y'all zombies now or did you suddenly grow a life ?
"MRY2daMoon" !
Sorry DoOm - digging your vanity address by the way!
Sorry it's so quiet in here - we definitely have a quiet community (and the distribution of wealth is also growing more and more disproportionate.) What we need is some official news to attract more people and we will be pushing hard for something next week.
Right now, I'm dealing with the Takeicoin fallout as many people are concerned Murraycoin will have the same fate. Just to be clear, we are not associated in any way with the Takeicoin project. Despite the similarities between the themes, mission statements, and launch dates, one has nothing to do with the other. Instead of discussing what the Takeicoin team did or didn't do to result in where they are now at, it's important to remember that George Takei and Bill Murray are two entirely different people with different goals and different viewpoints.
One of the primary reasons we chose Bill Murray for our coin (2nd only to the fact that Bill Murray is an absolute badass) is that he has his own foundation to help him research and manage fundraising opportunities. Also, Bill Murray is known for thinking outside the box and going to the end of earth to raise money for the causes he believes in. We were in contact with the director of the Murray Bros. Foundation before Murraycoin even launched and offered to go back to the drawing board and rebrand Murraycoin - they were not interested in rebranding Murraycoin and Bill Murray is not going to be blindsided the same way George Takei was.
We had no guarantee from the start that Bill Murray would endorse Murraycoin and we still cannot guarantee that. However, as I seem to be repeating ad nauseum, everything is moving forward and thus far everything has been positive. They need time to finalize their research and determine if Murraycoin is a good fit for Bill to endorse...but this decision likely won't be made until after the golf tournament at the end of the month and the survival of Murraycoin does not depend on this decision. The decision has nothing to do with the golf tournament and likely isn't going to be made at the golf tournament - that just happens to be when Bill's schedule and the foundation's schedule clears up a bit. Again, I am hoping for some official information sooner than that to put everybody invested in this thing at ease while also attracting some fresh faces to Murraycoin.
I just wanted you guys to know that the rug isn't going to get pulled out from under us like it was with Takeicoin. The comparison between the two coins is simply unfair - our development team and our community remain dedicated to the success of this project, we remain in contact with the foundation, and everything is progressing despite a few bumps in the road behind us. I strongly believe that Murraycoin will come out of all of this as the world's first successful celebrity coin. Once that happens, walls will start to come down and the public perception of cryptocurrency will begin to shift toward a more positive light. Cryptocurrency
is ultimately a good thing and it
is realistically the future of currency regardless of which form it may end up in. Like with everything new, there will always be people trying to take advantage of other people and the crypto world is no different - it doesn't mean it isn't one of the most significant creations in modern history that will change the future for the better. It's time to inject some positive energy into the stale, often depressing world of cryptocurrency - who better to do that than Bill Murray, his brothers, and their charitable foundation?