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FLO

Launched June 17th 2013, the first coin with a metadata field on the blockchain for the purpose of building blockchain applications.

A timeline of major events in FLO's history and Joseph's involvement

2013

  • Jun 17th: FLO released with no pre-mine and no ICO https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.0
  • Jun 20th: Messaged skyangel about ideas for creating protocol applications
  • Jul 9th: Florincoin is the 61st coin added to Cryptsy, the first major altcoin exchange
  • Jul 20th: Submitted a bugfix to the florincoin repo (used to exist at github.com/pascalguru/florincoin, was deleted recently for SEO reasons)
  • Sep 9th: Created the first block explorer, florinexchange.com/explorer, an open source explorer which is later replaced with https://florincoin.info
  • Nov 27th: Coordinated with Skyangel on a hard-fork (required update) to increase the transaction comment size to 528 bytes https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236742.msg3731680#msg3731680
  • Dec 10th: Started work on new website (commissioned a designer 30,000 FLO for the design)
  • Dec 16th: Songs of Love, a charity for children based in NYC, beings accepting FLO donations to make customized songs for children in need

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2018

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