[ANN][UNO] The Blue Crypto Award

[Benefactor]

During the project, our group did look into the possiblity of paying for advertising, and I made 20 UNO tentatively available from the udonaTe address, but this amount wasn't sufficient for anything available at the time, so it wasn't used.

Additionally, I floated the idea of making 10 UNO available to select public cryptocurrency personalities, should they 'present' our award to the winner.  This also never happened, since despite multiple people trying, we were unable to get a direct response from Boyan Slat, the winner.  Of course we did contact his most admirable charity, "The Ocean Cleanup", and eventually made a donation to them under their terms.*

Regardless, those of us who contributed to the project prided ourselves in completing this project with 100% volunteers!  This has truly been an Unobtanium community project, and again, I thank everyone who made it possible!

*The Ocean Cleanup only accepted fiat, unfortunately.  We were all really disappointed about this, but I was determined to make a real 'Award happen this year, and especially since the 100 UNO was from my own donation, IMZ-Mark was able to accept the 100 UNO and convert it to fiat to make the donation.  Proof of the donation was provided in the BCT main Unobtanium thread, the bank details of the donation payment.  I also made it clear to Mark that the inevitable 'friction' of that conversion and payment was totally acceptable from the 'Award fund under the circumstances.  Despite all of this, THE UNOBTANIUM COMMUNITY MADE A GENEROUS DONATION TO THE WINNER'S CHARITY!!! Yay!  We did it!

[Benefactor]

Project goals reference post:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=527500.msg8696436#msg8696436

Here are some unique characteristics that make the project novel:

1.  1st significant use of a crypto blockchain for a public vote!
2.  1st crypto-funded award presentation based on public voting on a blockchain
3.  A Full Disclosure project
4.  1st 'annual' crypto award
5.  1st project to establish community-sponsored buy support, however token (see #8 on project website)
6.  1st crypto project to be fully insured - (more details T.B.A.!!!...)
7.  Another crypto project which supports innovation and the evolution of Humanity
8.  1st project to protect it's corresponding crypto's price valuation at award time, however token
9.  1st project capable of fully financing it's 2nd year from the 1st year's revenue, alone, by design
10.  (Isn't there a 10?)

How did we do?

1.  Yes!

2.  Yes!

3.  Yes!

4.  Yes!

5.  No.  With my personally paying over twice the amount of the 'Award to keep the project going successfully, and having our 'convenient' project account on Mintpal, the 1st of proposed project exchange accounts to make goal #5 possible, destroyed by their criminal actions, AND ALSO GREAT UNO PRICE VALUATIONS BY THE TIME OF THE BIRTHDAY ON THE 18TH, this goal was unmet, greatly inconvenient, significantly underfunded (we never really got the donations to make this possible), and largely unnecessary.  Part of my unstated intended management was to use the funds in the Mintpal account to convert to BTC's for the token community-sponsored buy support, but when the high of over 0.01 UNO/BTC was reached, the Mintpal funds were frozen in Mintpal's self-created criminal debacle.  (The 'Award would then have come from the cold storage addresses, but these have never exceeded 74.6 UNO, which is less than the 100 UNO 'Award.)

6.  Partial?  This is a 100% Yes, but really I only officially insured the 100 UNO 'Award, by sending an extra 100 UNO of my own private funds to FallingKnife for this purpose.  I never officially insured the 21.+ profit that was on Mintpal, although just today, I've sent an equivalent to the donation address to complete the 100% insured goal.

7. Yes!

8.  No - See reply for #5.

9.  Partial.  This could be, hypothetically, 100% Yes, should the value of Unobtanium increase by October of next year sufficiently to make a budget of 74.6 UNO adequate for the whole project.  Otherwise, we just didn't generate enough donations this year.

10.  

[Benefactor]

Additionally, we also made a few extra goals:

11.  Project was managed 100% anonymously.

12.  Project did raise public awareness of Unobtanium, and possibly contributed somewhat to a rising valuation.

13.  Project resulted in the Unobtanium community contributing to a real charity - cleaning up our oceans!!!

[Benefactor]

Well, I think I've gotten all the important notes up.  I suppose I can add more, if I think of anything else, but this should now be adequate, and complete my responsibilities for The 2014 1st Annual Blue Crypto Awards.

THANK YOU!!!