兩年多前我曾經在Steem上分享過一個個人電腦挖礦的幣，JSECoin。
Web Browser Mining or Simply Get Your Referral Rewards before JSECoin's ICO [第一次當礦工就上手的JSECoin]
這一年多的熊市，我早已忘記這個幣。電腦裡或許還有一些挖到的幣吧，或許曾經值個幾十美元，現在肯定是零頭的零頭了...
然後今天收到這封信，才又想起它來。但卻是....
一封告別，謝幕，結束營業，謝謝再見不聯絡的信。
大意就是，美好的仗我們打過了，環境太差，活不下去了，這些東西都會留下來，希望有一天有人能將之復興。但我們玩不下去了，感謝曾經支持過我們的人...
4月21日關燈，剩下的錢會到一個小交易所去買所有在那邊掛單的幣，希望能給持幣者一點補償云云...
其實，這樣的事，過去兩年，在幣圈不斷上演，能存活的沒多少。像這樣願意好好跟生態圈裡的人道別跟交代的，甚至都很少見了...
我個人在這圈子也是東投西投，幾乎可以說，沒有一個成功的。似乎當初如果都留大幣，結果會是最好的。甚至是STEEM都可以，畢竟還活著（先不管是這兩個哪一個），還有市值...
後來我真的對於新項目都沒有興致了，連理解的力氣都沒有。
當初這個JSECoin，我那時覺得應該還不錯的，有點人人可挖礦的概念。但老實說，這概念也是很多項目玩，有人玩出什麼名堂了嗎？似乎也沒有...
其實，這些ICO跟區塊鏈項目們，在人間跑一輪，最大的受益者，先不談那種純詐騙的，應該就是團隊了吧？他們獲得經驗（失敗經驗也是很棒的），獲得資歷，然後可以繼續他們豐富的人生。畢竟創業者通常不會投資自己的錢。
所以，投資人是傻子嗎？給人錢去燒去玩？也不能這麼說，願賭服輸，投資也沒人逼你...
我覺得，幣圈走過這一輪，在下一次的牛市，應該能夠結出真正對人類社會有用而大放異彩的花朵了吧？希望到時候我還在船上....
期待....
信件全文附於下供參考。
JSE CLOSING DOWN
Under the current economic environment it has not been possible to raise the funding required to continue the JSE project.
Announcement: https://jsecoin.com/jse-closing-down/
Since 2017 the team has developed and built the network and front-end platforms to bridge web and blockchain technologies. In hindsight we left it too late to raise ICO funds and the project was always bootstrapped. Undeterred we used what little funds we had to the best of our abilities to build out the JSE platform, app and network. The markets for cryptocurrencies have declined since the end of 2017 and this has had a very negative impact on the liquidity and token economics. Organic growth and token demand have slowed significantly making our metrics less desirable to investors. With the Covid-19 pandemic hitting all markets and VC investment our chances of raising are now unrealistic.
The platform will be shut down on the 21st April 2020, at this time a snapshot will be taken of the ledger and published on the website. Remaining funds after liquidation and server costs will be used to continue the buy back programme on the LATOKEN exchange which seems the fairest way to reimburse stakeholders. Anyone looking to trade tokens on exchange should withdraw funds to the ERC20 token (which will remain in use) before the date above.
The code-base will remain on Github and the existing ledger json files will be published on this website once they have been finalised.
I hope that in the future someone will continue the work we started and fork the project continuing the existing ledger. Cryptocurrency is the future and the current economic crisis and bail out plans only highlight the need to separate money from state. As a community we need an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional proof-of-work systems.
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the project. Developers, investors, community members, miners and website publishers. I have been lucky enough to work with some amazing people over the last three years and wish them the best for whatever the future brings. I apologise to everyone who invested time, money and resources into the project who believed, like I did, in what we were doing.
Kind regards,
James Bachini
CEO