Greetings DopeCoin Fans!
My name is Adam Howell (Dopey) and I created DopeCoin back in 2014.
Our goal when first launching this product was to provide the billion dollar drug industry with a new and innovative way of doing business.
The plan seemed simple enough...
We would launch the currency and then focus on contacting dispensaries and other retailers in order to get DopeCoin accepted as a payment method. Once this was accomplished we expected to see the cryptocurrency slowly and steadily gain traction and use within the industry.
But there was a problem...
After getting DopeCoin accepted at several retailers and after personally making the worlds first marijuana altcoin purchase at a small head shop in Spain. Nothing happened.
We even received massive press coverage and I did back-to-back interviews with FOX news and the Huffington Post. Still nothing happened....
It became very clear that it did not matter how many retailers we got on board, the user-base was simply not large enough and the public was not ready to stop using cash and credit cards for this alternative payment method.
We have not only seen this same problem with all of the other marijuana altcoins but also with massive digital payment giants such as Apple Pay who have thousands of retailers, millions of users and billions in advertising budget.
We were too early.
It was at this point that I realised that our business model was flawed.
After 3 months and close to 20k invested into the project I decided to admit my mistake and move on to my next entrepreneurial venture.
I left the DopeCoin project and handed the reigns over to our good friend DopeCoinDude who tirelessly worked away trying to get traction within the industry.
But there was a problem.... I loved this project.
Over the years I had often thought of ways that the DopeCoin project could innovate and I could once again become involved with the project.
That time has now come.
It is my great pleasure to introduce DopeCoin Gold!
This project comes with a brand new blockchain, 6-man development team and a new and innovative way to peg DopeCoin to real world currency.
This new business plan will be revealed over the next couple of weeks and will provide a completely new and unique feature that has not yet been seen in this industry.
What I will reveal at this point is that we believe that this project requires a long-term strategy and commitment. With that being said we will be looking to create a large user-base and will be using our branding and social media expertise to accomplish this goal.
What I can promise is that the days of making false promises and asking the userbase to just wait a few more months at which time we will magically get accepted into dispensaries and take off are over. I for one am sick of these types of statements as I am sure you are as well.
Our first step is to get the current user-base switched over to DopeCoin Gold.
We are working with Bittrex for this relaunch and have moved the wallet to maintenance mode as they swap over to the new version of the coin. The full wallet functionality will be restored on Wednesday at midnight PST however you are encouraged to join in on the feeding frenzy now.
https://bittrex.com/Market/?MarketName=BTC-DOPEFor those of you who have your coins in your own wallets there is a manual coin swap feature available at
www.dopecoin.com and anotherlateminer will make sure you are all taken care of.
There is a deadline to swap your coins by Feb 15th. After this point all remaining DopeCoins from the previous version will be publicly burned and permanently eliminated.
Stay tuned over the next couple of weeks for more exciting updates, brand new bounties and the reveal of our brand new business model.
I'd like to thank everyone involved with the project and am excited to go on this adventure with all of you.
Warm regards,
Dopey.