Money Grown on Trees

Tokenized Maine Pine Cones
Natural Money from the Pine Tree State


Pine cone +
ERC-20 token Tezos #CleanNFT
for Proof-of-Authenticity

Unit
of Account


A Maine Pine Cone is:
⛓
Durable
⚖️
Lightweight
💎
Scarce
🌱
Renewable
🐎
Stable

⛏️ No mining, minting, or printing

Store of
Value


Maine Pine Cones' intrinsic use value:
🎄
Ornament
📦
Packing material
🔥
Fire starter
👢
Satisfyingly crunch
🥣
Part of a complete breakfast

🎁 The perfect gift

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?
Here's our initial Bitcoin-inspired verification protocol:
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.
The White Pine is Maine's State Tree.
03
Gender
Male & Female
Female cones only.
Male cones are pollinators.
04
Size
1
2
3
4
5
6
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...
  1. Clean thoroughly
  2. Heat to 140° F
  3. Assign the cone a Serial # and write it on a metal rim paper tag
  4. Tie a loop of twine and attach the tag to your cone
  5. Create a Tezos wallet, such as Temple, and buy some $XTZ
  6. Sync your wallet with a Tezos NFT marketplace, such as HEN(hic et nunc)
  7. Mint your Pinecoin token with a photo of your pine cone, ideally as a 🔲, including "pinecoin" as a textual tag
  8. Put in a cardboard mailer box to ship your cone; transfer your token to any Tezos wallet

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.

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
So, will people be stripmining maine for pinecones once @pinecoins catch on? Or will they start planting pine trees everywhere? are #ecocoins better than #cryptocurrency? what happens if you back an ecocoin with a resource that will decline or increase due to global warming? Hmm
Nick Kaufmann
OpenMaine

Product Railmap

Initial Cone Offering

Halloween 2018

Geotagged Physical Cones

Halloween 2019
Christmas Eve 2019

Experiments with Natural Clay Tags & Bird Feeders

Christmas 2020

#CleanNFT Launch

Winter Solstice 2021

Trade Pinecoins

Coming Soon