It is clear that the Mooncoin community needs to rebuild trust so that we can move forward together and advance our project.
I have been talking to several senior members of the Mooncoin community in a private Telegram channel which I set up and invited them to. This small group includes a couple of long-term investors in Mooncoin and three of the principal developers for the Mooncoin Core wallet.
We have all signed onto the following
Mooncoin Statement of Guiding Principles and we offer this to the rest of the Mooncoin community in the hopes of getting broad support. Please see the link at the bottom of this post to add your name to the list of people who have signed this and who agree on this path forward for the Mooncoin project.
Link to read this as a Google Doc
Mooncoin Statement of Guiding Principles
This is a statement on the future of our decentralized cryptocurrency among those who care the most about it. These are all beliefs and principles that we share and have widespread agreement among our community. We have listed what needs to be done in a specific order, except as otherwise noted. Once there is broad support and consensus on these principles, then we will decide as a community how to move forward with addressing them.
We, the undersigned, agree the following:
Building Trust & Governance
(These items are the foundation of our project and its community.)
1. A cease fire on individual accusations and attacks based on what happened in the past; people must stop making public accusations and testimonials of their lack of trust in others. We must assume positive intent among the individuals who are coming together to move the project forward. This is a new start. The past is the past and we are doomed to repeat it unless we learn from it. Moving forward we will insist that all members of the community act ethically and responsibly towards positive outcomes, otherwise they forfeit their participation in our community.
2. While we hold to our philosophy of a decentralized project, we will create innovative methods to allow our community to have a voice in the future of the project and its development, and we will seek partnerships with like-minded organizations. We will find new ways to represent the constituencies of our community and ensure their voices are heard.
Sanctity of Official Resources(These items should be roughly done in the order specified.)
3. It is critical that the Mooncoin community have a single official Wallet and all other github repositories are deleted to maintain consistency and provide confidence to potential users of the cryptocurrency. All other wallets should be archived or deleted.
4. Additional technical and protocol work needs to be done to the current wallet & blockchain to limit risk of chain attacks and other vulnerabilities.
5. The Mooncoin community should also have a single official Website. Again this is to maintain consistency and provide confidence to users. All other websites should be archived or redirected to the main website. It is fine for there to be multiple ancillary websites such as for mining pools, explorers, etc, but the main project information should be on one official website that is the source of truth for all.
6. A new development fund consisting of a major cryptocurrency (such as BTC) should be set up to collect donations on behalf of the community for the initial purpose of being listed in an exchange.
7. Any coins that were acquired unethically should be destroyed (burned), and that should be determined by blockchain consensus, representing the entire community.
8. Any Folgory promotion should cease immediately and users told to withdraw their coins. Then Mooncoin should ask to be delisted from Folgory. Folgory has been proven to be an unethical exchange and we do not support Mooncoin being used by unethical exchanges.
Rebuilding the Community
(These items can be done in parallel once everything above has been accomplished.)
9. Inquiries for listing on additional exchanges should be a priority with a listing on an audited US exchange being a top priority.
10. People should be encouraged to run the current Mooncoin Core wallet on their machines at all times and to open port 44664 on their router to assist the network by running full nodes.
11. An official or semi-official mining pool should be set up and detailed instructions given to the community on how to mine with ASICs, to build the network-wide hash rate.
Signed by:
James L. Burk, Vice President, The Moon Society - 3/11/2021
George E. Pidiktakis, Mooncoin Investor - 3/12/2021
Michelle Sakayama "michi", Mooncoin Core Developer and Engineer - 3/12/2021
Andrea G. Scarpa "agswinner", Mooncoin Investor - 3/15/2021
Mark Barry, Mooncoin Core Developer - 3/17/2021
Phillip Stanton "mebagger", Mooncoin Core Developer - 3/17/2021
Add your signature by filling out this Google Form.
