Thanks for your feedback, I would like to bring your attention to further details which will hopefully address some of your concerns:
This is a legitimate company: www.arterranrenewables.com
They are located in Kelowna, BC Canada and you can contact them via phone number or email directly.


Arterran Biofuel has been tested for energy content by 2 respected independent labs: Powertech Labs in British Columbia and Gwil Industries in Alberta.


This crowdsale is being coordinated by Distributed.buzz on behalf of Arterran Renewables for the launch of the GENERcoin
We've created a website here: www.genercoin.io to explain the details

Please check out our firm's website at www.distributed.buzz
And contact us or Arterran if you have any questions.

Thanks for your questions and comments:

- the name of the Canadian company is Arterran Renewables
- GENERcoin is not a security or stock
- the value of the GENERcoin is pegged to 10,000 btu's
- the price may fluctuate based on the price of biofuel globally

And lastly - the GENERcoin is not a pre-mined coin, as this token is not mined even after the release. There are a set number available and they each represent 10,000 btu's equivalent to 30lbs of NextGEN Solid Biofuel

Announcing: GENERcoin - a crypto-token created by a Canadian Biofuel company that is going to shake up the Energy and Cryptocurrency community

GENERCoins are:
1. Available for sale starting June 11th
2. 1 GENERcoin = 10,000 btu's equivalent to 30 lbs of NextGEN solid Biofuel from Arterran Renewables
3. Each GENERcoin is a claim receipt similar to a Power Purchase Agreement for the energy backing each coin which may be redeemed, traded, or exchanged
4. All GENERcoins will always be backed by the same 10,000 btu's of energy.

The company:
- Arterran Renewables is backed by a registered Canadian company subject to regulations and reporting requirements.
- NextGEN solid Biofuel is produced in the Arterran Biofuel reactor using a patented process as a direct replacement for Thermal Coal used for the production of electricity.
- Future projects include the possibility of creating a 2nd variation of the token, to fund the deployment of Arterran Bio-reactors facilities around the world.
 

Arterran Renewables provides a solution to humanity's dependance on Thermal Coal use, and GENERcoin provides the mechanism to assist in this transition to sustainability.


Crowsale details:
- GENERcoin is created on the Bitcoin Blockchain using the Master Protocol from Mastercoin
- GENERcoin will be available for purchase commencing Wendnesday, June 11 2014 until July 11, 2014 if necessary.
- Each GENERcoin is backed by 10,000 btu's of green energy, and will be available at the following price schedule:
 
1st               12,000,000   GENERcoin's @ .062c USD
Next             6,000,000   GENERcoin's  @ .067c USD
Following       6,000,000   GENERcoin's  @ .069c USD
Final             6,000,000   GENERcoin's  @ .073c USD
 
- Each GENERcoin is valued at .09c USD based upon the energy value of 10,000 btu's.
- Please see the www.GENERcoin.io for a more detailed explanation.
 
This price does not include any carbon credits that may be claimed by the consumers of this fuel.
 
How to buy:
- Payments will only be accepted in Bitcoin
- For optimum security we have selected the services of Coinkite as our receiving wallet. We are confident conkite provides the most robust wallet on the market.
 
Wallet Address: This address will be added here on June 11
 
 
References:
Project: www.genercoin.org
Crowdsale: www.genercoin.io
www.arterranrenewables.com

Supporting Documents:
DeKo Thesis - the whitepaper proposal on an electricity backed currency: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1802166

For immediate release: Distributed Buzz is a full service cryptoconsultancy helping businesses in crypto get more customers, attract more followers, and create more buzz.

We were there for the first crowdsale.
We've launched crowdsales for user-created assets.
Our goal is to better tell the story of Bitcion and crypto.

Our services have two approaches:
A. Crowdsource Bitcoin for your next project! Release a token on the right Bitcoin 2.0 platform and get the capital you need to get to MVP, we help identify your goals and objectives to recommend the right strategy and tools to have your project succeed.

B. Bitcoin Marketing - if you have a great product or idea that needs to be marketed, we recommend both an online and grassroots strategy. Some of our previous work includes tshirt giveaways, QR code contests, bounty programs, and of course a comprehensive social media presence.

C. Launching a Bitcoin business? With Distributed.buzz you can leverage our established press and news partnerships to get your business noticed. We help reach the right audiences and get your news in the newspapers! No matter what industry your business is in, even if you're an established company or just starting out we work on making your business the next big thing.

Breakdown of services:
- Press Releases
- Social profiles
- Online engagement
- Community building
- Crowdsale planning
- Communications strategy
- Investment pitch
- Value proposition
- Go to market strategy
- Advertising strategy

Distributed.buzz is also on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin - (our own content is light as we've just been so busy with incoming projects but we're hiring new team members to help with this)

1. Want to learn more? Check out our website at www.distributed.buzz
2. PM me if you have any questions
3. Contact us to set up a free consult.

Vires in numeris

Nice! Just saw this post ! Also shared the Tatiana Coin launch on another board

How do I deposit after I've gotten this text message ?

We're looking for developers interested in our project for an open-source API marketplace, if you would like to join the discussion we have a Skype chat
Please PM if you want to be added!

For immediate release: The 1st Artist coin to be launched on the Bitcoin network has started today!
Now, Bitcoin users for the first time can purchase a user-created asset backed by a musical artist.

Tatiana Moroz is a New Jersey born, singer/songwriter who brought Bitcoin to music lovers everywhere, with her single 'the Bitcon song.'
Check out her performance at the Bitcoin conference in Argentina in 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HND9vR5jb0

-The token, created using the CounterParty protocol will be for sale everyday for 30 days starting June 3rd.
-Everyday 100,000 coins will be up for grabs in an auction style release, where buyers are able to bid each day on the coins.
-The value is determined in a batch process, where the daily bids are pooled and divided amongst the largest - smallest bidders.

Please check out Tatianacoin.com for more details on the artist herself

This is being launched by the CoinPowers platform and we welcome you to participate by visiting the campaign page here:
http://www.coinpowers.com/project.aspx?id=11155

What do Tatiana Coin holders receive?
- A custom Bitcion Jingle - great for any Bitcoin business!
- A Bitcoin house party with Tatiana - ideal for launching any new product!
- Awesome Tatiana swag
- Bragging rights

Use Bitcion, support talent!
Buy here:
http://www.coinpowers.com/project.aspx?id=11155

Want more updates?
Check out the weekly podcast from Tatiana with Adam Levine from Let's Talk Bitcoin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nr-sNOLwk8
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Please do not send donations from HOSTED wallets ( Coinbase, Bitstamp.. etc)

Attention Tatiana Coin Backers: Every day of the Tatiana Coin campaign, 100,000 TC are be allocated to backers based on their donations during that 24hr period (Pacific timezone).  At the end of the event, there will be 3,000,000 Tatiana Coins in existence that will be distributed to those donors.  You may donate in Bitcoin (BTC) or Counterparty (XCP) - Donations and values are based on their US dollar value at the end of the day. There will only ever be 3,000,000 TATIANACOIN (TC), they will all be distributed to donors within a week of the end of the campaign at which point the asset issuance will be LOCKED.   Future token based fundraising done by Tatiana will come from selling TC that she recieves back from owners of TC who use it to buy rewards from her.
 
BEFORE YOU DONATE:
TatianaCoin is a User Created Asset built on top of CounterParty which is built on top of Bitcoin.  Please visit http://counterwallet.co to create a free Multi-Wallet which is able to control and spend Bitcoin, XCP, Tatianacoin and any number of other User Created Assets built on Counterparty.   While it is technically possible to donate from a normal Core Bitcoin, Blockchain.info or Armory Wallet client your wallet will not be able to see the TatianaCoins we send back until its private key has been imported into CounterWallet - Save yourself the headache and generate a free wallet at http://counterwallet.co
 
Please do NOT donate from wallets where you're not able to control your keys (such as a withdrawl from an exchange) - If you've already done this please contact us
 
If you don't have Bitcoin or XCP and want to participate, you can acquire Bitcoins at http://localbitcoins.com or http://coinbase.com.  Once you've acquired them, send your desired donation amount to your new CounterWallet Address (Make sure to write down the simple twelve word passphrase, it IS your private key!) and once it's in your Counterwallet, you should send small portions of it each day.
 
Because we allocate 100,000 TC per day not matter how many donations come in, it means that some days you'll get more TC for your donation than others.  The worst strategy is to send your entire donation on one day because while it might give you a very large share of that days allocation, it's only 100,000 of the total 3,000,000 that'll be given out.  It makes much more sense to donate every day for two weeks which will give you a smaller portion of a much larger pool - 1.4 million.   If you're a large donor (1BTC total and up) you're encouraged to contact our VIP concierge service that will manage your daily send if you don't want to (for a small fee)
 
So as we've mentioned a few times, this is a big experiment.  We have a crazy pricing model because we don't know what a fair price for the first Artistcoin is and want your help in figuring it out.  We love large donations, but we'd rather you get the most bang for your buck within the rules of the fundraiser than give in one chunk as an inefficient if altrustic gesture.
 
Thanks for participating, and for the feedback - it's been very instructive, please keep it coming!
 
Adam B. Levine
CVO, CoinPowers.com



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Some great questions and answers so far:

The goal of API Network is to take all the APIs out in the world, and provide a universal mechanism for querying them. APICoin will provide a transparent and distributed way to compensate developers and service providers for their effort.

The “APICoin Generation”

The API Network uses the Master Protocol to create a user currency identifer. These tokens are generated by the participants in the "API Address", a Bitcoin address starting June 15th 2014. The generation will continue until the end of the 'crowdsale' event until the target amount of funding is committed or the ending date is reached.

Initial distribution of APICoins will essentially be a effort to incentivize developers to write the software which fully implements the protocol. The issuance of tokens will proceed as the following simple steps:

Anyone sending bitcoins to the "API Address" before July 15th, 2014 is recognized by the protocol as owning 100x that number of APICoins. For instance, if the user sends 100 bitcoins to the "API Address" before July 15th, their bitcoin address owns 10,000 APIcoins after July 15th.
In order to encourage adoption momentum, buyers will get an additional 10% bonus APICoinss if they make their purchase a week before the deadline, 20% extra if they purchase two weeks weeks before, and so on, including partial weeks, prorating the total purchase accordingly. Thus, if I send 100 bitcoins to the "API Address" 1.5 weeks before the 15th of July 2014, the protocol recognizes my bitcoin address as owning 11,500 APICoinss (10000 + 15% bonus).

Attempts to send funds to the API "Address" on or after midnight (central time) July 15st 2014 (as determined by bitcoin block chain records) will not be considered APICoins purchases and shall be sent back to the originating Bitcoin wallets in the form of Bitcoin minus transaction fees.

In the event that a purchase has multiple inputs, the input address contributing the most funds is recognized as owning the APICoins.

Note that anyone who purchases APICoins also receive the ability to test new features before they are available for use in the API Network Protocol.

Developer APICoins (Dev Tokens)

For every 4 APICoin sold, an additional “Developer APICoins” will also be created, which will be awarded to the API Address slowly over the following years. These delayed API Tokens will ensure that the community can incentivize developers to increase the value of API Token by completing the features desired by users. The reward will be structured so that the distributed bounty system receives the tokens on a logarithmic scale: 50% of all the Dev API Tokens by one year after the initial sale, 75% by a year later, 87.5% by the year after, and so on.

SAFE coins generated by the use of API's published on the API Network will be sent to the API Network developer pool purchase APICoins on the Decentralized Exchange and hold them for release to contributors to the API Network open source code.

The API Network is a new decentralized platform designed for developers to highlight their own APIs in the Private API Marketplace.

We are looking for interesting projects that would like to be included in our ecosystem and be apart of building out the next generation of decentralized applications and information sharing between social APIs and IMAP.

Check out http://www.apinetwork.co/

We are launching June 15th!

Check out the whitepaper at https://github.com/DavidJohnstonCEO/APINetwork/blob/master/README.md

The API Network is an open-source decentralized platform of public and private API's designed for developers. It will provide easy access to multiple APIs + IMAP and leverage cryptographic tokens created on the Bitcoin blockchain.

The API Network will offer a wide variety of both private and public API's, including data normalization and natural language processing services in a federated manner for data that is technically easy to host and index, such as IMAP and Exchange information.

API Network Coin will provide the resources and assets needed to build out the platform, and aquire initial backing as part of the crowdsale to incentivize developers to build the API Network Protocol's software.

The API Network Coin will operate using the "APICoin" to grant access its service, and compensate/incentivize nodes that are providing the API Network service in "APICoins"

Features of the API Network

Private API Marketplace: A node may join the API Network and publish a private API that it will provide calls for. The node will accept and price the calls to its API in API Tokens. This will establish a link between the value of the service and that of the tokens. While the demand for the service will reflect in the demand for the token, the market place of nodes opertaing to perform a variety of API calls will be competing with each other thus rendering the service cheaper to perform. The competing supply and the competing demand will give rise to the dynamic emergent market place.

The use of the SAFE Network: When the API Publisher stores information on the SAFE Network, the SAFE protocol will issue tokens to the Bitcoin address provided by the API publisher, to enable sustained storage and recall.

Storage of Cached API Data: The API Network will use SAFE Network in the back-end to store the cached API data for users. This will be accomplished through the conversion of API Tokens to SAFE coins to purchase storage space for the user in the decentralized exchange.

API Billing Module: The API Network will require sending of API tokens before the API services are provided, and the system will use AnArk.it for the escrow and holding of the API tokens for its billing module. That way the handling of the API tokens can be done in a completely decentralized manner where neither the user nor the API publisher will be able to access the API tokens until the promised action is preformed to the satisfaction of both parties.

Data Normalization: The API Network contains libraries and tools for the normalizatin of data. This tool set is open-source, available to all users of the API Network system, and will be maintined as part of the core implimentation of the API Network Protocol.

IMAP Intergration: The API Network contains libraries and tools for the intergration of IMAP email systems. This tool set is open-source and available to all users of the API Network system and will be maintined as part of the core implimentation of the API Network Protocol.

Exchange Intergration: The API Network contains libraries and tools for the intergration of exchange email systems. This tool set is open-source and available to all users of the API Network system and will be maintined as part of the core implimentation of the API Network Protocol.

Single Developer Interface: The API Network contains libraries and tools for developers to interact with multiple API's through a single interface. This tool set is open-source and available to all users of the API Network system and will be maintined as part of the core implimentation of the API Network Protocol.

Natural Language Processing Tools: The API Network contains libraries and tools for the processing and indexing of natural language. This tool set is open source and available to all users of the API Network system and will be maintined as part of the core implimentation of the API Network Protocol.

Public API Marketplace: The API Network will provide a marketplace for public APIs (Gmail, Facebook, Twitter and so forth) to be accessed through a Federated Network of API hosting providers. This marketplace of public API's will provide access to reputation and identity systems (anark.it and onename.io for example) to allow users to pick the API call provider of their choice. The marketplace for public API's will leverage the API Network opensource data normalization, interface and natural language process tools.

The “APICoin Generation”

The API Network uses the Master Protocol to create a user currency identifer. These tokens are generated by the participants in the "API Address", a Bitcoin address starting June 15th 2014. The generation will continue until the end of the 'crowdsale' event until the target amount of funding is committed or the ending date is reached.

Initial distribution of APICoins will essentially be a effort to incentivize developers to write the software which fully implements the protocol. The issuance of tokens will proceed as the following simple steps:

Anyone sending bitcoins to the "API Address" before July 15th, 2014 is recognized by the protocol as owning 100x that number of APICoins. For instance, if the user sends 100 bitcoins to the "API Address" before July 15th, their bitcoin address owns 10,000 APIcoins after July 15th.
In order to encourage adoption momentum, buyers will get an additional 10% bonus APICoinss if they make their purchase a week before the deadline, 20% extra if they purchase two weeks weeks before, and so on, including partial weeks, prorating the total purchase accordingly. Thus, if I send 100 bitcoins to the "API Address" 1.5 weeks before the 15th of July 2014, the protocol recognizes my bitcoin address as owning 11,500 APICoinss (10000 + 15% bonus).
Attempts to send funds to the API "Address" on or after midnight (central time) July 15st 2014 (as determined by bitcoin block chain records) will not be considered APICoins purchases and shall be sent back to the originating Bitcoin wallets in the form of Bitcoin minus transaction fees.
In the event that a purchase has multiple inputs, the input address contributing the most funds is recognized as owning the APICoins.

Note that anyone who purchases APICoins also receive the ability to test new features before they are available for use in the API Network Protocol.

Developer APICoins (Dev Tokens)

For every 4 APICoin sold, an additional “Developer APICoins” will also be created, which will be awarded to the API Address slowly over the following years. These delayed API Tokens will ensure that the community can incentivize developers to increase the value of API Token by completing the features desired by users. The reward will be structured so that the distributed bounty system receives the tokens on a logarithmic scale: 50% of all the Dev API Tokens by one year after the initial sale, 75% by a year later, 87.5% by the year after, and so on.

SAFE coins generated by the use of API's published on the API Network will be sent to the API Network developer pool purchase APICoins on the Decentralized Exchange and hold them for release to contributors to the API Network open source code.

Check out our Reddit here: http://www.reddit.com/r/APInetwork/
Check out the Whitepaper: https://github.com/DavidJohnstonCEO/APINetwork/blob/master/README.md
Website: http://www.apinetwork.co/

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This is fantastic and it communicates clearly - well done!

Have been looking forward to hearing more about this project since the Texas Hackathon
great job guys

Actually googled Libor scandal as I don't remember hearing about it, turns out the courts just charged someone:
U.K. Charges Former ICAP Brokers Over Libor
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304418404579467250796390872?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304418404579467250796390872.html

Forex investigations could a bigger deal than Libor:

"Forex rigging claims could prove to be bigger scandal than Libor, says Carney"
 http://dfm.whittierdailynews.com/article/forex-rigging-allegations-could-prove-to-bigger-scandal-than-libor-says-carney/ae1a624ea81e137a97c4ad63ee76c356

"The 4pm Fix Forex Scandal is "Very Very Worrying"
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/the-4pm-fix-forex-scandal-is-very-very-worrying-1893506.htm

The founder and CEO of American Title Services in Centennial was found dead in his home, the coroner reported that Talley died from seven or eight self-inflicted wounds from a nail gun fired into his torso and head.

-Richard Talley, 56, and the company he founded in 2001 were under investigation by state insurance regulators at the time of his death.

-Also unclear is whether Talley's suicide was related to the investigation by the Colorado Division of Insurance, which regulates title companies.




Read more: Under investigation, American Title CEO dead in grisly suicide
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25081462/under-investigation-american-title-ceo-dead-grisly-suicide#ixzz2xIYivBmM

JP Morgan bankers and analysts have been killing themselves in amazing ways recently: suicides, leaping to their deaths from the top of buildings, shooting oneself with a nail gun, and stepping in front of a train. Scary when considering the access these people had and the type of information they were privy to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0pNhDDAJgg

List of Banker deaths ruled as suicide:

January 26th - Former Sr Exec of Duetche Bank found dead in home
January 27th - JP Morgan employee in Europe committed suicide jumping off the building of the European headquarters
January 31st - Chief Economist was found dead near bridge in Washington
February 3rd - JP Morgan Executive killed himself
February 4th - Founder of Amercian Title Services found dead after he shot himself with a nail gun
February 19th - JP Morgan Executive in committed suicide by jumping from headquarters in Hong Kong
March 11th - Trader at Vertical Group in Manhattan threw himself infront of a Long Island railroad train
March 20th - Kenneth Bolando - JP Morgan Analyst in New York, Age 33, jumped from a building

+ 20 Bankers found dead? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUKWfETSsIY