I should have asked for this sooner, but I need the help of the CasinoCoin community to help push CasinoCoin forward. In the last few months, I suffered through some personal health setbacks that have put my priorities into place, and as a result, I neglected CasinoCoin. In this business, confidence is critical, and my hiatus has eroded the confidence of something that I've built and believe in.
Since the beginning of CasinoCoin, it always has been a one-man show behind the operations, from development to marketing (and even graphics design!), I was the one responsible for all aspects. While that may have been a bit of an ego boost, there's a downside to it of which we have experienced during my hiatus from CasinoCoin. Even though we are dealing with a decentralized currency, it's critical to have the full support of an active developer, and CasinoCoin has suffered in the last few months because of my neglect.
I can't excuse the lack of communication during my hiatus, and I understand why some of you have lost trust in CasinoCoin, and especially trust in myself. One thing that has become fairly clear through this ordeal is that CasinoCoin can no longer be run as a one-man operation. Even though a one-man operation is efficient, it also means there is a single point of failure. For the long term benefit of the currency, we need a team to drive CasinoCoin. I hereby am asking for the help of the CasinoCoin community to take on roles such as developer, marketing, community liason, etc. One of the critical pieces is the GitHub repository containing the CasinoCoin source code. I will be opening this up to contributors so that developers can contribute to the CasinoCoin project without me being the single point of failure.
For those of you that are curious, I still have the same amount of CSC as I did prior to the hiatus (or even a little bit more since my mining rigs had continue to run for awhile). CasinoCoin was never meant to be a pump and dump scheme. In fact, with this new mindset of opening up CasinoCoin in order to spread out responsibility and lower risk due to a single point of failure, I'm willing to give up a stake in the amount of CasinoCoins that I mined fairly during the launch of CasinoCoin to those who would like to join and contribute.
For those of you that are considering the idea of poaching the CasinoCoin name, I'd suggest that you not do so. It will only cause confusion in the marketplace that does not benefit anyone but you. If you are going to go down this route, then consider an entirely new name instead. Else, I hope that you strongly consider joining the CasinoCoin team and help contribute to the longevity of this coin from the ground floor -- you haven't missed the boat yet. Your addition to the team will only help strengthen CasinoCoin and confidence in it.
I'd like to hear your thoughts, both positive and negative. It's time for me to get back to work.
Hello,
Sorry to hear you've been under the weather! I hope your health issues are on the upswing.
My project partner just happened across your post and it sparked a lot of interest. He just brought it up to me and I think we may be able to help out some. He just made an account and is waiting on the 4 hour anti-troll time to pass so I'm posting on behalf of the both of us.
A bit of info about us. The two of us have been tinkering on projects for a few years now. I work mostly in the field of web marketing / search engine optimization / monetization in web development. I'm not an expert, but I've had an extremely strong focus on this specifically for about a year now. My hope is to transition into working full time with these self-taught skills, and I'm pretty confident I'll get there. Virtual currency is a huge interest of mine, I actually bought in at around $10/btc and sold out at around $20/btc thinking I made a killing.. I have high hopes for casinocoin and would love to help it grow. (Also on a side-note I agree with the post a bit above me in that multiple gambling related coins in a pretty bad idea, it would be good to have CSC grow to be dominant asap.) My project partner is a developer who has been coding pretty much since he learned how to use a computer. He's spent extensive amounts of time working with minecraft servers, custom web consoles to support back end platforms, and a lot more that he could explain a lot better than I. Our skill sets combine to make a pretty good team, and we frequently work together on projects as a result.
He just sent me the following to add.
"I'm willing to provide my services as a developer to ensure the integrity and survival of the coin. I'm also willing to setup a proper, fair, and functioning pool so that people can have a place to mine without having to worry about it dropping off the face of the earth at any point in the future.
Sometime from now (next few months), I'd be willing to setup a small gambling site that use Casino Coin, if no one else picks it up."