Ha, yes, the LinkedIn is me but old. I’m from Minnesota but currently out in Durango, Colorado. That’s the Reddit user. That’s the nyancoin site by the previous developer. Reddit user jwflame runs https://www.nyancoin.info/ which is our current reference site; the /r/nyancoins subreddit is most of our activity.
The coin-a-day series was on /r/cryptocurrency from January 1st 2015 through, huh, apparently it was only through January 17th in checking back on my archive. I took down the initial posts after I got annoyed. I reposted a couple with updates as “coin-a-week”; my next was going to be coin-a-year to repost the NYAN one originally from January 4th 2015. Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Peercoin from the coin-a-week reposts. I’ll also post my NuShares one here for reference / some extra validation that I’m the real coin-a-day I suppose for those who read it in the original. 
As was pointed out to me in response, the initial sales were a closed offering. I described it in the piece as an ICO which was objected to. This series was just a hobby project for me to get some exposure to other projects and have some feedback on what I was wrong on, so overall, I like to think I did alright. Anyhow, without further apology, my original NuShares Coin-a-Day post, reposted:
Coin-a-Day January 12th
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As endorsed by /u/reddcoin!
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“I can tell, you did a great job researching Reddcoin, thanks for the great review!”
Today’s coin: NuShares (NSR)
Summary
• Coin supply: ~607 million on open market; ~1 billion currently available [1]; 2% annual inflation [2]
• All-time high: ~0.000036 BTC, January 9th [1]
• Current price: ~0.000034 BTC [1]
• Current market cap: ~$5.6 million [1]
• Block rate (average): 1 minute [3]
• Transaction rate: 2,816 / last 24 hours; ~$567,000 [3] [4]
• Transaction limit (currently): 70 transactions / second [7]
• Transaction cost: 1 NSR / kB [5]
• Rich list: Top 100 address hold ~70.5% [6]
• Exchanges: BTER, Excoin, CCEDK [1]
• Processing method: PoS [2]
• Distribution method: Initial coin offering [8]
• Community: Active and helpful
• Code/development: Closed source peershares fork [9]
• Innovation or special feature: Ownership of NuBits system, cryptocurrency pegged to USD
Description
NuShares are designed as an equity to control and collect value from the creation of NuBits, a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency [10]. By voting, the shareholders determine further issuance of NBT and NSR, the “park rate” interest on NBT, and arbitrary motions [2].
Community
Their subreddit is small but still useful, while their forums are very responsive to questions and informative.
Footnotes
[1] http://coinmarketcap.com/assets/nushares/
[2] https://nubits.com/nushares/introduction
[3] https://blockexplorer.nu/status
[4] Transaction rate includes staking rewards
[5] https://nubits.com/nushares/voting-mechanics ; A couple quick, basic questions on NuShares This thread answered a few of my questions; note that because of automatic splitting into 10,000 share chunks, a large amount of NSR will inherently require a higher fee, unlike many other coins where a large transaction size (in value) may not require a large transaction size (in data in the block).
[6] https://blockexplorer.nu/topNSRaddresses/1 No apparent built-in summation so I calculated the sum. Any errors here are the result of sloppy transcription on my part while summing.
[7] Forked from peershares which is a fork of peercoin (based on thread in [5]), so bitcoin limit per block presumed to hold, and 10x multiplier from block rate. As always, these are theoretical maximum capacities based on presuming a minimum sized transaction at all times.
[8] Undistributed NuShares
[9] https://nubits.com/about/source-code ; and the thread mentioned in [5]
[10] https://nubits.com/about/white-paper
Further reading
• nubits.com
• discuss.nubits.com
• /r/nubits [sic] - there is no standalone nuShares subreddit
Disclosure, disclaimer, afterword
Disclosure: I currently hold 0 NSRs, because of a lack of time and being very tired tonight, rather than a lack of intent. I will probably try to buy some later. If you would like to donate NSR, Sivdr54XP7ge3wEovUDCo7ZHcZnEgBVMng should work.
Disclaimer: I meant to write more, but my “short nap” ended up becoming almost the start of my full night’s rest. Any accuracy or informative value is strictly accidental and unintended.
Afterword: If it weren’t for being closed source and highly concentrated, this would seem like an especially compelling system. The closed source nature seems unnecessary and perhaps even questionably just given its strong basis upon open source software, and there seems to be no immediate intent to follow through on the declared expectation to open source “a few weeks or months after release.” [9] But the concentration may be helpful in providing the incentive to keep the system strong and the community tight-knit, and the NBT peg has held strong so far.
Up next: Ripple
So tired; crashing. I’ll respond to comments in like a day…
That message above was in the original but probably holds for me here soon. The reference to closed source is strange reading now. I think it was still closed source at the time but must have gone open source relatively shortly thereafter; I don’t know when that happened.
Obviously it was a pretty brief piece. I don’t remember exactly what I was doing when I did that one, but keeping up with getting one a day posted was rather challenging for some of that period logistically.
This account was actually made at that time when I was asking a few questions for the piece, so I’d actually done some research further in advance than some of the articles I slapdashed together. xD
It was fun though. I focused on trying to get an accurate overall summary of some key metrics overall (some of them like block size which matters for calculating throughput often aren’t explicitly noted and generally are just inferred to be at 1MB but can have interesting answers like with Monero) and mentioning whatever key distinctions they might have and trying to mostly keep my opinions separate and noted. I had generally positive feedback on the series and it was a lot of fun to do the research.
Edit: Also, I have no idea what that address is; don’t donate to it. ;-p Probably some ancient exchange deposit address I generated at the time, but I’m not still active on any of those accounts. I’m glad to generate NSR or NBT addresses to donate to though. 
Edit 2: I checked it on the block explorer, and I see it had 10,000 NSR sent on the next day. I have no recollection, but I probably cashed that out at some point to BTC which probably ended up on Cryptsy buying NYAN and sent to my hoard. Quite a generous tip. Almost certainly the best tip I got while doing the series, unless the 6.66 BKS I just recently got is credited to the series which brought me to his attention.
