Hope everyone is doing well out there.  Just wanted to document a little MOIN news today.  

HeRVy stopped by the thread to say he is working on writing an article about MOIN and to ask a few questions for his research.  Check it out over at:
 bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1237881.msg20156620#msg20156620 
​and feel free to chime in with your own feedback.

iLog announced he acquired the former SDC projects facebook page and will be re-branding it to MOIN andhiring someone to manage it.  This is a great new step for MOIN!  Check out his post over at :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1237881.msg20300284#msg20300284

MOIN!  It has been a while since my last post.  I personally have been busy studying Javascript, it has a lot of fun and I hope to bring some of those skills to MOIN in someway if I can.  In the crtyptosphere everything is going really well, you probably know that.  In addition to BTC hitting all time highs many altcoins are also finding new highs.  It is very exciting times.   Yesterday marked bitcoin pizza day.  The memorial of a historic day in bitcoin history where 10,000 bitcoins were traded for a pizza.  Bitcoin and crypto have come so far since then that right now 10,000 MOIN could easily buy you over 50 pizzas.  It is kind of fun to just nerd out on that. 

Hello!  Just finished sending out the final Twitter bounties for week 6.  This marks the conclusion of the twitter campaign.  I will write up a better ending here soon.  Thanks and congratulations to all the participants.  Welcome to MOIN.

Thanks again for all the great participation.  Really seeing some creative tweets!

I just forgot to make a "blog post" about it.  You know where the details are

 Just finished sending out week two bounties.  As usual the details are over on the payout info page.  Thanks for all the great participation this week!

I just finished sending off the first week of twitter bounties for our winter twitter campaign.  You can check out the tweets and transaction details over on this page if you are interested.  Thanks to everyone that participated so far.

People have been looking for ways to spread the word about MOIN and the idea was suggested we could give away some MOIN to people who help raise awareness of the coin on Twitter!  It should be a lot of fun. Details are below.

Get on Twitter and start tweeting about MOIN.  Be sure to inlude $MOIN in your tweet so that we can find it and it is eligible for rewards.  Make sure you follow @MoinMovement and  @MoinCrypto and also be sure we can direct message you from the MoinMovement account for your wallet address payment details.  If you want to be really proactive you can send your wallet address for your rewards in a DM to @MoinMovement  whenever you want.
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Also wanted to share this cool 3D print of the MOIN logo from another MOIN community member on IRC

A MOIN community member asked an interesting question on bitcointalk the other day.  The question was regarding the MOINX chain, which is MOIN's stealth addressing system inherited from Shadow.  Here is a link to the specific question and KingCaper's answer on the bitcointalk forum.  The takeaway here is that in order for the MOINX feature to be fully functional we needed more outputs available, which meant we needed more people to test it out by converting MOIN to MOINX.

I played around with converting some MOIN and it was very intersting to see how the software breaks apart different sized conversions so it can build a variety of different size transactions later on.  You can look at the available outputs on the MOINX Chain tab of the wallet. 

It was around then that it occured to me perhaps converting some of the Moin Foundation Funds MOIN to MOINX would be a perfect way to help the network with some of the raised MOIN.....

After a brief discussion it was clear that converting some of the fund's MOIN to MOINX would help the network and had no real downsides, especially since the MOINX could be converted back to MOIN if for some reason it really needed to be.  With this in mind I proceeded to convert 47777.666619 of the foundations MOIN to MOINX.  That leaves us with about 42840.19894161 MOIN in the fund.  It really helped diversify the avialable outputs on the MOINX chain and I think was a great success.  I took a few screenshots for proof that I posted over here on the Moin Conversion page, but really the best proof of this event is the large increase in available outputs on the MOINX chain.