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October 29, 2014, 09:58:08 PM
#64
Well, I think I've gotten all the important notes up.  I suppose I can add more, if I think of anything else, but this should now be adequate, and complete my responsibilities for The 2014 1st Annual Blue Crypto Awards.

THANK YOU!!!
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October 29, 2014, 09:49:29 PM
#63
Additionally, we also made a few extra goals:

11.  Project was managed 100% anonymously.

12.  Project did raise public awareness of Unobtanium, and possibly contributed somewhat to a rising valuation.

13.  Project resulted in the Unobtanium community contributing to a real charity - cleaning up our oceans!!!
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October 29, 2014, 09:46:10 PM
#62
Project goals reference post:  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8696436

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Here are some unique characteristics that make the project novel:

1.  1st significant use of a crypto blockchain for a public vote!
2.  1st crypto-funded award presentation based on public voting on a blockchain
3.  A Full Disclosure project
4.  1st 'annual' crypto award
5.  1st project to establish community-sponsored buy support, however token (see #8 on project website)
6.  1st crypto project to be fully insured - (more details T.B.A.!!!...)
7.  Another crypto project which supports innovation and the evolution of Humanity
8.  1st project to protect it's corresponding crypto's price valuation at award time, however token
9.  1st project capable of fully financing it's 2nd year from the 1st year's revenue, alone, by design
10.  (Isn't there a 10?) Smiley

How did we do?

1.  Yes!

2.  Yes!

3.  Yes!

4.  Yes!

5.  No.  With my personally paying over twice the amount of the 'Award to keep the project going successfully, and having our 'convenient' project account on Mintpal, the 1st of proposed project exchange accounts to make goal #5 possible, destroyed by their criminal actions, AND ALSO GREAT UNO PRICE VALUATIONS BY THE TIME OF THE BIRTHDAY ON THE 18TH, this goal was unmet, greatly inconvenient, significantly underfunded (we never really got the donations to make this possible), and largely unnecessary.  Part of my unstated intended management was to use the funds in the Mintpal account to convert to BTC's for the token community-sponsored buy support, but when the high of over 0.01 UNO/BTC was reached, the Mintpal funds were frozen in Mintpal's self-created criminal debacle.  (The 'Award would then have come from the cold storage addresses, but these have never exceeded 74.6 UNO, which is less than the 100 UNO 'Award.)

6.  Partial?  This is a 100% Yes, but really I only officially insured the 100 UNO 'Award, by sending an extra 100 UNO of my own private funds to FallingKnife for this purpose.  I never officially insured the 21.+ profit that was on Mintpal, although just today, I've sent an equivalent to the donation address to complete the 100% insured goal.

7. Yes!

8.  No - See reply for #5.

9.  Partial.  This could be, hypothetically, 100% Yes, should the value of Unobtanium increase by October of next year sufficiently to make a budget of 74.6 UNO adequate for the whole project.  Otherwise, we just didn't generate enough donations this year.

10.  Smiley
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October 29, 2014, 09:15:44 PM
#61
During the project, our group did look into the possiblity of paying for advertising, and I made 20 UNO tentatively available from the udonaTe address, but this amount wasn't sufficient for anything available at the time, so it wasn't used.

Additionally, I floated the idea of making 10 UNO available to select public cryptocurrency personalities, should they 'present' our award to the winner.  This also never happened, since despite multiple people trying, we were unable to get a direct response from Boyan Slat, the winner.  Of course we did contact his most admirable charity, "The Ocean Cleanup", and eventually made a donation to them under their terms.*

Regardless, those of us who contributed to the project prided ourselves in completing this project with 100% volunteers!  This has truly been an Unobtanium community project, and again, I thank everyone who made it possible!

*The Ocean Cleanup only accepted fiat, unfortunately.  We were all really disappointed about this, but I was determined to make a real 'Award happen this year, and especially since the 100 UNO was from my own donation, IMZ-Mark was able to accept the 100 UNO and convert it to fiat to make the donation.  Proof of the donation was provided in the BCT main Unobtanium thread, the bank details of the donation payment.  I also made it clear to Mark that the inevitable 'friction' of that conversion and payment was totally acceptable from the 'Award fund under the circumstances.  Despite all of this, THE UNOBTANIUM COMMUNITY MADE A GENEROUS DONATION TO THE WINNER'S CHARITY!!! Yay!  We did it!
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October 29, 2014, 09:03:35 PM
#60
Well, I'd like to wrap up this year's project by sharing any notes I may still have.  Just details for posterity.  I'll add new posts when I think of anything else.

One of the goals of the project was to run everything with 'full disclosure', really a reference to finances.  Basically, we've done just that, with notes on this BCT thread, on the project website, and some scattered on the main BCT Unobtanium thread.

To close out this year's project, here's what's still left from our finances:

udonaTeAguxJ4RXs4F7ohPRbCRTrGdiSZU - 72.0 UNO.

...And also the funds in the voting addresses:  (2.6 UNO total)

0.3 UNO  Vote1:   uVoTe1KyLjiXqrVcKoESNLZjfJRHr6XXJ4
0.2 UNO  Vote2:   uVote2Qd1HQAW9VygXWW97wDdcGUWpnbtU
0.3 UNO  Vote3:   uVote3Z4eToCGeELiocGRdm898iRLvydsH
0.3 UNO  Vote4:   uVoTe4V1AhosXRjn2XcqYLLTSiAj9M1REa
0.5 UNO  Vote5:   uVoTE5LyLrGcR5qL27czH4bV64V3YWYLNL
0.4 UNO  Vote6:   uVoTe6bXN6rn3r5B8M7HGoQ6g3xW5j3WuK
0.1 UNO  Vote7:   uVote7H6WphX1XjGBH64ruXia8rrq9EAdG
0.1 UNO  Vote8:   uVoTe87oocKd8pWgiew2tXRAooSm5ia3sB
0.1 UNO  Vote9:   uVoTe9HKckfcCYBnMGyAWRLcKkLdxAdJjj
0.3 UNO  Vote10:   uVotE1N5ocxFmLfL5LCQHSYAAjc42Zqc6N

That's it!  Simple.

This udonTe address is the original UNO donations address for the project, and anyone can see all donations are still in there, untouched.  These funds should be made available according to our stated plan, which (I think is) September 1st, 2015, for the 2nd Annual Blue Crypto Awards to be completed by 18 October, 2015, next year.

Just now, I've sent 22 UNO to the udonaTe address from my own funds, as insurance for the 21.+ UNO that are apparently lost from the Mintpal account, so, now that the 100 UNO 2014 'Award has been paid for with the 100 UNO Insurance that was held by FallingKnife, also from my own private funds, this means that I completely self-insured the 121.+change AND NO public Blue Crypto Award funds were theoretically lost.  (Although I'm out 222.5 UNO of my own private funds on this project, plus additional donations that I've made to support the UNO network's websites and developers during the period, and this includes the 121.+ UNO lost, (and so reimbursed with my own private funds 'insurance',) when the project's funds were never allowed to be withdrawn from the now defunct Mintpal.)

The remaining 74.6 UNO for next year's project is safely held in cold storage.

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None of the other alternative cryptocurrency addresses, (basically all the other cryptos listed in the opening post of this thread, including BTC,) ever received donations.  I have not checked them recently, but these were all set up on Mintpal for convenience, and even at my last attempts to recover funds from there, no other cryptos ever registered a balance.  When Mintpal was still working, none of these other addresses had a balance, i.e. no donations.

It is particularly interesting to note that, despite V500 reaching out to the DOGEcoin community, and our making voting using the single DOGE donation address available to them, with a method different than the voting using UNO, not a single DOGE vote was cast.  ...So I can still claim the vote was done on one single blockchain!

I'm actually glad about this, however, as my personal opinion would have it that the vote should be entirely on a single blockchain, that being Unobtanium's 'rockchain'.  The inclusion of DOGE was made, since the Unobtanium Community was beginning to request we expand to reaching out to them, and I've always wanted this project to be an expression of the community, not myself.  Our failure to generate DOGE votes may have been attributed to an unusual spike in the value of DOGE at that time.
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October 29, 2014, 03:55:51 PM
#59
Congratulations
tip of hat to Benefactor and Mark

[reserved for feed back from Boyan Slat's "The Ocean Cleanup" charity]

http://www.boyanslat.com/
https://twitter.com/BoyanSlat

Let's get hired to be the official crypto of theoceancleanup.com
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/join-our-team.html  
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/blog/show/item/announcing-gyre-expeditions-2015-booking-now-open-kopie-1.html

Sounds great!
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October 28, 2014, 07:56:05 PM
#58
Congratulations
tip of hat to Benefactor and Mark

[reserved for feed back from Boyan Slat's "The Ocean Cleanup" charity]

http://www.boyanslat.com/
https://twitter.com/BoyanSlat

Let's get hired to be the official crypto of theoceancleanup.com
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/join-our-team.html  
http://www.theoceancleanup.com/blog/show/item/announcing-gyre-expeditions-2015-booking-now-open-kopie-1.html
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October 28, 2014, 06:45:56 PM
#57
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The 2014 Blue Crypto Award



We've paid it!!!!!

I'm so stoked!

The Unobtanium Community has now made a HUGE donation to a really awesome, worthy cause, Boyan Slat's own "The Ocean Cleanup" charity!!!  I'm happy to announce that The 2014 Blue Crypto Award has now been paid!!!

Congratulations to our community for a GREAT year, and here's to the next!

I'd like to extend a warm thank you to our IMZ-Mark for making this payment possible!

Again, to everyone who participated in this year's 'Award, thank you so much!  I look forward to a bigger 'Award project next year, with multiple Awards to be given out, and the continued success of our Unobtanium cryptocurrency and our growing community!!!
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October 28, 2014, 04:40:09 PM
#56
Rumor has it that The 2014 Blue Crypto Award has been paid out to Boyan Slat's organization!  Proof forthcoming, hopefully once Australia wakes up in the morning....

 Cheesy
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October 22, 2014, 08:06:50 PM
#55
I just want to post an update on our processing a donation to Boyan Slat's organization to complete the transfer of this year's 'Award.

Our community member, IMZ, has the 100 UNO Blue Crypto Award funds, and continues to go through the hoops to pay them in fiat, as they've requested.  ETA:  I don't have a time, but I would think we can report the donation is complete by next week.  I will update, of course, when it's done.

I do intend on sharing all of my notes on this project, and I thought I'd do it this week, but I prefer to wait until the donation is complete, now.
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October 18, 2014, 10:33:15 AM
#54
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The 2014 1st Annual Blue Crypto Award



The winner of the 1st ever Blue Crypto Award is Boyan Slat for his active work on real solutions to cleaning up the world's oceans.

Mr. Slat, the Unobtanium Community salutes you!  Thank you for your invention, innovation, and service to Humanity!!!


IMZ-Mark has accepted the honor of converting the 100-UNO Award to fiat to donate to Boyan's charity organization, and will provide us with supporting proof of the transfer.

This coming week, I will offer details to review this year's 'Award, and to leave a guide for next's year's award.  This will all be found in this BCT thread.

A hearty THANK YOU goes out to the members of the Unobtanium Community who banded together and contributed to this year's humble Blue Crypto Award and made it possible!!!


IMZ
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October 13, 2014, 07:37:29 PM
#53
I meant to drop in here more often. I am we are all so busy.

And -- completely unrelated -- there's a text I found that I think you'd savour. Ask me.

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October 09, 2014, 11:05:13 AM
#52
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*** VOTING HAS ENDED ***


Voting has ended early, on October 9th, instead of the listed October 16th, as there hasn't been any new votes for 9 days, and this will allow much more time to contact the winning nominee and put together an award presentation for UNO's birthday on the 18th.

Strikethrough has been added to voting addresses, as they should no longer be used, since voting has ended.  Anyone can still use the voting addresses on an UNO explorer to see the votes for themselves!


Stay tuned for the announcement of the winning nominee on UNO's birthday, Saturday, October 18th (PDT)!!!


A hearty THANK YOU to all who have participated by voting!!!
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October 08, 2014, 12:21:54 PM
#51
Weekly vote tally:  There haven't been any new votes.  Each is the same as in the last post.
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September 30, 2014, 01:57:14 PM
#50
The Blue Crypto Award


Here is the current vote tally:


3 Votes - Chuck Hill, 3-D Printer Inventor
UNO voting address:  uVoTe1KyLjiXqrVcKoESNLZjfJRHr6XXJ4

2 Votes - Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Innovator
UNO voting address:  uVote2Qd1HQAW9VygXWW97wDdcGUWpnbtU

3 Votes - Bayer & McIntyre, Mushroom Packaging Invention Team
UNO voting address:  uVote3Z4eToCGeELiocGRdm898iRLvydsH

3 Votes - Hal Finney, Cryptocurrency Pioneer
UNO voting address:   uVoTe4V1AhosXRjn2XcqYLLTSiAj9M1REa  

5 Votes - Boyan Slat, Ocean Cleanup Array Inventor
UNO voting address:   uVoTE5LyLrGcR5qL27czH4bV64V3YWYLNL  

4 Votes - Javier Fernandez-Han, Algae Energy System Inventor
UNO voting address:   uVoTe6bXN6rn3r5B8M7HGoQ6g3xW5j3WuK  

1 Vote - Curro & Wang, Rapid Packing Invention Team
UNO voting address:   uVote7H6WphX1XjGBH64ruXia8rrq9EAdG  

1 Vote - Darrel Hurt, 3D Print Exchange Developer
UNO voting address:   uVoTe87oocKd8pWgiew2tXRAooSm5ia3sB  

1 Vote - Quin Etnyre, Arduino Kits Innovator
UNO voting address:   uVoTe9HKckfcCYBnMGyAWRLcKkLdxAdJjj  

3 Votes - Krystal Persaud, Circuit Kit Inventor
UNO voting address:   uVotE1N5ocxFmLfL5LCQHSYAAjc42Zqc6N

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Just a reminder:  Additional nominee recommendation review closes on
Saturday, so if you know of a great nominee please suggest them on this thread before then (link).
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September 25, 2014, 11:24:52 PM
#49
Okay, IndiaMikeZulu has voted. I voted for Slat -- the clean-up array. Ian voted for the inventor of the 3-D printer.

Mark
Awesome!  Thank you and congratulations!

I hope everyone realizes that they can vote for more than one nominee.  I voted for 5 nominees!   Cheesy
IMZ
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September 25, 2014, 06:40:37 PM
#48
Okay, IndiaMikeZulu has voted. I voted for Slat -- the clean-up array. Ian voted for the inventor of the 3-D printer.

Mark
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September 24, 2014, 07:22:42 PM
#47
What is uno?  Never heard.. Is it like the card game?  Lol Wink

not the cardgame, the united nations ... lol

no, seriously. It's 'unobtanium' - dreammaterial very hard to obtain in large quantities. Wink
lovin' it.
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September 24, 2014, 07:16:50 PM
#46
posted in doge reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/2hdqty/unobtaniumcommunity_greets_dogecoincommunity_with/

please upvote. No idea why it doesn't show up on the frontpage currently. Maybe admin needs to enable. Anyway, upvote, upvote, upvote Wink

here in the ann:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.8960829

suggesting to expand next years award to even more coin-communities. Uno can invite the whole altcoin-sphere to this event. It'll be much greater. Good work Benefactor.
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September 24, 2014, 04:34:38 PM
#45
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The 2014 Blue Crypto Award


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT


We are now adding DOGE voting!


Here is how to vote for The Blue Crypto Award nominees with Dogecoin:


To count as a vote, send 400 DOGE to The Blue Crypto Award Donation address, with the number of the nominee in the very last digit(s).

For example, to vote for Chuck Hill, you would send 400.00000001 DOGE to:

DOGE: DFuNRtFtnyUNJYt35C35qihshTn1vM7xao

(including any network fee)


Here is the full list:


1   for Chuck Hill, 3-D Printer Inventor, vote with a "1" at the end

2   for Geoff Lawton, Permaculture Innovator, vote with a "2" at the end

3   for Bayer & McIntyre, Mushroom Packaging Invention Team, vote with a "3"

4   Hal Finney, Cryptocurrency Pioneer

5   Boyan Slat, Ocean Cleanup Array Inventor

6   Javier Fernandez-Han, Algae Energy System Inventor

7   Curro & Wang, Rapid Packing Invention Team

8   Darrel Hurt, 3D Print Exchange Developer

9   Quin Etnyre, Arduino Kits Innovator

10  Krystal Persaud, Circuit Kit Inventor


New nominee recommendations are very welcome on the BCT thread, and will be considered for addition up until October 4th.  

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Here is a link to the nominee post, and here is a link to the Website.
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