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I think, or used to think dogecoin was ridiculous. I mean wth, this stupid joke coin, who would buy into that? Well, it all depends on what you do with it doesn’t it. Doge sponsers animal shelters, people like animal shelters so they vote with their dollars. It doesn’t matter if your coin starts out serious or as a joke. Just as with anything, it depends on what you represent with it that matters.

I’ll be there next year. This year I’m still too broke.

An addendum to my other response.

There’s a lot of confusion over how Bitcoin spawned an entire industry. Why are there so many copycats? What’s the logic in having several different options? Aren’t they all the same, perform the same function and why should we spend cpu cycles on farming other coins when Bitcoin can handle all transactions?

The same reasons why there’s several brands of automobiles, computers, watches, ice cream, TV’s, washers/dryers, cans of tuna fish. It doesn’t matter that you’re the first, it matters that the system works, and if it works it’s copied over and over again. It’s a natural progression. Sometimes new ideas are introduced into the system which can either kill the organism as a whole or improve it’s function. It’s a natural order of evolution. Things that are successful are copied and sometimes you find a copy that tastes better like say Haagen Dazs ice cream vs. the “store brand”. But sometimes the store brand IS better also! You never know until you try it and maybe it fits your particular needs better.

^^ This is why there’s so many coins out there. The market will find uses for all of them that survive so don’t change the function of the wallet, sell the benefits of the COIN and let the market decide.

That is all.

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• A good example of a fresher look is Casinocoin (see attachment)
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No, that’s a terrible example. All they did was slap a logo on the main screen and change a few icons.

Copperlark, discussed earlier, is a better example, but still doesn’t really fundamentally break away from the current thinking.

If you want good examples of wallet designs, look at some of the online wallets on the web, not the native client clones, or some of the alternative wallet implementations that didn’t derive from the Satoshi-QT.

The point of a redesign SHOULD be to make the user experience more intuitive and easier to understand, while allowing new features to be easily incorporated. Realizing that, new functionality can’t just be swept under the rug in favor of adding some graphics to the gray box and changing some icons. Any redesign should first take into consideration all of the most commonly performed tasks (checking your balance, and sending coins) and cater to that experience, while allowing for additional paradigms to be introduced without badly breaking the existing ones. Start by prioritizing your features, then design the client around those features.
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If it works, don’t break it.

Changing the appearance is very important. There’s nothing fundamental that needs to be fixed. Maybe add a features section in the help menu that explains the benefits of feathercoin over others. The features like advanced check pointing and why it’s important e.g. distinguishes from other coins etc…

You don’t need to redesign an airplane to run an airline, nor do you have to change a hamburger to sell a hamburger. The wallet works, make it look different and sell the benefits. Don’t add an extra wing to the aircraft.