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[Yeastplume <yeastplume@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All,

@catheryne Thank you very much for your words of support, your (second!)
generous donation to the project, and your commitment to assisting the
project in the future. We're all really excited to see your progress on
grinmint, and it's exemplary of the kind of quality infrastructure that
Grin will need in order to succeed. I really look forward to following its
progress.

@aurel Thank you again for your offer, (and obviously, we can hardly say no
to whatever you feel is appropriate to donate). I've had one or two
requests to include ETH for donations, and I've had a chance to set an
address up and test it. It's now on the forum post and donation page:

https://www.grin-forum.org/t/funding-campaign-yeastplume-oct-2018-to-feb-2019/677

We really believe Grin's community is its strongest asset. I've tried to
emphasise the importance of this in a recent post, so please take a moment
to read
https://www.grin-forum.org/t/on-alternative-mimblewimble-projects/773

I also just wanted to point out that any excess donations above the target
will transferred to a general development fund (which we're in the process
of setting up,) with funds allocated by the core team as they see fit. This
will go to fund future developer campaigns or other specific project needs
as they're identified (and there will be many!)

Thanks to everyone again for your continuing support!

Regards
Michael



On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:07 AM Gary YU <gairy.yu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Aurel,
> Ok for ethers, donation address is listed in
> https://www.grin-forum.org/t/funding-campaign-yeastplume-oct-2018-to-feb-2019/677
>
> It would be very appreciated if you can close this round, since it's still
> far below the target amount (about 22.8% raised), and almost at the end of
> the 3rd week of this funding campaign (since 21st Aug.).
>
> At this moment, the *gap* between the raised and the target is about *182*
> ETH, or *6.26* BTC, according to current price.
>
> As said by Igno:
>
>> He(Michael Cordner, known as ‘Yeastplume’ in Grin circles) only has until
>> the end of the month, which just leaves *this week* before he has to
>> start looking for an employer. This would be a terrible loss for the
>> project.
>
>
> - Gary
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 4:17 AM Aurel Iancu <awrelll@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Do you guys take ethers ? I can close the round, would love to !
>>
>>
>> On 6 Sep 2018, at 20:39, Catheryne Nicholson <catheryne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I posted this announcement on the forum
>> https://www.grin-forum.org/t/grinmint-mining-pool/765
>> regarding the release of our Grin mining pool: www.grinmint.com
>>
>> I also wanted to confirm that there are multiple VCs / investors that
>> have been actively pursuing the funding of private ASICs for Grin, to the
>> tune of multiple millions of dollars.
>>
>> Personally, I find that disgusting. Rather than funding the open-source
>> development work directly, they would rather pursue something that 1) would
>> destroy the ecosystem before it has a chance to develop and 2) is so
>> self-serving, while riding off the backs of people who have done all the
>> work.
>>
>> It is for this reason that we decided to allocate proceeds of our mining
>> pool to the Grin developer community and we will also continue to donate to
>>
>> https://www.grin-forum.org/t/funding-campaign-yeastplume-oct-2018-to-feb-2019/677
>> https://grin-tech.org/funding.html
>>
>> I challenge any investor on this mailing list to also put your money
>> where it benefits the community.
>>
>> #DontBeaDick
>>
>> --
>> Best,
>> Catheryne Nicholson
>> CEO and Founder, BlockCypher <http://www.blockcypher.com>
>>
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