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January 31, 2014, 11:49:01 PM
We have received nearly 100,000 MRY in donations to the Bill Murray Charity Fund --We're 11 days in, guys.
Within 24 hours of launch, we had a Murraycoin pool up on FusionHash -- the best mining operation out there.
We're being followed on Twitter by Caddyshack Charity Golf (Bill Murray's annual charity golf event.)

February 10, 2014, 12:06:20 PM
Kanye is an asshole...and Bill Murray is a badass. Coinye had no ties with Kanye West.

February 10, 2014, 08:22:10 PM
We have been in contact with the foundation, yes. We have Bill Murray's indifference but we're working on getting him directly involved. He doesn't have an agent and he's been extremely busy promoting his movie/etc. There will not be a problem with this coin - our only concern is improving this coin.

February 10, 2014, 09:10:51 PM
Everything is going as planned; connections were made and the Murraycoin groundwork was done in December (over a month before the coin launched.)

February 12, 2014, 10:32:58 AM
The Murraycoin Reddit Tipbot has been rocking for about a week now.

February 25, 2014, 11:18:26 PM
My word only carries so much weight and we are at the mercy of [the foundation’s] timelines to make certain bits of information public [but] The Murray Bros. Foundation has no intention of unloading their MRY in the near future.
Our top concern was ensuring the legal aspects were covered and we have satisfied that requirement.
If there was a chance for legal conflict, I would have never been a part of this project.

March 06, 2014, 02:02:21 AM
We have already received over 250,000 MRY in donations from people all over the map. By revolutionizing celebrity fundraising, the Murraycoin Project will likely become a blueprint to the others that follow. Murraycoin is the perfect addition to Bill Murray's legacy as both an entertainer and humanitarian.

March 08, 2014, 03:16:42 AM
We were in contact with the director of the Murray Bros. Foundation before Murraycoin even launched and offered to go back to the drawing board and rebrand Murraycoin - they were not interested in rebranding Murraycoin.

April 08, 2014, 07:07:37 AM
Talks are initiated, these talks remains active, everything continues to progress and looks good. We have permission but we don't have an official endorsement (we won't rest until we do.)

April 21, 2014, 11:00:28 PM
Bill Murray and the Murray Bros. Foundation still haven't made a decision on whether or not they will be officially endorsing Murraycoin.
Even without the endorsement, we remain the only (real) celebrity currency featuring a celebrity that is cool with the project.

May 08, 2014, 04:55:04 AM
They [the foundation] aren't refusing the donations or pulling their support - they just don't intend to promote Murraycoin at this time.
This is a huge opportunity for the Murray Bros. Foundation and remains a cutting edge way to raise money for good causes from and for people all over the world. I believe they recognize this opportunity but have enough irons in the fire right now that a decision couldn't be made at this time.
For now, let’s just enjoy pushing forward without them and begin to grow the Murraycoin market cap organically.

June 17, 2014, 10:05:11 PM
At block 130k, the new difficulty adjustment method kicks in.
On July 4th, 2014 the PoW algorithm will switch from standard Scrypt to Scrypt-2048.

July 13, 2014, 11:11:16 PM
The Murraycoin Project, LLC just received a significant, much-needed investment (amount will remain undisclosed) from a new investor plus an additional cash injection in the form of me personally selling the small investment group 3,000,000 MRY for $25,000 USD cash (of which half will be reinvested in The Murraycoin Project, LLC).

What unique feature is the coin offering? That is, why should investor give up bitcoin in exchange for Murraycoin ?

Sleeping, yes.  Giant, no.

Scrypt-N alg (not unique but notable) and, again, Bill Ghostbustin'-ass Murray!
Unlike Biebercoin or Coinye, Murraycoin actually has permission to exist. And unlike with Maxcoin, people outside of the crypto/finance world actually know who Bill Murray is.


We'll see. Nobody expected Dogecoin to blow up either.

Scrypt-N alg (not unique but notable) and, again, Bill Ghostbustin'-ass Murray!
Unlike Biebercoin or Coinye, Murraycoin actually has permission to exist. And unlike with Maxcoin, people outside of the crypto/finance world actually know who Bill Murray is.


We'll see. Nobody expected Dogecoin to blow up either.

You still see Doge as successful?  I see it as imploding given the price over the past few months.

I think I bumped into this coin quite a long time ago.Back at the time there were also this kind of statements-Murraycoin will be huge,etc.I don't think anything has changed since that and I assume that the coin won't experience a big rise.

This is not real benefit. Just marketing hype.

Nice thread.  In the near future, all these folks can't say you didn't give them a good heads up before Murraycoin starts making waves.  People just don't realize what it takes behind the scenes to have a coin "make it" and with this dev and his solid track record plus ground & pound work he's currently doing, MRY is bound to take off.  In addition to your comments, the Bill Murray+Foundation connection+future mainstream appeal (when released) will only add to its worth.....maybe not today or tomorrow, but eventually.  Patience (with certain coins) will only benefit those holding them.  I myself have stocked up nicely on murraycoin as it's just a matter of time.

Patience is a virtue whose block reward is reducing rapidly! ;)

I think I get wat your puttin down here.

Rob Ford is into crypto now? I guess that would be the best way to pay for crack.  ;D

Are bitcoin and altcoins catching on in Canada much? I'm in so cal.

This is not well known in America, but Bill Murray was paid $2 million to promote Bitcoin in Japan.

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Bill Murray and the Murray Bros Foundation have not officially endorsed Murraycoin yet, but that's a very big yet. Murraycoin was given the green light as far as being its own separate entity, so it's not like there will be any Coinye-esque lawsuits.
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Could you please elaborate on this, specifically on what you mean by "yet"?

"Yet" means he might endorse the coin at some point, or he might not. The lead dev of Murraycoin has stayed in contact with the Murray Bros Foundation since Murraycoin's inception, and apparently they were in "sounds interesting, we'll think about it" mode but decided not to give the official endorsement at the time (around March, when they had the annual charity golf tournament). The idea is, however, that if Murraycoin becomes valuable and becomes sustainable on its own, the foundation stands to make a decent amount of money and it would be very plausible that Bill would endorse it and thus sending Murraycoin's value even higher.

If you have time, read through the pages of the Murraycoin announcement thread, the dev doesn't a pretty good job of explaining the situation at various points on the timeline since its release.

But anyway... think about those Bill Murray shirts & stickers that The Chive sells. They sell like hot cakes, I see them everywhere... Bill doesn't "officially endorse" The Chive but they have permission to use his face without paying him for it. However, The Chive is one of the sponsors of the annual golf tournament (i.e. they give money to the Murray Bros Foundation), so it's a mutually beneficial thing going on between the two.

Sorry, but as of now, this sounds really sketchy. You should advise the dev that there are few countries in the world that will protect him against a civil suit from an American court.