Quote from: PUFFSdev on June 10, 2018, 02:10:37 PM

hey evryone, this is abvhiael. weRdna wrote me regarding the current discussions in this group, about the need to re-invigorate this project. the reason i left the development process of this project to marty last year was simply that i couldnt afford to put the time into this project with no renumeration and still be able to keep my family together and functioning. we started SOIL in the era that ANY pre-mine by the developers was a sign of greed and the inevitability of collapse and overall scamminess of the project. that was a mistake. the evolution of cryptocurrency development has proven that out, with many projects having hard-coded development funding built into their basic protocols, ensuring that the people responsible for steering the project could afford to maintain their real-world circumstances and still focus on the project at hand.

make no mistake, cryptocurrency development is NOT a 40-hour, 9-to-5 endeavour. im still working within the cryptocurrency industry. when i left SOIL in marty's hands, i went to work for the GAY Money project, because it fit in with my overall philanthropic ideals, the idea i could help IMPROVE lives. i was receiving a wage, in the form of a weekly deposit of that cryptocurrency, and helping build a network and services that would provide utility for that project. unfortunately, the founder of that project expected everything in life to come cheap and free on the account of his minority status, along with a propensity for high drama over everything. i left that project and am currently initiating legal proceedings against the founder and his new development group who are consistently using my intellectual property on their new rebranded project, PROUD Money, despite several written requests for them to stop using my writing to promote something i did not write for.

thus is the state of crytpo.

for the past year ive been building, with little fanfare, my own ETH-contrived blockchain - PUFFScoin, and still work very closely with the emerging smart contract technology. ive spent the last year learning how to build a currency that can survive, with both industry utility and recreational facility. ive gained proficiency in the nuts and bolts of the blockchain, the architecture of the system, and in my typical fashion, adjusted the core protocols of ETH to provide that the transaction fees for PUFFS no longer go to the miners, but to a community-governed (DAO-administered) fund that, through strategic partnerships with operating dispensaries, will cover the cost of medicinal cannabis to veterans and first responders undergoing cannabis therapy to treat PTSD derived from their employment. we are building dApps to provide decentralized supply chain management systems, and have ancillary services such as our own social network, BONGgoggles. our storefront, which will have crypto integration, is being moved to its own domain this week. i am also working on our 420-friendly dating site and by mid summer will also have a cannabis related vacation rental site (420bnb). we publicly launch the coin on july 1, having a running ICO to raise funds to set up the project hitting the ground running. signal to noise in todays environment, and the number of fraudulent "marketing" groups have made that difficult, but regardless, we've taken the time to build a strong project and yes, we have developers reserves set up to ensure that when the project is on the market, providing access to the applications we are building, and integrated into our storefront/dispensary and other services, that we can focus on our time on the project and not have to seek secondary employment.

one of our plans is to offer a white label exchange solution, which would be cryptocannabis centric, but also maintain support for projects that have a strong philanthropic or universalist reason. GridCoin or Curecoin for example. the inclusion of SOIL, as a base trading pair, has always been the plan.

id love to get reinvolved with the development of SOIL, theres too much potential in using the EVM for scientific computing processes that will help improve our world, and something like this project NEEDS to exist, to provide a platform for developers to adapt existing smart contract suites to help solve the environmental issues facing this world, especially in the light of the present political climate. so heres the deal... every project needs a strong development group. im willing to come back on board a steering committee, but there has to be community backing, to provide those developing the project full time with the funds to devote the time necessary to the project. building this sort of project is 80 hours a week when one is being lazy about it.

hell, i have the SOILcoin logo tattooed on my body, and am still very proud of what the project was built to accomplish, and sure to my predicition, we approach ive years from launch and the technology needed to provide decentralized science is now evident. others are coming around to what we foresaw years ago, the possibilities of the EVM.... beyond CryptoKitties that is. i can still see where this project needs to go, and the potentiality of the system to provide meaningful utility. but i dont have the sort of computational resources to be competitive mining SOIL, and i cant work for free.

theres a big difference between working on something you love for the love of it, but one cannot devote every daily hour to it and still afford to put food on the table. thats my predicament. if anyone has ideas on how to build a development fund, something that pays out through a DAO for work actually done, then lets get it done.

in the meantime, we might also discuss folding SOIL into PUFFS, which is further along the technology tree with ETH. that process could be automated in much the same way we are planning on using a smart contract proof of burn process alongside a ETH-PUFFS relay to convert the ICO PuffToken running on the ETH chain into mainchain PUFFScoins following public launch. i can also offer my current ISP hosting platform where we are running BONGgoggles on and moving our storefont on to in order to host a new SOILcoin website. ive actually gotten pretty good at web development over the last year while building PUFFS.

if you want to have a look at PUFFSCOIN, our [ANN] here, which is buried under the noise of every other ill-thought-out get rich quick token out there, is at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3321887
our main project website is located at www.puffscoin.com/main/ and the ICO can be interacted with at www.puffscoin.com
the main site has a listing (and virtual whitepapers) for many of the projects we are working on presently on our testnet under the dApps header. we also have a cannabis-news blog running there called the reefer*review. (actually working on integrating the RSS feeds for cannabis related stories to ensure a consistent offering alongside my editorials)
our social network, launched to protest mainstream social media's censorship practices, is at https://www.bongggoggles.ca and our storefront will be live this week at https://www.leafycauldronapothecary.com

this sort of approach can be taken with SOIL, adding service and utility to promote the project, which can be compartmentally decentralized as that technology asserts itself.
i can still be reached at abvhiael@live.ca but check my project email (abvhiael@puffscoin.com) far more often during the day. im willing to help reinvigorate this project, if theres community involvement to help promote its development.

Agree it is necessary still for a dev to make money from their work, donations aren't a reliable source.

Soil still has a lot of supporters even among us who don't understand all the technical stuff.

A white label exchange that had base pairs of gridcoin, soil and similar useful algorithm coins would be nytimes material. It would also do a lot generally to improve the image of crypto in the mainstream.