tl;dr: MTR is confusing investors since it very much could look like the investment coin; I propose we postpone marketing pushes until the name is changed. See the list of 8 points below.
The name MTR is very confusing for people that might want to buy into the project but not do a bunch of research – which is likely most crypto investors. Let's be real: especially for those of us that have been around for a while, we have had more than enough people pop into the telegram channel asking which coin is the one to invest in. In my opinion, a project should NEVER have that problem where people don't even know which coin is the correct one to put their money into.
Consider the following images: https://imgur.com/a/WEu0B0o
If you were someone that heard about this awesome project called Meter somewhere and were thinking of buying but first wanted to take a quick look at the charts. If they saw those charts above, it seems like even a reasonable person could get confused as to which coin is the correct one to buy. Among the things that might make people think MTR is the investment coin are:
Now imagine that you were an investor that mistakenly purchased the wrong coin and lost 50% of your investment upon trying to fix your mistake, how would that make you feel? Would you be upset? Could you understand how that might make someone be put off by the project entirely and not even want to invest in the right coin? I could.
What's more, every time we have done marketing pushes lately, MTR saw just as much price action – if not significantly more – than MTRG. Yes, there could be some complicated explanation for this that isn't people being confused, but with the above 8 points, I don't think it can be discounted that at least SOME of that price action happened because of confusion and not some nefarious party trying to take advantage of misinformed investors.
Look, I don't want to postpone making big bucks as much as the next person. Meter does not have unlimited funds. Going into our biggest marketing push yet, I would want to make sure all our ducks are in a row beforehand. Yes, this means the Voltswap marketing push could be postponed a couple of weeks or even a couple of months, but until this confusion is resolved, we will continue to have people be confused and only get a fraction of the return on investment we would otherwise get from our marketing campaigns.