Happy 1st Birthday MOIN & community!It's been a year to the day since I started this thread so I thought today would be as good a day as any to celebrate the birth of MOIN. So
happy birthday all!
Here's where things stand.
We've built a small, dedicated community over the last twelve months and, as vella mentioned, the price has been stable for some time now. We've always tried to be honest and forthright with the community which I think has helped us attract a patient and level-headed group of investors, which is something I'm grateful for. So, in keeping with our "no bullshit" philosophy, let me tell you about a few ways in which our plans for the project have recently changed.
There's a sort of unwritten list of (uninspired) steps a crypto project can take after launching in order to try to establish its legitimacy: get on as many exchanges as possible (regardless of their quality), maybe make a basic android wallet, pay to be added to payment processors (regardless of how few people will actually use it) and so on and so forth. We sort of started down that road in the beginning, but to be honest I'm not interested in just going through the motions with MOIN. It'd be tedious for me and of little or no real benefit to the project anyway.
Over the last year I've developed a much clearer idea of what it'll take for us to achieve our goals. I think in hindsight my ambition probably outweighed my abilities when all this started, but I've been closing that gap every day and the experience I've gained over the last year has caused me to to reevaluate our priorities. As a self-funded/volunteer-based project we haven't anywhere near the manpower or resources that some of the recent crowdfunded projects have, so in order to remain competitive I've decided to postpone indefinitely all remaining items on the current roadmap. This means, for example, that I personally won't be expanding the website anytime soon. Of course if any community members would like to tackle it it would be appreciated! Similarly, I still have all the notes and ideas from the research I did earlier this year for The Hunt, but as its main purpose would be to publicise the project it'd be far more effective if done later when we have a finished product worth shouting about. If there are any features that the community would really like to see added in the mean time I propose that we start a bounty program similar to what lbry has got going on
here. Or if you'd prefer to put up a cash bounty there's the option of adding it to
SDC's bountysource program, which makes sense for any features that both projects might benefit from and would be a nice way to give a little back.
So if I'm scrapping the rest of the roadmap wtf
am I going to be working on?! Well, for a long time now the plan has been for the project's development to culminate with the realization of an idea I had a while back - one that'd fully distinguish MOIN from its peers. I'm wary of revealing details (the list of people I trust in crypto is a short one), but it's big, it's ambitious and to be frank it's a damned site more interesting than any of the remaining roadmap items anyway. For the time-being I'm going to refer to it simply as ...
"The Platform"This is where I'll be focusing my efforts from this point onwards. At the moment it's still in the research/experimentation phase, but things are moving at a decent pace. If you have problems with exchanges or the client drop a message here and I'll get back to you, but otherwise I'm going to be pretty quiet for the foreseeable future. Likewise, if anyone needs reassurance that I'm still around, just ask. I don't want investors being kept completely in the dark as to the status of development so once I've made significant progress I'll try to give estimations as to what percentage of the work has been completed. I won't give time-lines or ETA's though. They never work out.
To my mind "The Platform" will form the cornerstone of the project, and I think a lot of other things will naturally fall into place once it's done. I'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who is and has been a part of the community and helped to make MOIN what it is over the last twelve months. Here's to the next twelve, I hope we'll do you proud.
Cheers!
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