Fresh safecoins from farmers

[nevel]

I’m with the others here that Maidsafe should preregister the big domains. If some idiot claims a big company name and puts crap on it because he doesn’t like the company, then you have a false start at day one with the network. Also the companies we don’t like should have a fair chance to get their domain here and use it. Otherwise adoption by the mass will be hard.

@bochaco

kick-start, adoption and growth of the SAFE Network.

Yes really, really important and should have special attention. An idea I had was to reuse the bitcoin address format so you could perform small airdrops to existing bitcoin holders, just enough to play around a little with the network for a small upload or domain registration. See this topic:

Next step of safecoin algorithm design

I just wondered, do you then actually still need account creation? Let’s say you use the Bitcoin address format as Safecoin address. Then you could use your Safecoin(Bitcoin/MAID) address as account for the SAFE Network. You log in then with your private key. If that address has a balance, you can use it (for buying PUTS). If it has no balance, then you can just browse or so. And when you use Bitcoin addresses then you could maybe even use hardware wallets like Trezor for logging in, no nee…

@nevel

And when you use Bitcoin addresses then you could maybe even use hardware wallets like Trezor for logging in, no need for an extra password at all.
Also the MAID->Safecoin conversion is then seemingless.
For marketing it gives an opportunity for performing an airdrop on exisiting bitcoin addresses. Just a small amount to perform some small uploads. This can create a real buzz and gives the SAFE Network a jump start.
Lots of possibilities