[ANN] [MINT] Mintcoin (POS / 5%) [NO ICO] [Fair distro, community maintained]

[ahbartsch]

Hi,

(cross posted on mintcointalk)

Project F is advancing steadily. I thank all of the people who contacted me, I was positvely impressed by the massive amount of people who PM'd me. Now that is a proof of an active community!

Next step is to set up a communication channel. I hesitate on what to do. Below are my various proposal (I am open to others):
- Project F subtopic on bitcointalk.org. Sure, bitcointalk.org has most of the traffic, but I believe there is no room for another mintcoin topic out of the ANN topic. This would be public.
- Project F discussion in the ANN topic. I believe it would only lead to confusion. On the other hand, it would lead to more visibility to newcomers. This would be public.
- Project F on a dedicated mintcointalk.com forum thread. This would be "cleaner", since it would be on a dedicated forum, and it could be either private or public. Downside is: less visibility for newcomers
- Project F on a Google Groups ML. Advantage is: easier reply by mail (I prefer mail to forum). Downside is, I think, even lower visibility. Would be better for a "inner core" group.

Voilà, please tell me what you would prefer.
- Dedicated bitcointalk topic
- intersparced discussion in ANN topic
- topic on mintcointalk
- google group mailing list

Dedicated bitcointalk topic or topic on mintcointalk

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[coolbeans94]

Hi,

(cross posted on mintcointalk)

Project F is advancing steadily. I thank all of the people who contacted me, I was positvely impressed by the massive amount of people who PM'd me. Now that is a proof of an active community!

Next step is to set up a communication channel. I hesitate on what to do. Below are my various proposal (I am open to others):
- Project F subtopic on bitcointalk.org. Sure, bitcointalk.org has most of the traffic, but I believe there is no room for another mintcoin topic out of the ANN topic. This would be public.
- Project F discussion in the ANN topic. I believe it would only lead to confusion. On the other hand, it would lead to more visibility to newcomers. This would be public.
- Project F on a dedicated mintcointalk.com forum thread. This would be "cleaner", since it would be on a dedicated forum, and it could be either private or public. Downside is: less visibility for newcomers
- Project F on a Google Groups ML. Advantage is: easier reply by mail (I prefer mail to forum). Downside is, I think, even lower visibility. Would be better for a "inner core" group.

Voilà, please tell me what you would prefer.
- Dedicated bitcointalk topic
- intersparced discussion in ANN topic
- topic on mintcointalk
- google group mailing list

Mintcointalk - less trolls. more committed people.

[greentea]

Hi,

(cross posted on mintcointalk)

Project F is advancing steadily. I thank all of the people who contacted me, I was positvely impressed by the massive amount of people who PM'd me. Now that is a proof of an active community!

Next step is to set up a communication channel. I hesitate on what to do. Below are my various proposal (I am open to others):
- Project F subtopic on bitcointalk.org. Sure, bitcointalk.org has most of the traffic, but I believe there is no room for another mintcoin topic out of the ANN topic. This would be public.
- Project F discussion in the ANN topic. I believe it would only lead to confusion. On the other hand, it would lead to more visibility to newcomers. This would be public.
- Project F on a dedicated mintcointalk.com forum thread. This would be "cleaner", since it would be on a dedicated forum, and it could be either private or public. Downside is: less visibility for newcomers
- Project F on a Google Groups ML. Advantage is: easier reply by mail (I prefer mail to forum). Downside is, I think, even lower visibility. Would be better for a "inner core" group.

Voilà, please tell me what you would prefer.
- Dedicated bitcointalk topic
- intersparced discussion in ANN topic
- topic on mintcointalk
- google group mailing list

mintcointalk or reddit thread is OK ...

[deadmanwalking]

Hi,

(cross posted on mintcointalk)

Project F is advancing steadily. I thank all of the people who contacted me, I was positvely impressed by the massive amount of people who PM'd me. Now that is a proof of an active community!

Next step is to set up a communication channel. I hesitate on what to do. Below are my various proposal (I am open to others):
- Project F subtopic on bitcointalk.org. Sure, bitcointalk.org has most of the traffic, but I believe there is no room for another mintcoin topic out of the ANN topic. This would be public.
- Project F discussion in the ANN topic. I believe it would only lead to confusion. On the other hand, it would lead to more visibility to newcomers. This would be public.
- Project F on a dedicated mintcointalk.com forum thread. This would be "cleaner", since it would be on a dedicated forum, and it could be either private or public. Downside is: less visibility for newcomers
- Project F on a Google Groups ML. Advantage is: easier reply by mail (I prefer mail to forum). Downside is, I think, even lower visibility. Would be better for a "inner core" group.

Voilà, please tell me what you would prefer.
- Dedicated bitcointalk topic
- intersparced discussion in ANN topic
- topic on mintcointalk
- google group mailing list

Great news. So when are you going to tell people what is "Project F" ? Why the super secret?

Edit: Whatever it is, I vote for Reddit. We can bring a lot of people in over there if we start using it more.

[David Latapie]

Alright (I am getting impatient, I decide after just three persons )

The main topic will be on mintcointalk but one of the first duty will be to keep some intersperced discussions on bitcointalk for getting some newcomers to know it (I will hardly be able to handle this, this will be a job for the commmunity management team).

Here is the text I just wrote on mintcointalk.com. Since this is the first one, I will copy it in its entirety but please reply there in the future (that's topic #400, btw): Mintcoin Fund.

Hi everyone,
Project F is finally unveiled. I told you (and the dev told you also earlier) that it would be huge and it is.
Much like bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin, we are opening up a foundation.
The Mintcoin Fund (for legal reason, it could not be named Foundation) will focus on promoting Mintcoin and sustainable development initiative. Excerpt from the bylaws (translated, the official text is in French) :

The goal of Mintcoin Fund is to promote the Mintcoin cryptocurrency and its underlying goal of reducing humany environmental footprint.

Legally speaking, this will be an endowment fund under the French Law. It will be open to anyone with no distinction of nationality or even age (although some responsabilites will be off-limit for non-emancipated minors).
There is no entrance fee. Everything is open to consideration. Here are some of the topic already considered:

• an official escrow service. It will deal only in mintcoin, and will either be free of charge or fees will be donated to the Mintcoin Fund (which in turn MIGHT compensate the
• Mintcoin Fund actually handling the escrow, but nothing for sure — if we can automate the process, we could avoid this).

This thread will be the main topic of discussion. Much like the ANN on bitcointalk, I believe a single very large topic draws more attention than several small topic (people judge by the amount of pages).

It will be necessary to regularly update advancements on the bitcointalk page too, at least for getting more persons involved.

Another brillant news (althoug less huge, I'd say) will be announced next week. Stay tuned!

[deadmanwalking]

wat?

[Party Hard]

Alright (I am getting impatient, I decide after just three persons )

The main topic will be on mintcointalk but one of the first duty will be to keep some intersperced discussions on bitcointalk for getting some newcomers to know it (I will hardly be able to handle this, this will be a job for the commmunity management team).

Here is the text I just wrote on mintcointalk.com. Since this is the first one, I will copy it in its entirety but please reply there in the future (that's topic #400, btw): Mintcoin Fund.

Hi everyone,
Project F is finally unveiled. I told you (and the dev told you also earlier) that it would be huge and it is.
Much like bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin, we are opening up a foundation.
The Mintcoin Fund (for legal reason, it could not be named Foundation) will focus on promoting Mintcoin and sustainable development initiative. Excerpt from the bylaws (translated, the official text is in French) :

The goal of Mintcoin Fund is to promote the Mintcoin cryptocurrency and its underlying goal of reducing humany environmental footprint.

Legally speaking, this will be an endowment fund under the French Law. It will be open to anyone with no distinction of nationality or even age (although some responsabilites will be off-limit for non-emancipated minors).
There is no entrance fee. Everything is open to consideration. Here are some of the topic already considered:

• an official escrow service. It will deal only in mintcoin, and will either be free of charge or fees will be donated to the Mintcoin Fund (which in turn MIGHT compensate the
• Mintcoin Fund actually handling the escrow, but nothing for sure — if we can automate the process, we could avoid this).

This thread will be the main topic of discussion. Much like the ANN on bitcointalk, I believe a single very large topic draws more attention than several small topic (people judge by the amount of pages).

It will be necessary to regularly update advancements on the bitcointalk page too, at least for getting more persons involved.

Another brillant news (althoug less huge, I'd say) will be announced next week. Stay tuned!

BOOM! Exactly what Mintcoin needed! I'm moving BTC to buy more at this discount price. Nice work Mintcoin Team!!

[mgburks77]

Will links to these new discussion topics in different venues be placed on this thread for user convenience?

[thisisit]

a foundation? thats it? can you explain what makes this foundation different from other foundations?

sorry, i expected more.

this is another stolen idea.

[David Latapie]

a foundation? thats it? can you explain what makes this foundation different from other foundations?

sorry, i expected more.

It is for mintcoin and devoted to sustainable development. Granted, Dogecoin foundation had a Doge4water initative, but that was just one initiative among others and Dogecoin doesn't have any environmentalism focus by itself (don't make me wrong, the Foundation will not be SOLELY about sustainable development - it will be its main focus, not the only one).
Apart from that, we have some projects already going on. I will talk about some, whilst some other cannot be talked about yet.

By the way, there is nothing wrong about stolen idea; for start because they are not stolen, since they are not protected; second, because the memetic world is all about imitaiton, as Voltaire famously said it 300 hundred years ago - the Not-Invented-Here syndromes makes more harm than good and what matters is not the innovation, it is the implementation.

[thisisit]

if i am correct this is the same idea as leafcoin. it did not save them.

[David Latapie]

Will links to these new discussion topics in different venues be placed on this thread for user convenience?

If someone does it. I won't, too much other things to do. But please feel free. A newsletter à la NXT could be another idea.

[deadmanwalking]

a foundation? thats it? can you explain what makes this foundation different from other foundations?

sorry, i expected more.

It is for mintcoin and devoted to sustainable development. Granted, Dogecoin foundation had a Doge4water initative, but that was just one initiative among others and Dogecoin doesn't have any environmentalism focus by itself (don't make me wrong, the Foundation will not be SOLELY about sustainable development - it will be its main focus, not the only one).
Apart from that, we have some projects already going on. I will talk about some, whilst some other cannot be talked about yet.

(by the way, there is nothing wrong about stolen idea; for start because they are not stolen, since they are not protected; second, because the memetic world is all about imitaiton, as Voltaire famously said it 300 hundred years ago - the Not-Invented-Here syndromes makes more harm than good and what matters is not the innovation, it is the implementation).

Well, a foundation is a great idea. It would get our name out there if we actively supported green energy sources. But at current prices, it would take a whole lot of Mint to make even the smallest impact. Our current market cap has fallen to 1.3 Million.

What say we get that multipool up and running so we might have some value to contribute. I'm just being real here. We are getting trounced by blackcoin. Why? The multipool. That's the only reason, everything about our coin is better; more liquidity, much higher interest, larger community.

[thisisit]

that is why it does not work for leafcoin. currently.

[deadmanwalking]

Yep, when dogecoin sent the Jamaicans to Sochi they had a market cap of 70 Million. Who are we kidding here?

[thisisit]

i think it is a great idea. do not get me fully wrong. but deadmanwalking is right i think.

leafcoin has 11 million in their foundation. they convert it to trees, they have a cooperation with the worldwildlife fund and still their price is 1 satoshi.

i dont think it will help increasing value.

but maybe i am wrong. lets hope so.

[David Latapie]

One thing that may not be clear for everyone: we are talking about an officially sanctionned, legally-recognised Fund under the French jurisdiction (with all the tax-deductible thing also). Not a Facebook fan page or the like.
If you want to read (or stress-test) the bylaws, follow the mintcointalk page link above.

[deadmanwalking]

Havent been updated in a while Deadman can you please tell me what updates we need?

Like wallet, etc?

I'm not on the team. Here's a link to the wishlist: http://www.mintcointalk.com/index.php/topic,263.0.html

I'm currently working to collect the bounty on the Android wallet.  There is still some work to do in the mintcoinj library but the front-end is almost finished.  Here are the current screenshots:

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BwpkXqmxmdGScm9lb21pTXhuS00&usp=sharing

Thanks to mrqu1cky it looks like we're getting close to an android wallet- a MAJOR development!

Thanks to dille71 we have an offer from a legitimate multipool operator to develop a multipool that pays out in Mint: The pool is  HashCow
https://hashco.ws/

I believe the developer should pay any requested bounty, but if you wish to contribute you can do so here: http://www.reddit.com/r/MintCoin/comments/20vtiy/bounty_for_a_new_multipool/

Edit: Anyone who visits the reddit page please make sure to at least upvote it. Bitcoin has a gazzilion multipools paying into it daily, why shouldn't we have at least one? If you don't have a reddit account you can set one up in seconds, you don't even need to put in an email address.

For those who wish to support the multi-pool. Hopefully the development team can get behind this and stop ignoring pleas from the community.

[thisisit]

One thing that may not be clear for everyone: we are talking about an officially sanctionned, legally-recognised Fund under the French jurisdiction (with all the tax-deductible thing also). Not a Facebook fan page or the like.
If you want to read (or stress-test) the bylaws, follow the mintcointalk page link above.

that does not matter so much. i can setup a (legal) official charity fund as well. quite easily. the price of mintcoin matters and the amount donated to the funds. also cooperation with large charity organisations/other sustainability funds helps.

any progress on that?

[David Latapie]

For those who wish to support the multi-pool. Hopefully the development team can get behind this and stop ignoring pleas from the community.

I told you "wait for next week"