Hello community,

Work will soon begin on a book called "BitShares - History of the First Year".  Besides other books in the series including Peercoin and Dogecoin, it will be a historical narrative from the announcement of the coin (originally ProtoShares) until the blockchain was one year old. 

Please could someone verify that this link was the initial announcement of the coin on Bitcointalk:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=325261.0

I am aware that this forum (https://bitsharestalk.org) was operational very quickly. 

I look forward to your help

Christopher P Thompson

Preliminary front cover: