nice exposure today, Max Keiser on The Keiser Report mentions BitShares'

[mint chocolate chip]

Search result for "Smartcoin" on google: BitShares doesn't appear (on the front page, didn't bother checking the rest)
Search result for "Smartcoins" on google: BitShares appears in 4th if I'm not mistaken. Before, I get a noob pump and dump coin thread on bitcointalk called Smartcoin

we need to handle that if we want the term "Smartcoins" to be instantly associated with BitShares

Working on adding to that front page, the bitsharesblog is on the never seen page 2 right now.

For us to rank #1 for smartcoins and smartcoin we need those that can to link that term.

[Erlich Bachman]

Yeah, we are not going to get to be the only "smartcoins" the same way that we are not going to be the only "bitgold" or "stablecoins" or "tethered NuBits", however, the Peercoin community, and Bitreserve, and Tether, and E-USD are all advertising the Bitcoin2.0 concept of "smartcoins" to people like Max Keiser (of course it wasn't us who got the message to him).  Although he is well aware of Bitcoin2.0 concepts.  Smart man.

It will take the world some time, however, to realize that 100,000 TPS is greater than 100

A smartcoin is simply a price stable bitcoin.  You don't have to be smart to understand this concept (but you do have to understand bitcoin)

The term "smartcoin" allows bitcoiners to comprehend simple smart contracts in the form of price stable bitcoins.  This "(price)stablecoin" or "smartcoin" is merely the key to comprehending the Bitcoin2.0 kingdom.
https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php/topic,16980.msg217162.html#msg217162

In order to sell a product, you must first convince your audience that they need it.

Max is correct in assuming that the Greeks need smartcoins (and not volatile crypto blockchains that lose 80% of their purchasing power in 1 year)

[Riverhead]

Why?  A google search brings them right to the top?

The Cryptonomex name is great. It's the SmartCoins branding I'm not a huge fan of. Sorry, my post was not clear as to the context of my objection.

https://bitshares.org/technology/price-stable-cryptocurrencies/

[Erlich Bachman]

We should be careful who we trust. Particularly those who say things we all want to hear

He promotes blockchain technology when most media outlets won't even mention it.

[Permie]

I'm thinking out loud here, and it's not related to this thread... But I wonder if Russ and Erlich are controlled by the same guy, and if that guy has another active and known account.

That's kind of weird if/when they all talk to each other in the same thread.

I assume everyone is an NSA sockpuppet until proven otherwise.

This is not paranoia and will only become a bigger issue as bts grows
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140224/17054826340/new-snowden-doc-reveals-how-gchqnsa-use-internet-to-manipulate-deceive-destroy-reputations.shtml

Max Keiser is a pro.  He knows exactly what he is doing.

I'm sure he does. It just may not be what his viewers think he's doing.
He (correctly) criticizes the BBC for propaganda whilst working for Putin's western media (RT).
We should be careful who we trust. Particularly those who say things we all want to hear

[Erlich Bachman]

Why?  A google search brings them right to the top?

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=cryptonomex&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Would you rather they change their name to "Muse"

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=cryptonomex&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=muse

Did you notice the :



What is the shortest most recognizable name that is not recognized by Google?

[Riverhead]

It also died shortly thereafter, correct?

Not sure as I don't follow this particular coin. I just Google'd Smartcoin because it seemed odd that it was mentioned.

What is more likely?  That Max told the Greeks to buy a $40,000 market cap crap coin?  Or that Max told the Greeks to buy BitDrachmas (the ones without the Kerpeles-style counterparty risk)?

Wait for it..................

Ya, I had never heard of bitDrachmas but I agree it's much more likely. Smartcoin is going to become, or already is, an overloaded word where it sometimes refers to a technology and other times to a specific brand or coin.

I really wish Cryptonomex had decided on a different name. Any name. I'm sure, "Google" sounded absurd when it was first proposed but it stands out a lot better than Searchsite (tm).

[Erlich Bachman]

It also died shortly thereafter, correct?

Not sure as I don't follow this particular coin. I just Google'd Smartcoin because it seemed odd that it was mentioned.

What is more likely?  That Max just told the Greeks today to go out and buy a $40,000 market cap crap coin?  Or that Max just told the Greek mother with 3 kids to put her money into a crypto that lost 80% of its value last year (bitcoin)?

seriously?  You think that Max is that stupid?

Or do you think that Max told the Greeks to buy BitDrachmas, or BitGold, or NuBits, or some other non-confiscatable or bank bail-in-able crypto smartcoin (the ones without the Kerpeles-style counterparty risk)(or bitcoin style price volatility that has been keeping the globe from adopting it for how long now?) that they can store their private key in and travel across the boarder before the concentration camps set in ?

Wait for it..................

[Riverhead]

It also died shortly thereafter, correct?

Not sure as I don't follow this particular coin. I just Google'd Smartcoin because it seemed odd that it was mentioned yet I felt unlikely it was referring to the unreleased Graphene project.

They have a shiny new website and the git for that site has updates less than a month old. The source code seems to be unchanged for nearly a year though. It's still being traded and the block explorers are still live. Other than that they could be dead and just on mining life support from switching pools.

[Erlich Bachman]

he has no intention of promoting our Smartcoins.

There is even less of a chance that he is promoting SMT (the bitcoin clone) after the failure of Maxcoin to crack the top 20.

Of course he is not promoting BitUSD, he is promoting Nubits and Tether, but after the BitShares2.0 launch, he will learn which smartcoin has the least counterparty risk of them all.  Our dear friend is learning, so give him credit.  I know it is a much slower pace than you would like, but seriously give the man come credit, his brain is old, he is already rich, he is crazy busy, he is constantly distracted by the Hot Herbert, and if you did as many drugs as him, I doubt you'd even... what were we just talking about?

Max obviously has been reading the crypto news, and knows what smartcoins are.  I just wonder how long it will take him to figure out which smartcoins are scalable to Wall Street's current trading demands (fast and furious).  Keiser is no idiot, and neither are the traders in Manhattan.

I'm thinking out loud here, and it's not related to this thread... But I wonder if Russ and Erlich are controlled by the same guy.

That's kind of weird if/when they all talk to each other in the same thread.

Who the chuck are you?

I'll bet 1,000,000 BTC that Rus and I are not the same person (good luck sourcing 1M BTS)

Moderators can be the judges (since they know the answer).

ha ha ...  you suck Chuck

[Tuck Fheman]

Smartcoin (SMC) is an X11 alt coin started in late 2013 and announced in early 2014.

http://smartcoin.cc/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=675821.0

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?action=post;topic=17127.0;last_msg=218856

It also died shortly thereafter, correct?

[Tuck Fheman]

I'm thinking out loud here, and it's not related to this thread... But I wonder if Russ and Erlich are controlled by the same guy, and if that guy has another active and known account.

That's kind of weird if/when they all talk to each other in the same thread.

I assume everyone is an NSA sockpuppet until proven otherwise.

[Riverhead]

Smartcoin (SMC) is an X11 alt coin started in late 2013 and announced in early 2014.

http://smartcoin.cc/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=675821.0

[Tuck Fheman]

FU FTM

Now everybody is going to think that this is pure sarcasm!

https://youtu.be/7t_xh9ku3uY

[Erlich Bachman]

Later in the same video, Max interviewed the actual central human counterparty that you must risk your money with when you purchase Bitreserve brand Bitgold (a "dumbcoin" for lack of a better term)(no offense):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaU_dsXTsxM#t=18m14s

Don't you think that Max will now want to interview a human who can inform the Greeks about a counterparty risk free on-blockchain "actual Bitgold smartcoin"?

Max is no dummy.  He comprehended bitcoin pretty quick and became the greater fool (that you wish you were) immediately, do you think that he is too stupid to understand smart contracts?

He owns BitShares anyway because I heard Stacey mention Protoshares years back, and Max is always talking about being diversified in crypto.  I bet dollars to doughnuts that he is already a BTS whale.