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Thinking in Blockchain!
Let everyone obtain the values of decentralized collaboration in an equitable way.

Basically, this innovation concerns the decentralization of data. Users will be allowed to claim ownership of their data through tokens, allowing all users of the blockchain to value and exchange data.

The Blockchain community embodies the values of openness, collaboration and transparency. An ecosystem created by the blockchain believers is a voluntary association anchored in aligned incentives. We believe that the blockchain represents the social contract of the future and this will lead to a civilization where cooperation, inclusion and the interests of society converge.

Blockchains will make life freer, more equitable and more useful. As a digital organism and emerging economic system, the blockchain is a fertile ground for creative evolution. This will lead to transformative ideas and revolutionary technologies. It is now a time of great opportunity, challenge and hope.

Don't ask what blockchain can do for you, ask what you can do for blockchain.

The Use Cases for NFT Crown are as follows:

- Search & Query
Provides unique cross-channel search capabilities and search functions within the DApp.

- Interactive marketing on the channel
A new form of interactive chain marketing, laying the foundation for tracking and analyzing chain data.

- Project evaluation
Provide data support for the evaluation of projects to one or more chains.

- Transaction testing and market forecasting
Ecosystem reports on the blockchain economy provide data analysis for market forecasting.

- Gambling, social networking, etc.
Explore transactions, interactions and activate new DApps with chain search capabilities.


Crown Act Community Group!
In order to achieve the objective of ecological development and asset management and to promote Crown in the "Stand-alone Meta-Chain", Crown's founding team will form the "Crown Community Group" with the community. During the formation process, the source of legitimacy of each organization's power, its organizations and its power boundaries will be strictly stipulated, and the three parties will be constrained by each other.

Crown Act Council
Oversee the legitimacy of Crown's governance process and the use of public assets within the Crown community; providing scale benefits for ecological development.

Crown Nation
Manage Crown Nation assets, pool available resources and use capital to provide efficiency benefits to the Crown Platform ecosystem.


Technical Committee
Assigned by Crown Nation Council; responsible for productivity and quality control of development projects, providing technical advice and community support.

It is time to write the future together.

It seems the truth has touched you Jonesd. When the product is great it sells itself. What about Crown?! it's a good product but... How do you think it could sell?

Ironic that your contribution is NOTHING. I have another quote for you:

"When you don't like the way things are going, stop complaining and fix it yourself".

-Jonesd 2019

Trezor support for Crown very close now

(https://github.com/trezor/trezor-firmware/pull/600)

There are superblocks with this coin? That's neat I would love to see that happen more often for sure.  I'm going to do some more research into this coin and see what it's all about because I really like it and it looks really interesting and I wouldn't mind finding out more about it for sure :-)

Weekly development update Thursday October 3rd 2019 by Artem


@Contributors 03.10.19 Meeting Minutes
Ashot is working on Bitcoin merge of Qt, fixing compilation issues
Artem is adding NFT protocol registration txs to the mempool, testing in the sandbox environment

There is a quesition about the proposal system I received recently, the block end of proposals is not shown correctly
[13:37] Luc: Anyways, something's still really weird with proposals
[13:39] Luc: Here's a proposal made by Sergio Valenzuela
[13:39] Luc: He requests payment for only 1 month
[13:39] Luc: And he wants to receive it at the next superblock, which is block: 2592000
[13:40] Luc: Now, normally spoken, until a next superblock is reached there's 43200 blocks in between
[13:40] Luc: However, Sergio's proposal has a block_end of 2656800
[13:41] Luc: That's a difference of (2656800-2592000) = 64800
[13:42] Luc: That's like halfway through the superblock AFTER the next one

We need to address it to find out why it's not correctly visible

NFT roadmap development update from dev Artem:

NFT Core - Done
NFT Registration - Done
NFT Protocols Registration - In-Progress (Planned Release Date - end of October)
Bitcore NFT support for web-development - In-progress (Planned Release Date - end of October)


NFT/NFT Protocols Data Update (+ Bitcore update) - To be implemented
NFT Burn (+ Bitcore update) - Planned - To be implemented
NFT Transfer/Transfer Authorization (+ Bitcore update) - To be implemented
NFT Trading/Bidding off-chain protocol using bitcore-wallet-service - To be implemented

New Feature: Proposal commenting on CrownCentral!

To further encourage community engagement and discussion, we have implemented a comment section for proposals.

Every registered member is now able to voice their opinion on active proposals. Either click the proposal name or comment icon, please see: https://crowncentral.net/proposals/overview

Moreover, we are also working on a weekly newsletter, proposal history page and comment email notifications. Thank you for your continued support! :heart:

URL: https://crowncentral.net/proposals/overview

Peace

Interview with Jose from the NON central CONF in Leon, Spain this June 2019. Tom Mckerrow was also there. Since he has a lot of experience with governance coins, he wanted to know more about the Crown DAO, so this interview was recorded in which theydiscuss definitions of DAOs and contextualise  Crowns model.

https://youtu.be/gofzACx-mtE

If you want to support & have cpu gpu go prohashing.com set % crw as payment option

https://medium.com/crownplatform/moving-home-c1797a59e27f



The Crown homepage is moving from crown.tech to crownplatform.com


TL;DR
On Monday, 23 September, the Crown homepage will be relocating to a totally new address: crownplatform.com (at the time of this writing the page is not yet active). The old address will be updated with a redirect message and an automatic redirect which will last until the old domain registration expires.

What is happening?
The Crown homepage is moving to a new address.

When is this happening?
The Crown homepage will move on Monday, 23 September 2019.

Why is this happening?
The annual registration fee for crown.tech with our current domain name registrar is an exorbitant, rent-seeking USD 1700. They justify this price by saying it is a premium URL. Admittedly, it is short and snappy with possible high-value connotations. A single Crown contributor has personally paid this fee for the last 2 years. With the current depressed price they are unwilling to spend this much money again this year.
We have investigated the possibility of transferring the domain name to a different registrar. The best price we found was about EUR 588 which is more than we can afford through the infrastructure part of the superblock.
In comparison, a new bog-standard, less desirable, run-of-the-mill .tech domain name can be registered for about USD 40 per year. And we already own a perfectly good and even cheaper .com domain name.

How is this happening?
The current website is being duplicated on a new server with the new address. Once it is working the old address will be configured with a redirect to the new address.

Who is doing the work?
Unsung hero Crown contributors.

Where is this happening?
(This is really stretching Rudyard Kipling’s six honest serving men poem…)
An interweb near you.

sure why not, it does not have to be knights. On the other hand, Jedi knights are universal as well  lets see where this goes

Latest bootstrap is available here:

https://nextcloud.crown.tech/nextcloud/s/RiyWmDLckmcXS6n

It goes as high as block 2542334.

Crown has been listed as a member on the Non-Fungible Alliance


https://nonfungiblealliance.org/members/

https://medium.com/crownplatform/development-update-september-2019-683ef811c0b3



Crown Development update September 2019

Still moving forwards, not quite as smoothly as we’d like.

This month’s news is not the best but at least we’re still making news and still releasing development updates. The ongoing altcoin bear market is putting existential pressure on everything that’s not called Bitcoin. Crown is one of the few coins still under active development but the low price unfortunately means it will slow down this month. Even top 30 coins like Litecoin (CMC rank #5) and ZCash (CMC rank #28) are struggling to fund development so Crown is fortunate that some funding is still available every month from the superblock.

Juggling act
The superblock creates up to 54,000 CRW each month to be distributed according to the wishes of the community and the decentralised governance system. A year ago the development portion of the superblock was 30,000 CRW and funded 5 developers. Last month the development portion of the superblock was 40,000 CRW and it only barely funded 2 developers.
We are fortunate that Artem and Ashot have been very accommodating in reducing the fiat equivalent value of their monthly ask while continuing to work full time on Crown. They have both been working at way below the market rate for experienced software developers for several months now. Yet the development percentage of the superblock has been rising to pay for them, squeezing other activities out of consideration. Some community members have expressed concern about the level of development spending versus other activities. Infrastructure, marketing and design have all suffered. Discretionary items are all but impossible to get funded. This is damaging to the community because it disincentivises contributors from participating.

Responding to community concerns, Artem and Ashot have agreed to request only 50% of the next superblock for development funding. That’s 13,500 CRW each. At current market price that’s about $675 each, or less than 10% of what they could be earning elsewhere. Obviously this is unsustainable for them and it means they can no longer afford to work full time on Crown. They have committed to finishing their current projects, but will be seeking additional work elsewhere to make ends meet. Until they have secured that work they won’t know what percentage of their time they will be able to devote to Crown.

Unavoidably the delivery dates for our active projects are going to slip.

On the positive side, that does mean there is a larger percentage of the next superblock available for other activities than we have seen recently. With the next superblock due in only 10 more days we hope contributors will take advantage of this and get their proposals in soon. To facilitate proposal submission there is now an easy to use tool available at CrownCentral.

OK, time to get stuck in NFTs
The registration and API aspects of the NFT framework are proving to require more work than Artem originally anticipated. Add to that he is now unable to commit full time to working on Crown and the estimated release date for v0.14 (“Emerald”) has slipped. This is hugely disappointing, not least because we were looking forward to releasing the NFT framework in mainnet ahead of Crown’s 5th anniversary on 10 October 2019. His current best estimate is sometime around early November 2019. Unfortunately, given the current market conditions the delay can only be avoided if someone steps in with additional funding.

The NFT framework is currently only available in testnet. We are keeping tabs on use-cases under development in the #use-cases channel of our Discord server. If you’re interested in developing your own use-case you could jump straight in with the simple generator built by contributor Andy D (defunctec). It’s so easy to use you probably won’t even need to read the technical doc.

Codebase
Ashot has made enormous progress on the codebase update. He estimates there is about 1 month of full time work left to complete the initial merge and until he’s ready to begin testing. Given the financial constraints mentioned above that estimate will have to be revised.
As a reminder, the update involves remapping all the unique stuff that makes Crown Crown onto the Bitcoin v0.17 codebase. This will bring security, speed and stability enhancements. It will also make it easier to keep up to date with critical Bitcoin changes and ease maintenance into the future.
He has also completed the chain-walker which will be used by Flipside Crypto to update our rating on Coinmarketcap.

Trezor
We are still waiting for Trezor to release updated firmware with Crown support. When they do it will be possible to store Crown on a Trezor hardware wallet. We hope soon afterwards to fork the Dash masternode tool to support Crown and enable users to manage their masternodes and systemnodes with their hardware wallet.

They actually released a new beta test version today and announced it includes Bitcoin-specific enhancements. Some Crown contributors, willing to live at the bleeding edge, are testing to see if the update also included Crown support. We should know the answer in a day or two and will be sure to announce it if so.

Would you like to know more?
It seems there has been more project chatter on Telegram than on Discord lately. You can ask questions and make comments and suggestions on either platform (or any of the other social platforms where we have a presence).
However, Discord is the preferred platform for development related topics so please join us there if you have any questions or feedback following this update.

Crown was added to allnodes Staking & Masternodes Services

Allnodes is a platform, which provides non-custodial Staking and Masternodes services and allows you to Stake coins or host Masternode in a few clicks, monitor rewards, statuses and other useful information.
https://www.allnodes.com

https://medium.com/crownplatform/backing-the-crown-blockchain-value-by-registered-assets-via-nfts-d55df9040458

Backing the Crown blockchain value by registered assets (via NFTs)

Fiat was once backed by gold - that made sense. If crypto is to succeed, it needs to be backed by a fundamental value and not mostly by speculation aspects.

How to value crypto assets?
There are several methods how to evaluate a company. You can use a discounted cash flow model taking into consideration how much profits the company will generate in the future and discount those numbers to today's value. Most of the companies in the world - traded on stock exchanges or public firms, are evaluated in this way. You can alternatively look at the value of the company's assets - when you break it down into real estate, equipment, machinery, and compare for how much similar assets are being sold, or you can evaluate a company or a startup project based on your belief that it has developed a unique solution which one day in the future will turn into a profitable business. The last method is mostly used in the startup world. Investors believe that something revolutionary is being developed and they attach their personal value to it hoping for the riches.
But what about the crypto space? How can one tell that the value of Bitcoin and other altcoins is high or low? Bitcoin was created as a protest. Not many people know that Bitcoin was created as a reaction to the 2008 financial mess caused by the subprime crisis affecting the mortgage industry in the US due to borrowers being approved for loans they could not afford. This created a domino effect, since the world has reached a phase where everything and everybody is connected to each other. The trust in the worlds' financial system was questioned. This is when Satoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin, and its main idea for an alternative world, where people have the values they created under their control - in their computers, online or offline wallets. As the Bitcoin infrastructure strengthened, people were able to exchange it for fiat and other cryptocurrencies, store it safely via smart devices, renowned businesses started accepting it as a form of payment, its value was going up. Traders and bots caught up later looking for buying low, selling high strategies and bringing their added values to the value of Bitcoin and crypto.

But what is next for crypto values? Is the bet on a deteriorating political situation in the world and booming stock markets enough? No! It is not! Most of it, unfortunately, are speculation aspects - as we saw when crypto market cap collapsed from 800 billion to 100 billion USD during 2018.

Crypto communities are currently busy with creating ways to add real values to the blockchain, coming with hundreds of real word use-cases and offering their communities ways to interact with the blockchain. Some blockchains enable their communities to raise capital via ICOs on their chains, others offer a variety of smart contracts or anonymous transactions so people making them cannot be tracked. All of these use-cases are fostering innovation and progress to our society hoping for the world to listen and turn its eyes on this booming and exciting space.

What if the blockchain is backed by real assets registered as Non-fungible tokens (NFTs)?
The community at Crown Platform is also taking its own approach to create value for its community members, contributors and strategic partners. Since its launch in October 2014 as a Bitcoin clone, it has demonstrated that the community can make steps towards creating a progressive environment, where smart ideas are pushed forward and made into reality. One of the ideas bringing real value to the Crown blockchain (next to the decentralised governance budget system and our tailor-made MN-PoS mechanism) is without a doubt the Non-fungible tokens framework (NFT). You can read the NFT technical article drafted by the Crown Platform tech lead Artem here:
https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76

"Since the beginning of the Crown Platform evolution, we wanted to build a public blockchain solution that will enable simple and fast integration with a modern distributed ledger technology. Back in August 2017, the foundational ideas of what the platform should look like were laid down. Since then, we've been working hard to realise those ideas and transform them into a tangible form."

NFTs offer unique characteristics which make them different and digitally scarce. Take plane tickets for example - although they look the same, they contain passenger info which is unique. The same is actually true for other assets such as cars, buildings, legal contracts, patents - basically most physical and digital assets in the real world are non-fungible: and therein lies the huge opportunity for NFTs. NFTs have unique properties as one asset is not equal to another asset in the same set, as it is with the fungible tokens. Most tokens such as cryptocurrencies are fungible - they are mostly monetary and interchangeable, the same is true for money. One US dollar is the same as another one.

But back to our NFT framework, in simple words it is a registry subsystem which enables the community to register physical or digital assets on the Crown blockchain. Several Crown community contributors are currently working on use-cases such as a blockchain-enabled asset register for luxury goods, a startup intellectual property protection tool, and artists are starting to register their digital art on the Crown Platform NFT testnet.
Looking at this from a philosophical perspective, assets (with their underlying intrinsic values) are being registered (currently on testnet) on the Crown blockchain. This creates a situation where those who register them, trust that the Crown code and community will make their best effort to keep this information secure and immutable so they can use it as proof that they hold ownership of these assets.

Now imagine that the few use-cases that the community is currently building, will bring many, many more assets (with their own bigger underlying values) to the Crown chain. Can fundamental value derived from the potential trust created by registering assets as NFTs back the value of the blockchain?