[ANN][UNO] The Blue Crypto Award

[Benefactor]

Ian and I will figure out how to vote, and then vote. (I sure need to learn about Such Stuff!)

Go, First Voter!!

Mark

It's easy, just send 0.1 UNO to the address on your favorite nominees on the 3rd post on Page 1 of this thread.

[1715446188]

1715446188

[promojo]

What is uno?  Never heard.. Is it like the card game?  Lol

[FallingKnife]

What is uno?  Never heard.. Is it like the card game?  Lol

Hi Promojo,
That's great! Welcome and thanks for asking. We had hoped to reach Un-newbies.

UNO is a sha256 pow cryptocurrency with unique characteristics. It was fairly launched in 2013.  It's nearly a year old. No premine. No instamine. It's rare, only 250k will ever be mined in 300 years. 190k exist, and the reward is halving against next month, so it's rare and getting rarer. This has made Uno very stable, and your holdings are not continually eroded away with a constant influx of new coins from mining or POS. Uno is well supported with great devs, great community, great exchanges, and even a growing merchant base. If you're tired of scam coins or coins that can't hold their community past the first pump, we hope you'll check out Uno.

The Blue Crypto Award is a grassroots effort by the community, which organized everything and donated the award.

If you're tired of scam coins or coins that can't hold their community past the first pump, we hope you'll check out Uno. We have fun, don't take ourselves too seriously, even as we are very serious about the future of Uno.

[Benefactor]

Latest Vote Tally:


Chuck Hill, 3-D Printer Inventor
1 VOTE so far
UNO voting address:  uVoTe1KyLjiXqrVcKoESNLZjfJRHr6XXJ4
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Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Innovator
1 VOTE so far
UNO voting address:  uVote2Qd1HQAW9VygXWW97wDdcGUWpnbtU
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Bayer & McIntyre, Mushroom Packaging Invention Team
2 VOTES so far
UNO voting address:  uVote3Z4eToCGeELiocGRdm898iRLvydsH
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Hal Finney, Cryptocurrency Pioneer
1 VOTE so far
UNO voting address:   uVoTe4V1AhosXRjn2XcqYLLTSiAj9M1REa  
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Boyan Slat, Ocean Cleanup Array Inventor
3 VOTES so far
UNO voting address:   uVoTE5LyLrGcR5qL27czH4bV64V3YWYLNL  
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Javier Fernandez-Han, Algae Energy System Inventor
1 VOTE so far
UNO voting address:   uVoTe6bXN6rn3r5B8M7HGoQ6g3xW5j3WuK
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Curro & Wang, Rapid Packing Invention Team
0 VOTES so far
UNO voting address:   uVote7H6WphX1XjGBH64ruXia8rrq9EAdG
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Darrel Hurt, 3D Print Exchange Developer
0 VOTES so far
UNO voting address:   uVoTe87oocKd8pWgiew2tXRAooSm5ia3sB
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Quin Etnyre, Arduino Kits Innovator
0 VOTES so far
UNO voting address:   uVoTe9HKckfcCYBnMGyAWRLcKkLdxAdJjj
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Krystal Persaud, Circuit Kit Inventor
1 VOTE so far
UNO voting address:   uVotE1N5ocxFmLfL5LCQHSYAAjc42Zqc6N
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[Benefactor]

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The 2014 Blue Crypto Award


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT


We are now adding DOGE voting!


Here is how to vote for The Blue Crypto Award nominees with Dogecoin:


To count as a vote, send 400 DOGE to The Blue Crypto Award Donation address, with the number of the nominee in the very last digit(s).

For example, to vote for Chuck Hill, you would send 400.00000001 DOGE to:

DOGE: DFuNRtFtnyUNJYt35C35qihshTn1vM7xao

(including any network fee)


Here is the full list:


1   for Chuck Hill, 3-D Printer Inventor, vote with a "1" at the end

2   for Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Innovator, vote with a "2" at the end

3   for Bayer & McIntyre, Mushroom Packaging Invention Team, vote with a "3"

4   Hal Finney, Cryptocurrency Pioneer

5   Boyan Slat, Ocean Cleanup Array Inventor

6   Javier Fernandez-Han, Algae Energy System Inventor

7   Curro & Wang, Rapid Packing Invention Team

8   Darrel Hurt, 3D Print Exchange Developer

9   Quin Etnyre, Arduino Kits Innovator

10  Krystal Persaud, Circuit Kit Inventor


New nominee recommendations are very welcome on the BCT thread, and will be considered for addition up until October 4th.  

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Here is a link to the nominee post, and here is a link to the Website.

[V500]

posted in doge reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/2hdqty/unobtaniumcommunity_greets_dogecoincommunity_with/

please upvote. No idea why it doesn't show up on the frontpage currently. Maybe admin needs to enable. Anyway, upvote, upvote, upvote

here in the ann:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=361813.msg8960829#msg8960829

suggesting to expand next years award to even more coin-communities. Uno can invite the whole altcoin-sphere to this event. It'll be much greater. Good work Benefactor.

[balu2]

What is uno?  Never heard.. Is it like the card game?  Lol

not the cardgame, the united nations ... lol

no, seriously. It's 'unobtanium' - dreammaterial very hard to obtain in large quantities.
lovin' it.

[IMZ]

Okay, IndiaMikeZulu has voted. I voted for Slat -- the clean-up array. Ian voted for the inventor of the 3-D printer.

Mark

[Benefactor]

Okay, IndiaMikeZulu has voted. I voted for Slat -- the clean-up array. Ian voted for the inventor of the 3-D printer.

Mark

Awesome!  Thank you and congratulations!

I hope everyone realizes that they can vote for more than one nominee.  I voted for 5 nominees!   

[Benefactor]

The Blue Crypto Award


Here is the current vote tally:


3 Votes - Chuck Hill, 3-D Printer Inventor
UNO voting address:  uVoTe1KyLjiXqrVcKoESNLZjfJRHr6XXJ4

2 Votes - Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Innovator
UNO voting address:  uVote2Qd1HQAW9VygXWW97wDdcGUWpnbtU

3 Votes - Bayer & McIntyre, Mushroom Packaging Invention Team
UNO voting address:  uVote3Z4eToCGeELiocGRdm898iRLvydsH

3 Votes - Hal Finney, Cryptocurrency Pioneer
UNO voting address:   uVoTe4V1AhosXRjn2XcqYLLTSiAj9M1REa  

5 Votes - Boyan Slat, Ocean Cleanup Array Inventor
UNO voting address:   uVoTE5LyLrGcR5qL27czH4bV64V3YWYLNL  

4 Votes - Javier Fernandez-Han, Algae Energy System Inventor
UNO voting address:   uVoTe6bXN6rn3r5B8M7HGoQ6g3xW5j3WuK  

1 Vote - Curro & Wang, Rapid Packing Invention Team
UNO voting address:   uVote7H6WphX1XjGBH64ruXia8rrq9EAdG  

1 Vote - Darrel Hurt, 3D Print Exchange Developer
UNO voting address:   uVoTe87oocKd8pWgiew2tXRAooSm5ia3sB  

1 Vote - Quin Etnyre, Arduino Kits Innovator
UNO voting address:   uVoTe9HKckfcCYBnMGyAWRLcKkLdxAdJjj  

3 Votes - Krystal Persaud, Circuit Kit Inventor
UNO voting address:   uVotE1N5ocxFmLfL5LCQHSYAAjc42Zqc6N

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Just a reminder:  Additional nominee recommendation review closes on
Saturday, so if you know of a great nominee please suggest them on this thread before then (link).

[Benefactor]

Weekly vote tally:  There haven't been any new votes.  Each is the same as in the last post.

[Benefactor]

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*** VOTING HAS ENDED ***


Voting has ended early, on October 9th, instead of the listed October 16th, as there hasn't been any new votes for 9 days, and this will allow much more time to contact the winning nominee and put together an award presentation for UNO's birthday on the 18th.

Strikethrough has been added to voting addresses, as they should no longer be used, since voting has ended.  Anyone can still use the voting addresses on an UNO explorer to see the votes for themselves!


Stay tuned for the announcement of the winning nominee on UNO's birthday, Saturday, October 18th (PDT)!!!


A hearty THANK YOU to all who have participated by voting!!!

[IMZ]

I meant to drop in here more often. I am we are all so busy.

And -- completely unrelated -- there's a text I found that I think you'd savour. Ask me.

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[Benefactor]

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The 2014 1st Annual Blue Crypto Award

The winner of the 1st ever Blue Crypto Award is Boyan Slat for his active work on real solutions to cleaning up the world's oceans.

Mr. Slat, the Unobtanium Community salutes you!  Thank you for your invention, innovation, and service to Humanity!!!


IMZ-Mark has accepted the honor of converting the 100-UNO Award to fiat to donate to Boyan's charity organization, and will provide us with supporting proof of the transfer.

This coming week, I will offer details to review this year's 'Award, and to leave a guide for next's year's award.  This will all be found in this BCT thread.

A hearty THANK YOU goes out to the members of the Unobtanium Community who banded together and contributed to this year's humble Blue Crypto Award and made it possible!!!

[Benefactor]

I just want to post an update on our processing a donation to Boyan Slat's organization to complete the transfer of this year's 'Award.

Our community member, IMZ, has the 100 UNO Blue Crypto Award funds, and continues to go through the hoops to pay them in fiat, as they've requested.  ETA:  I don't have a time, but I would think we can report the donation is complete by next week.  I will update, of course, when it's done.

I do intend on sharing all of my notes on this project, and I thought I'd do it this week, but I prefer to wait until the donation is complete, now.

[Benefactor]

Rumor has it that The 2014 Blue Crypto Award has been paid out to Boyan Slat's organization!  Proof forthcoming, hopefully once Australia wakes up in the morning....

 

[Benefactor]

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The 2014 Blue Crypto Award

We've paid it!!!!!

I'm so stoked!

The Unobtanium Community has now made a HUGE donation to a really awesome, worthy cause, Boyan Slat's own "The Ocean Cleanup" charity!!!  I'm happy to announce that The 2014 Blue Crypto Award has now been paid!!!

Congratulations to our community for a GREAT year, and here's to the next!

I'd like to extend a warm thank you to our IMZ-Mark for making this payment possible!

Again, to everyone who participated in this year's 'Award, thank you so much!  I look forward to a bigger 'Award project next year, with multiple Awards to be given out, and the continued success of our Unobtanium cryptocurrency and our growing community!!!

[BitcoinNational]

Congratulations
tip of hat to Benefactor and Mark

[reserved for feed back from Boyan Slat's "The Ocean Cleanup" charity]

http://www.boyanslat.com/
https://twitter.com/BoyanSlat

Let's get hired to be the official crypto of theoceancleanup.com
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/join-our-team.html  
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/blog/show/item/announcing-gyre-expeditions-2015-booking-now-open-kopie-1.html

[Benefactor]

Congratulations
tip of hat to Benefactor and Mark

[reserved for feed back from Boyan Slat's "The Ocean Cleanup" charity]

http://www.boyanslat.com/
https://twitter.com/BoyanSlat

Let's get hired to be the official crypto of theoceancleanup.com
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/join-our-team.html  
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/blog/show/item/announcing-gyre-expeditions-2015-booking-now-open-kopie-1.html

Sounds great!

[Benefactor]

Well, I'd like to wrap up this year's project by sharing any notes I may still have.  Just details for posterity.  I'll add new posts when I think of anything else.

One of the goals of the project was to run everything with 'full disclosure', really a reference to finances.  Basically, we've done just that, with notes on this BCT thread, on the project website, and some scattered on the main BCT Unobtanium thread.

To close out this year's project, here's what's still left from our finances:

udonaTeAguxJ4RXs4F7ohPRbCRTrGdiSZU - 72.0 UNO.

...And also the funds in the voting addresses:  (2.6 UNO total)

0.3 UNO  Vote1:   uVoTe1KyLjiXqrVcKoESNLZjfJRHr6XXJ4
0.2 UNO  Vote2:   uVote2Qd1HQAW9VygXWW97wDdcGUWpnbtU
0.3 UNO  Vote3:   uVote3Z4eToCGeELiocGRdm898iRLvydsH
0.3 UNO  Vote4:   uVoTe4V1AhosXRjn2XcqYLLTSiAj9M1REa
0.5 UNO  Vote5:   uVoTE5LyLrGcR5qL27czH4bV64V3YWYLNL
0.4 UNO  Vote6:   uVoTe6bXN6rn3r5B8M7HGoQ6g3xW5j3WuK
0.1 UNO  Vote7:   uVote7H6WphX1XjGBH64ruXia8rrq9EAdG
0.1 UNO  Vote8:   uVoTe87oocKd8pWgiew2tXRAooSm5ia3sB
0.1 UNO  Vote9:   uVoTe9HKckfcCYBnMGyAWRLcKkLdxAdJjj
0.3 UNO  Vote10:   uVotE1N5ocxFmLfL5LCQHSYAAjc42Zqc6N

That's it!  Simple.

This udonTe address is the original UNO donations address for the project, and anyone can see all donations are still in there, untouched.  These funds should be made available according to our stated plan, which (I think is) September 1st, 2015, for the 2nd Annual Blue Crypto Awards to be completed by 18 October, 2015, next year.

Just now, I've sent 22 UNO to the udonaTe address from my own funds, as insurance for the 21.+ UNO that are apparently lost from the Mintpal account, so, now that the 100 UNO 2014 'Award has been paid for with the 100 UNO Insurance that was held by FallingKnife, also from my own private funds, this means that I completely self-insured the 121.+change AND NO public Blue Crypto Award funds were theoretically lost.  (Although I'm out 222.5 UNO of my own private funds on this project, plus additional donations that I've made to support the UNO network's websites and developers during the period, and this includes the 121.+ UNO lost, (and so reimbursed with my own private funds 'insurance',) when the project's funds were never allowed to be withdrawn from the now defunct Mintpal.)

The remaining 74.6 UNO for next year's project is safely held in cold storage.

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None of the other alternative cryptocurrency addresses, (basically all the other cryptos listed in the opening post of this thread, including BTC,) ever received donations.  I have not checked them recently, but these were all set up on Mintpal for convenience, and even at my last attempts to recover funds from there, no other cryptos ever registered a balance.  When Mintpal was still working, none of these other addresses had a balance, i.e. no donations.

It is particularly interesting to note that, despite V500 reaching out to the DOGEcoin community, and our making voting using the single DOGE donation address available to them, with a method different than the voting using UNO, not a single DOGE vote was cast.  ...So I can still claim the vote was done on one single blockchain!

I'm actually glad about this, however, as my personal opinion would have it that the vote should be entirely on a single blockchain, that being Unobtanium's 'rockchain'.  The inclusion of DOGE was made, since the Unobtanium Community was beginning to request we expand to reaching out to them, and I've always wanted this project to be an expression of the community, not myself.  Our failure to generate DOGE votes may have been attributed to an unusual spike in the value of DOGE at that time.