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Hello everyone. :)

So since launching last June, BritCoin has come a long way from humble beginnings and I still believe it has a long way to go.  The goal is for BritCoin to become a real long term competitor of BTC within the British marketplace, but sadly due to time and funding issues on my behalf, I have come to the decision that I am not the right person to take this project forward.

Due to the fact that I am unaware of anyone personally who is right for taking this project forward, I have decided to put ownership of BritCoin up for auction.

As mentioned in the auction listing, the winner will be given full support from myself and I will always be on hand to give any advice needed, as well as staying active in the community when possible.

As far as I'm aware this is a first in the altcoin world;

https://flippa.com/3411871-britcoin-first-digital-cryptocurrency-for-sale-on-flippa (https://flippa.com/3411871-britcoin-first-digital-cryptocurrency-for-sale-on-flippa)

I'm happy to answer any questions etc.  But please keep the FUD to a minimum..  I have not taking this decision lightly and would appreciate some civility in this thread.

Regards, Will.

you're selling a website since you can't own a coin (assuming its open source and a bitcoin fork). you should make that clear and its weird that you would even advertise it as something else. or are you selling some kind of airdrop premine?

I can see where you're coming from, you are right that it's the websites for sale (homepage and fiat to Brit platform etc) but it is also for control of the BritCoin network and further developments, including the node servers.  Maybe ownership isn't the right term, but it's the closest thing I can think of that matches what's for sale.

If you have a better word then please let me know. :)

And you made this thread censored exactly why?

The reason for the moderated thread is I know how things go on BCT.  I have no problem with civilised discourse, but it's obvious there will be a flood of morons screaming shitcoin without adding anything to the thread..  Or even knowing anything about BritCoin.

I would never delete any posts that have a legitimate questions or concern, but I'm not giving people an outlet to shitpost and scare potential buyers for no reason.

3 days remaining and $500 is the current bid.

There's a nice possibly that buying now while it's very cheap will be advantages for the future. Change is happening and this coin may get rolling back to the top again.

So who bought Britcoin? A skilled dev? Domain squatter? Scammer? Community? New dev?

Well all quiet so far, I think it was a negative move not working with the Britcoin stakeholders and community for a positive transfer of the brand.

I think working together the Britcoin community could have formed a foundation, attracted some crowdfunding or investment and given the coin some real status in the digital currency sector.

I hope that whoever purchased the website is an active and forward thinking individual or group that recognises its potential and future value in the sector.

It's also worthwhile noting that stakeholders of existing coins, should in conventional rights, have a say in the future of Britcoin and any changes that affect them.

A statement from the new "owners", I would rather use Custodians, would be gratefully received.

Any news from new owners?

Please don't fall for this. The OP himself placed the $500 bid with another account of his, in order to try and bring in other idiots to actually bid.

No one has bid to buy Britcoin...After all it's open-source right? So why would anyone in their right mind, buy an open-source cryptocurrency. Those words themselves in one sentence are ironic.

The bidding was for the website, github accounts, twitter accounts, etc...

So who bought the Britcoin stuff and what's there plan?

Why have we heard nothing from the auction winners?

will7am ?? who is new owner of Britcoin ? hope this time good Dev takeover this project and work on merchants and promotion of Coin :)

Hopefully he is ok with me posting this, but this is the response I got form him. All hope is not lost.

https://i.imgur.com/G2Li9JJ.jpg

A great coin with a great coin specification.  I hope a new development team are formed very soon :D

Interesting times ahead.

P.S. The coin is very cheap, hence the reason why I bought more.

Good! We must keep it on Bittrex or else we have a significantly lesser chance of making the coin popular.

 
There are people buying so the coin doesn't get delisted right?

It will be interesting to see what the new team will come up with.

I hope they are British?

Looking forward to a new development team.  This coin can go places :D

You can sell the ownership of open source products? What.

Couldn't anyone just make a hardfork and attempt to bring as many people over as possible without the need of an auction?

An update as to what is going on might be nice, if not maybe the community should take over?

Britcoin daemon went offline yesterday.

Britcoin is now not trading on Bittrex.

No one seems to have bought the websites.

As one of the top 10 people in the Britcoin richlist I demand to know what's happening.

Wil7iam if you do not post within 7 days a full response we will have no further choice but to call the fraud squad and police as you have cost us our invesment.

We are no longer fucking about, unless you want to refund us. All we need is the daemon source so we can host along with the private keys.

I await your reply!!!!!

I should also add, we might be able to look at reimbursing some of your investment I into the websites and brand BUT this would be over a longer period of time with no disruption to the daemon.

My advice would be to reinstate as soon as possible, I don't think you really want to be taken to court. A copy of the Britcoin website has been made for evidence including its pledge as a coin "for the people".

A criminal record will not be a very good thing to have, what has been done to date with Britcoin is no different than Karpeles and Mt Gox, its still fraud. I would recommend positive steps in support of the community.

If you can't handle it don't punish other people, don't start something you can't finish.

Get back to us before everything gets out of hand, newspapers are just an email away.

Anyone been in contact with William lately?

Heard nothing.

Wallet back up, nodelist was being updated apparantly which shows transfer is happening.

I am amazed how the blockchain is to publicize transactions on a public ledger but the actual work on the daemon seems to be stealthy.

Weird!

Ok, I remade the Britcoin thread for us to discuss what to do next: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=903578.0

William will not reopen our discussion place, so I made a new one.

He was just on line:     December 29, 2014, 08:45:17

I just messaged him and asked for an update, we'll see if he replies?