Update!
I have some good news to share, we have another community treasurer on standby! Pilot, a long standing 'hero member' of nxtforum.org community has stepped up and volunteered to be ORA's community treasurer in case Darkhorse doesn't make it back to us!! This is obviously wonderful news, and it means the conversion of ORA & MIC assets into the ORA MS currency will still go ahead, although maybe without the 'XOR' currency code. We will wait for the release of NXT ver 1.5 that will include 2 of 3 phasing accounts. Pilot and (hopefully) fragORA and (hopefully) Darkhorse will then be able to continue as community treasurers with the 2 of 3 fail-safe built in for the future. A BIG thanks to Pilot for stepping up, thanks so much

Also, Ludom, the spiritual leader of MIC (the 'Meme coin' asset) has given us his blessing for future support of the MIC redemption into ORA MS. This is another boost for ORA, as the union of ORA & MIC will create a very well distributed MS currency. I thank Ludom for his continued support.

I want to stress that I still hope (and pray) that Darkhorse is OK, and he will always be welcomed back into the ORA community with open arms should he return!! We are still waiting for DH to return (and for NXT ver 1.5), so it's back into the cryogenic sleep pods again for now, but we can rest a bit more easily now that we have a viable roadmap ahead no matter what happens with DH.

A good day for ORA!!

Quote from: Kora link=link=1437.msg174317#msg174317 date=1429226650

Quote from: Pilot on April 15, 2015, 04:33:44 PM

Quote from: Kora on April 15, 2015, 05:51:14 AM

Quote from: Daedelus on April 14, 2015, 01:04:43 PM

P.S. None of the MIC or Ora have been dumped from the collection fund: http://nxtreporting.com/?a=NXT-G7QA-2KUA-BLLZ-5FUCY&c=USD That will keep a sliver of hope alive.

The Blockchain does have everything we need to continue, we just need a new treasurer if DH has indeed left permanently. I sent DH 25K to pay for the XOR name, so we would lose that unfortuantely, but in theory we could continue with a new issuing account and name. Eventually we will probably explore that, once we stop waiting for DH to return. I sent all my ORA in to the redemption accounts, but a lot of people didn't, but everything is there to reconstruct and continue with the MIC and ORA asset redemption for XOR MS currency, assuming someone steps up to be the new community treasurer. I'm open to ideas!!

I would be happy to be the/a treasurer. However, I suggest you wait until phasing is live (1.5) and create a 2 of 3 account so that the loss of one person doesn't kill things.

The loss of 25k isn't great, but I expect you might be able to recover that with donations. Also, you can use ORA as the MS id and still use XOR as a ticker on exchanges/etc.

But, lets hope Darkhorse is ok and he is at least able to communicate and get the password over to another primary.

Hey, thanks so much Pilot, your offer has made my day

I agree we should continue to wait a little longer for Darkhorse, and for phasing in ver 1.5. IMO there isn't any reason to feel too much pressure to get ORA 'finished', as we're an experimental community project and the MS itself is still quite new, and people are yet to discover it in any great numbers. We also still need to determine the holy grail ('what do people use ORA for?'), but that will hopefully develop over time.

What we do have though is a pretty decent attempt at a distribution for ORA, and as most of us are aware, the distribution of crypto coins can be problematic. Our first round distribution via the webapp registration system that Mac Red and I designed in June last year was very successful at minimising sockpuppet abuse, and generally well received. The ORA asset then had ~1000 trades on the NXT AE over a number of months, so for a token/asset that was given away FREE, we did manage to achieve a pretty solid distribution that hasn't left any 'perception' problems. That's definitely worth building on, so thanks again for offering your support Pilot

cheers

Quote from: Kora on April 16, 2015, 11:34:59 PM

Quote from: Ludom on April 15, 2015, 08:47:40 PM

If a new launch is done, you have my support but don't have enough time to help.

Thanks Ludom! Moral support is what ORA needs now, and ideas & suggestions for how to make it useful in the future. I think as time goes on, the longer ORA/MIC is around being seen by people in this community, the better are our chances of having more talented people come on board later to help make ORA/MIC really 'interesting'.

The challenge for now is really just to survive long enough to be around when the next great crypto wave of interest and adoption hits. When that happens the MS *could* really take off, and ORA will be in a great position to be quite useful as one of the more widely distributed MS currencies.

see: https://nxtforum.org/assets-board/(ann)(micoin)the-most-interesting-coin-in-the-world-pure-90-pom/msg174067/#msg174067