Let me set the record, Kevin is working on his own product, a Bitcoin related product that will be marketed on TV.  He's very interested in what we're doing, do doubt, and we may work with him in the future, but all that's happening with him is in the Bitcoin space. 

We didn't go to St Martin to meet him, he just happened to be there, along with some equally impressive marketers. So no need to get scared and think you're suddenly gonna be woken from your stupor on the couch at 2am and hear some guy yelling: "It's like a shammie, it's like a towel, it's a BitShare!"

for a good laugh....
https://www.shamwow.com/?refcode=1002&ot=tm

Just did a long interview today with a writer from Coindesk.  They want to move a bit more of the focus towards 2.0 tech so they reached out to us to find out what's going on. 

It looks like they plan to cover how Ethereum and BitShares agree on the direction mining is headed and may actually create several articles out of the interview (it went 90 minutes).  So I'll update here when it goes out.

well our volume just surpassed half a million today so could happen by the morning....trend in the charts looks strong.  I remember the olden days (last week) when we were at $50,000/day volume and I was thinking, man, cant wait for us to be at $150k/day. 

true emski....   I guess I've been hanging out with bytemaster too much lately....the more I do the more puns I use.  And the more my brain hurts.

Hate to spout an overused phrase, but "any press is good press" - and controversy builds brands. 

As my marketing buddy said yesterday, if you don't know that, ask Howard Stern, Donald Trump or frickin Miley Cyrus. They are masters of controversy...and making it look like it's real (when often it's all strategic and intentional).

No, I don't want BitShares to be the Miley Cyrus of our industry, but I do think having those who vehemently oppose us or don't think we will work is GREAT marketing and powerful for brand building.  Apple did it often in the early days painting themselves as the rebel underdogs....even Google did it (we're not evil). 

So let's stay in controversy, public discussions, and not be concerned if we're ruffling feathers, because to be not talked about is to be irrelevant.

Good publicity, bad publicity, yes please.  B

What's interesting is this guy doesn't allow comments on his blog post.  Guess he doesn't want to enter the arena of ideas and have his challenged.  But he does have a place to email him directly. I suggest we win him over, or attempt to rather than fight him.  His opinion is based on a lot of ignorance about BitShares, but it's good practice for all of us to win over our worst critics, or attempt to, even if we dont.  What's amazing to me is that with as many people as we meet and talk to at all the events we attend, rarely do we find anyone who has more than one or two objections...so bloggers like this are certainly in the minority..... B

 

http://www.cryptocoincharts.info/v2/markets/info

was looking over this today....but not familiar with many of them...