Quote from: mafort1469 on February 19, 2015, 01:12:15 AM

I am glad to be a part of this community and am very thankful that you have taken charge. I really cannot wait until this is over (the burn) and everyone is back in the game so to speak. I commend you all for you efforts in getting this done!!!

No prob mafort. I'm glad you stuck around. We have a good community here even if it's rather small. I think that as long as everyone pitches in we will have some traction kind of like when Octocoin first took off last year. I know that the devs plans, logo and such attracted some attention but we were the ones out there creating the buzz and honestly driving up the price. We believed in something and were glad to be a part of it.

I'll be honest, I was doing a Counterparty token regardless. I just thought that it's a good thing to bring your friends in the community along, specially after the way Octocoin ended up. It's both a pride thing and a good strategy. I mean we all deserve to have some kind of return and our original expectations to be met. It's also a lot easier to have you guys around for support and to have a community in place than it would be to start from square one trying to gain interest.

I don't want to minimize the importance you guys play by saying it's strategic so don't take it the wrong way. Just pointing out that it's a great strategic move and fair at the same time to give you guys a chance to be part of what we originally wanted.

Thanks for the support and for pitching in. Thanks for sticking around even when you don't agree with every move I make. It's hard to please everyone when you have a large group of people and there may even be moves we make that I don't necessarily like. But I have done quite a bit of research, talked to quite a bit of people and want to make the right moves and find a balance to keep the community happy.

I'll say this, feel free to call us out on whatever you don't agree with. I promise, even if we don't agree I'll try to explain reasons behind some of the decisions. And I also think you guys will love that Counterparty has voting. We can pretty much set up and vote on hot button issues. That will take a little more research and you do have to understand that there may be some things that people just have to bite the bullet on.

I'm sure opinions vary on many things such as burn ratio, number of coins, applications and projects (which by the way, nobody will stop anyone from making any app or project around the new OCTO. it's open source and anyone around has the power to take the code and build whatever you like and promote whatever you like to accept OCTO.) But the good thing is this will be a community ran coin and transparent as possible, at least with your dealings with myself.

I also hope you guys see the value that Counterparty can bring with partnering with other coins. FoldingCoin did not have to help us out but he does that because it's mutually beneficial and because he loves Counterparty and crypto.

Thanks for all the help guys. More to come soon.

Just a word of warning. I am finishing up at my real life job soon and starting my move to Tampa on March 1st. You know I frequent here and I will continue to do so when possible so don't get scared if you see me drop off some. I just have a lot on my plate outside of OCTO. And you have plenty of resources when it comes to Robert at FLDC and all the Octocoin guys who have pitched in on the burn. I just don't want any of you to get any ideas that I'm backing out if my frequency drops the next 2 weeks.

Let me get to Tampa and I'll be back in full swing. Later.