IMPORTANT STATUS UPDATE FOR BOOK
I have successfully researched the first 193 pages (17th of February to the 30th of June 2016) of the original Trumpcoin Bitcointalk thread. Milestones during this period have been recorded:
17th of February - original Trumpcoin Bitcointalk thread created by user "chicken65".
20th of February - initial pre-announced launch date failed (surpassed)
20th of February - first mining pool to publicly support Trumpcoin was
www.suchpool.pw20th of February - first block explorer (light) at
http://173.44.41.235/index.php went live (~2 hours before launch of blockchain)
21st of February - slightly after midnight (GMT) mining of TRUMP began.
22nd of February - user "chicken65" contacted YoBit Exchange in order to get TRUMP trading on there.
25th of February - coin logo design competition began (prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd)
28th of February - VixTrade was the first exchange to add TRUMP.
28th of February - user "logocreator" won the logo competition
28th of February - active trading began on YoBit.
1st of March - TRUMP added to the website
www.coinmarketcap.com.
2nd of March - VixTrade Exchange removed from the OP ANN of Trumpcoin BTCTalk thread.
4th of March - updated Windows and Mac wallets uploaded for download/installation.
5th of March - changes to the coin specification (block reward, block time, coin maturity) proposed.
6th of March - user "indiemax" is handed responsibility of the "Trump Fund" of just below 450k TRUMP.
7th of March - Safecex began to offer active trading of TRUMP.
9th of March - decision was made to keep coin spec as is (reviewed at the end of the month).
12th of March - a working online wallet went live at
https://trumpcoin.rocks/wallet.
15th of March - announcement of fork of the blockchain at block number 16,250.
15th of March – total number of TRUMP mined to date surpassed 5 million.
19th of March – user “chicken65” thought about abandoning the coin.
20th of March – Trumpcoin increased by 145% in BTC Satoshi value.
24th of March – User “chicken65” assured the community that he was in for the long haul.
25th of March – user “CantStump” created an IRC Channel for Trumpcoin.
26th of March – a new Trumpcoin Block Explorer at
www.rainz.xyz/chainz/trump was created.
30th of March - PoS promise of implementation in ten days time (~9th of April)
5th of April – the value of one unit of TRUMP account surpassed 1,000 BTC Satoshi on the exchange called Safecex.
6th of April – An article was written and published by Kevin Collier titled “Introudcing Trumpcoin: The Currency for Fans of Donald Trump”. (Vocativ)
9th of April - the value of one unit of TRUMP account surpassed 2,000 BTC Satoshi
11th of April – block number one of the new PoS Trumpcoin Blockchain was timestamped at 11:01 UTC.
12th of April – Trumpcoin reached number one spot on the C-Cex Voting List.
12th of April – V2 Trumpcoin Windows and Mac OSX wallet clients released.
12th of April – C-Cex began to offer active trading of TRUMP.
13th of April –
www.reddit.com/r/trumpcoin created.
14th of April – Users could begin transferring V1 TRUMP to V2 TRUMP via the “Swap Site”.
15th of April – a video titled “How to Trade Trumpcoin” uploaded to YouTube by user “Tom DeMattia”.
15th of April – Old V1 TRUMP Blockchain no longer supported from 8:00 AM EST.
17th of April – TRUMP/USD on C-Cex trading began.
21st of April – the website
www.MakeMoneyGreatAgain.org went live thanks to user “Signal7”.
28th of April – user “chicken65” explained why the exchange Bittrex won’t list TRUMP.
1st of May – User “DecentralizeEconomics” suggested that someone needs to bring Trumpcoin to the attention of Diamond and Silk.
3rd May – Donald Trump won the Indiana Primary.
6th-12th May – Silence on the original Trumpcoin Bitcointalk thread from the developers of the coin.
13th of May – User “NewWorldOrder” crated the Facebook page at …/trump.coin.3.
19th of May – a 20,000 TRUMP Bounty was put forward by user “chicken65” as an incentive for someone to create a “How To Consumer Site” for Trump supporter (to guide through how to purchase Trumpcoins)
19th of May – the Facebook page at …/TRUMPcoincryptocurrency was founded.
25th of May - a promotional video titled “Introducing: TrumpCoin?” uploaded to YouTube by user “TrumpCoinContent”.
27th of May – user “Signal7” (been absent since 26/04/2016) updated the website
www.MakeCryptoGreatAgain.org to include a real-time Trumpcoin statistic ticker (value of one Trumpcoin etc) and added the above promo video).
28th of May – the original Bitcointalk thread ANN of Trumpcoin and the official website
www.trumpcoin.rocks was updated.
29th of May – Two donation addresses created by user “chicken65”. One being the “Trump Fund Campaign Donation Address (200k) and the other being the “Trump Direct Sales Address (100k).
29th of May – Cryptopia began to offer active trading of TRUMP.
7th of June – a promotional video titled “What Is TrumpCoin?” uploaded to YouTube by user “TrumpCoinContent”.
9th of June – the Twitter account
www.twitter.com/Trump_Coin was created.
10th of June – the Twitter account
www.twitter.com/TrumpCryptoCoin was created.
15th of June – user “chicken65” announced that he would be resigning as Project Manager/Developer in two weeks time.
16th of June – user “CantStump” nominated by user “chicken65” as the new Project Manager (to officially take over at the end of June, perhaps sooner).
23rd of June – user “Signal7” created a Trumpcoin thread on the crypto exchange Cryptopia.
25th of June – user “chicken65” encouraged user “CantStump” to create a new moderated thread for the coin on Bitcointalk.
27th of June – the ownership of the domain
http://trumpcoin.com was secured by user “bitbullbarbados”.
30th of June – the market capitalisation of the coin surpassed $1 million for the first time.
If anyone knows of any events/new/important milestones which have been missed/incorrect/disputed, please tell me.
Please support the project:
BTC: 1CRLy4xUZbh9rj2GPANiNNBZGZKRKLYYwJ
TRUMP: TL2nsBjpEJZMCN3UwjriStgdwY1sMNgX7D
The book will be published before the 8th of November.
I have already written other books:
https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Chris-P.-Thompson/e/B00S5L3PVM/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0Preliminary cover design (thanks to C Ellis):
