The Official Text from the latest newsletter of The Electronic Gulden FoundationPREAMBLEAs the newly established Electronic Gulden Foundation, we are pleased to offer you our very first newsletter. It has been sent to your e-mail address as you indicated at the time you registered at our predecessors’ website egulden.com that you wanted to be kept informed about e-Gulden developments or that you requested your gratis e-Gulden allotment. The community asked the board of the Foundation to regularly publish a newsletter and we will gladly do so.
However, the e-Gulden is a crypto coin for the Dutch people to be mainly used in the Netherlands. As such the board of the Foundation has chosen to publish all its communications (forum, website, newsletters and e-mails) in the Dutch language. This means that this newsletter, in English, is a one-time event. We will reconsider our position only if continuation of English language communications is (overwhelmingly) demanded by the e-Gulden community.
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MESSAGE FROM THE FOUNDATIONThe Foundation was established on July 3rd, 2014 as this was the only way to rescue the e-Gulden from perdition. The original founders of the e-Gulden unfortunately did not operate with integrity and honesty, which we, as board of the Foundation, deplore greatly. After the coin was introduced, with great fanfare, in the Dutch national media, who incidentally covered the founders’ “great news show” without criticism or without doing some basic fact-finding, things came to light that showed that “facts” stated by the founders were nothing but hot air.
We do not wish to speculate or conjure whether they deliberately acted in dubious ways but we want to concentrate our efforts on those issues and developments that will propel the EFL, rather than dwell in the past. Fortunately, the technical protocol of the e-Gulden has proven to be robust and reliable and we are convinced that, together with the community, we can turn the e-Gulden into a sound succes.
The board is therefore pleased to let you know that it will honour all gratis e-Gulden requests that were ordered through the original website (e-gulden.com) and that we will transfer 22,0371 EFL to the wallets registered there, irrespective of whether these requests qualified for the then valid conditions or not.
By doing this we hope to show that we are different/better than the original developers/Advertouch v.o.f. We cannot and will not bear responsibility for false promises done by the original developers/Advertouch in the past. As far as we are concerned the chapter original developers/Advertouch is now firmly closed. It’s time to move forward.
As the saying goes “trust comes on foot, but leaves on horseback” we are well aware of the damage caused by our predecessors. Our hope is that by operating completely transparent and by developing a sound vision, in collaboration with enthusiasts in- and outside of the community, we can regain the broader community’s trust in the e-Gulden.
A tremendous amount of effort is being put into the further development of our coin. As a first step we’ve launched our new website, today, at
http://e-gulden.org. We have also released new versions of the e-Gulden wallets. You can download these on the new site.
Since the introduction of the e-Gulden, its market value dropped to a price-point that by now one EFL represents about 10% of the cost (in terms of hardware investment and energy expended) to mine one new e-Gulden. At these price levels people, with less developed technical know-how, can enter the market and obtain a neat amount of e-Guldens, mainly by trading on exchanges, at a small-sum investment.
Our penultimate goal is to enable as many Dutch people as possible to make the move towards cryptocurrency. Our commitment to you is thus a simple one: we’ll do what we promise but we won’t make promises we cannot uphold.
We’d love to see you at our new forum:
http://forum.egulden.org Volunteers and new companies accepting e-Gulden are (very) welcome, too!