i must admit that i was quite excited about this project when i first came across it. as a tattoo artist with a studio, and as an independent cryptocurrency and dApp developer myself (SOILcoin), i was engaged at the idea of being able to merge two sectors of my life that had zero connection.
i quickly wrote to the developer of this project, especially after noting the bounty program the developers had announced here on bitcointalk and on their main tattoocoin forum and others. i could quickly see ways to implement this into my business:
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We have a 100.000.000 million budget TATO reserved for promotion purposes this year 2017;we're looking for tattoo studios/parlors to join the project.
1st one will be rewarded with 10 mln TATO
1st tattoo 1 mln TATO for the artist, and 1 mln TATO for the user.
so, naturally, i wrote the devs, asking to claim the first shop accepting TATO bounty. now, i didnt have much of a web presence, to be fair. my work over the last five years, since i finished my apprenticeship at angel kiss tattoos in sackville, nova scotia, has been spread by word of mouth. ive got a decent customer base, doing probably 20 tattoos a week, so a small sign in the front window of the porch advertising thINK Studios was enough. ive got a dedicated room set up at the back of the house for doing my work, its not a fancy set up but its sterile and bright and does the trick.
when the devs asked about my official presence lacking, i built a facebook storefront presence, uploaded what i could easily find from my facebook photo alums over the last 7 years (maybe 10-15% of the work done during that period) [https://www.facebook.com/THINKtattoos2/]
i made request to the devs to gain the bounty as the first shop officially accepting Tattoocoin, even made a banner for the "Tattoocon accepted here" contest, printed it and hung it in my window. ive discussed HOW to pay with crypto with my clients, even without an effective android app for Tattoocoin yet, by getting them to buy BTC, deposit it at an exchange and buy TATO, then ship it over to poswallet.com to make it easier to get to when the time came.. explained it away as sort of a savings account for their next ink, one that pays interest. "its easy enough to say im gonna set 40 bucks aside for my next tat, but then something comes up, and then yuir back to zero again, whereas this isnt locked in by any means, you can set cash into TATO and gain interest as well as the probability the valuation of TATO will increase over the next few months" is how i explained it.
i also set up an extension on my computer to print off paper wallets for TATO (being a scrypt based coin it was simple) with my studio logo on the top fold. i was going to use these, generally set with 5 or 10 bucks worth of TATO to hand out at the local atlantic canaa tattoo conventions, to generate both business forme and interest in this project.
the dev for this project, an anonymous newbie account naturally, decided to change the rules halfway thru. now it wasnt th advertised 10 million TATO he had offered, now it was .5BTC worth of TATO. still a good enough bit to get myself started with using this platform to help advertise myself. well, i guess because im a home based business, i dont qualify. then the excuse was that i opened my facebook storefront just recently, so i was disqualified because there was no way to prove i was a tattoo artist at all. i offered my complaint on the SOILcoin thread here on bitcointalk back last august, long before Tattocoin was conceived, where i apologized for not getting as much done as i could in the past few weeks because i was stuck doing my bread and butter job as a tattoo artist. (
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1176709.msg15805593#msg15805593)
NOW. im informed the dev team doesnt even have the money to cover their original promises. he now claims they "dont have that bounty any more" in private correspondence. BYUT if i were to act as a delegate (which a few others here have agreed to as well) that he'd pay me .5 BTC a mont for marketing TATO locally. my question is, if a develper cant be trusted to honour their posted bounties, hw can they be trusted to pay a wage to employees that equals that bounty?
is this simply disorganization, dissemination and lies or simple developer inexperience? or a combination of all three? all i know is that as a cryptocurrency developer you have to honour your committtments and not make excuses not to honour them. and as a tattoo artist, with the casual disregard and bullshit ive dealt with with this developer, i cant see this projet going ANYWHERE. no studio wil accept TATO when the person they deal with cant keep his story straight. i deal with tattoo artists daily, and have talked to a few of them about TATO, and theyve been interested, but its been the "lets wait and see how it works for YOU first, eh?" approach.
ive offered to livestream the first tattoo paid for with TATO, ive made a ton of offers and broached some excellent strategies to this developer. as an artist with a studio, as small as it is, i feel that having made the public announcement that my shop will accept Tattoocoin, i should be intitled to the bounty AS IT ORIGINALLY STOOD. anything else and this developer is simply playing games.
you need the trust of your ommunity to make a cryptocurrency work. this project has completely lost my trust right now. if they make good, i can bring a lot of artists to th table and make this, at least locally in atlantic canada, a very workable project. OR i can post to all the tattoo industry forums i know and warn everyone away from this project.
if you make a committment in a statement on these forums, as a developer, you should keep your word. if you dont think honouring your statements is important, how can ANY OF US trust a single thing you say?? especially since you are a newbie account with NO history to back you up. me, ive ben active, and a developer, for almost two years. everyone who wants to, knows my real name and contact details because i believe in utmost transparency with regards to cryptocurrency development.
the vague promises, and the recursive bounty promises here show that this team really doesnt have a damn clue what theyre doing community wise. since i discovered TATO, ive purchased about 35,000 and have been holding them. not a big wallet, no, but ill be dumping it if i dont get satisfaction, and i will be making sure all and every know that this developer cannot be trusted.
HONOUR YOUR BOUNTIES.
TREAT YOUR COMMUNITY WITH RESPECT.
DONT BE A DOUCHEBAG.
those are the rules that every cryptocurrency developer should adhere to. this group has failed on all three counts.
my tattoocoin wallet: TNqMxyVcEtFG3xPSPtnFaaFsAX2swdx7ss
i look forward to you grabbing a clue and posting the bounty today.
I apologize for ignoring some of the bounty claimers due to many instances of scammy claims and attempts to make me fall prey to vultures pretending to be helping TATO’s cause. Because of previous scam attempts, we have created a more stringent guidelines and these have affected even legitimate claims.
On the question relating to the online/social media presence, we required that the account or page have been established for quite a long time so the community won’t think that we have ordered some people to create a social media page/account and tell that tattoocoin is accepted there to hype our coin. We have to protect our coin and our community.
Since we haven’t publicized our guidelines,We have other bounty programs on the drawing board but we will be holding it until the website is up again and TLE is on other exchanges , we are making an exception. This is to prove that our team doesn’t turn back to our commitments and that we value our words. But making it easier in one aspect meant making it harder in another. In the coming days, you will see evidence that our bounty winner deserves his reward. Nothing comes easy, to which the claimant strongly agrees. It’s easier understood since he is also a respected name in the world of crypto. Thankfully.
In addition to his reward, his logo with link to his website/page would be visible in our website for as long as he accepts tattoocoin as payment. We are just waiting for him to comply with his additional requirements and then we will send his rewards.
.Team is full time working now.
Delegations will go live in around 2 weeks too.
