It’s too early to market. I’m a non-techie (meaning I’m not involved in terminal-centric testing) and up until now there is still no practical way for ordinary folk to get a hands-on experience of the network via any apps. That will change, especially since the “Impossible Futures” campaign. There’s no point marketing until folk can download various apps and play around with them.
I’ve been with MaidSafe since the beginning and I still can’t use it - so imagine how non-impactful the current iteration of the network is to a complete novice in the space. Patience is required. We’re getting closer, but the time to begin marketing to the end user is not yet.
Do cheques work differently from how they used to in the UK?
All chequebooks were issued by one of the banks - ie part of the cartel.
A “personal cheque” was simply a cheque drawn on a non-business account with one of the banks.
Once again, UK and US, two states separated by a common language…
By payment network cartel I was referring to credit cards, so Visa, MasterCard, and their processors such as Stripe. There’s still debanking at the bank level but it’s far less common than the card payment networks which are unbridled petty tyrants.
Just imagine how enthralled you were when you first heard of the concept of the network. Remember that? Now, imagine that feeling all over again but instead of being delivered years and years of delays, were delivered an Autonomi browser extension and a slew of apps a few months later. It may be too early to market to the potential end user, but it is not too early to engage people like you and I who can see where this going. It’s the geeks who are going to build this and it will cost us nothing to re-engage them.
I get your point of course and I have no issue with “marketing” to devs and geeks. However, the big attention will only come from marketing pitched to the ordinary potential user, who can then check out the apps available. That’s how and when the ANT price will appreciate.
I completely understand your perspective, but define the ordinary potential user. We have people like the team on one end and potential normie users on the other. We also have a massive group in between that have pushed the entire crypto market to well north of three trillion in market capitalization. Are we really going to revert to stealth mode now that we have a functioning, albeit imperfect network? I didn’t find out about the network from some random insider. It was a combo of listening to Let’s Talk Bitcoin, The Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast, Freedom’s Phoenix and being exposed to many other sources. We’re leaving a lot on the table here by assuming a passive attitude.
Possibly, but I sincerely doubt it with this community. There are already at least four million ANT locked up to support initial app devs—for a minimum of 12 months. I suspect it would be considerably higher if people weren’t skeptical about the process and expect it to go a lot higher when we see results from the first round.
Ernest is big into IPFS and his concept “Occupy the Land” from what i;ve listened to on his radio show .
Once the IF projects MVP’s are launched FreedomsPhoenix would be a great place to get some interviews going, i feel Colony, Scratchchat, IMIM, CanMan, Pirate Radio and the regenerative farming concept REGRU would interest him greatly, imo.
He’d absolutely be ride or die. He was actually a hardcore supporter of the project and one of the first people I heard about it from, but he went to IPFS after years of setbacks. This is exactly what I am referring to with respect to networking/marketing. There are very few people who are going to remember this.
This is where I disagree. To a non-techie person we don’t yet have a functioning network that they can play around with - and that includes me. That’s why I say useful apps are needed before marketing to such people.
When Bitcoin launched it was fully functioning. Anyone could download the software and start using it immediately. MaidSafe was launched as an ICO, a potential network yet to be developed. Yes, it attracted attention at that time due to its ambitious and laudable goal in a bull market of ICOs. But many years have passed and as far as non-techie folk are concerned there is yet to be a product launched which they can participate in. That’s going to change and that’s when marketing should begin.
Respectfully, there is no way on God’s green Earth that the average person could just download the software and start using bitcoin in 2009, much less understand the concept of security and how to do cold storage. Even if they could, what would they do with it? There was zero market until some guy offered up 10,000 BTC for a couple of pizzas and for years it was pure speculation. The devs, geeks and economically literate radical libertarians were mining it and using it out of core conviction—but they didn’t get there because nobody was trying to tell them about it until it was fit for consumption by grandma.
