Money Grown on Trees
Tokenized Maine Pine Cones
Natural Money from the Pine Tree State
Unit
of Account
A Maine Pine Cone is:
- ⛓
- Durable
- ⚖️
- Lightweight
- 💎
- Scarce
- 🌱
- Renewable
- 🐎
- Stable
⛏️ No mining, minting, or printing
Medium of
Exchange
Maine Pine Cones made fungible:
- 📍
- LocationMaine
- 🌲
- SpeciesWhite Pine
- ❓
- GenderFemale
- 📏
- Size 5''+
- 🏺
- ConditionStem; all scales; no seeds
✅ Easy to verify
The Pinecoin Protocol
So, you found a pine cone.
Is it Pinecoin grade?
01
Location
The 23rd United State
The cone must have been legally collected in Maine.
Maine is years old.
02
Species
Pinus strobus
Only cones from the Eastern White Pine are acceptable.
03
Gender
Male & Female
Female cones only.
04
Size
From top of stem to end of rachis
Must be clearly 5 inches in length.
05
Condition
Wet & dry
Stem attached. All scales intact. No seeds visible.
Stem attached.
All scales intact.
No seeds visible.
Must be unsquished and crisp when dry.
If your pine cone meets these criteria...
You have a verifiable
Maine Pine Cone!
Tagging
Your Maine Pine Cone is ready to be tagged!
Simply...- Clean thoroughly
- Heat to 140° F
- Assign the cone a Serial # and write it on a metal rim paper tag
- Tie a loop of twine and attach the tag to your cone
- Create a Tezos wallet, such as Temple, and buy some $XTZ
- Sync your wallet with a Tezos NFT marketplace, such as HEN
- Mint your Pinecoin token with a photo of your pine cone, ideally as a 🔲, including "
pinecoin" as a textual tag - Put in a cardboard mailer box to ship your cone; transfer your token to any Tezos wallet
Suggested Materials
Examples
Why collect Pinecoins? 🐿️
Support Sustainability
Maine is the only state over 90% forested.
Protect Our Trees
Earn without cutting down.
Sound Money
A pine-to-pine ecological cash system.
Technologies
Press
I don't know how to say this in a way that's considered a substantive contribution, but I still want to know:What's the point of "pinecoin"?
spdustin
Hacker News
It is nice, you know? Quiet. Soothing. Moderately outdoorsy. The crypto space may or may not be maturing, but Pinecoin is a good sign of maturity in the crypto art space. It is the next wave of ICO-based art, not blunt one-note parodies but charming silly little reenchantments of the world.
Matt Levine
Bloomberg