed. There is still no userbase "beating down the doors to buy marijuana with crypto"

Rather than continuing to pursue a failed business model, DopeCoin is the only mmj coin that has accepted reality and made a plan to evolve.


I realize that you are invested in Potcoin and want it to succeed and I'm sorry for raining on the communities parade.

The reason I posted all this information and defended my position so passionately is because we just recently saw MarijuanaCoin rip off it's userbase for around 28 BTC, XCI and Gangacoin positioning to do the same.

And then we have PotCoin..... a coin that was basically dead for all of 2016 so it decided to manipulate it's user-base by releasing fake news and photoshopped pictures of atm machines.

And what are the future plans for PotCoin's business model? "We're going to get accepted into dispensaries guys! Just wait, 2017 is going to be a big year"

I do hope that you profit from your investment and I realize that many people are going to be pissed off at me for the things that I have said. My objective was to simply issue a warning and wake up call to and industry that I helped pioneer and am passionate about.

Warm regards,

Dopey

I appreciate your question and will now address your concerns.

DopeCoin's mission is to execute a long-term strategy which is focused on educating and onboarding as many new users into the cryptocurrency scene as possible. And yes, our long-term goal is to be used for marijuana-related purchases by a niche community of crypto and MMJ enthusiasts as I feel that mainstream use by the masses is not something that will be happening anytime soon.

In the meantime, I will continue to evolve and work hard as I am addicted to the process.

What should be understood is that I left the project 3 months after creating DopeCoin in 2014. I realized that the business model was a failure and refused to blow smoke up the community and our userbase's ass with false promises. The reigns were handed over to one of our community leaders and yes the coin laid dormant for around 2 years.

Over the years I regretted this failure and always wanted to find a way to once again become involved in the project.

In December of 2016, I decided to innovate and make an attempt at executing a new business model that may or may not be successful. If it fails, I will try something else.


Since relaunching as DopeCoin Gold we have begun to once again see some interest in the project which is based on real developments. Our social media team is hard at work and have had some great early success.

https://twitter.com/dopecoinGold
https://www.instagram.com/dopecoingold/
https://www.facebook.com/dopecoin/

Yes, you do have the right to insult my mission to develop new and innovative ideas and to have the courage to fund them and push them into the marketplace to see if they will work. And you can also disrespect me for the statements that I have made, it's fine, I'm a big boy and have developed a thick skin over the years.

I am a serial entrepreneur and many of my business ideas have been flops, most of them in fact, others have been wildly successful and have provided me with enough capital and infrastructure to put myself out there and take risks.


I realized when making these statements that I would be under attack and would have to invest some time in defending my position.

Good question, let me explain.

Currently, the marijuana industry is unable to advertise their products on the mainstream advertising platforms as they are drug related and against those platforms terms and conditions.

As a result, the marijuana based websites are forced to use a service called Mantis which is an advertising platform specifically designed for marijuana-related businesses.


This new platform is still in its infancy and has around 350 websites on board. They also have a set price and virtually no competition allowing them to dictate the price that they charge and pay to customers.

My concept is to introduce Reefer Media, a 2nd option for that industry, which will provide a higher payout to website owners and cheaper costs to advertisers. The userbase will then be able to make/save more money and can easily swap their DopeCoin's for Bitcoin or fiat currency at will.

This will allow them a second option which will not only be more profitable but also provide the benefits that come along with operating in crypto.

The plan is ambitious and unique and will certainly be a challenge to pull off. Which is what I love!

If you had a marijuana-based website and wanted to make as much money as possible from your traffic... Would you choose the higher payout?

My original intention was not to come in and bash Potcoin but rather to highlight the current scammy behavior going on in the MMJ crypto space, in particular, the recent IPO scam pulled off by MarijuanaCoin. Yes, I did promote myself and DopeCoin at the same time (which I should - 2 birds one stone right?) and I understand that this thread, in particular, would be pissed right off that I would have the audacity to make the statements that I have made.

I knew that I would have to defend my point of view and would be insulted and disrespected by many of the supporters of our competitors and I do apologize if anyone's feeling were hurt along the way.

As a closing statement, I would like to once again point out the chart of Potcoin's activity above which only started trading in massive volume again a couple of months ago.

I appreciate the debate and wish you success with your cryptocurrency investments.

Warm regards,

Dopey

We are working on our own coin.... please read the previous posts. And to put things into perspective it was not that long ago that Potcoin also had similar low volume and marketcap.


I have not posted in this thread for 3 years and, although it was a little bit hostile, feel that I have sufficiently made my point. If you would like to continue the debate or call me names please feel free to post in the DopeCoin thread and I will do my best to engage you in a thought provoking discussion. I will now exit this thread and wish you the Potcoin community the best and hope that you all profit from your crypto investments.

Warm regards,

Dopey

tell them a crazy banana in a can sent ya.

Dopey is angry cuz his coin is ful of shit nobody want to trade