@funsponge
I completely agree with you, especially on the grounds that we are not just here to play catch-up, ultimately in order to succeed we need to set ourselves apart from the rest of the pack, and a part of the answer to that is getting accepted by big businesses. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you frame it, we are in the catch-up phase. We are in the process of re-designing everything, and I mean everything, from the ground up. Refreshing our image with the new logo, re-designing the website, creating marketing drop kits and tools like the paper wallet generator and exploring different marketing venues are all a part of an important process that can go a long way at this stage in the cryptocurrency game. Of course, marketing is only so good on its own, which is where developments come in to play, Kracko is working on a wallet update which information will be leaked closer to the release, we are also working on restructuring pools for the betterment of the network and looking for unofficial pool operators, working with a partner on the one click wallet and much more. Essentially, we need to build out before we can build up, in other words, we need to offer at least what our competition offers before we can do things like get accepted by big businesses or attract large partnerships. I will say one thing, there is no doubt in my mind that people have an interest in Ultracoin, especially wealthy and powerful people.
The fact that we are top 30 from where we used to be months ago shows what a turn around and transformation Ultracoin has gone through. We have surpassed our closest rival, Vertcoin (Scrypt-N) which seems to be abandoning ship because they relied to heavily on the fact that they are ASIC Resistant (which is no longer true, Scrypt-N ASIC's will be released Q1 2015, we talked about this at Hashers United) and not enough on real world applicable goals. We need to have so much to offer, that even if ASIC's came in, no one would care.
I am from the restaurant industry, and oversee both QSR's and sit-down restaurants, I understand that from a business perspective, I can't accept Ultracoin in those restaurants unless: there is a stability in the price floor, there is an easy way for customers to pay and staff to accept payments, there is a secure way to secure coins, and there is liquidity. If you can understand what drives and motivates the thought process of businesses, you can curtail a coin that will meet those desires. For instance, I would never accept a coin like Sync, because even though Sync is worth a lot of money, who the heck owns Sync? What is the distribution like? Who accepts Sync? Why would people want to own Sync? Etc.
Right now, we are in the catch-up phase, whether we like it or not. But because we understand that, we are not handicapped by our own ignorance. Soon, we will surpass this stage, and from that point moving forward, who is there to stop us from achieving our goals, from partnering with giants, from increasing our user base? At that point it is only ourselves.
So my answer again is, Ultracoin can be a success, if you want it.
Ultracoin will be a success, beacuse i want it
