Because IMO the SAFE Network is a step change evolution in decentralised computing and I would see many early end users of the network coming from this space. Bitcoin is revolutionary, but is not perfect and I think we can and will continue to be able to offer improvements in a few areas. If we don’t make these arguments and make a case for the SAFE Network we are unlikely to drive any kind of awareness.
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Bitcoin is the perfect foil for SafeCoin.
There’s an enormous awareness around bitcoin of things that will work strongly in favour of SafeCoin and SAFE network: the enormous but still unrealised potential of blockchain, its inefficiencies, limited scalability, centralisation risk, traceability etc.
Every bitcoin fan who has that awareness both has their fingers crossed in hope it won’t fail, and is keen for those problems to be solved by this or that emerging project. That’s how other coins manage to get funded, and then sky rocket before achieving anything.
That pattern is as much a recognition of the flaws of bitcoin and blockchain as anything else - because if people didn’t think bitcoin was flawed, or at least seriously limited in its potential, those other projects wouldn’t be needed.
So comparing SafeCoin with bitcoin is something I’ve always done, because it is a powerful marketing technique. Bitcoin fans sometimes debate me on it, but it’s easy to answer them and explain the basis of my views, because they are well founded, not hype. And they listen, at least they always have so far.
I sent Craig White @mav’s explainer last week, because even after he was trolling me for taking a dig at him (“the ego has landed…” 
), he was open to discussion provided it wasn’t marketing. I don’t know if he’ll read it, but let’s see.
Don’t be shy I say, but don’t bullshit either. We have a lot of good, solid work here, so there’s no need to say anything you can’t back up. And if somebody wants to learn we have a wide range of stuff now that is suitable for many different people.
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I’m surprised by this, guessing you’re talking about Craig Wright (the scammer)?
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I agree here
Coins mostly just skyrocket because pump and dumps and ‘hopes and dreams’ I’m afraid.
Like my previous answer, it’s all about the money that’s to be made in having an ICO/Crowdsale which attracts people.
And I’ve done the same until a few months or year ago. The whole history of Bitcoin is in my opinion too powerful to be taken over by any other coins which are too centralised to become a decentralized currency at all. I assume David (Irvine) hates his own central authority in the project, but it’s here and if he leaves the project, we both know what will happen in the short term at least.
I don’t know if this is related to the Craig White/Wright part or something else