I've been surfing all corners of the internet looking for the exact date that Slimcoin introduced their genesis block. I need to include the date the coin first implemented Proof of Burn (PoB) in a whitepaper I'm completing for another cryptocurrency. The only problem is that this information doesn't seem to exist as far as I can tell, and I'm a pretty darn good researcher. Then, again, sometimes the information we need is right there in front of our noses the whole time.

So, I'm asking all you wonderful people to help me out. So far, I've found the original announcement post for Slimcoin on this forum as being made on May 3, 2015, yet other sources say Slimcoin was introduced in 2014. Is this a reference to the whitepaper's release or to the creation of the first genesis block (or something else)?

Basically, it seems like May 3, 2015 is, at the very least, a marker. If the coin was introduced at that date (via a public announcement or whitepaper release), then the genesis block was most likely generated later. However, the ambiguous information I've found so far also suggests that the genesis block may or may not have been released sometime in 2014....

Please, help...

Innovative ideas such as this are what will keep cryptocurrency alive and thriving. A Proof of Purchase system is brilliant. Marketed as an alternative to the Proof of Work mining systems which are ecological taxing and environmentally destructive, VOID has the potential for near immediate market differentiation. I'm very interested to watch how VOID uses this opportunity and innovation to brand itself;

Often times, the best tools rust away into obscurity simply because they did not gain brand recognition. This is the key to mass market intergration. I believe VOID has great potential. I hope it doesn't disappoint.

No, but a Bitcoin hard fork might. Let me explain, briefly, though I know this is only cursory and not at all a comprehensive enough explanation.

Bitcoin is the first blockchain in the first generation of an evolving paradigm of blockchain based technology. By 2022, there will have been many shifts, evolutions, and changes to the crypto market.

First, the barrier to mass integration will likely have been overcome with the use of utility tokens. SingularDTV may likely replace centralized content providers like Netflix while Lunyr may replace centrallized encylopedia databases like Brittanica and Wikipedia. There will be forms of social media. Perhaps Sphere will become dominant. What we'll see is that utility tokens (i.e. cryptoassets) will take center stage over cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (cryptocurrencies being a specific form of cryptoasset).

These are all speculations, and there will still need to be a cyrtocurrency to act as a marker of exchange for these utility tokens. However, it is unlikely that that will be Bitcoin. With Ethereum, Neo, Qtum, Waves, and other smart contract based cryptocurrencies, there is much more reason to believe they, rather than Bitcoin, will become the dominant cryptocurrency in 2022.

Further, the many, many hard forks we've seen emerge from Bitcoin (e.g. Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin Platinum, Super Bitcoin, Bitcoin Private), we can see that the dominant "Bitcoin" may not be Bitcoin itself but one of these forks. After all, the necessary changes needed to make Bitcoin a coin with any particular utility by 2022 may not be backwards compatible. I'd be looking more closely at Bitcoin Private. It offers utility that the first Bitcoin as well as other previous forks are lacking.

Honestly, by 2022, we will have seen many changes in the entire economy because of decentralized blockchain technology. And they will have altered the entire global socio-cultural apparatus which governs our daily lives. Whether Bitcoin will be able to keep up with these changes is something only time will tell. But current market cap dominance and brand recongizability will not be sufficient to maintain Bitcoin's dominance into the long-term.

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I am loving this bounty. The user interface is amazing, and the competition feature makes it really interactive. Good job on the market differentiation. Every little thing matters. And good luck with the ICO. I think this would could go to the moon and back.

Decentralization has often been cited as a significant feature of Bitcoin's blockchain. sometimes it is defined as essential based on ideologic principles assigned to cryptoassets based on Bitcoin's whitepaper.

Nonetheless, the word never appears in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper. Further, no initially accepted definition of decentralization currently exists as it relates cryptoassets.

I define decentrization of a crptoasset as the distribution of power away from a "central authority" and into a distributed network of connected nodes dependent upon each other. In the case of Bitcoin and other cyrptocurrencies, there is the decentralization of power from centralized financial institutions like banks and treasuries into a network of interconnected and codependent nodes.

However, Ripple and other alts have centralized power into the hands of new companies and individuals while still using the block-chain technology introduced by Bitcoin. Those discussed earlier would argue that these centralized coins violate the ideological principles of decentralization that are central (pun intended) to the blockchain. Their contention would depend on ideological assumptions of the technology derived from Bitcoin's blockchain.

Ideology and technology often intersect with one informing the other. In this case of alt-coins blockchain technology has greatly evolved with the introduction of smart contracts, dApps, tokenization, and other advances without forsaking decentralization. Many of these have developed purposes beyond currency becoming "cryotoassets"," a general category which includes cyrptocurrency, utility tokens, security tokens, etc.

So, then, is decentralization an essential element of an alt-coin (or token) being designated as a cryptoassets? Does ideology play a role in defining a cryptoasset at all? If not, is technology or some other phenomena or grouping of phenomenon necessary for such purposes? Please, explain your answer as fully as possible and includes resources/credentials if you'd like, though this is not necessary.

And thank you all for your responses.