Peercoin History Book 2012-2019

Page 10

typo: through, not though.

I think this sentence sounds better worded like this…

It was the first cryptocurrency of its kind to use proof of stake timestamping to secure decentralisation alongside proof of work, which distributed the majority of PPC.

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Typo: Peercoin, not Peercoim.

Page 17

Remember that we simply changed the name.

Page 18

Maybe it’s better to say that BTC-e was shut down. This makes it sound like they delisted us for some reason.

Page 19

Maybe put down that v0.8 RC1 was released for testing.

Page 22

This is incorrect. A minter’s probability of finding a new block reaches its maximum after 90 days. After this period of time a minter’s stake reaches maturity and their chances of minting a new block are maxed out. All of these rules are put in place in order to prevent minters with high coin age from being able to hold a monopoly on the block generation process and to give others a better chance of minting.

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Can we remove this part? I find it discouraging and ultimately there is no way to predict what will happen. It is true that funds are not currently used to market Peercoin while it’s development is still in need of catching up, but that won’t always be the case. Further, as we develop use cases for the chain and the number of regular users starts to increase, that will surely impact the price in some way. I don’t think we can say definitively that the answer to this is no. It also depends how many coins are owned by the individual.

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I don’t have any reason to believe these addresses will change in the future, but it could always be a possibility. Maybe a better way to do this would be to link to the foundation page on the website where the addresses will always be accurate: Peercoin — The Pioneer of Proof-of-Stake

Page 99

I think this still sounds like a new service started up. Again, only the name of the domain had changed. The chat service and all its history remained the same.

Page 109

I mentioned this before in my last post, but this whole section here seems highly unnecessary.

Page 131

I think you forgot to remove the period where you inserted the colon.

Appendix

I noticed that in the interviews you bolded some of the user names for the people that are talking, but not all of them. It doesn’t look consistent because of this.

Also, I think you are missing the most important interview, Peercointalk Community Interview #2. This is the most important interview because in the beginning it’s the first time Sunny explained to us his vision of Peercoin as a backbone currency, what is called a trustless base layer today.

Cover

I feel the back of the cover would be more readable if it was not in all caps. It seems difficult to read the way it is currently presented.

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Great news!

After nearly three months of hard work and dedication, the Peercoin history book has been published. There are two versions on Amazon (a colour version and a black and white version). Kindle versions have also been uploaded.

US B&W version:

US Colour version:

The Kindle version has not appeared on the US Amazon website. I expect it to be available later. Here is the UK Amazon Peercoin Kindle version link:

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Hope this helps raise awareness for ya :). Posting to our other channels as well

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great job :+1: ,peercoin is a great coin

Just reposted to Twitter. Seems there was an error where the first tweet did not show up on the Twitter feed. It’s visible now though. Also posted on Facebook and our Bitcointalk thread.

If we send out a newsletter soon, I’ll also include it in that.

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Thanks Tyke, I look forward to buying a copy in the near future.

Thank you. If the community want me to write a even more detailed book in the future, I am up for the challenge :slight_smile:

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Just bought my copy.

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Great, my copy’s arrived. Thanks, Christopher.

Peercoin already has its own book?

It’s great to see a community that is engaged like that. I just bought the book to support you and to be able to know more about the beginning of Peercoin.

Long live Peercoin community, you guys rock!

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This is second actually.

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