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The Evolution of EvoNodes.com

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My name is Smokey and I am the co-CEO of EvoNodes.com. EvoNodes is the predecessor of Titan Crypto, Datapaw Mining, and MyCryptoStats’ shared masternode services. This is the story of how we came to be one of the largest shared masternode providers in the industry.

It all began during the great bull run of December 2017 when I found Datapaw Mining and MyCryptoStats (MCS).

My good friend Curly SRH and I had taken the big leap into crypto. We began by researching different coins, which led us to STRAKS. We then bought and built a 3 card rx580 Mining Rig, which in turn led us to the largest STRAKS mining pool at the time, DataPaw. This is where I met DalmationCadet and Shaggy.

DalmationCadet had started DataPaw with his brother, and they hosted a shared masternode service on the side. Shaggy owned and operated MyCryptoStats.com , and he also offered a shared masternode service alongside MCS.

One day in early 2018, the two decided to join their shared masternodes services into one company, and so, Titan Crypto was born. Titan Crypto would be the parent company to Titan Mining (the mining pool) and Titan Masternodes (the shared masternode pool). MCS would be separate from them and stand as it’s own company.

In April of 2018 I talked Shaggy into letting me help him with the sales and business aspects of MCS, and to my surprise he agreed! I made my first sale for MCS the next day. Since then I have done an additional $6,000 in sales for MCS, and we have made many great partnerships along the way.

In May of 2018, DalmationCadet asked me to join the Titan Crypto Team. I gladly agreed as I was extremely bullish on the potential of both companies. And, of course, I still am to this day! I had went from only just hearing of crypto in mid-2017 to heading up Business Relations Marketing for two amazing crypto start-ups and running mineCurly’s mining ops, less than 1 year later! I became absolutely obsessed if I wasn’t at my day job or sleeping, I was working on crypto.

We had created two of the most innovative companies in crypto. Time flew by. Jump to August, 2018.

The bear market was beginning to take it’s toll on us all. The Great Bull Run of 2017 had turned into the hardest Bear Market crypto has seen to date. BTC had fallen from its all-time high of $20,000 and was now trading around $7,000, and AltCoins had lost 50% — 90% of their value.

Growth had slowed and remained steady for MCS. But with server costs and the low 5% fee on Masternode Rewards, Titan was barely breaking even. Mining was becoming less lucrative and less attractive by the day while new mining pools were popping up left and right, the competition was thick, and the space highly overcrowded. The daily admin of the masternodes was beginning to wear down the enthusiasm of the team, we were all working our asses off with no pay to speak of, and it was starting to show within our community as well. Not to mention we all had personal lives that were suffering due to our commitments in crypto. Growth and activity had come to almost a complete halt.

With everything piling up on us, Shaggy had decided he was going to step away from Titan and get back to focusing on his family and his work, allowing him to keep MCS as his side project. With the team in despair, all seemed lost.

Shaggy and I continued to talk. I expressed my continued bullishness for the Shared Masternode space. Due to lack of interest from the rest of the team, I eventually convinced Shaggy that we should start our own company or buy Titan out and re-brand it. After much deliberation, we decided upon what we agreed to be a fair offer to give Dalmation and his brother. We needed a fresh start. A rejuvenation of life back into the project if you will. We made our offer and, on good terms, they accepted. Dalmation still holds a seat on our Advisory Board to this day.

On September 5, 2018, Shaggy and I launched EvoNodes.com. Shaggy had rebuilt the platform from the ground up. Around 90% of the Titan Masternode users followed us over to Evo. This gave our new company an amazing head start! We named it EvoNodes because the crypto landscape is in a constant state of change, and thus so were we. We were, and still are, in a constant state of Evolution, we are constantly coming up with new ideas and building new features. New coins are coming out every day, and they all have new ideas and they are all building new things! We truly believe we are building the future!

On October 10, 2018, we added 3 new team members to TeamEvo, Tech, Lucidinertia and Risu. Since then Lucidinertia and Risu have had to step away from Evo for personal matters. Shaggy has also (finally) stepped down from his role as main developer. All 3 now have permanent seats on our Advisory Board, with full positions waiting for them if they ever decide to jump back in! They will always be EvoFamily! This has not slowed us down, Tech has stepped up HUGE and now runs all daily Masternode maintenance, from setting up new nodes, to withdraws and taking nodes down. Tech and I now own EvoNodes 50/50 as Co-CEO’s. We will continue to build and grow Evo into the largest Shared Masternode Service in the industry!

We have a new developer joining the team, we will make an announcement about that very soon!

All along the way, other companies have been copying everything they can from us. Most of whom, still to this day, can not fully replicate what we have done at Titan and EvoNodes. As you can tell we have been in this game a while and have gone through our fair share of ups and downs, scams and copycats, and yet we remain nothing but excited to take on whatever comes next!

2018 has been one hell of a ride and we have some really exciting things planned for 2019! Things that are going to continue to separate us from the rest of the crowd! I look forward to sharing those things with you right here each and every week! In my next post, we will dive deeper into what exactly Evo is, how it works, and what makes it so special, so stay tuned!