[CTN] Caton - Catalonian based cryptocurrency

[catonFoundation]

This project has been abandoned by developers.

Current state: building source.
Current state: perform protocol tests.
Current state: Announce datetime for launch (CONFIRMED genesis print UTC 21:14 22/12/2017).
Current state: Genesis build (100%) + Upload Source code & linux binaries 64bits.
Current state: Run seed nodes.
Current state:  Launched at UTC 21:57 22/12/2017.

|||||||||   CATON   |||||||||

Catalonian based cryptocurrency
Catalonian based - Private - Fair  

Initially made with a bare cryptonote fork, Caton aims to be used in Catalonia but not limited to.
With ecology in mind developers team are implementing a diff target limit that will decrease the block reward proportionally when the difficulty is bigger than the target diff. Target Diff is updated with a fork every winter solstice, having in mind the current hardware hashrate and its power consumption. Initial limit will be the diff equivalent to 2.1GH/s

At the moment developers aren't being announced due the possible Spanish state repression. Depending on the government response developers will be revealed. (Check 1st October 2017 catalonian referendum news to know what happened to people who want to vote. Government seized domains, reported to the courts people who organized a referendum and jailed preventively who defended the independence peacefully, catalonian government was dissolved by the prime minister Mariano Rajoy).


Launch date:
Caton's genesis tx has been generated on UTC 21/12/2017 at 22:48.
Caton's genesis tx has been generated on UTC 22/12/2017 at 21:14.
Caton's seed nodes launched on UTC 22/12/2017 at 21:57.


Specs:
PoW: Cryptonight
Block target time: 180s
Total supply: 14.000.000 CTN
Fair launch (UTC 22/12/2017 at 21:57, no premine, no instamine)
High diff block reward penalty
(Visit cryptonote.org to know more about cryptonote technology)


Source code and binaries:
Source code
Linux x64 binaries
Linux x86 binaries: Next days
Windows binaries: building & testing



Roadmap & Eviroment:
Implement difficulty penalties
Foundation's website
User guides



V0.0.0.1 Note:
Due a mistake with caton's parameters, launched chain on 21/12 isn't valid. Those who mined some catons on the broken chain, before height 593, will be credited proportionally with some catons in new chain (not all mined units) be sure to keep a copy of daemon folder (renamed, in order to run new chain), do not delete your wallet files to perform the mined accreditation (do not use in new blockchain).

Twitter: @catonfoundation

[thin]

2 Cryptonight coins is too much for a single Catalonia, see croat.cat/en/home/

[catonFoundation]

We don't think that 2 coins are too much for Catalonia, but Caton is not limited to Catalonia. If you look closer there are differences between them.
However market will decide what happens.
Thanks for your opinion.

[tippytoes]

We don't think that 2 coins are too much for Catalonia, but Caton is not limited to Catalonia. If you look closer there are differences between them.
However market will decide what happens.
Thanks for your opinion.

Yes, you are right, Market will decide what happens to the coin, but how it will perform in the market depends also with the developer. With that, the dev team has big role to fulfill to make this coin alive.

[catonFoundation]

We don't think that 2 coins are too much for Catalonia, but Caton is not limited to Catalonia. If you look closer there are differences between them.
However market will decide what happens.
Thanks for your opinion.

Yes, you are right, Market will decide what happens to the coin, but how it will perform in the market depends also with the developer. With that, the dev team has big role to fulfill to make this coin alive.

We, the devs, are fully compromised with the development and maintenance of the coin and its environment. What happens is that we won't announce our real names right now, as is explained.

[thin]

Explain what do you mean by a fair launch - will be there are some instamine or first block with some huge amount?

[catonFoundation]

Explain what do you mean by a fair launch - will be there are some instamine or first block with some huge amount?

At the specified time, genesis block will be generated, tx included in the source and source code will be posted on github.
With fair we mean that anyone, including the coin foundation, will have the same opportunities to run a node and miners.
No premine, no instamine, first block reward will be calculated with (m_moneySupply - alreadyGeneratedCoins) >> m_emissionSpeedFactor.

[ramcrypto]

hii i would like to know abt the roadmap for the coin
when will u list the coin in exchnages because if u list the coin in exchnage before the craot coin u will have an upper hand over it that too in gud exchnage will work not some idiotic eexchnages like coinsmarkets.com
make sure u release gui wallet....

[divedaucd]

another croat coin? 

[ElizaZX]

I understand you is not easy. But what about Catalonia long before Spain and the European Union? How will this affect the price of the future state coin and how will it be reinforced if the crisis has not yet ended?

[Havven]

For anyone who's interested, our team wrote up a paper on how cryptocurrency could assist Catalan financial independence: https://blog.havven.io/catalan-independence-and-the-blockchain-6bc77fab851c

[thin]

make sure u release gui wallet....

they promised Linux binary )

[HyperBillions]

Seems interesting) Where can we learn some more about this coin? Do you have the official website?

[thin]

Launch date:
Caton genesis block will be generated on UTC 21/12/2017 at 16:28
Source code and binaries (gnu/linux) will be posted on github's page after. (Check url on the specified date)

common - let's start

you have promised fair start, and where it is? 10 mins passed since fair launch time, and there is nothing available for the public

[noloco]

Launch date:
Caton genesis block will be generated on UTC 21/12/2017 at 16:28
Source code and binaries (gnu/linux) will be posted on github's page after. (Check url on the specified date)

common - let's start

you have promised fair start, and where it is? 10 mins passed since fair launch time, and there is nothing available for the public

They created the new coin and are now mining independently on their own fork

[thin]

github is empty https://github.com/catonfoundation

Spain police took them to avoid independent cryptocoin ?

[thelastone]

what should we do sir?
can you give us more information? I mean your website.
is this trading? or mining?

[catonFoundation]

make sure u release gui wallet....

they promised Linux binary )

Performing last tests on binaries and listing dependencies. In few minutes will be available on our github.
Source code is already available to be built.

[divedaucd]

make sure u release gui wallet....

they promised Linux binary )

Performing last tests on binaries and listing dependencies. In few minutes will be available on our github.
Source code is already available to be built.

already mined some blocks but dont know it's correct chain or not. height currently is 66. dev can you give more some informations? block reward? how many blocks confirm?

[captainplauze]

There will be any bounty  campaign for this Project¿