I don't like this insistence on having a mathematical/coding/encryption angle to the name - it only means anything to us, it only impresses some of us - real people don't give a shit. Also, all this stealth stuff, it's just too polarising, it's as likely to put off just as many as it attracts - BTC still carries the Silk Road baggage around.
In the wider world it is much more important that people are not intimidated by the name - it's going to take a leap of imagination on new users parts just to begin to get their heads round crypto - lets not scare them off before they've even tried.
You realize that BBR is filling a niche for people that want the highest and most secure cryptocurrency, one with complete and total anonymity? BBR isn't competing with bitcoin. Bitcoin can't provide privacy and autonomy.
There are hundreds of coins competing with bitcoin. Most, probably all, will lose.
BBR is competing against the powers of the world that don't want people to have privacy and autonomy.
Just realised I conflated a reply to two posts.
From above:
As for the idea that we are only offering something to the tech savvy/anonymous transaction user.... why in the hell why?
BBR offers security, ease of use (or at least better than others), speed and (optional) anonymous transactions.... what else does a normal, casual user want? Why shouldn't he use BBR too? Maybe BBR could overtake BTC one day, why not?
To suggest we cripple the coin by deliberately only appealing to a tiny segment of potential users is..... mental.
Are you sure you understand marketing? I'm amazed that you view BBR this way - you need to expand your horizons.
Of course "most probably all will lose", but one (at least) should succeed, you seem to be limiting the chances of that happening for BBR.
BBR is competing against the powers of the world that don't want people to have privacy and autonomy.
This isn't a war - I am genuinely concerned which direction you want to take the coin in, you seem to want to drive it further underground and use it in some personal ideological battle.
So you honestly believe people are interested in BBR because of ease of use and speed? Lol. Come on now. We can do better than this.
CryptoNote has appeal because of security and anonymity. Let's not be so naive to believe, as so many other fledgling coin communities are, that this coin will succeed simply because we want it to. Satoshi wasn't that naive. He put bitcoin the world and the world responded with a resounding "yes, we are interested in this." The world is likewise responding to CN, for specific reasons.
I don't want to take this coin in any particular direction. I am happy to go down the path of least resistance with everyone else.
So you tell me, Sussex, who is investing in, developing and promoting BBR because of ease of use and transaction speed? Who?
If you can't answer this question with at least a handful of examples, then please stop acting like we live in a world that we don't.
If however, you can get the majority of people on this thread in the BBR community to agree that ease of use and transaction speed trump CN anonymity tech, then, by all means, lets focus on those points!
