Personally I'm a little uncertain if it fits the criteria or not. My concerns are:
1. Proven development team. Not sure we can conclude a development team is proven after less than six months.
2. Obvious use case. Any coin can be used for charity, and several have it as their main focus. I don't believe that a coin who's only use case is charity has much chance of wide spread adoption, and thus also will fail as a charity coin. Maybe togoshigekata can elaborate on this?
Despite my above concerns, I believe it warrants a discussion about adding them to the list or not. Arguments have been made for all five criteria, and unless they are met by counter arguments, the coin should make it to the list.
6 months is to young to be added to the list.If this coin will be added there can be added dozens of coins and that wouldnt be the sense of the thread i think.
The sense is to make a list with the best coins.Real longterm projects,fair,with a real usecase.Not any coins that is a little better then the rest.There are to many out there..
I also think they should not be added, but they made arguments for all 5 criteria so it's fair to discuss it before dismissing them I think.
I don't believe we can have any criteria for how old the coin should be to be accepted. Some coins go through a lot of development before they launch. But in this case I think they are to young to deserve the label proven. I base this on the age of the coin + one more argument that I did not make above; One of the arguments this is a proven team, was that the lead dev has 20 yours of coding experience. That is a good starting point of course, but does not make him a proven blockchain dev. We have several code monkeys in BitBay with a life long coding experience. They are very talented, but there is still a lot they don't know about blockchain. The reason that is not a problem in BitBay is that they have David to go to for guidance and code review. I don't see any experienced blockchain devs listed in the argument for BBP being proven team.
Thank you for the responses!
The Lead Developer has so far remained anonymous, but has claimed he has past experience working on another successful cryptocurrency.
If he does ever reveal himself or his past work, I will post back.
Here are details about the team he is building for BiblePay:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/75hozh/slack_team/Here is lead dev talking about integrating with Stratis:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7i9pfp/stratis_fork/===
Use Case wise, there are definitely other charity coins:
Bunnycoin:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bunnycoin/Donationcoin:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/donationcoin/Cleanwatercoin:
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/cleanwatercoin/Wishcoin:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/annico-wishcoin-changing-the-face-of-cryptocurrency-2250891 (ICO starts Feb 20th 2018)
Dogecoin: has a charity foundation and has donated to provide clean water:
http://foundation.dogecoin.com/Solarcoin: has some coins in reserve to go to environmental charities
There are also websites you can visit and leave open to mine Monero to go to Charity
https://www.charitymine.org/https://donateyourtab.to/https://mineforcharity.com/If you guys know about or find any more charity coins, please let me know!
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Also BiblePay has goal to spread Christianity and has budget allocated for Pay to Preach/Priest,
as well as in-wallet prayers, and rewards for listening/reading/watching Gospel links.
And lead dev has more ideas to spread Christianity:
https://www.reddit.com/r/BiblePay/comments/7du3kg/spreading_the_gospel_knowing_jesus/There are some other Christian coins:
JesusCoin - is a joke coin
ChristCoins - Pre-mined ICO, will reward for reading the Bible on their website which is really cool
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Thank you for reading and giving feedback! I will post back if lead developer unmasks himself. Thanks!
Since last we talked, We now have integrated BiblePay with Cancer and Science Research.
We reward 38% of coins to support Rosetta@home and World Community Grid, solving cancer and diseases using CPU cycles.
We have also pre-paid in advance a few months (2-6 months) payments for all 203 of our current monthly sponsored orphans from the 10% Charity Budget and have partnered with and funded 2 more charities (Be Love Orphan Outreach Missions and CameroonONE)