Please if anyone has the time I would like to have an "Einsteinium accepted here" image I could use for comicon. I could ask the other devs but I really would like the crypto community to come up with one.
I don't see the point of an "Einsteinium accepted here". Wait, let me explain first, I'm trying to be constructive.
We can't deny it, crypto currencies are currently growing, but whenever we want it or not, I strongly believe that only one so far is almost successful, yes the bitcoin. Proof of that? Well any other alt-crypto are at some point exchanged to
BTC, then eventually to fiat. So no, I don't see the point of some stores accepting EMC2 as a direct form of payment, at least not before
BTC is as current as paypal today (and I hate paypal so much!). But if a store accept
BTC, technically they accept EMC2 right? We made it to Moolah, and I think that is the best thing that could have happened to us as it will be a user friendly way to spend EMC2, or any other selected alt-currency to any bitcoin accepting store. Let's show our support to Moolah, and don't try to cut them, or the exchanges we are so desperately trying to join, out.
Let's face it,
BTC is barely accepted in stores and by normal people, by normal I mean the 98% that don't even know what
BTC is, not any of you, present on this forum. The multiplication of all these coins, lead to confusion. How any specific new coin can be noticed among all of them? Which one can be trusted? Well hard to say. So let's stick to a simple plan,
BTC is (or at least will eventually be) for buying stuff, and if you want you can always convert any crypto to
BTC using an exchange, and for some lucky cryptos like ours, directly use them with Moolah.
Now let's be smart will you? Let's find a REAL novel use to the coin. The foundation goal is to fund science right? Why? Because science need money. Scientists are always looking for money to run their experiments. We write grants, we beg for money all the time! We always look for donations. Look on any disease foundation you will always find a link to a "donate" page. What if EMC2 was not another alt-crypto coin with a tiny (2%) science friendly side, but an official money to finance science? What if it was on all this donations pages as THE crypto currency to finance all scientific projects, not only 1 project voted by the community. What if every small lab could accept donations this way?
So yes, I think that instead of 5 stores harboring a "Einsteinium accepted here" sign, with maybe 1 potential customer able to pay anything with EMC2, a simple way for any lab or scientific organisation to have a tiny "Help our science, donate EMC2" image would be better. Nothing fancy, the coin picture and/or the "Einsteinium.org" logo are actually already sufficient for this use. If you can couple that to a simple way for a lab to create an address to collect fund without installing anything (yep I'm kind of thinking of a simple paper wallet
), you have an awesome science funding opportunity.
Now wait a few minutes, think about it, try to be realistic for a short term goal. Are you still convinced than a "Einsteinium accepted here" sign and campaign is still the best thing to focus on right now?
PS: despite my pseudo, which is waaaayyy older than the einsteinium project, I'm not affiliated with anything, so this is a strictly personal opinion!
