I have collected together relevant posts on this forum. I was a long arduous task, but am glad it has been done. I will use Sunny King’s weekly updates to structure the initial chapters (12th Aug 2012 to 8th Nov 2015). I have noticed that history was quiet from November 2014 to November 2015.
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For the last week or so, I have been extremely busy researching content for the book. I have structured 17 preliminary chapters (please see link above).
Today, I have begun to write the first draft. Please check the content for any errors or missing history. Please ignore grammar and spelling for the moment 
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Looks good. The chapters are a bit too much focused on the versioning of the official Peercoin client. But you can still soften that focus.
And I know you like to stay neutral, but there should be a full chapter (No. 7 or 8) that focuses on the reasons for the downslide of Peercoin from being one of the top coins to where it is now. Partly this was caused by the shifting focus of the crypto community to the “2.0 projects”, but there were also self-inflicted problems within the Peercoin community:
-too much reliance on Sunny king to develop the core client all by himself
-disappearance of the user “Justabitoftime”, who caused lots of steam in late 2013, but then disappeared
-Brain drain caused by the Nubits project, which later failed
Some other things that are missing:
-the discussion around cold minting and Sigmike’s proposal, which is still sitting on Github
-the Indicium project
-your own Peercoin book “History of the first year”
and minor things:
-the launch of the very first Peercoin video in 2013:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjL2AgCQDJ0
-the purchase of peercoin.org in 2017 or so. I think it was a single community member to donate a few thousand dollar, maybe superppc, not sure
-mention Peer4commit
I hope this helps a bit. There is probably lots more to add.
Chapter 9 should be called “Accidental blockchain fork and switch to version 0.5 protocol”.
Chapter 10 and 11 should focus on how the new Peercoin team evolved. First inofficially, with the start of new projects (Peerassets, Peerkeeper, Indicium), new forum and new chat software, and occasional Peercoin newsletters. Then in early 2017 officially, when the new team published official updates instead of Sunny king, and used titels like project leader, developers, community manager etc.
Somebody from the team might want to help a bit to describe how everything evolved.
I am just Peercoin enthusiast and observer myself.
The reader of the book should be able to recognize that Peercoin is an open source project, which depends on the work of volunteers. And in a decentralized project, key figures evolve who typically do a lot of work for the project and have some influence (lets avoid the word “authority”). In the case of Peercoin, I think everybody will agree that the two most important key figures besides the founder are Peerchemist and SentinelRV. This should become clear when reading the book. Not to confound this with any kind of glorification, which I am sure neither of the two wishes.
Hello Otzi,
Thank you for the feedback and input. I will do my best to include as much as possible.
At the moment, I am still writing material for late 2013. It is an extremely time consuming process. I will hopefully post an updated PDF tonight.
Further work has been done today. I have uploaded the current state of progress so far. I will draft pages for 2014 and 2015 during next week.
Hello 
I have been working on chapter 6 “Peerunity Wallet Client Released” today. Chapters 1-6 cover Peercoin history from 10th August 2012 to 21st July 2014. Most pages are still in draft format until as much history as possible had been accounted for.
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I am see some bugs, I think. For example, the page numbers start with 32. On page 9 of the pdf (labeled page 49) there is text off to the right where it can’t be read. Most pages from then on have text off in the margins somewhere that can’t be read. Is this an issue with my pdf reader, or an issue with the pdf?
The broken text is url links added to the sides of the MS publisher pages. Nothing to worry about.
The history chapters start at page 32. There will be introductory pages from 1-32.
;D
Some other interesting topics might be:
Peercoin has uncapped inflation while most other coins are based on fixed supply. Still, our rate of inflation tends to be better than coins like Bitcoin at the present, and we believe inflation to be useful economically long-term (https://www.peercoinexplorer.net/inflation/ and https://twitter.com/peercoininflbot?lang=en).
Peercoin’s economic model in general is a very interesting point. I realize this is a history book, but this model is historically unprecidented in the cryptospace, and is one of the things that makes peercoin stand out. For example, burning our fees rather than recycling them back to the miners, such that we are the first chain to require a minimum fee per unit data added to the chain. Under a similar heading, Peercoin was the first to implement a minimum dust size for outputs, a feature that was later adopted by Bitcoin in 0.8.2 (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.8.2.md).
I am looking for more on Peercoin as the first chain that was actually verified by decentralized PoS, and all the forks (both literal and intellectual) that came off of it. It is the number one biggest thing that makes Peercoin stand apart, and we believe its implementation to be the most straightforward, given its compatibility with Bitcoin protocol.
I guess in general I am hoping for more of what makes Peercoin historically relevant, rather than simply a timeline. I realize this can be difficult, especially without being a part of the environment at the time, but I’m sure everyone here will be happy to provide you with more background if you ask.
I don’t think anyone has linked it yet, but here is the version of history that I wrote about a year ago:
https://medium.com/peercoin/building-spires-in-sunny-kingdoms-d126e214dd66
It is a significantly different take, and is mostly about trying to build layers on top of the core network, but some of it may be relevant for your later chapters.
I have made more progress on the book (see attachment above).
I will take on board what Otzi and Nagalim said. There will be 30 pages before the history chapters (1-17) for detailed material.
Please continue to support the work I am doing. I appreciate all donations so far. PPC wallet address is:
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An updated PDF of the book has been uploaded 
@Tyke wants to withdraw 50% of what has been donated so far. If nobody has objections I’ll sign the transaction to transfer 1500 Peercoin to his address today.
txid: 6dd3d815547cc11d07c99f082c2b0a53be69c641342aab54dcb2b12e5a8db903
Has proven to be active and I have seen updates to the drafts
This week I will be writing chapter 10 that covers the rebrand, 4th Anniversary, peercoin.chat, how the new team came together, the acquisition of peercoin.org by superppc etc. It will take me a few days to write a draft of this chapter.
Thank you for all the support so far
Was this the only audio of the PPC 4th anniversary created?
More progress has been made on chapters 9 and 10. Chapter 11 will begin by covering historical events from the beginning of 2017.
If you like the work I have done so far, please donate PPC to pTifZS4ufNzGo5g4AMVMVtyzVhpSwtSQjT. I rely heavily on donations to help support my research, writing and content creation.
Once again, please say if anything is missing. I know that chapter 8 is currently blank. It will cover a relatively uneventful period of time for most of 2015.
Right before this audio was the main show. Hrobeers came on at the beginning. You can find it here…
