yeah sure why not.
Got into goldcoin back in 2013. At the time my life was in tatters, had lost my job, my home and my g/f. Being so depressed all the time i had to get creative in order to pull my mind out of the gutter. Having already been an avid fan of bitcoin from the early days, I was keeping up with everything crypto related . One night at around 4am, in a depressive state, i was watching a tutorial on how to use GIMP, an open source image editing software program. It was in French, to make it even harder. I got frustrated, gave up and started watching crypto related videos. That's when i came across this very excited guy who called himself Micro guy.
The more I watched his videos, the more intrigued I got and less depressed I felt. His enthusiasm was infectious. Even though this guy was making a lot of sense, he just seemed a little bit crazy. I do like crazy so i decided to join his forum. It was a small community at the time but they welcomed me with open arms.
Goldcoin then became my life.
I put my head down, got to grips with the image editing software and started making as many promotional images as time would allow for Goldcoin. I wanted other people to be as excited as i was for this crypto currency. I started posting t-shirt designs for fellow members, promotion images for the 100,000 block ( which after, goldcoin became '51% attack' safe). Banners ads, fake magazine covers, 'Goldcoin accepted here' logo for people to use on their websites. A bunch of abstract goldcoin images and plenty of images promoting the forum and the official website.
It didn't seem like enough though.
I had no job, so with plenty time on my hands i embarked on making the first goldcoin game.
It was a side scrolling shoot em up. Micro guy was manning the gold cruiser, making his way through the game, killing various other Alt coin space ships like bbq coin, pandacoin, 42coin and others, you know, getting rid of all the trashcoins. I documented my progress in building the game on the forum and it really seemed to lift everyone's spirits. Unfortunately, I was the only person to play the game. At around 90% completion, my harddrive failed and so too did 6 months of my work.
Even though the community were nice about it, I still cringe when I think about it.
All in all, Goldcoin has been a hell of ride with plenty memories. Probably one of the coolest was 'Dec 12th 2013' when Goldcoins marketcap reached over 3.5 million and was worth over 12 cent a coin. Im sure it was around that time Micro guy promised to reenact the naked Miley Cyrus wrecking ball video, on condition goldcoin hit 1 dollar in price. So we all have that to look forward to still.
I have some other memories of an intense rivalry we had with the alt currency called BBQcoin. The coin was useless, it wasn't the least bit inventive, yet it made it into a mainstream media newspaper article. At the time, even bitcoin had trouble getting any attention so they were extremely lucky. What followed were weeks and weeks of Coinmarketcap battles between BBQcoin and Goldcoin. One day, BBQcoin would be just above goldcoin, the next day, Goldcoin would jump back in front. Bear in mind there were only about 30 crypto currencies at that time, competition was fierce.
In the long term, Goldcoin will definitely be a well known and widely used crypto currency. No doubt in my mind. The name is just too universally known and understood to mean a great store of value. Crypto currencies are still a new revolution, once the rest of the world catches up, they'll be wanting some Goldcoin.
