Hi Pearls!
This is from the "about" section of your site:
[We also intend to tokenize pets and animals on the Meowcoin blockchain. This information is important to the animals ongoing wellbeing. Tokenizing adoption will also provide this information at the time of purchase and allows future pet owners (should that occur) to be
aware of the pet's relevant information without needing to check with previous owners or vets.
The problem with that is nearly the same with using blockchain tech for anything having to do with medicine or medical records. If it's a public blockchain, how are you supposed to enforce patient/client confidentiality? And think about it. The ICO bubble came and went, and out of all the projects that claimed to be doing different things, nothing useful ever stuck in the world of either human or veterinary medicine, and for good reason.
I think the points you raise are fair. Just to give some feedback, what we're trying to do is two fold.
1. Allowing user-defined information to be made public e.g. phone so if a dog or cat were to run away, then a member of the public could find a contact number via a scanned tag
2. Providing privacy of remainder of information through our ledger database domain
Whilst I agree that privacy is important and certain information is usually something that wants to be kept so, other items relating to this topic are things people would want public. For instance, a standard pet collar has a phone number on it to help people locate an owner in case the pet escapes. People willingly do this. We're simply providing a place to do this and combining various other elements together.
Things such as medical records can be attached - privately of course - to the blockchain for an animal, meaning veterinary care becomes agnostic and adoption shelters can provide transparency on a pets medical history. Owners can then scale back how much information they want publicly available vs privately available.
I do think the reason things haven't stuck is people haven't worked at it long enough. I've currently got a conversation going with an Australian pet adoption organisation who are keen to look at a trial on this. We're working through details but its progressing positively.
The donation part of this does look appealing to me, but it isn't clear from what's on your website who the MEWC is going to be donated to. There's also the obvious issue of the amounts being so small simply because of the price of the coin that there's not going to be enough to make any sort of difference.
Animal shelters and animal welfare organisation is who we're aiming at. We can make this clearer also. But we also get the community to vote for options we place before them.
In terms of the donations, yes, price is an issue, but we feel every $ counts.
Hope that helps
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