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DeroGold

Whitepaper
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Table of Contents

1.What is DeroGold?

2.Why DeroGold?

3.How to achieve the goals of the roadmap?

4.What’s the process for forming an island?

5.How to help the cause?

6.Special Thanks

7.Useful Links

8.Bibliography
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What is DeroGold?
The DeroGold Association is the future of crypto today and we welcome you aboard.

Our coin utilizes new technology thanks to the features that are being implemented in

TurtleCoin. We have the algorithm CN-TURTLE which increases our hashrates

enormously while staying Asic resistant. Lite-blocks are employed which reduces our

blockchain size by approximately 95% in comparison to if we had not used the new

lite-blocks technology. DEGO aims to be one of the most widely used cryptocurrencies

for transacting. Please join us at our discord ​http://derogold.gq​ !

SPECIFICATIONS OF DEGO

DIFFICULTY TARGET = 20; // seconds

EMISSION SPEED FACTOR = 24;

MONEY SUPPLY (in atomic units) = 10000000000000000

CRYPTONOTE PUBLIC ADDRESS PREFIX = dg

CRYPTONOTE DISPLAY DECIMAL POINT = 2;

CRYPTONOTE MINED MONEY UNLOCK WINDOW = 120;

DEFAULT MIXIN V0 = 3;

PORTS = 42069 and 6969

TICKER = DEGO
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ROADMAP

Year 1: We plan to have DeroGold spread to the masses through proof of work, word of

mouth, online exchanges, and by giving the coins away to our friends and discord

members as gifts. A premine of 0, we will be doing all giveaways thanks to generous

DeroGold Association community members.

Year 2: We will implement DeroGold into payment systems for major vendors as a way

for people to buy their consumer goods online as well as buying in physical stores with

their mobile devices.

Year 3: We will have major nation-states accept DeroGold as their main currency so that

all the country's/micro-nation's transactions are done with DEGO.

Year 4 and beyond: We plan to continue the proliferation of the DeroGold system to the

rest of the world until DEGO is the most ubiquitous cryptocurrency used by everyone on

Earth and other planets like Mars (including any other planets that we may Terra-form

after that).
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Why DeroGold?

DEGO was designed entirely for mass adoption, having only 2 decimals makes

the coins intuitive like physical dollars as they are only divided down to 1/100th of a

coin and not 1/100,000,000 like BTC. DEGO unlike BTC can be mined by the average

person using a computer or similar device making it much more accessible. By

upcycling old computer parts to mine, we are reducing the amount of waste going to

landfills.
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How to achieve the goals of the roadmap?

1. Year 1: The best thing we can do is tell as many people as possible about DeroGold.

Without name recognition it will be hard to gain traction. The more people that know about

DEGO, the more relevant DEGO becomes to the cryptosphere in general. One of the best

things you can do personally, is to hand out paper wallets to your friends and loved ones as

gifts. Get them interested in cryptocurrency and teach them about it at the same time.

2. Year 2: By now DeroGold should have gained a decent amount of recognition, we need the

big names in crypto to take notice and apply DEGO to their own services, on sites such as

coinpayments.net for example. With a low transaction fee and quick transaction time,

DeroGold should make itself appeal to people and be presented as a viable alternative to

existent payment gateways. Furthermore, using DeroGold to transact would serve as a means

to protect people from the greed of credit card companies and fractional reserve banking.

3. Year 3: This will be the phase where DeroGold becomes the official currency of our

micronation comprised of floating islands constructed by people around the world. We want

to teach people how to be able to seastead and use DeroGold. We also want to get other

nations on board when inevitably these banking crises happen​. ​This should lead to mass

adoption of cryptocurrency worldwide as integral to a person’s lifestyle. Cryptocurrency will

present itself as a better option than fiat.

4. Year 4 and beyond: Obviously the most lofty part of the roadmap, this stage will rely on the

success DEGO achieves as a currency used globally and depends upon the advancements in

technology favoring the use of cryptocurrency and deep space exploration. This also includes

having our ideas of permaculture and homesteading heading to planets other than Earth.
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What’s the process for forming an island?

Many different components go into our process for forming an island. First of all,

we want our islands to be sustainable. To achieve this, it will have to be a floating island

made from recycled materials such as plastic, metal, styrofoam, wood, and anything else

that is repurposable. Permaculture designs will be incorporated, along with aquaculture

and subsistence farming. The main intention of DEGO being global means that we teach

you how to recreate our formulated process for constructing your own floating islands.

Seeing as how DeroGold members are already located all over the world this signifies to

us that our building design and permaculture design will have to vary and adapt as the

different climate zones require different flora and fauna and structural requirements.

The more people we have constructing islands with us the more we can improve

the process and the stronger our network of influence becomes. The actual process we

plan to adhere to isn’t the most complicated but definitely requires lots of planning for

suitable habitats. The cost of transporting supplies must be considered as well as the labor

costs. At first glance, the process will likely be involved by only the most committed

community members as it will be literally embarking out into the middle of the ocean for

months or years at a time building and maintaining an island and working to expand it.

“We believe the first key step is for seasteading to become not just possible, but

sustainable – technologically, legally, and financially.” -

https://www.seasteading.org/about/vision-strategy/
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How to help the cause?

We need all the help we can get from as many professionals as possible to make this

dream a reality. We need a collaborative and proactive effort starting today when it comes to

realizing the potential of DEGO. As such, there are a plethora of ways for you to contribute to

our cause. Big or small, every little bit of collaboration counts.

● Invite your friends and family to our discord chatroom ​http://derogold.gq

allowing them to experience the virtual world of DeroGold.

● Another way to help is via translating this whitepaper to your native language.

By translating the whitepaper to your native language you’re helping spread the

DEGO message and allowing more people to join in! :)

● If you are a social media buff, you can post tweets, share DEGO’s message on

various platforms, make videos, etc. Don’t forget to include #DEGO or

#DeroGold when doing so.

● Other things like attending crypto conferences as a steward for DEGO and

networking with other people in our environment is important as we build the

bridges to bigger and better things.

● DeroGold is always on the lookout for more promoters to market the coin to new

demographics, so that DeroGold is noticed by people around the world. We want

to enable as many people as possible to break the chains imposed by the daily

grind, the corporate ruling class, big bankers and so forth.

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● We necessitate the recruitment of engineers, botanists, farmers, architects,

sailors, and other members in specialized careers to assist in construction of the

islands. We also need general labor to be done as a lot of the work in setting up an

island requires manual labor and working together in coordination. Other ways to

help with this are by having seafaring vessels that can transport people to an

island’s location, supplying us recycled materials to build with, and by donating

towards the inevitable costs of island production such as the costs associated with

executing construction tasks and the start up costs for farming and livestock.

● We need to teach people as much as possible about DeroGold and its message

and well-meaning intentions. If you can film or write, we need your help towards

going viral. Youtube is a good platform to post interviews, documentaries, hype

videos, and even live streams. If you are a blogger please consider writing up your

feelings on DEGO and posting that or even writing up some guides on DEGO as

that would be greatly appreciated.

● DeroGold is always in search of more programmers and coders to join our team!

We need devs from all walks of life to join up, and help us create wonderful

things for all OSes. Some things we are currently in process of working towards

are mobile miners and wallets, payment systems, faucets, gui miner, and even

implementation into video games!

● Interested in one day moving to a seastead? Take the Floating City Survey

conducted by The Seasteading Institute here:

https://www.seasteading.org/floating-city-project/survey/
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Special Thanks

Zpalmtree

CapEtn

Morpheus

Rashedmyt

Rocksteady

ExtraHash

BearyBullish

Greywolf

Emperor

Xaz

Gnatsstang23 TIPB

https://mining4vets.com

Khorosho

Our Media Moguls and all pool owners for DeroGold

And all other advocates of our project! Thanks for being so active, receptive, and supportive
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Useful Links

Our github: ​https://github.com/derogold/derogold

Our website: ​http://derogold.com

Our Twitter: ​https://twitter.com/DeroGold

Our Subreddit: ​https://reddit.com/r/DeroGold

Our Instagram: ​https://www.instagram.com/derogold4/

Our useful links page: ​http://dego-emperor.ml

Our Bitcointalk Ann thread: ​https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5088519.0

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Bibliography

This Man Lives On An Island Paradise... Floating On Trash! -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv42E_0PnAs

The Seasteading Institute - ​https://www.seasteading.org/

Infographic - ​http://i.imgur.com/Yyv6MuH.jpg

How to Start Your Own Country - ​https://www.wikihow.com/Start-Your-Own-Country

Why Seastead? - ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIZ9e_OkliY

Seasteading & Artificial Islands - ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6mRjsxQQJE

Plastic’s new life - ​https://www.byfusion.com/plastics-new-life/

Upcycling - ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upcycling

Marine energy - ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_energy

The basics of wind energy - ​https://www.awea.org/wind-101/basics-of-wind-energy

About solar energy - ​https://www.seia.org/initiatives/about-solar-energy

Sea Around Us EEZ interactive map - ​http://www.seaaroundus.org/data/#/eez

Permaculture Primer eBooklet - ​https://midwestpermaculture.com/permaculture-primer/

Sustainable Fisheries - ​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F93RsDZUhc