I think my first thought was that it seems a lot, but at the same time, there is significant work involved in getting this set up, so if that's is what is needed then that is what is needed.

It's a bit of a catch 22 isn't, you need a certain figure to at least get started, but that figure may put people off.

I haven't completed a project on StartJoin, so I'm not even sure if there are limits on what you can request the funding level to be?
Perhaps as part of your campaign page you can give detail of the different levels of funding and what would be achieved maybe?
I wonder whether getting a successful initial crowdfund is actually more important that trying to get the "whole" amount first time round?

So, just thinking out loud here, maybe you could put a "minimum" of $1000 (as far as I am aware campaigns can be "over funded"?).
In your campaign page you can put some detail e.g
1) $1000 funded = basic working home page but no hardware, a further campaign for hardware will have to be created
2) $2000 funded = homepage with referral system and 6 mh of hosted mining hardware
3) $3000 funded = homepage, referral system, multiple payment options and 12 mh of hardware
4) $4000 funded = as 3 but with 30 mh of hardware
5) $5000 funded = as 3 but with 60mh of hardware & Android App

It might be worth going into how much is going to be re-invested into more hardware, where the hardware will be hosted etc
Don't forget, "idle" equipment can always be rented out on the various rig rental sites??

A rebranding will certainly attract some attention from investors as well as give the project a fresh new feeling. I will be cool to see a new logo and a new name, but then I would have to change the MUECloud domain. But if it is for the benefit of the project, then so be it. Since it is quark based, does that mean that MUE has multi algorithm hashing just like it?

Anyways, a good thing for MUE might be making it a PoS coin or a PoW/PoS hybrid. 

Hi all, I've approached two exchanges about this and no one wants to take it forward, "so far".
Please have a read and please approach or advise which exchange may be worth contacting.
I've so far tried Bleutrade & Banx.io

MUE savings and loans hosted on "an exchange"
 
Currently MonetaryUnit offers a savings account called MUEbank - http://bank.muecentral.com/
This offers 10%APR interest rate on deposited MUE and has a 28 day withdrawal notification period.
The benefit is that MUE holders can get the benefits of a POS interest return on a POW coin and it allows them to reduce the affect of inflation on their holdings.
A table of the reducing inflation rate is available here http://www.monetaryunit.org/muestuff/slowing-inflation-rate-of-monetaryunit/
MUEBank is a completely manual process, which while manageable at the moment, is still a pain.
The benefit to MUE is it offers a service to its community, and also helps reduce the liquidity in the market place.
The disadvantage of the savings account is that the interest has to be paid from our own holdings.
 
To mitigate this, we want to offer some of the traditional banking services that people know and love, and the second part is the loans facility, whereby MUE holders can deposit their MUE into their MUE loans account, and be offered a BTC loan using their MUE as collateral.  My gut feeling is that the BTC loan would be 50% of the current market value of their MUE when it is deposited.
I think perhaps we have 3 terms. 1 month @ 5%, 2 months @ 10% , 3 months @ 15%.
Once up and running this will allow the savings offering to be self sustaining, and also generate profit.
 
This is hopefully where it can get interesting for "an exchange" & MUE.

Lets say for arguments sake, that the revenue generated by the BTC loans is split 50/50 exchange/MUE.
So the exchange can do whatever it wants with its portion of the revenue = win for exchange.

The other portion of the revenue for MUE is AUTOMATICALLY put into buy support for MUE which tops up the MUE account on the exchange that pays the interest to the savings offering, again, this is a win for the exchange as it keeps the coins re-circulating there and increases volume of trade in that exchange.
It will also give the exchange a fantastic USP to market against as I am not aware anyone else is offering what I'm suggesting.

Ideally the exchange would only offer these services just for MUE, however I also understand that being able to use MUE as a test bed could be invaluable to offer the same services for other coins.
The benefit to MUE obviously is being able to offer sensible, fair automated financial instruments people can understand and are familiar with, which gives us exposure as a crypto project, but also of course, means that the re-invested BTC generated from the BTC loans will increase the MUE price.
It also means we don't have to be worried about having to set up an legal entity in a crypto friendly jurisdiction, as it will be managed by the exchange.
 
So there are a few things we would have to do.
1) Provide the exchange with MUE to fund the wallet that pays the interest in MUE savings.
2) Provide the exchange with BTC with which to fund the wallet that will pay out the BTC for the MUE loans.
3) There would have to be a facility that will "drip sell" MUE on any defaulted loans
4) Users will have to have as part of their exchange login, a simple to understand "banking" facility.
5) Show the liquidity funds of both MUE and BTC wallets being used to fund the services.
 
Initially I think we would have to be cautious and on launch limit both the number of users who are able to open accounts, but also limit the amounts that can be deposited into the savings account or BTC borrowed against their MUE collateral.
Also, as we move forward with it, it would be great to be able to activate promotional rates and offers etc.

Also instead of only offering people BTC loans against their MUE collateral you could offer them ANY coin as a loan which would work by using the BTC in the loans wallet to buy the coin they want to borrow, once again increasing volume on the exchange.

Hopefully someone will be along to help you out.

In the mean time, is it all working OK using a pool?
You could try our devs pool www.exapool.com

Have you tried removing rpcconnect from your config. From there instead of using localhost:29947 enter the ip address. 127.0.0.1:29947

Who says one man can't make a difference (or teenage twin brothers for that matter!)

I hope people understand the significance of this.

As of this Wednesday, there will be nearly 100 stores in a dynamic, intelligent liberal area of vegas that will accept MonetaryUnit for payment.
These are real physical stores in one of the busiest tourist cities in the world ALL accepting MUE at the cash register.

MUE has literally become the De facto crypto payment in 2 complete shopping malls in Vegas, with the potential to negotiate into a further 40+ shopping malls across the US.

Is this message coming in loud and clear?

Forget the gamblers market place of pump and dump coins on alt exchanges.
Join a project creating real world use, creating sustainable profitable projects for long term success, growth, and adoption.