Background:TAGcoin (TAG) was
released in 2013 as a PoW/PoS hybrid Scrypt coin and has continued to be mined, traded, HODL'ed (and talked about) ever since.
Its founder
Mark Vernon [
Skype] walked away from the project in late 2017 swapping many
TAG coins for a Token also known originally as TAG then
later as TAGCash [
Archive] with many coins sent to a burn address
TRCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXX6gvik in exchange
for the TAGcash Token [
Archive] on the
ProofCore backbone [
Archive].
Exchanges such as
Novaexchange have continued to support the
TAG Original listing it as
XTAG [
BTC][
DOGE] together with the all important
addnode= information and mining companies such as
FindBlocks.Wales enable the block chain to continue to move forward with their
pool operations and
block explorer.
The very first versions of the TAG wallet can be downloaded from the
Way Back Machine by browsing the
first archived version of the download page - [
Windows][
Mac OSX][
Ubuntu] as well as the original [
Source Code (Zip)] for version 1.0.1.0 and corresponding [
GitHub Archive] plus
Version 4.0 of the TAGcash Android Apk.
(note, check out other tagcoin.org archived pages for later versions of the android APK)As can be seen on that archived page we can glean the following information:
- Total Premine - TAG 10,500
- Given out so far as referrals - TAG 1050
- Paid out for Mac CLient - TAG 100
- Giveaway for Android App Testing - TAG 100
- Giveaway for RFID Binding - TAG 250
- Earmarked for Blockhain explorer - TAG 100
This list contradicts
Mark's later assertion that there was no pre-mine of TAG. (page was last edited on the 18th Nov 2017 - four years after TAG's original launch). In any event, we know for certain the following information: As at block 779577 there is a money supply of 7649384.60544700 TAG with
3916637.748056 TAG having been sent to the burn wallet address
TRCryptoLifeDotNetBurnAddrXXX6gvik which leaves
just 3732746.857391 TAG in circulation. I.E. At this point more than 51% of the mined TAG are in one wallet - admittedly a burn wallet, but still...
The most
current version of TAG Original that was released is
Client Version TAG-v2.0.0.build-g-bdb-gcc on the
http://tag.proofcore.com/ website [
Archive] - The various versions are: [
Windows][
Mac OSX][
Ubuntu] and the all important [
Source Code]
On the
Technical Specifications page, we know that TAGcoin Original is:
- Pow/PoS hybrid (5% yearly interest, PoS blocks generated after 30 days of coin age)
- Algorithm: Scrypt
- Starting difficulty: 0.5
- Coins per block: 30
- PoW Subsidy reduction: 1% every 3 months, minimum reward of 3 coins
- Time between blocks: 4 minutes
- Retarget: Every 2 hours, with a 25% limit in either direction
- Network Port: 8623
- RPC Port: 9624
A
tagcoin.conf file would therefore look something like this:
rpcuser=UserName
rpcpassword=UserPassword
rpcport=9624
port=8623
# (0=off, 1=on) daemon - run in the background as a daemon and accept commands
daemon=0
# (0=off, 1=on) server - accept command line and JSON-RPC commands
server=0
testnet=0
# rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
# rpcallowip=168.0.0.1
An [
Archive] of the Github.com/tagcoin/tagcoin-qt page occurred on the 20th of January 2016 (Version 1.1)
An archive of the github.com/tagcoin/tagcoin page occurred on the 29th of January 2016 [
Archive 1] and again on the 7th of February 2018 [
Archive 2]
Social Media:TAG Original has its own
Discord Channel but as yet no other social media channels. There is a disused
Twitter Account for TAGcoin, however, it has not been posted by a non-bot since the
29th of July 2017 and has remained
disused in the last six months. If Mark is reading this, we would respectfully ask him to make contact to discuss handing over passwords for Twitter and any other social media outlets so that we can carry on his original vision of the coin being used to TAG and TIP
(and the secret key for the TAG wallet alert key too BTW)TAG Original continues to be favoured on the Chinese AEX.com market which is the
rebuilt btc38.com exchange [
Archive]. Unfortunately, TAG is
traded for just the in-house coin GAT however, the daily trades of TAG on today's date runs to a
staggering 2.46 million TAG!Yobit.net Exchange trades
TAG Original. According to their
Coin Info page, at the moment there is:
Name Fullname Algo MoneySupply Diff.POW Diff.POS
TAG Tagcoin Scrypt 7474652.55 2643.69330000 0.19285323
So we are uncertain if they are discounting certain burned coins that we haven't been made aware of as yet. Given the closeness of their coin count, we have no reason to believe that their exchange is not connected to the
TAG Original network.
YoBit's trading pairs with TAG are: [
BTC][
ETH][
DOGE][
WAVES][
USD][
RUR]
Market Caps:CoinGecko:
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/tagcoinCoinMarketCap:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tagcoin/ Unfortunately, neither polls novaexchange's XTAG and both have inaccurate money supply / marketcap etc information.If you want to place the coingecko widget on your website, use this code:
<script src="https://widgets.coingecko.com/coingecko-coin-price-chart-widget.js"></script>
<coingecko-coin-price-chart-widget currency="usd" coin-id="tagcoin" locale="en" height="300"></coingecko-coin-price-chart-widget>
or
<script src="https://widgets.coingecko.com/coingecko-coin-ticker-widget.js"></script>
<coingecko-coin-ticker-widget currency="usd" coin-id="tagcoin" locale="en"></coingecko-coin-ticker-widget>
If you want to use the coinmarketcap widget on your website, use this code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://files.coinmarketcap.com/static/widget/currency.js"></script>
<div class="coinmarketcap-currency-widget" data-currencyid="61" data-base="USD" data-secondary="BTC"></div>
Any hints on a BBCode for either of the above would be greatly appreciated.
Other Technical Information:There is no active Paper Wallet for
TAG Original - given that it a PoW/PoS hybrid I would discourage their use long-term.
To Do:More Exchanges, more nodes, one or two more block explorers - any suggestions?
Where to from here?TAG Original has a small but dedicated following, I see no reason why we can't combine our resources in the coming days, weeks and into years to come to build
TAG Original into a global player. Think Big people...
Comments, clarifications and words of encouragement are always welcome.
