Since it appears dev is still with us, I've been giving some thought about having our getting listed on a major exchange as a second tier priority and I may have moved it back up to a top tier priority and here is my thinking. By getting nutcoin listed on a major exchange, that would give us the means to make money, by that I mean to convert nutcoin into Bitcoin, because right here and now... today, we could use Bitcoin to buy things. The next step would then by to all work on getting just one income producing site up and running using nutcoin as the method of payment. We could then use that income to help us afford to work on a second site and so on. We could also then pay people in nutcoin (semi-professionals/professionals) at least something to help us get work done. Coders would top my list. In order to do this, we would need to appoint a couple trusted bookkeepers and a treasurer. The multiple bookkeepers would be used to insure that nobody is doing anything funny with the income and it would be the job of the treasurer to actually insure that payments were made where they need to go, when they need to go. All of this money keeping will need to be done in the open so that any of our group can inspect the books and this could be done by uploading the files onto a cloud based service like Dropbox or some other agreed upon site. We (securely) would have to have verified real names, addresses and phone numbers of these people to insure nobody runs off with the cash. Addresses and phone numbers can be easily verified by sending a letter and getting the same letter returned and telephone numbers can be verified with a phone call.
I would like to see people starting to come up with ideas for that single get started site. One that was suggested to me yesterday was a nutcoin E-bay type of site, where we don't actually have to put our hands on the inventory, because all that is supplied by the customers and in a case like that, almost anything could be sold on our site... that being said, we need to keep it legal, I don't have any desire to become the next Silk Road, because someone coming along and taking my money (cryptocurrencies) that we work hard to produce and putting me in prison holds zero appeal to me and it's my belief that if we want to make the vision of this coin a reality, everything needs to be top notch and above board.
We need a date and a time, very soon to appoint a Chairman of the Board and a Second in Command to start with. This could be done via IRC or some other typed chat room to start, but at some point might need to move to something more along the lines of Skype group chat where we can actually talk to one another. It's kind of hard to make sense out of 10 lines of chat all coming at you from different people at the same time. We need to make some form of secure communication a top priority, we can't be conducting our real business on an open message board or open IRC chat room, especially when it comes to exchanging each others personal information. I don't know that any of us has any experience trying to set something like this up, expect mistakes and growing pains.
I understand that a lot of this will be done in people's spare time at least at the start, but there's no reason why something like this couldn't evolve into an actual working corporation. The object here will be to both promote our coin and to make real money once we get a functioning infrastructure in place, in that order. Growth problems will have to be seen as good problems to have, but we'll have to find ways to deal with them. We will need people's commitment, if you commit to doing a job, we will need you to honor your commitment, the whole team could be depending on your piece of the puzzle, no matter how small a piece it might seem.
Goals to work on:
- Promote our coin, including voting to get us on a major exchange.
- Ideas for an initial income producing site which could fund expansion sites.
- Who to make our initial Chairman of the Board and Vice-Chairman (woman).
- Finding a means of communication for the group and setting up an initial meeting via a chat room such as IRC or other instant message service off the official thread.
- Finding a secure means of communication for the discussion of sensitive information
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P.S. I am not tied to the idea of me personally having to be the Chairman or even Vice-Chairman for the long term. My goal is to see us do something to actually make this coin roll instead of just sitting here.
Please, we need input from the group on any of these ideas or ideas that you might have too. Ideas spawn other ideas, please don't hesitate to bring them forward.
RR
I agree, getting on a major exchange should be a priority, like you said means people could use it to transfer NUT to BTC and buy real-world things.
As far as promoting the coin goes, currently in contact with a tech-y friend who's getting into mining (can introduce him to NUT now dmx is back, nutcoin.com is up again and we've got another episode on the way) and who can contribute some serious hashrate and generate more votes on allcrypt and via social media to try to pull in more votes. I've also registered with MintPal and will be getting as many votes as I can in (and using social media to try and elicit more votes)
As for secure (encrypted) communication goes what do people think of
tox.im? (more info here
https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core/blob/master/README.md)
I think maybe a good idea for an initial site to draw more people in could be something like a gaming site offering dice games, roulette, lotto etc. for NUT and possibly simple flash games with rewards in NUT. Might make some income too with which to fund future things.
Or perhaps an eBay style auction site (but obviously with regulations regarding what people could sell re: not becoming SilkRoad lol). But this may be quite a formidable undertaking. Use of getnut.org should be promoted in the mean time as well. As should communication between the OC.net thread and here so as not to divide the community and promote cohesion.
Again these are all just ideas to help the ball roll and any feedback/criticism/more ideas are good and beneficial.
On a personal side-note I should be getting a (proper) dedicated mining rig (instead of my laptops) in the next few weeks, so I'll be able to put much more hash in myself. Also looking into the new nvidia GTX 750ti as it's much lower watt/hash using CUDAminer v AMD cards (and much cheaper to buy). NUT being on a proper exchange (with the value correlated to NutLaw) would also mean I could upgrade my mining hardware using NUTs, which would be awesome.
I want to see this coin to be a success and will aid in any way I can.
