08:08:32 Revuo says there is only a dev meeting at the same time 11:43:36 should we do a CCS to buy ads? FB ads, google ads, Forbes ads...? 12:02:46 hyc: What are you suggesting to advertise? 12:40:25 msvb-mob: not sure this is really a good idea. just reacting to this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/f0qb8f/first_purchase_why_is_xmr_not_more_widely_used/fgwi8dr/ 12:40:26 [REDDIT] First purchase. Why is XMR not more widely used? (self.Monero) | 4 points (75.0%) | 6 comments | Posted by drzood | Created at 2020-02-08 - 11:14:31 12:40:53 generally I guess ads ought to be purchased by for-profit companies whose business depend on the thing 12:41:22 but maybe some sort of informercial or ad campaign to simply raise the public's awareness of Monero 12:42:11 it would have to be at least 2 messages - 1 to introduce total newbies to the concept of cryptocurrencies, and 2 to point out why "1st generation" cryptos are toxic and why Monero is a better, more evolved solution 12:59:24 Dash spent millions on advertising and it did not seem to work for them. 13:10:29 A CSS to buy ad space is money down the drain. Ad campaigns work because of sustained pressure and it becomes an advertising addiction. Monero can't afford to take up heroin right now. 13:12:40 MO has taken more a PR approach since the costs are way, way lower and we have a better chance of getting multiple hits on a story. Most companies don't have news like Monero does,...they have to add 20% more chocolate chips or whatever. 13:13:32 Monero has amazing news every month or two,...truely legitmate news that people care about reading. No ad is going to outperform that at this stage in the adoption curve. 13:14:17 i think that a lot of the people that would find monero interesting use an adblocker too 13:14:35 good points. press releases would be more appropriate for us. 13:14:54 but I'll note - I now see in-game ads on my phone for a Libertex financial app 13:15:11 and one of its slides is "trade bitcoin, eth, dash, litecoin" 13:15:26 so - Dash has put themselves on some of these guys' radars. 13:16:36 They are in the $200-$300 range per shot, and a member of MO has been paying that out of pocket. Doing more stories per period would be awesome, and/or $200-$300 is the base price....$500-$700 per story gets some extra insertions and allows the use of images,...those sorts of upsells that may or may not be valuable, but it's out of the budget to try. 13:16:44 getting some stores in more financial media - financial times, fortune, forbes - might be a good goal 13:17:07 s/stores/stories/ 13:17:08 hyc meant to say: getting some stories in more financial media - financial times, fortune, forbes - might be a good goal 13:17:17 I’ve been really impressed with Monero Outreach considering the funds they have available. 13:17:36 ok, so, would a CCS for more upscale PR be reasonable? 13:18:12 we live in a TL;DR generation, so adding images might be worthwhile 13:19:10 monero picturebook? :D 13:19:12 I suspect images will more than double readership,...making the double price a bargain. 13:21:24 A budget for a press plan would help us out alot. One a month or every other month would be a good target. I don't think more than that would be possible. The news has to be genuinely good and exciting and then it takes quite a few hours to pull the whole story together. 13:23:02 Each PR tends to be a couple pieces,...there's the one that goes out to our press contacts and the wire service and then we've been having good success writing another version of the story but more for the Monero community,...more details, more technical, more informal. So each PR takes alot of effort to try to do well. 13:23:58 sounds good 14:58:13 .time 14:58:14 2020-02-08 - 14:58:13 14:58:24 Coffee Chat in 2 hours! 14:59:46 hyc: ads by companies (like Mastering Monero) generally make more sense 15:03:45 We already have 1 confirmed guest :) 15:16:01 https://youtu.be/4_Ig2f5gD9M 17:12:11 Snipa: did you want to hop on the coffee chat? 20:09:15 https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/f0tfsb/randomx_service_http_service_to_calculate_pow/ 20:09:16 [REDDIT] RandomX Service - HTTP service to calculate PoW, supports web-mining (https://github.com/tevador/randomx-service) to r/Monero | 24 points (100.0%) | 5 comments | Posted by tevador | Created at 2020-02-08 - 16:00:37 20:32:21 needmonero90 vtnerd: are you still free to hang (also open to others)? 20:32:43 Yeah lemme grab some food 20:32:50 Would love to chat 20:54:59 sgp_ hi 20:55:34 needmonero90 vtnerd & others: https://meet.jit.si/monerofun 20:55:49 ew jitsi