I first came across Linda in early 2018 off the back of a silly price jump. Even in the crazy bull market at the time this jump from a market cap of a few million to 50 million in no time at all was notable.

LINDA’s January Rush

I started to research, exploring the team, the community and the idea as presented in the whitepaper. Initial reading suggested Linda would be a privacy coin, a competitor to the headline grabbers like Verge, Dash and Monero at the time. The segment was in vogue and there was so much general FOMO I determined with the price at .008USD that I would try get in at .006USD. This happened around the 15th of January.

Like many mid January bags what followed was nothing but despair on the price front. Upon purchase it rallied bravely for a day or day offering me a 10/15% margin which I of course sniffed haughtily at.

By the end of January my bag was more or less written off but there was something about this project. The team and community on Twitter were different to most coins. The team seemed to be just a bunch of folk who were really enjoying exploring the endless possibilities of blockchain. The community were in sharp contrast to the dominant twitter coin communities like Tron, Bitcoin or Bitcoin Cash. There was no endless streams of ‘when moon’. Rather there were nice people preaching calm and the virtues of a long term view.

A New Whitepaper

Through the spring the price continued to be horrid but the team and community marched on undeterred, ever more positive and excited. Whispers of a new whitepaper and revamped roadmap and future product emerged. There was talk of a mysterious LindaX.

On the 31st of May amidst much online chatter and clamour around the upcoming whitepaper release the LindaCoin official channel released a single page in advance.

Linda Whitepaper Teaser

This release really caught my eye as it perfectly encapsulated the Linda project for me. It promises mobile masternodes, which are an incredible development in the space. If you hold 2 million plus coins, you can set up and turn on a masternode from your mobile device through the new Linda wallet. This is such an incredible stroke of increased ease of adoption. In presenting it they use a screen display of an iPhone 4. Cutting edge technicians refreshingly unconcerned with optics in contrast to far too many scammy projects in the crypto space who put more hours into the graphic design of a whitepaper than committing to github.

Around this time I drastically increased the size of my holdings feeling they were massively undervalued ahead of what I was expecting to be a very positive whitepaper release.

The whitepaper release did not disappoint, it’s ambition, scale and adoption incentives blew my mind.

The new roadmap allows for a wide variety of features.

Mobile App — the mobile wallet allows you to access and control your funds on the go. Furthermore it allows you to stake your Linda coins, not only that it also facilitates the staking (and spending) of other partnered PoS coins, to date this includes — ReddCoin, Shard, DigiByte, Colossus.

Web Wallet — the web wallet, like the mobile wallet allows the staking and spending of Linda as well as other partnered PoS coins. There is also the ability to run masternodes.

Atomic Swaps/Hot Swaps — here the team seems to really be pushing to the forefront of blockchain technology offering atomic swaps facilitating peer-to-peer transactions with different coins not requiring conversion through an exchange. Linda envisions Atomic Swaps giving way to Hot Swaps whereby a user can convert their own coins to any currency using Linda technology.

LindaX Token Platform — the team will rollout their own token platform. Unlike ERC20 compatible tokens, Linda X propose to prescreen all tokens in order to reduce scams. Another benefit of using the Linda X platform is that all tokens will have access to the Linda app features. They will be able to stake their tokens and have all the features of Linda.

LindaX will also create a lending network. This creates another use case application for Linda. People will now be able to lend tokens from the wallet which is a huge feature.

On the 30th of June,the team released their mobile wallet. The following image should speak to it’s early traction!

The moral of the story is that hype will come and go, FUD, FOMO etc is part of the crypto-verse. But what really matters is the team and the product. This project has taught me this lesson very clearly, believer the team, not the trolls!