@knosis has been very supportive! He frequently shares marketing ideas with me.
One of the challenges that I’m encountering is that it’s difficult to be efficient without the ability to directly advocate with exchanges (for example) on Maidsafe’s behalf. I expect to experience similar challenges with the press (once the press kits are complete). What would make this easier is access to an @maidsafe.net email address and a (semi) formal position. Note, this is not about compensation but rather about being as efficient as possible.
If it’s specific to Maidsafe, that could work. I think a @maidsafe.net address would still be helpful. For example, the company I currently work for (and prior ones as well) provide contractors and consultants with email addresses–particularly if they deal with vendors.
As a contractor, I can testify to that. It depends on the business, but some of them don’t like you appearing as an external at all. I would have thought that transparency would be desirable here though, as having community involvement in an open source project is a desirable image, imo.
Presumably this has been discussed with the team privately?
That’s what you would think, but so many exchanges expressly stipulate that they will not talk to the community. It’s very frustrating. Although, I imagine if I were a large crypto hedgie or some such, they’d be willing to take the call regardless of whether I’m part of the team…
I’ve floated it, but it hasn’t been discussed in depth.
Is Omniwallet not showing BTC amounts for anyone else? I left it alone for a long time, still nothing. Refreshed, revalidated, nothing. BTC is definitely here, just not loading properly on Omniwallet’s interface.
I don’t think selling MAID to US customers is illegal, by any means. Some exchanges (supposedly) just decided they didn’t want to potentially come into contention with the SEC over tokens for projects deemed dead or that ran ICOs, as it has tricky connotations. In the end the SEC didn’t really do anything about any of these coins, and beyond KYC, hasn’t really pushed much on the consumer or exchanges.
In the case of Poloniex, I’m pretty sure them pulling out of the US was just a cover to steal a bunch of coins people never bothered to remove from their exchange, but who knows.
Agreed, and while getting exchange access to US customers should be a priority, even before that is de-risking reliance on just Bittrex Intl and HitBTC. Otherwise put, there is a need to list on more exchanges full stop. Exchanges in other domains are not limited by (non)existent SEC regulations.
