Quote from: Voodah on March 13, 2014, 08:53:16 PM

Hello everyone,

I'm extremely sorry. We've had some pretty heavy family health issues and a housing problem come all at once down here. These last couple weeks have been rather bad for us. I've been knee deep and haven't been able to pay close to any attention to the project in the last few days. Fortunately things are starting to clear up for us now, and yesterday we signed a lease for a new place. That said, days flew by, we reached our due date and I have to talk about where we stand.

We intend to keep going and move ahead, but realistically we need and will re-launch the full campaign with a more all-around exposition in either Indiegogo or Crowdtilt or StartJoin, more material and removing the BTC only payment limitation (which was one of our original goals of having it exclusively funded in BTC, but it ain't happening). I'm still working on the details on how we'll be moving forward and will finish thinking and deciding through the weekend and post the plan on Monday.

As of now however, those of you who wanna opt-out (if you're patient please bare with me till Monday) are free to do so. Please clearly state so here and Gweedo will proceed to refund you. We'll understand and thank you anyway for your support thus far, for real. We'll also be very happy to move forward with those of you who still feel comfortable and believe in the idea.

Again, I'm really really sorry for keeping you in the dark these last few days. You have all been great and we're very very grateful for your support. I feel like I've let you down; all I can say is sometimes life just gets hard and out of control. We hope at least some of you will still accompany us looking forward.

I'll work out the details ahead and post again on Monday, or hopefully sooner.

Thanks,
Santiago.

Can I just say that I totally forgive you. Life can get a little bit messy sometimes. It's perfectly understandable, particularly with such a small team working on this project. I wish you and your family well (and more than simply wishing, I will continue to work hard at the cutting edge of genomics research to help everyone avoid preventable and treatable ill-health).

For me this was always a long-term investment so I'm not affected negatively by these developments. I am slightly disappointed that you feel the need to remove the BTC only limitation however. There is seriously no reason why you can't raise 20+ BTC in the next week or two. All it requires is a little bit more exposure on the appropriate media channels - e.g. coindesk, bitcoin magazine, bitcoin reddit etc. This is real news!

I would be willing to invest even more money (2+ BTC) if you consider using the Counterparty Protocol again. They have made some incredible progress in the last month and this recent blog post is particularly relevant - https://www.counterparty.co/pay-dividends-with-bitcoin/. Adam B Levine of Lets Talk Bitcoin (http://letstalkbitcoin.com/) is launching LTBcoin on Counterparty shortly. (In fact he already has - http://ltbcoin.com/discussion/52/someone-issued-ltbcoin-on-counterparty). This is the ideal way to re-launch the fund-raiser.

Please take the time to consider what you would be achieving by bootstrapping your own project into existence and sharing ownership of the project with investors all within the Bitcoin ecosystem. That is an amazing idea.

The timing of all of this is too perfect to miss out on this opportunity!

If you need any assistance please feel free to ask me any questions or start a "Fate of Satoshi" thread at the Counterparty forums - https://forums.counterparty.co/.

Don't give up!