New Hope for Revitalizing the Creative Coin Community?
"Creative Coin" (symbol "CCC") was one of the earliest "tribal tokens" on the old Steem-Engine.
Billed as a community intended to serve and support artists, writers, musicians, photographers and other creative types, it caught my eye early on, and became one of my early favorites because of its non-blockchain, non-crypto emphasis.
The CCC token became the third project I invested in, after PAL and LEO.
In time, the token was moved to Hive-Engine, and continued its life there.
Although the community was started by a group of highly respected and active Steem/Hive members, the tribe seems to slowly "fizzle away," mostly due to a lack of interest from the founding members who have gone on to pursue other activities.
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In time, it seems to have become "one of those tokens" lots of people tag, but the actual community went away.
Back in November 2020, a few of Hive's creative "Heavy Hitters" did end up having a bit of a discussion in the comment section of my post, but nothing much actually developed.
I sort of lost hope a bit, but continued to use my stake to curate creative content.
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A Glimmer of Hope: the @cccf Initiative
So, a few weeks ago, I came across a relatively new initiative involving Creative Coin: @cccf — The Creative Coin Fund — which is the brainchild of long time Hive member @cliffagreen, with additional support from @zedcell.
You can read the initial announcement about the project, from which I especially liked the phrase: "The Creative Coin Fund is being established to support a CCC price that affords artists a living wage."
That was the underlying spirit that originally got me interested in the whole Creative Coin community.
Increasing my Stake + Token Price Rising
When I checked Hive-Engine, I also noticed that the price of the CCC token has been creeping up and is now considerably higher than it was six months ago. Sure, every time the price rises significantly, there are suddenly a lot of sellers, but a look at the chart suggests that the "base" has been slowly increasing.
This has definitely made me feel a lot better about my own CCC stake; good enough, in fact, that we went out and bought more CCC tokens, increasing my stake from a little over 36,000 CCC to about 46,000 CCC. If some more cash money comes our way, we'll likely add to it!
I am just glad to see something happening, and I am hopeful there are enough other creatives who might be interested in helping CCC come back to life!
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September 8th, 2021
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Spectacular! Thanks for the write-up and I'm always thrilled to see a 10,000 CCC purchase and stake. Would you be interested in a delegation from The Creative Coin Fund? We could delegate 20,000 CCC right now. This would give us four major curators on CCC, at about the same level of stake: The Creative Coin Fund, CELF Magazine, This Is Awesome, and CuratorCat. The only question I have is how active you are as a curator; you're clearly in tune with the original Creative Coin vision and our own objectives. Would you fully utilize the 20,000? ... As far as the community goes, there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes to build the network and community (including a conversation with one of the Creative Coin founders). I think that Creative Coin and the community are on the verge of some awesome growth!
Thanks for stopping by @cliffagreen, and sorry I've been slow to get back here!
I appreciate the offer of a delegation, but I am hesitant to say I'd be able to use it fully at this point... still trying to "make time" for more creative endeavors, and I wouldn't want any staked power to sit idle if it could be better used in the hands of someone else.
It is my ambition to get my stake up to +/- 100K CCC tokens within the next year or so, as well as to become a more active participant on the curation/comment side.
If you're having communication with Shane and Isaria that's awesome! There was a dialogue last year in which it sounded like Shane was very open to the idea of letting "the right person" take over the community. I realize that's quite a commitment... communities are a LOT of work to run and maintain and GROW.
And yet "Creativity" is a major part of what makes Hive what it is... and a lot of creatives created a presence here, in the hopes of this becoming another online toehold for their expression... digital art, painting, music, writing, poetry, filmmaking, etc... perhaps an excessive amount of attention has been focused on the trend that is NFTs, I don't know... but creativity has a lot of possible expressions.
If a change does come, I sincerely hope that part of it would include converting the old tribe front end to the new "Outposts" now used by PALNet, SplinterTalk, CTP Talk and others... it's fast, modern looking and highly customizable. Alas, I am NOT a coder or tech person.
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Thanks for getting back to me. It's very helpful to have another perspective on things. ... You bring up an interesting issue, with your goal of 100,000 staked CCC. I think it is important for the Fund to support the community; however, we do remove demand from the market if we give away large delegations. There's a balance to strike there, I guess. ... I think Creative Coin can lead the way in creating a space for artists on Hive, and I think there is a need for work in that area. The success of Leo and all the wonderful investment tokens is tilting the focus of Hive toward being a crypto-blogging site. It's great to have that side of things, but I would hate to see other bloggers overshadowed by that. ... Outposts are now on my radar, thank you. Alas, I'm not a coder either!
It used to be a great community. However, founders are inactive for more than 2 years. Though it is nice to see price action led by @cliffagreen.
It will progress faster if control of website and token (CreativeCoin.xyz) can be moved to more willing community members. Also, collaboration with LEO community can bring some mere necessary updates to the website and token (Binance Smart Chain peg) etc.
I have taken some stake at 7K and hope to increase more, if such encouraging activities keeps going on.
Thanks for your comment @theia7, sorry I'm a long time to get back to it.
Yes, I know Shane and Isaria are not really interested in the token and community anymore; so it would be nice if someone could take over admin duties, if not the financial administration of the account.
I think the community would also benefit from having its front end converted to the new "Outposts" format now being used by PALNet, CTP Talk and others.
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Thanks for this post. I have some CCC sitting idle so I just delegated some to @cccf to help out.
Sounds like a good use of idle tokens! I had considered delegating to the Brofi organization for a bit of income, but I'd rather the staking power used inside the community.
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I love the idea of seeing new life in the CCC community
I've been tagging creativecoin on my videos and stacking a little, but not nearly as much as you have! I've been putting the videos under the Pagan tribe but no one else is active there, so maybe I should try putting them here?
Well, your videos are definitely creative, and if you're getting no action under Pagan, why not give it a try?
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I think this is awesome, we love the idea of the CCC as we are artists but it has been hard to find a community here so I am glad someone is helping as it is a great thing! !PIZZA
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We'll see what comes of it. It's definitely a worthy community and there are a lot of very creative people within the Hive ecosystem.
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Wow, I had no idea it had been two years already... that means that CreativeCoin is more than two years old!
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Would you say that skating at the skatepark/filming is creative? Because I could encourage the @skatehive community to tag this when their posting content, and consider buying some off hive engine.
Well... the original parameters for "creative" were pretty tight, but I don't think they apply anymore. From where I am sitting, it wouldn't be a stretch to place someone showing their skills under "performance art," (much like parkour) as well as sports.
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