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Hey everyone. I just wanted to take some time to share a bit of unfortunate news. After much thought, I have decided to step away from the blockchain project. Although it was one of the most meaningful projects I have ever worked on, I felt that the project was having a negative impact on the overall community. Our community is truly something special. It was built around education, learning, and helping each other grow. My hope was that this project would only strengthen our community, but as time went on I realized that things were not heading in the direction I had envisioned. I was unable to figure out how to get us all back on course and for that I am disappointed in myself for letting everyone down.

As for what we have built up to this point, all of the source code remains open source and available at ​​ https://github.com/thenewboston-blockchain  To all of those who continue working on the project, I truly wish you nothing but the best. I still believe in the potential of the project and hope that one day it will become something incredible.

To all of those who have been part of this journey, I would like to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. Although things didn't turn out as expected, I am forever grateful to have been able to work alongside so many amazing people. Being able to build something together with so many genuine, loving, and talented people from all over the world is something that I will never forget.

As for myself, I will be focusing my time on creating educational content. I believe that this is where I can give the most value to others. And although I may not know exactly what the future will hold for thenewboston, what I understand now is that it's not just about the software that we build. What matters is that whatever we build, that we build it for each other.

Thank you all for being a part of such an amazing community and for making it one that I am proud to be a part of. 

Had an interview with  @francescociulla  this past weekend about my YouTube journey. If anyone wants to check it out it premiers in 5 minutes :-) 

I am trying my hardest to pump out more tutorials but I have a TON of messages from everyone wanting to help out with the project :-) I am responding as fast as I can but this project is really blowing up quickly. Right now we are trending #6 on GitHub!  https://github.com/trending  

As a side note - for anyone looking to earn a few coins for an easy task you can add "Hello World" in your own language here  https://github.com/thenewboston-developers/Website/issues/351 
Lastly, the voting from my "Hello, World." video ran into some issues. When people posted their ideas YouTube was flagging some of the comments as spam due to the 64 character random string in the comment (I assume that's what was triggering it). So some ideas never were seen, some went through, and others have been posting on Slack instead. So I am not sure what the most fair way to choose the winner is since I wasn't expecting to have this issue :-/ I still have to figure that out, just wanted to give everyone a heads up since I know a lot of people are waiting for that.

I just need another day or two to get through the rest of all your guys messages but more tutorials coming soon!  :-) 

What tutorial series would you like to see next?