Just for a fun social experiment I am having unbiased individuals write reports on Crown to describe to me how they see it. Here is one of the first reports that came in - just to give everyone an idea of how people view CRW as a project

*Note these are not my own thoughts but rather the thoughts of a friend*

MY UNDERSTANDING ON CROWN
One word comes to my mind when I started exploring CROWN for the first time and that is “Revolution”. This revolution has a capability of changing economies of world on the basis of decentralization. The Power of decision making lies with each and every individual rather than handful of people. I am sick of one day democracy when I cast my vote and on other days I am powerless. I want to breathe democracy on a daily basis which is peer to peer. This desire is a distant dream if we continue to live with traditional approach. The CROWN of Blockchain technology offers us a golden opportunity of life-time which not only changes our lives and outlook, but also traces light on loopholes of Traditional Centralised System which we are forced to adopt due to the lack of any alternatives. Now we have alternatives. Then what are we waiting for?

I am very new to the world of blockchain Technology and knew nothing about it before. I heard about Bitcoin, but didn’t know what it was. In my part of world we are still obsessed with Paytm and never think beyond it. I had a vague idea about Bitcoin that it was a Digital currency. The term ‘Cryptocurrency’ sounds too technical to my ears. To clear my doubts, I started browsing those web pages which give informations on Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency. According to Don & Alex Tapscott, Authors of Blockchain Revolution (2016), “The Blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record not just financial transactions but virtually everything of value.” Blockchain technology is like the internet in that it has a built-in robustness. By storing blocks of information that are identical across its network, the Blockchain cannot be controlled by any single entity and has no single point of failure. Wikipedia describes Cryptocurrency (or crypto currency) as a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to secure its transactions, to control the creation of additional units, and to verify the transfer of assets. Cryptography is a set of mathematical equations which are designed to make people get confused when they’re run forward. They only get clear when they’re run backward using special keys.

Crown (CRW) is a digital commodity and application platform for driving technical & financial innovation which uses both Blockchain technology and cryptography. Crown is more advanced than Bitcoin. The Crown project aims to become a global payment, messaging and application platform, enabling developers to build complex new economy applications and offering an efficient low transaction cost platform to store value, register ownership and manage contractual relationships.

Key Facts about CROWN
 Launched transparently in mid-2014 as Crowncoin
 Powered by 1208 Tron Masternodes
 Decentralised
 Democratic governance system
 API-driven model
 Merge mined with BTC
 No to anonymity
 Crown prime intention is to create a viable application platform for merchants, developers, and communities.
 The major differences from Bitcoin are that:
Crown corroborates transactions quickly. Transactions are confirmed within seconds
Consist of additional layer of security created by Tron network Masternodes

Crown is a hybrid system that makes use of a token to run a computer program, which in turn, uses keys to encrypt and decrypt any messages. The computer program also stores data about the tokens in Blockchain- a public database that is shared by various users.

The founders have a significant emotional investment in the project and a strong belief in the future of Blockchain technology which has seen continuous development and Crown coin rebranded to Crown with a new team of developers with a new vision, a global appeal and above all what we think is going to be a market changing product. The change to a new team was gradual and in stages. Some original team members left to work on other projects while others remained to keep the project alive and introduce new features such as Timestamping (an embedded notary function within Crown). As people began to see the new vision for Crown, more and more people have decided to get involved in different capacities. Some original team and community members are renewing their interest in the project after recent progress and
events.

Crown has had a consistent focus on building their Blockchain as a commercial utility. The team has stayed away from the current atmosphere of smoke and mirrors that the ICOs have developed. Anonymous transactions are not regulatory friendly, they enable fraud and crime. Crown believes that Governments should be enabled to participate in further business and Blockchain development. Removing Darksend from Crown coin will aide in the objective of widespread legal compliance. Crown has also hired a high profile law firm which is planning to help the team to comply with all the US and EU regulations so Trons will continue to be a legally safe instrument to build a next generation business. The Crown team are united in the belief that proof of work consensus models are a waste of finite natural resources and that the future of Blockchain and cryptocurrency cannot depend on the use of millions of dollars of electricity every day. This is the main reason that Crown currently uses merge mining to piggyback and make use of already expended resources on the Bitcoin network. Crown is a masternode coin which is a decentralised system of governance and also a way to generate passive income.

Unfortunately no answer from Bittrex Support so my 500 CRW has not returned yet.

Great to see that Bittrex is finally returning CRW to our community. 

Crown Weekly Update January 15 2018 to January 24 2018

BTC Miami Conference
Crown attended the North American Bitcoin Conference last week. It was the largest conference in North America with nearly 5000 attendees. It was attended by Fabian Olesen (chaositec), Artem Brazhnikov (artem), and Joe Connors (snoops) of the core team, as well as Jerry Ruiz, Andres Jeanton, and Mike Schleifer of Crown LATAM. The team made countless connections with people throughout the industry that we expect will propel the project that we are in contact with. A detailed report of the conference will be available in the coming days. Pictures and media from the conference have already been posted, and more is on the way! Below are a few galleries from the event.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1wwrHB6wwQpA6MoqUS_FiVo5qMwFTqmU_
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1PRHZCWvwKDuETYyBHD2MiiayC_L7Jsne
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1_o2ZI29mEKEp15YTDWY95rOICpo9OUeM



Innorthvation Santander Conference
Crown also attended the Innorthvation Conference held in Santander which was the first Blockchain Conference in Northern Spain. It was attended by Victor Martin (vic) and Luke Bettles (calnaughtonjnr).  There were 30 minutes to present Crown and discuss its main features. Several connections were made with prominent individuals that we are looking to work with.

A longer write-up about the event is available here: https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/815487.msg28631595#msg28631595

Crown at Ruhr University
The Ruhr-Universtität Bochum News Portal has published an article discussing the lecture led by Ivan Labra (ilabra) and Roderic (Twister) at the Institute for Media Studies on January 15th. Students from the course Blockchain-Technology: From the Internet of Information Towards the Internet of Value submitted a proposal to the Crown governance system to fund the event. The course is imparted by Jose Herranz; a blockchain researcher at the Institute for Media Studies.
Read the full article here: http://news.rub.de/studium/2018-01-18-digitales-geld-blockchain-experten-besuchen-bochum

Crown Vlog and Blog
The new vlog series and blog on Medium will begin this week, but updates will continue to be posted here as well. We have calculated that Wednesdays will be the best release day for our new process. Keep an eye out for the launch!

Bitcore Implementation
Bitcore implementation is almost finished which will allow our community to use Trezor to store CRW. We are thrilled to offer this to our community so that we can all store our favorite token using the best security available.

Braziliex Exchange
The owner of Braziliex met with us in Miami and is a huge fan of the project. Braziliex is the fastest growing exchange in Brazil and wants to work with us to make Crown the biggest altcoin in Brazil. We will continue to work with him directly. Plans are being made for conferences, sponsorships and events in Brazil.

Crown Contests and Giveaways
We will have a new contest starting this week and many more in the weeks to come. Watch our Twitter for details!

Next Release
The next release will be available within a month. This release will simplify masternode and systemnode creation, allow for updates directly from the wallet, decrease the time to first systemnode/masternode reward and fix various bugs.

Have you ever thought of adding telegram channel?