Hi everyone,

I've been leading the Hirocoin community for a couple of months now. I've enjoyed it a lot and have learned new skills and sharpened existing ones.
My goal from the start was this: to organize a team and manage the community in such a way to make myself redundant as fast as possible. I always try to surround myself with people more skilled and more intelligent than myself.

For what feels like years, I've worked hard to set goals and objectives and keep everyone informed about what's going on. I've received a lot of really nice messages from supporters, as well as good feedback from even the most cynical troll 

Goodbye friends ! It's time for me to move on.

Omar has taken over my role as community manager. It's not an easy job, and I wish him goodluck

Hey dude.

I never labeled YOU as unethical. But my standpoint remains ; changing a coins inflation model is highly unethical and i'll never trust or work with a crypto dev who does this. It's a very slippery slope, and I won't stand for it.

There's a difference between calling a person unethical and calling an idea or behaviour unethical. Who am I to judge you ? I don't judge you, just your suggestion

Selling it because I can't afford to pay the final payment on time. Painful, but there you go.
AndrewK already offered 0.45 BTC for it though, you'll need to bid 0.5 if you want to have it.

Hello everyone.


I have a pre-order that I'm willing to part with. The Viper has been upgraded to 10x as much hashpower as it originally was, and will ship in July.
I'll give you a 55% discount on the preorder, 0.45 BTC instead of 1, at current BTC price.

If you're a trusted member of this forum, I'll send you my login information first, then you can simply change shipping adress and ship it to yourself, after full payment.

If I don't know you, you can send me the BTC first, or we can set up an escrow for which we will  split the costs.

Hello everyone.


I have a pre-order that I'm willing to part with. The Viper has been upgraded to 10x as much hashpower as it originally was, and will ship in July.
I'll give you a 55% discount on the preorder, 0.45 BTC instead of 1, at current BTC price.

If you're a trusted member of this forum, I'll send you my login information first, then you can simply change shipping adress and ship it to yourself, after full payment.

If I don't know you, you can send me the BTC first, or we can set up an escrow for which we will  split the costs.

Yeah, frustrating !

Did you check your spam folder though ? That's where mine ended up the first time.

Welcome to the bi-weekly Hirocoin newsletter where we keep you up to date on what is happening in the world of Hirocoin.


Exciting news. Hirocoin has its first unique feature! This feature allows you to import your private key from a personal or promotional paper wallet with QR code. You can import the key using an image on your computer or even your webcam pointing at the paper wallet.

We think that this fact, among others,  shows our commitment to making Hirocoin a first choice for GPU miners.

We look to implement the best features out there and make Hirocoin the most secure and userfriendly cryptocoin out there.

Please take a look at this guide on using the new QR Import feature.







Hiro has been saying it for months now: the advent of Scrypt ASICs will change the cryptocurrency mining landscape significantly. It has started. We see an enormous rise of network hashrate of X11 coins.

In the last week our hash rate has grown from 1.5Gh/s to 7Gh/s, and other coins are reporting similar explosive gains. The mining community has spoken: X11 is the new Scrypt. Hirocoin is in an excellent spot right now to take advantage of this. All our infrastructure is in place, our team is growing and we have made strong allies in the marketing field.






There is a new edition of SGMiner that promises roughly 40% more hash rate than older versions of the software. We have compiled a version for Windows and have hosted and signed it on our website to give you peace of mind. To grab the software or anything else Hirocoin  related that you may need then please visit the downloads page below.


Further good news if you happen to have an NVidia GPU. Please take a look at the latest release of CCMiner which now supports X11, this shows that X11 adoption is increasing at a healthy rate as soon X11 will become very important when Scrypt ASICs rule.








Our contest ran for twenty days, and we received some imaginative and cool entries. Nothing came close to beating Altcoin Agent's entry, an animated Hirocoin logo.  He won the grand prize of 103k HIRO. He then uploaded the complete video to which the animated logo only served as an intro!






Hiropool, our multipool that's been hand coded by Omar Galal, has been performing wonderfully. For a few days in a row now,  the pool has been 250% more profitable than mining HIRO directly. That's impressive by any standard.

We're also very pleased with the new front end of Hiropool.org. Go take a look! Currently the development department is working on a very nice set of statistics, to make Hiropool an even better experience.






When Coindesk thinks you're important enough to name in an article, you know you're doing something right. We've been recognized as a top X11 coin.


... and calling X11 "more advanced" (but we knew that already!)

Development
Finalize new website	Mihail
Kick off development of the escrow feature in wallet	Xander and Hiro
Add a plethora of useful statistics to Hiropool	Omar & Xander
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Marketing
Work with Altcoin Agent to create a video  introducing the new wallet features	Joeri
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PR
Keep the community updated on current objectives	Joeri
Create FAQ	Joeri
Gather collaborators for the current ideas in the thinktank	Joeri
Redo the opening post in our BTCtalk ANN	Joeri & Mihail
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Strategic Planning
Have a flowchart made for objectives, goals, etc	Joeri

Our development team leader, n00bsys0p, has recently proposed  to provide a merged mining interface. This will allow other coins to set themselves up to be merge-mined with Hirocoin. Doing so will  strengthen the Hirocoin network while also helping new start up coins avoid the security issues of a low hash rate.

This post on Stack Exchange explains what merge mining is.

The short version is this: a coin can attach its Proof of Work (PoW) algorithm to that of another coin, meaning that both coins can be mined at the same time, without decreasing profitability or causing blockchain issues in the target coin. The target coin would in this case be Hirocoin.

So basically it means that you'll get another coin for free while mining Hirocoin.

Currently we're working on extracting all information required for any new coin to set up auxiliary PoW against Hirocoin, as flexibly as they would like to configure it.

Information will be provided as and when we are certain it is correct and complete.

Feel free to join the discussion in our ANN thread on Bitcointalk.org or on our own forum.

I'm putting together a Hirocoin FAQ.

Feel free to post your questions here, if it's a frequently asked one I'll put it in the article. Altcoin Agent will do a video on it.

Here are the ones I have in my draft version :

What is Hirocoin ?

Why was Hirocoin created ?

Who is behind Hirocoin ?

Why where there many coins mined when difficulty was low ?

What are the plans for Hirocoin in the future ?

Where can I find the latest news about Hirocoin ?

Oh, that is so slick. I love the iron splash effect, same color as the logo. It's great to have you with us, AA !



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Cool, we're being mentioned at Coindesk !
Yes, awesome !!

Hey there awesome Hirocoin community !

I've put together this status report to keep you in the loop of what's going on. These our our current top priorities, things that we are working hard on to finish in the next day or two. ( except the website, that might take a tad longer, since it's being coded from the ground up )
Note that while Hiro is finishing his work on a new wallet feature, I'm not comfortable with revealing what it is yet. When it's certain we will be able to launch it soon, expect a video to explain exactly what it is !

Development

Finalize new website                                                          Mihail
Finish Alpha version of a new wallet feature                           Hiro
Write merge mining proposal                                                Xander
Incorporate new branding material into Hiropool                      Omar

Marketing

Work with Altcoin Agent to finish the Hiropool promo video       Joeri


PR

Keep the community updated on current objectives                 Joeri
Create FAQ                                                                      Joeri
Write Hironews issue # 4                                                    Joeri
Gather collaborators for the current ideas in thinktank              Joeri
Redo the opening post in our BTCtalk ANN                              Joeri

Strategic Planning

Have a flowchart made for objectives, goals, etc                    Joeri
Recruit a social media manager                                            Joeri

Ok, so these are the entries :

mclex's movie                                  http://youtu.be/vVpeXqanl9U
altcoin agent's animated Hirocoin logo  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNtcBA2qqPc&feature=youtu.be

I'm going to close the Promotion Challenge soon and we're gonna pick a winner.
So unless someone has something that only needs a few hours more to complete....

Altcoin Agent, how is your project coming along ? ( I pmed you ! )

Hi jwinterm.

No secrets

I'm community leader so you'll mostly see me posting on the forums.

Hiro is our coin dev ( meaning he's the crypto expert ) and Xander Shepherd aka n00bsys0p is the leader of the dev department.
While Xander pops in here occasionally, he leaves the forums to me mostly.

For more info, check out the newsletter link in my sig. On hirocoin.org you can find all our previous newsletters too. They are a good way of getting up to speed on developments.

NICE ! Already a good entry to the Promotion Challenge, as is !
Looking forward to seeing the rest.

How could you, and why WOULD you possibly offer lower prices then people can get on exchanges ?

An interesting discussion has been started by Real_GM about a Hirocoin eCommerce team.
Please, join in !

https://www.hirocoin.org/forum/index.php?topic=151.msg1090#new

Almost 200 Mh/s on Hiropool !