*** Dev update March 2019 ***
Hello all!
I’ll be honest with you… Unfortunately, Ascension coin did not get much attention from users. This is understandable: the current state of crypto is not as good as it used to be even a year ago and ASN currently does not have a ‘killer feature’ (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_feature) or any hype. Direct messages to previous users did not receive much traction either. Also, the two other people that initially joined the team lost interest and moved on. So it is just me now…
But this does not stop me to continue work on this coin. I believe that its time will come. But it needs to have something that is useful / unique. Just being ‘another altcoin’ is not enough.
I do have one interesting feature in mind, but implementing it takes time. I don’t even have an ETA on it currently, but it is definitely measured in months.
Once we have something, then it’s ‘game on’!
And so, I don’t see any reason in promoting the coin at this stage with just empty promises (also, promotion costs money). And I don’t want to give any kind of promises either.
I did not create this coin, but I did mine it back in 2015.
And since nobody else is interested in ASN, I’m happy to devote some of my personal time to this project.
Since this is just my free time at the moment, I don’t feel obliged to adhere to some timeframes or work on features that I don’t like.
If you have some spare time that you can devote to this project, please PM me. Any help is great. Even just posting to this thread counts [Moжнo пo pyccки], as it is a bit lonely here now.
On the positive side, the network is working fine, both block explorers are ok and exchange is operating.
Ascension coin turned out to be almost one to one clone of boostcoin, see github:
https://github.com/ascensioncoin/AscensionCoinThat is an old codebase and is not worth supporting.
Because of this, Ascension coin blockchain will be migrated to a new codebase (forked from a more recent coin). If you have suggestions from which one – please PM/post here.
This is a lengthy process and needs careful testing and execution, so it will take some time.
But this is an important step and will create a stable base for ASN moving forward.
Also, while migrating to the new blockchain, we will have an opportunity to change name from “Ascension coin” to something else. Again, if you have preferences – please name them.
ETA: July – September 2019.
*** IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ***
If you have ASN coins from year 2015, please stake them or move them to some new address before July 2019.
The reason for this is that there are many ‘dead coins’, probably the private keys/wallets are lost for them and they amount to a big proportion of total ASN supply.
Coins that were never moved or staked in 2018/2019 will be considered lost forever and will not appear in the new blockchain.
Their total amount will either be redistributed (airdrop?), mined, donated to ASN foundation, burned forever or something else (please post here or PM what you prefer).
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I’ll try to provide this kind of dev update from time to time (even if nobody wants to read it).
Thank you!
Ascension coin dev
