Topic: [ANN][RPCD] Rand Paul Coin (Deflationary) (Read 49525 times)

My apologies for letting everyone down. Originally I was waiting to clone Bitshares 1.0 to make the process as clean as possible and deliver a coin that is stable.  BitShares 1.0 was never released and went straight to 2.0. 2.0 originally had a license that would not let me fork it without entering into an agreement with Dan Larimer aka Bytemaster. (The lead dev and founder of BitShares)

I had no interest in doing that and had expected to be able to freely fork the coin which had been the core value proposition in the original marketing of BitShares. Apparently he took his community's money and delivered a product, just not open source.

My understanding is he then changed the source code license to MIT. By that point I had moved on and currently no longer have the bandwidth anymore to go forward with this project.

My intention was 100% sincere and a lot of time was spent on art in preparation for Dan Larimer to come through with what he said. By the time he finally did, I had to move on to other projects by that time.

Again, apologize to everyone who bought RPC in hopes of getting a stake. It is very possible but unlikely that I will release this at some point in the future. If it happens, the snapshots of RPC will get their stake in the sharedrop.

Being frank though, I do not see this as likely. I have put a freeze on new projects and this one has been moved to the bottom of my list. I really really do not like screwing people over, but things just never materialized that were not under my control.

I have emailed RPCDev's email on a few occasions because I cover a lot of the BitShares-related events and want to also cover BitShares-powered stuff in the future.  Not only that, but I think Rand Paul is the best candidate available. 

I have to be honest though and say I cannot be certain if I will receive a response.  I will definitely let people know if this changes because I think it would be huge for crypto AND Rand. 

well i guess bush or obama or hillary have more power that RPC i did herd of him abou 1 year ago even a coin in its name was made now he is less polular soo i guess no presidency for him lol.

Any news or updates for RPC?

Hello - Is there any news on this coin? Seems like a great time for this coin to make a move, if anyone is still working on it. It's been so long that it makes me doubt it, but thought I'd ask.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/07/technology/rand-paul-bitcoin/index.html

Rand Paul first candidate to accept Bitcoin, I also know someone that has a connection to him and they were interested in what I knew about this. If this is not a scam this could be big. No dev showing up for a long time though, looking grim.

rand paul is pushing a bill to end the feds ability to control the states own marijuana laws, thats why he is big right now.

There was a snapshot in the past for this upcoming BTS clone, now we are just waiting to see what the story was. (I bought a lot of RPC as the people that recommended this from the BTS community implied it was legit, but sold after the snapshop, and of course, the crash) -- Now I am not sure?

RPC itself is an old scrypt coin, could get popular again, hard to say.

Sorry for my ignorance... I haven't checked ROC threads in 6-7 months... What's going on with rpc? I hold quite a few and don't want to loose or burn them? What's up?

I would run a delegate if I could do it in Windows.

I want to run a Delegate as well. 

Glad people are still following the progress.

Glad you are still working on it

Well it hasn't been launched so it will be a Ron Paul currency. Rand Paul is too center Republican for my preferences and if he doesn't make President then the name is bad. Ron Paul is an exceptionally principled person. Rarely in history does such a principled man make it so far even if he was still cut down by the established "conservative" party.

So we are going with RonPaulMoney but I am not starting a new thread until I have a live chain ready to release or at least a testnet.

RonPaulMoney will allow crypto-currencies of the dollar pegged to silver and gold. It has many excellent features but for a coin to be pegged to anything, a free market value has to be established for price discovery. So I will like create an quasi-automated gateway where people can trade their RPMs on a decentralized market. From here we bootstrap and then get buyin from other exchanges.  Possibly make another exchange for NXT. It isn't ideal but since I'm head benevolent dictator at this point in the code for a coin that has 0 value, I'm going to take on centralized trust early on. Yes, this is not ideal. THe other option is legitimate cross-chain trading which is too pie in the sky.

Regardless BitShares still has too many problems at the moment in addition to the fact that they're revamping to GUI. That is a good thing but for a guy like me who is basically rereleasing their code with some hopefully relatively simple and sustainable changes it is not so greaet. I was considering releasing .5 as a live chain but it will likely be .6 or later.  There isn't any reason to have people learn an old antiquated UI experience and then have it ripped out from under them.  So I'll implementing the features etc for now then put up a testnet for people to try.

So yea, there are going to be delays.  No pump and dump action here if that is your game.

How is this still a thing?

Rand Paul would never get on the crypto bandwagon unless the Obama Administration decided to make it illegal.

And that is not going to happen.

I'll run a delegate for you as well. 

I am running the Beyond Bitcoin Hangouts for the DPOS community so I am interested in getting any Liberty-Loving individuals who are interested in teaching people the history and merits of the Constitution in a hangout (perhaps once-monthly/bi-weekly) I would love to host and coordinate them.  Please contact fuzzy on www.bitsharestalk.org if interested or if you know someone who is.  I would gladly push for him/her to get a delegate using this platform. 

Yessir and thank you for your support!

I'm really going to try to push to have delegates run these things out of their home. It is doable with our block times which do not push the capabilities of DPOS. If our traffic scales up enough then we can look to moving to VPS's for those who can't keep up.

I think we are changing that to 25 seconds.  The problem is that I want this chain to be easy to synch.  10 second block times gives you a huge database.  20 seconds makes it half the size and 25 seconds makes it 40% as big.

Yes, there will be a constant deflation. Block-signers are only paid in transaction fees with a small amount destroy to insure that the supply is being slowly deflated. If there are enough transaction fees we could channel that to another RPM address which is one of the things we may add to the codebase.

The first one will be offline claiming without having to reveal one's private keys. Then we're going to add features to the money system. Gold backed dollars, etc or best I think we can do with crypto.

randpaulcoin,  Just to make sure you got me down as a delegate.  I have the ability to spin up vms in windows or linux.