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going around to other communities, particularly "competitors", with ads for gridcoin could prove to be a marketing disaster.

if we engage in honest and open conversation around what we're all seeking to do (distributed computing), on the other hand... this could be amazing.

id say we should present ourselves as partners and not adversaries. it will show to their community that we're not trying to "steal users" but rather build something together. people generally don't like being stolen.

in the words of josh, "marketing is complicated, yo"