Everyone,
We have some exciting news with some big changes coming.
First of all, I must apologize for not keeping up-to-date with the community the last couple weeks. Unfortunately, some life changes (out of my control) have happened recently and have taken all of my time.
Therefore, I am passing ownership and management of the Guncoin project to another dev team over the next couple weeks. They will be able to take Guncoin where it needs to go and be able to really interact with the community and make changes that you all request.
Everyone needs to understand that my team is not making any money on this transition. The project is not being sold, it is being transferred to a better team. This was a very hard decision to make and difficult to let go. However, Guncoin and the folks who support it deserve better, and I realize this.
I am confident that the new team will take great care of Guncoin and make this puppy soar.
More information to come on this very soon...
I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce myself as the incoming Team Lead for Guncoin for the transition that will occur over the next few weeks. I'd like to first thank the current team for presenting my team with an outstanding opportunity and for doing an equally outstanding job getting GUN to where it is today. We cannot thank you enough!
As for me - I have been an avid gun user and enthusiast for many years. My ancestors fought in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Civil War, World War I and World War II (for the winning side in each !!!). So all that being said, I take very seriously the US 2nd Amendment, as well as all the other rights given to us by my Revolutionary War ancestors and our Founding Fathers. I own either an original or working replica from EVERY one of those conflicts as well as many modern day equivalents. I am just as comfortable firing a 50 caliber lead ball from a 68" long rifle with black powder as I am with a 5.56x45mm from an AR-15.
So one thing for sure, the basic philosophy behind Guncoin is NOT going to change on my shift. However, having read through all the threads here multiple times, it appears that expanding that basic premise a bit to be able to include other types of gun enthusiasts from around the USA and the rest of the world should be carefully evaluated to support our long-term growth and survival in a very tough and competitive crypto currency market. In other words, the more people on this planet that we can introduce and expose to GUN and crypto currencies in general, will only benefit each of you and our coin.
Moving forward, there are a couple of things that I would like to cover and get your feed back on......
First, your forum support here and overall support for GUN has always been outstanding from what I have seen "guncoin_support" gives you his highest praise. I think for GUN to grow and get to the next level, that needs to continue in several areas.....
1) Keep this forum active - constant chatter among users (old and new) is a good thing and the forums are the first place anyone looks to get a gauge on how well the coin is supported and its level of activity. Remember, that pools and exchanges use this and other forums to determine if we get listed or not.
2) Keep throwing ideas out to us, either by PM or posting - we simply cannot think of everything. Some might cost $$$ or BTC or take time, but the more ideas we get, the more options we have to make GUN a better coin - we are coming in to this with an open mind.
3) Keep voting on the exchanges to get us listed. We need to eventually be listed on some of the major exchanges and you know which ones they are. The smaller exchanges where GUN is traded now are great - but their volume and visibility are small compared to the bigger ones. The more votes we can get on MintPal and others of that size is only a good thing for our coin.
4) Getting delisted on Bittrex was a very bad thing for us. This was one of the fastest growing exchanges with good visibility and great volume. We were delisted due to lack of volume. We simply cannot let this happen again. I have been buying GUN now for weeks on multiple exchanges and encourage you to do the same - not dump it. When we are delisted and our price on the other exchanges goes down - EVERYONE knows about it. If each of you bought a handful of GUN several times a week, I think this problem goes away - even if we are buying and selling from each other repeatedly - the volume is there and we maintain our listing until we can expand our markets to bring in new users. We plan on giving you places to spend it too!
5) Keep mining GUN - hash rate, number of pools, miners, etc. are important things that the big exchanges grade us on.
6) Please be on the look out for direct GUN competitors - crypto currencies targeting the gun world - right now our competition is scarce - any newbies popping up would complicate our lives and possibly change our strategy moving forward.
7) Help promote GUN at gun shows. Typically for $50, you can get a table for a weekend at a major gun show. Sit there and pass out brochures, users guides, do online demos of GUN wallets, give out paper wallets. To be honest, if you are sitting on 500,000 GUN or more, you should be doing this already - help grow your wallet!
Second, what will my team be doing to move this coin forward and get it to the next level?
1) I came in here with very few GUN coins in my pocket. I am going to keep buying on all the exchanges we are on as well as start actively mining GUN. That way with a growing pile of GUN, I have more of a vested interest in making this coin successful. Right now, almost everyone reading this has more GUN in their pocket than us.
2) A new Users Guide is already in work and just a few days away from release. Without something to show newbies what GUN is and how to use it, I think we will just be trading coins amongst ourselves and crypto currency users. There are several examples posted that ours will mirror. While it may not cover everything to start with or be perfect - it will be a starting point towards stepping outside the crypto currency community to where I think the future of our coin needs to move......More on this later.
3) We already have another website in work, where you and any GUN user can actually spend GUN. No not a crappy dice game that some come up with, but a first class site where any gun enthusiasts may come to, learn about GUN and actually spend some GUN.....More on this later.
4) GUN Brochures - this is a supplement to the users guide above, but we feel is a necessity for GUN. You will able to download and print these and give them away at gun shows, gun ranges, gun stores and about anywhere you want
5) Active marketing and publicity - you will see banners for GUN on gun-related websites as well as articles on GUN in crypto currency Ezines. There will not be a lot to start with since this is NOT cheap and the users guide and additional website will take priority - but incrementally, we will be rolling out more and more each month as well as paid writers to write stories about GUN.
Finally, just because we are not posting things here, does NOT mean things are not happening - NEVER assume silence on our part means we have jumped ship or taken our guns and run for the hills. We travel on business frequently and sometimes connectivity is not constant - we will catch up and are always looking for things to do to improve our coin. That being said, please do not sit on the side line and wait for us to do everything - you may be disappointed. The best coins out there now are the ones where proactive users put up websites, knock on doors, write articles, etc. While all that is on our "To-Do" List, we cannot do it all at once and the more you can do in those areas, the faster we get up the hill.
Once again, we thank you for the opportunity and look forward to taking GUN to new heights. We welcome your PMs or posting here and appreciate your support and patience over the next few weeks as we make the transition!
