Quote from: CleanWaterCoin on March 22, 2014, 07:23:34 PM

#WorldWaterDay

We are pleased to announce Clean Water Coin in support of World Water Day and clean water for all

The current state of cryptocurrency is one of the most incredible opportunities any of us will likely participate in throughout our lifetimes. What we have is an innovative and paradigm breaking vehicle, and whats so intoxicating and alluring is that immediately before us we have these critical check points that are leading cryptocurrency towards an evolutionary period that will determine the fate of an entire industry.

Except for a couple examples, the majority of new coins that have launched in the last 3 months have been successful at achieving only 2 things: profit and deterioration of our industry. We have been plagued by scams and copy cats for weeks. If we continue at this rate our greed will kill this beautiful system. Do not fool yourselves into thinking that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are so innovative and superior that they will simply rise to their places at the top of the economic world. You need only remember Edison and Tesla to have a prime example of how the better ideas and technology do not always win.

Its time for our community to actively choose an evolutionary path that leads to continued growth and wider spread acceptance. We must move beyond this period of stagnation. You can help. You can make a difference. How? By supporting only the most creative and innovative coins; and by making that choice not based on greed but thoughtful consideration.

Despite all that doom and gloom, its amazing to sit back and watch the crypto community; at times there is so much goodwill and charity where people are donating their time, talents, and money. It has been inspiring to see coins and groups of people rally behind differing causes and make a difference. Experiencing it first-hand and participating has left such a lasting and profound impression on us that we could not stop thinking about how we can do more. For several weeks we met and discussed what we could do. We knew cryptocurrency offered an incredibly unique opportunity, you could see it in a few coins that were increasingly focusing on charitable endeavors. The community is inspired and motivated, ready for that positive evolution. We believe we can offer the first of many steps down that path.

Introducing The Clean Water Coin Initiative

Water is the single most important necessity of life. For some of us, access to clean drinking water is as easy as turning on your faucet. But for nearly 1 BILLION people, clean water just isnt available. In most cases, men, women, and children have one single source of water that is so polluted and contaminated it has become a poison. As a result, more than 4,000 people die EVERY DAY! 9/10 of deaths that are a result of unsafe and contaminated water are children under the age of 5. Its difficult to fully comprehend that kind of devastation. But focusing on stats and merely discussing the issues wont help, its time to actively participate.

The Clean Water Coin Initiative is the first ever coin designed and developed to be a nonprofit organization. What does that mean? We are a registered Nonprofit Organization and weve created a Crypto Charity and coin that lets a community actively participate in helping provide clean water. To do that we've teamed up with CharityWater.org so that we can create campaigns and raise funds for clean water projects. Also, the community can easily track exactly how we are doing by visiting our campaign page.

Give to Charity + Save Lives by Mining + Using Clean Water Coin

Weve built a unique function into the coin network so that everyone who mines or even uses Clean Water Coin will be helping save lives around the world. Every transaction will donate 0.1% of that transaction to the Charity Wallet, heres an example: Ive mined 1,000 Clean Water Coins and I request a manual payout from my pool. As a result of this transaction 1 coin will be donated to the Charity Wallet and the remaining 999 is sent to my wallet.

The Clean Water Coin Charity Wallet

All donations will go to the Charity Wallet and from there will go to our CharityWater.org Digital Drop Project. To prevent flooding our own market with donated coins we will set a recurring schedule to exchange to BTC, this will help to prevent large sums building up over extended periods of time and exchanging all at once. We intend to exchange BTC to USD in order to donate to charity: water. We will also offer the community the ability to purchase Clean Water Coins from the Charity Wallet. Pricing will be established from a market average and the amount of coins available will depend on total donations to the Charity Wallet. More details regarding this feature are soon to come!

Adding Value to Clean Water Coin

We recognize that there are many factors that go into the valuation of a coin. Some of those things we can attempt to control and affect, but others rely on the community, exchanges, and the industry. So rather than only relying on trading and exchanges to dictate pricing, weve gone to great lengths to add value to holding and using Clean Water Coin.

The first way weve done this is to provide advertising opportunities that can only be purchased with Clean Water Coins. Weve beautifully integrated an advertising section into CharityWater.org, on each of our wallets, our official and temporary pools, and our official faucet. Weve also developed code that can be imbedded into pools and community sites that will give more people an opportunity to participate and be charitable without having to donate money or coins. Dont worry, we will have a strict policy for appropriate content and types of advertisements--we dont want this to become a burden for the community, its intended to be a benefit. Check out some ad examples below:

Wallet Ad Placement

Pools Ad Placement

Another way we intend to add value is to offer an official source to purchase Clean Water Coins for BTC rather than having exchanges as the only source. All the coins that we will sell will come from the Charity Wallet and the BTC will be donated to charity. Offering this service will be valuable to the community because it allows us to convert the Charity Wallet into BTC without going to an exchange and help us to donate the maximum amount to CharityWater.org.

Future Development

We also have a roadmap of features and services that we are working on and will be able to offer in the future. We cant reveal everything incase one of those features falls through--we dont want to promise more than we can deliver and let down the community. However, here is a sneak peak of two features in development:

WATER Rally - Use your Clean Water Coins to purchase tickets to attend events to help raise awareness and further our cause. We are currently planning out events now.

Write-off WATER Donations - Once we obtain our official 501(c)3 status donating WATER to the Clean Water Coin Initiative will be tax deductible! Achieving this goal is already underway but it is a difficult and long process. There will be some restrictions but as we get closer to our goal we will share the full details with you.

Technical Details

Why are we having an IPO?

Clean Water Coin is a major endeavor and although each of us on the development team has a day job we cannot fund this project entirely ourselves. If we could we would. Wherever possible weve relied on the skillsets of our team to put in work and reduce the costs, however, there are still hard costs and fees that we could not offset. That is where the IPO comes in. 100% of the BTC invested goes towards the Clean Water Coin Initiative. From development and server fees to marketing and outreach programs. We are not using the IPO as a source of income--thats what our day jobs are for. So by investing in the IPO you are not only getting Clean Water Coins, but youre supporting the organization and helping to build a charitable community.

We want you to know that by supporting Clean Water Coin you are making a difference where its needed most, in the field. That difference begins here. For each of the following milestones we will donate BTC from the IPO to our CharityWater.org Digital Drop Project and match that donation from our personal wallets.

IPO Milestones
1 BTC Total: We will donate that first Bitcoin invested and match it (2 BTC total donated)
25 BTC Total: We will donate an additional Bitcoin and match it (4 BTC total donated)
50 BTC Total: We will donate an additional Bitcoin and match it (6 BTC total donated)
75 BTC Total: We will donate an additional Bitcoin and match it (8 BTC total donated)
100 BTC Total: We will donate an additional Bitcoin and match it (10 BTC total donated)

Saving a billion people cant be done alone, it requires a community that spans countries and continents. Lets be that community.

Participating in the IPO

**IMPORTANT IPO INSTRUCTIONS**

In order to keep track of your investment and to make sure you get your disbursement of WATER when we officially launch you must fill out the following form immediately after you send BTC:

Investor Information Form

Based on the information you submit we will give you an investor ID and provide an option to view all investments. If youve already sent BTC please fill out the form now and we will contact you to follow up with you.

Methods to Participate

You may visit CleanWaterCoin.org and click the IPCO button in the upper right hand portion of your screen. There you will see a Coinbase Pay with Bitcoin button that will allow you to send BTC, a QR code for the wallet (seen below), and the wallet address itself (seen below). You can also use the two methods below.

1JV7ZW5KQR55VJIVI7UJX5AJ3GW3QOSKAW

AGAIN PLEASE FILL OUT THE FORM IMMEDIATELY AFTER SENDING, NO MATTER WHAT METHOD YOU USE!

The First Ever Stress-Free Launch

Launch day should be exciting. We dont want you to be scrambling to find a working pool or to realize the pool you signed up with is having problems and you need to make a last minute switch. We also want to prevent the unfair advantage some people are able to get by being the first solo miner on a new coin. So weve devised a unique plan for launch, heres what you can expect:

Clean Water Coin will launch with three pools. One pool will be an official pool run by us and the other two will be temporary launch pools. The official pool will function like any other pool (except the 1% fee will go directly to the Charity Wallet) however the temporary pools will be designed to filter all miners to community pools as soon as those are available--we will achieve this by helping users create a correct failover setup so that as soon as their community pool of choice is live the miner will switch to that pool. Here is an example launch schedule to give you a better idea:

Leading up to launch day users will be asked to sign up at one of the Clean Water Coin pools. If the official pool has too many miners signing up, overwhelmingly disproportionate to the temporary pools, we will close registration. At this same time we will be working with Pool Operators to provide you with a list of community pools to sign up with as well. We will ask anyone who signs up on one of our temporary pools to also sign up at a community pool. Then we will provide all users with a clear list of instructions for setting up a failover pool.

On Launch day, the moment we go live these three pools will be immediately available. At this same time we will release the source code and community pools will begin setting up. As soon as the community pools are live your miners will automatically switch over and the network of community pools will function like other coins. We will run the two temporary pools for a period of time to make sure if any community pools go down that miners will have the ability to automatically switch back to our working pool and not suffer any extended down times. The plan is then to eventually shut off the temporary pools and only run one official pool along with a thriving community and a healthy spread of network hash rates. The result will be a stress-free launch for miners, pool operators, and us!

Clean Water Coin Pools

Official Pool
To Be Announced

Featured Community Pools
To Be Announced

Wallets

Windows: A password protected wallet will be released before launch day
Mac: A password protected wallet will be released before launch day
Linux: A password protected wallet will be released before launch day

Exchanges

We are in contact with a couple of the more popular exchange sites and will release an approximate schedule at launch. If you operate an exchange and are interested in listing Clean Water Coin please contact us first! Thank you!

Contact Info

Website: http://cleanwatercoin.org/
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/CleanWaterCoin
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CleanWaterCoin
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CleanWaterCoin
IRC: http://webchat.freenode.net/#CleanWaterCoin
charity: water: http://my.charitywater.org/cleanwatercoin
Altcoin Calendar: http://www.altcoincalendar.info/coins/276-WATER

Toll free: (888) 343-4061
Local: (949) 430-731
Email: support@cleanwatercoin.org

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