I’d rather avoid Hex lingo in marketing SAFE
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New words are constantly entering the human vocabulary. Pumpamentals explains perfectly certain characteristics of cryptocurrencies. You don’t have a problem with sharding, do you? We took that word from Ethereum, so…
Plus for me it is extremely surprising how one of the little real DeFi’s at а sea of CeFi’s is so much hated. But it’s not a problem. Hex will receive the respect it deserves as a truly decentralized DeFi’ project when people understand it. In the same way that SAFE will get the respect it deserves when it proves itself :power:
This is my opinion (I have a little Hex and a lot more MAID)
Sharing is a general concept from computer science predating Ethereum
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Of course, friend. There is always a beginning for every new word in our dictionary. There is also a promotion … Eth promoted the word…
Edit: it seems other projects have used pumpamentals before Hex:
How about, “we make data a private asset and public good”?
EDIT: Or “we make private asset a public good”?
I mean, it’s both, right?
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In my opinion it’s a mix of pump and fundamentals.
Once you start adding pump into words it kinda cheapens them.
Fundamentals is a good word.
To me the certain characteristics of a pumermental are just words to pump.
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I’ll have a surprise coming sometime in the next couple to few weeks that could help raise some awareness. I’ll share more when that time comes but the cool part will be most should be able to join in on the fun! The wheel is in motion as we speak.
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Exciting!!! Can’t wait to hear more about it! 
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Cicada was epic.
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I think it would be very cool if we could come up with something Cicada-like, and tie it to incentives that would support SAFE expansion. For example, the “hunt” could have different tracks (e.g. one that appeals to devs and supports development, one that appeals to traders/investors and supports trading/investing, another to appeal to and incentive farming, etc.).
The hunt can require players to complete certain actions and provide rewards in MAID (and eventually SAFE) along the way. The hunt could start on the clearnet, then require players to transition to SAFE to find clues.
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I like this idea.
The way cicada really captured people was the lore and mystery of some secret elite group that aimed to recruit only the best by having extremely complicated puzzles. Something of that magnitude would be difficult and very time consuming so what you suggest makes a lot of sense. We do have an international community though so coordinating clue drops would be possible and fun.
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For sure. We should see if we can rally up a council of “game makers” and start sketching out the parameters of the hunt.
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I am a non technical person and never heard of Cicada. Depends on who you are trying to attract
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Yeah it was a almost a cult like phenomenon and not widely known until the last couple or few years. In fact I think there was a large couple year gap in between some of the puzzles being solved. We would have to discuss what could get more engagement on a broader level. I think having the Safecoin prize is good incentive. So how much Safecoin, how hard and what kind of puzzles is the next question.
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I think you could have many small reward and easy puzzles that lead to fewer and more complex puzzles with larger rewards, and you repeat that fewer puzzles/higher complexity/larger reward until it gets extremely complicated to the point it could become a coveted treasure hunt with lots of competition and a single prize.
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Reminds me of Masquerade, a strange and mysterious book of images and runes by artist Kit Williams that held the answer to the location of a buried 18-carat gold hare worth a considerable amount of money, particularly to someone who had a paper round at the time.
For one summer everyone was obsessed with it, and I remember desperately trying to figure out the clues with my siblings, waking up after a dream convinced I had the answer and rushing to the book to test my new theory only to be disappointed when it didn’t fit. The fact the mystery took 3 years to solve shows we had no chance, but it was amazingly addictive at the time, and an early example (1979) of something going viral.
I don’t remember this, but according to this article:
An airline even sold transatlantic Masquerade tickets, which came with a free spade on arrival.
The artist originally dreamed it up for fun, and to promote his work I guess, but he ended up as a recluse because of all the mayhem that followed. Be careful what you wish for I guess.
But anyway, a global challenge that involved a chain of artistic, musical, technical, historical, philosophical and scientific clues (like a sane and benign Qanon) with a valuable or at least iconic prize at the end would be a great thing. If successful it could present the global knowledge ideas of SAFE way beyond its usual audience.
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Lol is this one of those oxy moron things?
Very nice touch and one we could provide with such a diverse community! I’ve already got an idea on the musical side!
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An easy improvement in my opinion would be utilizing the Maidsafe Twitter account more. At this moment it only retweets Sotros or David once every 2~3 weeks. Would it be possible to directly tweet the Dev updates every week, and every now and then interesting, funny Maidsafe related posts? There’s 50k+ followers, reminding them regularly about the progress being made would not hurt.
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This would be a positive. As categories of posts, there could be
- Weekly Dev Update
- Major Dev Update
- Things that Wouldn’t have Happened on SAFE
- Things that Would have Happened on SAFE
- Humorous Posts
In addition, the more we can build a healthy third party developer system around SAFE, the better. The Ethereum account, for example, mostly retweets interesting things people are doing with ETH, which helps to provide reinforcing social proof.
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