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There will be further publications and details leading up to launch. I suggest that you join the Slack channel if you want to discuss. The wallets will be available to download in a few days.

Email sent! Lets talk!

okay let's see the slack, I think it would be great later :)

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looks like a pure pos coin? all coins mined at genesis (or first) block?

I can do the escrow if you want.

Yes, thats right, we will mine the coins and then distribute. The point is to fund the mobile platform and so the we need to coin to build utilities on, there will be further updates soon as we get closer to 20/11...

We haven't decided exactly how to do this yet, but I will keep you in mind. You could PM me and explain a bit more how that might work.

Hi op,if you are looking for some professional Hindi (India) translation of your ANN thread, then I am the person for this.Please reserve a spot for me and inform me of the same. Thanks

Hi SPEC team,

Where can I properly apply for the community manager position?  Shoot me a PM, or reply here with details on whom to contact with my past experience :)

Best of luck with this project nonetheless!

I wouldn't trust this scrub shill account. word has it it no longer belongs to the original owner and was sold. All he does is spend time in other threads talking shit nonstop. have a legit exchange do your escrow or a trusted forum member with good trust ratings.

reserve indonesian translation

waiting Spectrecoin [SPEC] more information

Thanks for the warning, I will publish some more details closer to next Sunday. We will also have the wallets out to download before that and announce the team so it's not just hot air.

I like that you guys have worked on your mainnet and wallet will be available before the start of ICO, what I don't see/understand is how to differentiate this project from other anonymous projects out there. There must be something that will make me prefer Spec to Zcash/Dash/Moreno etc.

The crypto, SPEC, will be used as the currency for the mobile app which we are working on. I expect further details to be published in a few days. I am just discussing details with our lead app developer. Some more information on the team will also be published and if you follow for another few days it will become clearer how this is different. Not to say that SPEC is only for the mobile app, SPEC is a fully features anonymous crypto in it's own right that will be developed along side the mobile platform. So, what we are proposing is real world usage for our crypto through a novel mobile platform that will enable cash transfers.

Reserved for me. I'll look closer late when there will be more information.

You have any plan to run social media campaign reserve some bounty for it. Twitter is good platform to promote this project hopefully it would bring good result towards this.

hopefully the shipping cost here is cheaper than other . because if the shipping cost is very expensive very burdensome users  ;D

Wallet looks identical to SDC wallet!

https://umbra.shadowproject.io/images/overview_wallet.png

Which has encrypted chat, ring sigs already

Yes, SPEC is based on SDC and uses the same tech. This is a very good platform to work from and to develop the mobile platform for alternative remittance. If you read the website, it does in fact state that SPEC is based on SDC and it explains why. Nothing to strange about that, 90% of all cryptos are based on previous ones, to expand and take in a different direction. SDC is based on Bitcoin but they have developed a HTML wallet that is perfectly suited to our ultimate goal.

We have never tried to obscure that...what is your point?

No it doesn't. It looks like SDC with the logo changed.

Again, yes, it is based on SDC in the same way as, say Litecoin is based on Bitcoin etc. etc. so that is why so many crypto wallets look the same. This is a feature of open source, to develop and change. This project will take it in a different direction and make changes. I don't know why you find it strange that one crypto is based on another. This has been the case for years. Maybe there aren't so many that are based on SDC.

ED: and it's a bit more than just a logo as I am sure you know. Why do you think there are so few SDC clones?

I don't have a problem with that at all. But to say it looks "far superior" to other anon currencies is completely inane given that, for now at least, it's a straight clone of SDC.

Why is it a problem to use a platform which is already available to create a new one.

Established altcoins are a great starting platform and they already contains a lot of features. The developers can build upon it and make their coin superior to the original coin.
 Would you also say that Burstcoin and HZ are scam coins, because they are built on NXT?
 The same goes for Bitcoin Unlimited, Bitcoin Classic and all other implementations.

You will also have to show proof of the statement below:

sir yes sir! :D

hello i just want to know is there any social media bounties or another bounties?

Just wondering whether you intend to also develop a marketplace and integrate tor and i2p as they are evident in the wallet or if you intend to copy code as and when SDC team release theirs.

Good choice of coin but just weary of intentions. I hope you can understand :)

The Tor and I2P, yes for sure, once the initial release is out. There is no issues with tracking SDC with the market place but it is also possible that the 'market place' tab will be replaced by something else. The main purpose here is to get a mobile platform for remittance using SPEC. There should be an announcement soon with a road map for this. Maybe 2-3 days. That is really the main purpose.

Will it be open source or will it be closed off for the time being? (Dont know if its open source and the site didnt provide a repo link but couldve overlooked it)

Yes, the plan is roughly:
1. Finalise the code and generate the initial 20 mill. SPEC
2. Open the GitHub repo to the public, so yes it will be open source, just not until the code is finalised.
3. Release Windows Qt, Mac Qt and Linux Qt
4. A pre-alpha "blueprint" of the Spectre.Cash alternative remittance mobile platform will be presented.
5. More information on the team will be released.

This will be completed ahead of the start of the ICO, so you will be able to review the source and download the wallets.

Distribution will commence immediately after the end of the ICO.

Exchanges will be contacted as we are progressing through to distribution.

6. Spectre.Cash alternative remittance mobile platform will continue to be developed. The app will not be open source until after the app has been released into the "wild".
7. The app will only be using SPEC for transfers.

So far they don't have social media bounties but just wait for it. But you can support their signature campaign by enrolling it and wearing their signature code as I wear it and a participant of its signature campaign. And you can just simply visit the signature campaign thread here -

Just joined slack and followed the twitter account for further developments in Spectre.

Another shitcoin?

Thanks for the awesome and insightful contribution. But, no, no shit, just a brilliant coin with some mobile infrastructure to go with it.

@Op, why this thread is self moderated?
and why people calling you alt of eng.chaks?

Sent a reply back to OP about the community manager position.

Also curious - if this is going to be an ICO, what are the generated funds being allocated towards?

Many projects (most recently BASH) proposed ridiculous ICO requests with no explanation as to why the money was needed.

Cheers!

I'm pretty sure the thread is self moderated, because mandica didn't want accusations made against him in this thread. They should be made in another one and you should post appropriate feedback on his trustpage.

Mandica has deleted one comment from FriendlyChemist. FriendlyChemist was so "friendly" and posted the exact same on here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1678323.msg16856369#msg16856369.
He is also the one calling Mandica an alt of eng.chaks.

I'm pretty sure you get the idea behind self moderation now.

Edit:
In @OP it was stated what the money was going to be used for.

I'm pretty sure it will also be used to pay bounties and jobs like community manager.  ;)

The reason it's moderated is that trolls like FriendlyChemist trawls the forums and get off on making baseless allegations about projects he has no knowledge of and obviously can't be bothered to read about or join the Slack for a discussion. I am on Slack every day and so are the other team members, but FriendlyChemist did not PM me or ask questions on Slack. I have no idea what eng.chaks is and what this is about. He also left me a feedback saying that he has risked 1 BTC, but I have never spoken to him before and I have never made any deals with him in any capacity anywhere, so what you have are people that lie for their own satisfaction and try to drag people down. I have been around for long enough to know how toxic this forum can be and so I think that a certain level of editorial control is sensible to weed out posts that are purely malicious. This is common practice web-wide. On most serious forums you find, there will be mods working to weed out the drivel and moderate the misbehaviour of muttonheads.

I will answer any questions and will NOT delete any criticism or observations as long as it's reasoned and not just malicious allegations. There is this weird sense among certain people on this forum that if you want to retain some editorial control over the contributions to your own project you are somehow a scammer. This is just nonsense. And, so if I choose to delete posts that are purely without merit and malicious and has nothing to do with the topic, it means nothing.

Follow the thread, follow updates on the website and join Slack if you want to discuss and give it a chance.

On the topic of the ICO funds. We have just hired a further mobile app developer to join the team and we are building what can best be described as a blockchain version of Hawala money transfer. Hawala is an ancient method of money transfer that exists outside of mainstream banking. The project will take that idea and put it into the 21st century and replace the old concept of trust with the blockchain. So, the whole overarching purpose of The Spectreproject is to provide a totally decentralised P2P mobile platform for cash transfers. No registration, no ID, no oversight and a zero knowledge chain. SDC was the perfect crypto to base this on as the crypto has a lot of the features we need. The mobile platform will be open source and will be released for anyone to use. We are not forming a commercial enterprise and will not take any profit from the app but we have an ideology that we will deliver software and a crypto, SPEC, that will be beyond censorship and control, pure P2P.

This is no mean feat and it will take some effort to make this work. We will hire team members to realise this plan and for the whole concept to work we need some serious PR and we need to get the app onto stores for people to download and use. You will be able to use this system with zero background in crypto and you do not need to know anything about crypto.

You, if you choose, will hold a share in SPEC and this will be the only cryptocurrency to be used in this system so the value appreciation will come from increased use. We believe that this is real world usage of blockchain tech. and crypto and unique today. It is also conceptually simple but solves a big problem for a lot of 'unbanked' people seeking to transfer money across borders.

As the crypto-community grows, several cryptocurrencies and wallets sprouted everywhere. Nowadays, privacy is indeed a basic but very important life requirement.
Protection, Privacy in your Pocket(s). The 3Ps I wanted for a wallet and spec have it all. With this we can say goodbye to unwanted audience(s) of the transactions we make, no more worries about having to look for encashment options that sometimes lead to scams and errors. And like a real physical wallet, with spec's mobile app, accessible from our pockets. Cant wait to use this.

Here is an article for our Russian friends:
https://cryptoscope.blogspot.de/2016/11/spectreproject-20-2016.html

so, this coin from russian?

No, it's international, UK, Germany

Going to watch this. Will invest some coins..

clone SDC is not easy but i can . if you want it , PM me .lol

OP, since SPEC is an anonymous currency, at what markets do you plan to deploy the currency and how do you plan to do it? My first guess would be making it useful and market it to darknet market place merchants into accepting the coin as payment since it has anonymous features.

You guys realize that the SPEC ticker had already been used, right? SpecCoin. Probably dead now, but not likely that exchanges like Bittrex that previously had SPEC listed will list your coin with the same ticker, as it will create quite a bit of confusion.

Any bounty campaign sir???
like signcamp, social network campaign???
thank you

I don't think there will be any confusion, there is no SPEC listed at any exchange as far as I know or on https://coinmarketcap.com/ among the 639 coins there.

We are aiming for major exchanges and we will get back to that soon. I think that Bittrex and Poloniex are interested in coins with a high volume and as SPEC has some real world usage, volume is likely so I expect SPEC to get listed after distribution. There will be more information on that later. Distribution is well over a month away.

If you read the info published so far you will see that SPEC is meant for an alternative mobile remittance app for cash transfer. Obviously, once it's out in the wild any market could list SPEC as an option.

There is a signature campaign: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1678323

There will be a social media campaign as well, soon so just follow.

If you have skills like that come over to https://slack.spectreproject.io/ and discuss. There is always a reward for good skills in coding.

Hi mandica I was wondering who Behind on Spectrecoin project can you showed they profile like linkedin or social media profile or that only you :D avtually I quite interested about your project

I think the issue here is firstly that you do not know how this system will work and secondly that it is obviously entirely voluntary if you want to use such an app to make a cash transfer. You get a flavour for what this is if you think Localbitcoins and Uber. It is a separate utility app that you can use if you choose and download from Playstore or App Store. It is separate from SPEC the currency which is a fully featured anonymous crypto with a desktop wallet. The desktop wallet for Windows and Mac or Linux obviously do not have any such features as location services. It isn't meant for Craiglist, its an app that will facilitate cash transfer, like a blockchain version of Hawala. There is no way to deduce the sender and receiver and no way to link the sender and receiver. If the police shows up at your door and grabs your computer they will not be able to see who you sent SPEC to unless you keep a record.

I hope that at least explains that there will be two pieces of software, (1) The 'normal' Spectrecoin desktop wallet for Windows, Mac and Linux much like the wallets your are used to and (2) A Spectrecoin mobile alternative remittance app for cash transfers, the only connection being that it uses SPEC as a settlement currency.

PS. Always encrypt your mobile phone if you have any personal information in it.

The best thing to do is to join us on Slack: https://slack.spectreproject.io/

We are all there, I am 'Spectreproject' and the other team members are 'jbg' and 'lulworm' so come and chat and we can answer your questions  :) One other team member chooses not to engage with the public.

I am the spokesperson as it where at this point in time. We believe strongly in personal choice and privacy so at this point in time, three members using a 'nickname' and one that will not be public. Judge by the code when GitHub is public.

I am actually on one campaign but as soon as signature campaign was launched I take off the other and wear this signature I have been following this thread and waiting for the signature campaign.I saw a big potential in this coin I hope I get accepted here I want to contribute to it's success..

Is it possible to add Komodo to the comparison on your website because from what I understood they are both a fork from ShadowCash so I can't see the difference If that's actually the case.

As far as I understand, Komodo uses parts of Zcash as a base for their anonymous transactions so I believe that it can be compared to Zcash in terms of privacy features. Someone correct me if this is not right. I have read the Komodo white paper but it doesn't really make it clear what the code base is built on but I very much doubt that it's SDC.

Having being part of the signature I really want to get a perfect understanding of this project and even see how I could be part of it in a more active way in other to be a beneficiary in the long run.

So OP, are we going to download a wallet or something because from what I read on the first page,there are different branches to this project, the coin part and another P2P part. How do these part connect?

I have explained this before and there is a white paper coming, but here you go:

(1) Spectrecoin [SPEC] - anonymous, untraceable cryptocurrency w/ PoSv3 and an advanced wallet

(2) A mobile platform / app (under the name Spectre.Cash) on Android and iOS aka. Spectrecoin Alternative Remittance System. This is a remittance system using SPEC as a settlement currency.

Two different entities but linked, if that makes sense. Wait for the white paper, should be out before 20/11/2016.

I can't join on signature campaign because has join another project  :(
Waiting for social media bounty,

We have launched a Social Media campaign:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1680832

I am interested in the anon coins and Spectrecoin can have a great future in the crypto world.. if you guys do the things right.

I've read that this coin is derived from SDC. And this concerns me. Shadowcash was called quite some times as scammy, shady and broken.
I don't care of what SDC team does, I care of the code you inherited.

There were posts claiming that SDC ring signatures are somewhat reversible, for example.
Did you guys check those claims, check the code, maybe fixed it? Or you have plans in that direction?

I think that it's a direction to focus on (and clear up) if you want to have your potential investors more interested in this project.

Yes, that was a bug found by the XMG dev, shnoe, and this was fixed so the ring signatures are healthy in the code we use. SDC had an issue with certain transactions before the fix but they fixed that and our code has all updates up until 3-4 weeks ago. All the other privacy features are good.
Bug: https://shnoe.wordpress.com/2016/02/11/de-anonymizing-shadowcash-and-oz-coin/
SDC acknowledge the bug: https://blog.shadowproject.io/2016/02/14/all-is-not-lost/
Fixed: https://blog.shadowproject.io/2016/03/07/development-update-march-phoenix/

So, the codebase for SPEC will not have any compromised transaction as the fix is in at the start.

Do you think you will be interested in a youtube campaign like a promotional video? I joined the signature already and planning on joining facebook campaign but I am also hoping to get more spectre with video promotions. :)

A revolution which is very good and very helpful to all the people that are in the world. A receipt or possession of the coin that is very clear and credible, allows to have a good level of security and also a desaign/features that convince everyone. I am pleased and hopefully in the future it could evolve with good and consistent about what it wants to land on

I want to invest on this coin cause it has a big potential to be the next superstar. Anyone who can guide on how to invest on this coin. I would love to be part on this promising coin.

You can start investing once they open their ICO on 20th of November. You will have a chance to get a 20% bonus by then, quite a good deal.
You can see more of it's details in their ico page here: https://ico.spectreproject.io/

it looks interesting and I'm impressive with this logo
I will join this project but we need strong escrow for this ico
and it will ensure all funds are in safe place . that is my view for ICO stage

You can get 20% bonus ICO starting from november 20th and I'm interested in ICO bonus
and I will not miss this chance.

Will ICO funds be held in escrow? Thanks.

Anonymous tokens are having their days presently, I think Monero is using Ring Signatures too, I will be watching this space, but I will like to ask why ICO and not use the mining model like Monero and Zcash

I'm attracted to this Ico because it is managed by reputable people here in Bitcointalk one of the thing that you need to look on any Ico,that you are going to invest your money and I believe with it's great features and reputable people working behind this project it will be a success..

With regards to escrow and trust. We are writing the scripts for the ICO and we are trying to come up with something that will work for everyone. Watch this space and we will come up with something.

i'm not eligible to join the social media campaign😏 but nonetheless,i followed u on twitter and will join the ico on nov20th because i like the idea behind this project. Goodluck and may you attract more investors!

a very interesting project.I think people will invest coins.should all turn out very positive

I'll definitely going to add this to  my portfolio,I prefer proof of stakes coin,because I don't have mining rigs and cannot afford to buy one,I'm 100% sure that this will be one of the most tradeable coin in the market.

Interesting project indeed, but the market seems crowded with several projects recently, this week alone like 4 ICOs that I know has started  and the bad thing is that some people are getting burnt when the project hit exchanges.

Having being part of the signature I really want to get a perfect understanding of this project and even see how I could be part of it i already join signature campaign but i cant join you on social media campaign coz of my 30% followers on twitter are fake

The best thing to do is to come over to Slack if you haven't done so already at: https://slack.spectreproject.io/

Will release a pre-beta Windows wallet today for you guys to test. Not the final version though so just for testing now. Mainchain version after this one.

There is no need to worry. I think that as the team are releasing the wallets and you will see what has been done it will convince you that that this team is serious and the ICO is running for around 4 weeks so there will be some announcements as it progresses.

Here is a Windows 32 pre-release wallet to test: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0FSTVG00nnbMEY3TjNuc1dSVTQ/view?usp=sharing

Feedback welcome. Needs to extract with DLLs into a directory to run.

SPECTRECOIN on steemit and newbium  ;)
https://steemit.com/spectrecoin/@moh-rokib/spectrecoin-spec-untraceable-or-ring-signatures-or-posv3
https://coins.newbium.com/post/4641-spectrecoin-spec-untraceable-ring-signatures

Im interested with this coin waiting for it to get started . I would follow this thread and add this to my coins list.

It'll be interesting to see how this ICO and Coin will stack up against similair privacy coins, espeically Komodo which is having an ICO right now too. The best coin will win out in the long run tho :)

Honestly I'm glad to be a part of this sig Spectrecoin so much impressive project indeed and I will not miss this chance to get 20% bonus.
Waiting untill ICO starting from november 20th and I thing it might be a good potential if invested on this coin.

The good thing of having a few similar projects running in this industry, is that they are looking to top each other by offering a much better experience than the rival project.

It keeps the developers sharp and constantly willing to improve where they can. It will be interesting to see how much the Spectre project will fetch in its entire ICO phase.

please tell me how much money you need to raise this company to the company was successful and was razvivalas?

I do not know about the coin because I was still a newbie. but if the new coin has great potential then I will follow and take a part to invest in these coins. And also I feel not know anything, I ask for help and guidance of the senior.
thank you

Yes. It will serve as a improvement material and can give birth to game changers

However,  Us investors/potential investors are having a hard time choosing the right ICO if many of the same kind released at once.

I already added this to my watch list and will see how it goes. This one is perfect for privacy freak like me.

These days there are a lot of crypto projects around the digitial arena but i think Spectrecoin will stand among them not only because they have a good marketing strateigy but also the fact the Roadmap of this looks promising to me.

Yea it looks promising, and cant really wait to see how it really compares up against other projects.

i was thinking the same..
the coin itself seems very promissing, but it wasn't the best time to start the ico.

Komodo started earlier, so a lot of investors already have "spent" their money(too much money "locked" at ico's isnt good).
But good luck with your project!

The investment window is open for 1 month so there should be a chance for anyone to get to know the project a bit better and there should be some good developments along the way and this will attract some interest. This is just the start of a long road so there is an incentive for early investors that will help to drive the project forward. Expect more technical updates once we have released the final wallets for the ICO. A white paper should be completed by the end of week 1. This will outline in some more detail what we hope to achieve and also how Spectre.Cash will be implemented.

Be patient for another few days and then we get going proper...and bear in mind that we have the advantage of having all the updates from SDC from the genesis block so all transactions from block 1 will be secure. More on that later.

I am intrigued with the coin being Untraceable if this coin will be integrated too in gambling industry then a country that bans online gambling can gamble again because you are anonymous and untraceable. I will certainly invest some here and watch this coin rise to the top.

Hello.

       Thank you for supporting the project. Indeed, there are places wherein online gambling is strictly prohibited. The same here in the Philippines, I saw a facebook post from a trusted member of our group about her account being locked because it was proven to be sending/receiving money from gambling site. I never had this problem myself but would really much be unwilling to have my transactions traced or marked then blocked if found that it was from gambling.

       How about the helpdesk/support for the wallet? The support from my current wallet now doesnt seem to be doing their job. I reported a transaction of a little amount 0.004, but had a problem. It has been 48hrs and still dont have my money back. I hope this wallet will have better chat-supports.

-jamyr

P.S.

      Just found out that I was promoted to Jr. Member, I do not know if I met the minimum number of post for the 1st week that I joined the signature campaign. :) 

There are no plans for any gambling site set up by the team but if someone was to set one up and use SPEC that would be great.

This is so nice project new coin like spectrecoin can be really good in battle with bitcoin and win them so hurry up and buy them.I think that I mean I am 100% sure that spectrecoin will grow big and we will can make really nice profit like in cryto coins like yocoin,bitcoin,altcoin maybe even better who can know that I am sure that nobody so how much spretrecoins worth in btc value? And I am also interested where is best place to buy it with lower fees.This crypto coin will be only for trading or also for use it like bitcoin,dogecoin or for some other purpose??

ICO quick guide (PDF) (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0FSTVG00nnbRUliSlJEWE9MMW8/view?usp=sharing)
Just completed the scripts and functionality for the ICO page and a quick guide.

More soon...

is SPEC cloned from another source or its unique?

SPEC is based on SDC with some modifications and will form the base currency for a unique mobile platform the team is developing.

a link to SDC?

Hmmmm...Christmas coming up and that reminds me on something back in 2014  ???
Anonymous good, but open and transparent is a must for ICO with 95% funding. Where are the funds stored and what are they allocated for? How much funding is expected and how does it look like? What does the investor get for his investment? How is the investment secured, meaning you have all coins in your hand and the temptation can be great to "cash in and dump"= double trouble.Only suspicious I am. A face to the cause will help a little for trust. 
So convince me to join that party.

Here is the link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=745352.0

This is a very good base to start from with good anonymity and a HTML wallet and it provides everything that is needed for Spectre.Cash.

Spectre.Cash

The team can now reveal some further details for the Spectre Alternative Remittance App, known as Spectre.Cash, that will facilitate cash transfers in the vein of the old-fashioned system known as ‘Hawala’. This age-old system is very popular with people that do not have bank accounts and wish to send money across the world. Have a look at a few links if you are unfamiliar with the concept. The concept involves trusted intermediaries that will facilitate the transfer without any money moving. The balance is settled later between the intermediaries. This system is facing problems however and increasingly overzealous and paranoid governments are increasing surveillance and attempting to limit freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/10/economist-explains-12
http://www.n2moneymatters.com/2011/03/what-is-hawala-all-you-want-to-know.html

Having a think about this, something occurred to me. Cryptocurrency and mobiles could solve the problems of many and take this money transfer system into the digital age and also provide a real-world use of cryptocurrency that has not been done before.

Now think; replace the intermediary trust with cryptography and break the link between the intermediaries with ‘zero knowledge proofs’ and develop a totally decentralised proof-of-concept trust model with no central server and no central database. Add to this immediate settlement of balances using Spectrecoin and make the mobile app free for all and available for anyone with a mobile. The mobile system can be used with no prior knowledge of crypto.

This is really the background for the creation of SPEC. This is a real use of crypto for real people and has the potential to help the so called un-banked to access certain financial services.

The philosophy behind the project is one of “absolute privacy” which is a fundamental right. So, no registration, no personal details needed and no storage of any such details in any aspects of this project.

A skeleton Android app is in the making and further details will be released soon. The app will be released once working as a free app and open source. The aim is for the community to join in the further development of this.

I think Twitter and Facebook is a good platform to promote this project, I'm sure it will be great and then, hopefully it will bring good results.

Doing Twitter campaign and a Facebook campaign is coming soon...

I really want to promote your project I have sent an offer I have over 30 facebook groups and pages with members ranging from 2000 to 30,000 all cryto currency related but I have not receive a reply anyway good luck to your project ..

I have sent a PM, just being really busy trying to pull everything together for launch proper...are you on Slack? It might be easier to discuss there.

Do you have any giveaway? Was looking excited at the pre-ann, before i saw that there will be no mining phase :/ Kind of disappointed right now.

It is nice that you are giving jobs .
there are some list of jobs but i want to know about " Indian representative " .
i mean i want to know what should be requirements of the person .
  " i am from india " :)

thanks for providing this PDF. I am currently reading it and found many interesting things about Spectrecoin. Hope that Spectrecoin will rise and become as strong as bitcoin does

It would be to promote the coin in India. If you have read the thread then you know that we are working on a remittance app that could be popular there.

This project looks promising; the graphics and all plus I can't wait for the mobile app to be launched. Too bad I'd have to wait for my salary next week before I can start investing.

just waiting a few hours later..  :)

Is the mobile app for spectre is simultaneous during the ICO?

Is Spectre technology based on the application anonymous (mobile app)  rather than the blockchain technology that Monero, Dash and Zcash are using. The reason for mentioning this is because the market promotion seems to be based on this mobile apps for money transfer

That's a good roadmap India has a good user base,can this be implemented on other countries beside India
if this become successful in India,this could be also be adapted by other countries.

I can't find anything about the team on spectreproject.io for some reasons , I hope It's not the same case as KOMODO where only aliases from Github or Bitcointalk will be available otherwise the project won't have much credibility compared to others.

sir social campaign still not open again??

I am planning to maybe open for another 10-20 Twitter participants tomorrow, I will update with regards to Facebook, there will be more.

ok waiting sir :)

What is the real world use case of Spectre and why make another altcoin when there are already a lot released in the market? Would it not be better for the Spectre developers to support a more established coin of their liking to make that coin better for the community to use?

Hello have you downloaded the wallet and have checked some of it's features?if you have not just download and take a look and see the difference between Spectre and the other coin wallet that you're comparing,Spectre has an edge compare to other similar coins.

Spectrecoin Alternative Remittance system or Spectre.Cash

The team can now reveal some further details for the Spectre Alternative Remittance App, known as Spectre.Cash, that will facilitate cash transfers in the vein of the old-fashioned system known as ‘Hawala’. This age-old system is very popular with people that do not have bank accounts and wish to send money across the world. Have a look at a few links if you are unfamiliar with the concept. The concept involves trusted intermediaries that will facilitate the transfer without any money moving. The balance is settled later between the intermediaries. This system is facing problems however and increasingly overzealous and paranoid governments are increasing surveillance and attempting to limit freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/10/economist-explains-12
http://www.n2moneymatters.com/2011/03/what-is-hawala-all-you-want-to-know.html

Having a think about this, something occurred to me. Cryptocurrency and mobiles could solve the problems of many and take this money transfer system into the digital age and also provide a real-world use of cryptocurrency that has not been done before.

Now think; replace the intermediary trust with cryptography and break the link between the intermediaries with ‘zero knowledge proofs’ and develop a totally decentralised proof-of-concept trust model with no central server and no central database. Add to this immediate settlement of balances using Spectrecoin and make the mobile app free for all and available for anyone with a mobile. The mobile system can be used with no prior knowledge of crypto.

This is really the background for the creation of SPEC. This is a real use of crypto for real people and has the potential to help the so called un-banked to access certain financial services.

The philosophy behind the project is one of “absolute privacy” which is a fundamental right. So, no registration, no personal details needed and no storage of any such details in any aspects of this project.

A skeleton Android app is in the making and further details will be released soon. The app will be released once working as a free app and open source. The aim is for the community to join in the further development of this.

In order to facilitate this Spectrecoin was created.

The team are looking for a trusted escrow to handle the funds as I know that many have asked about this. I will update on this shortly.

I am waiting for this. can I join if I have to join the signature campaign? because I have an account facebook and I want to join social campaign sir. can you tell me about this?

thanks you

Still looking for a trusted Escrow, after the start of the ICO. This is not good at all. No matter I don't trust any developer, until there is a trusted developer on from this platform I would advice people to suspend investing into this project

Why don't you ask the developer if you don't understand anything rather than pass conclusive judgements on this promising project. I have spent quality time reading and comparing this project with others and I've seen the potential that Spectre possesses. I wouldn't rubbish this project because there aren't an escrow yet and I believe majority on this forum would agree with me.

Will Spectre be listed at poloniex? I was trying to look for it but I guess it's still not on the list. As well as the apps I think it's not yet available in my country yet.

Because the ICO is still not yet coming but after the ICO for sure it will be listed at poloniex and as well as other trusted exchange sites.



I can suggest that you choose Dabs as he is also escrowing another alt coin if I'm not mistaken that is XYY. You can just try to check out his ANN thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=234939.0

Thank you for your concern. However this line kind of confused me, " No matter I don't trust any developer, until there is a trusted developer on from this platform. . . ". There have been tons of ICOs that sprouted for nowhere. If we look at it, it really is a gamble. The success of the project relies on those who value privacy, and anonymity. If you are in doubt, maybe you can join the team on slack to get a better view of the goals and steps being taken by the developers.

Have a nice day!

-jamyr

There might be a flaw in the investment site.
I invested some of the Bitcoins I earned with your signature campaign and I have received another number, which is off by a lot.

I won't go into details here, but mandica contact me if you want to know more about it.

Also, is there any way you are able to change the withdrawal address? I just want to know for safety.

The bonus scheme looks good and promising. Thinking of investing some.
Suggested to my friends too and hope to have a nice future.. :)

Well, maybe it's the 20% bonus for week 1, I will check. The math is sound.

If you invested 1 BTC it would show as 1.2 BTC in your account as 20% bonus is added. Hence, at distribution you will get 1.2 BTC worth of coins. Does that answer your concern? Take the amount you invested and add 20%, i.e. invested*1.2.

 :)

It does not. Can I send you the link to the ICO site without someone being able to edit the withdrawal address? If I can, I will send it to you so you can investigate.
 :-\

Edit: I will do it either way.

It's been fixed, if you check now. There was a strange little anomaly but it's been sorted.

very true, very nice bonus given and it looks so promising, I am also thinking of investing some, because of investments in this place will provide many benefits

It's very profitable to invest on the first week I'm sure traders and investors will go on the first week
I'll also invite my friends to take a second look in this coin,this is a very good ICO to invest.

Yeah, it has been fixed now. I guess I just lost the extra 120% of what I invested ;D.

Well, it is good it has been fixed and I hope this project succeeds and I will earn some of the extra back again.  :D

Joined the team wearing your signature i hope this collect more People.

I think the bonus range is fair and is attractive enough to investors when compared to some ICO where there is 50% first day bonus and after that the funding is more less stop because potential investors who miss the first day bonus will look at the distribution of the bonus has unfair

I think 1 week of high bonus is fair enough and it gives us a few days to get some more info out and for people to decide what to do.

So far this project looks good, particularly I like how the lead dev is handling things, and him being competent. All the answers are on topic, and absolutely no bullshit posted yet :)

@mandica:
I have few questions to you, probably others also could benefit from answers to them...

Q1: could you please give a live example of a transfer done using the proposed system? The OP gives an example, with reference to Hawala, and I have read the info you posted on that matter, but still its not 100% clear to me. Particularly it was not clear, who will be the main users of the app: the end users (un-banked ones) themselves, or it supposes there still will be the intermediaries who are comfortable with exchanging SPEC instead of real money..?
A good detailed real-life example often gives more than long theory and explanation :)

Could you please give one for people like me? :)

Also two more smaller questions:
Q2: how do you plan to deploy the system? Do you think you could offer it to some people currently using Hawala; or Hawala is just something served as inspiration to you, and you don't plan to interact with its current user-base? In such case, what do you have any means to make the system popular. As you know, there are many money transfer systems, including Bitcoin itself, so there should be something to make people use yours.

Q3: you distribute 19M out of 20M. What are the plans for the remaining 1M?

Thanks!

I will try, mind you some minor details are still being worked on. I will cite initial scenario we used as a base for discussion (Bob and Alice of course)

Q1:
Bob wants to send cash to Alice. Bob is speaking to his friend Alice who lives in rural China and they agree that Bob will send £100,- to Alice as she has been out of work for a while. They don’t have bank accounts and whilst trying to set up a bank account both Bob and Alice realize that an international money transfer is expensive and slow and they will have to provide ID documents and the whole thing will take a long time.

Bob searches Google for “cash transfer to China without a bank account” and find Spectre.Cash (SC) and decides to give it a go. Bob installs SC on his Android mobile phone and asks Alice to do the same. SC is a free to use app so it’s not a problem.

Bob activates SC and no registration is needed for cash transfer. Bob just needs to create a 'User ID' that is unique to him. Alice activates her SC app (creates a 'User ID' and enters a unique one-time “connection code” provided to her by Bob. They both “friend” each other in the SC app. Cryptographic functions makes it secure and they can both be confident that they are who they say they are. Bob and Alice can now also chat live inside the SC app in private as their communication is encrypted.

Bob configures the app to show him available SC brokers within a 2-mile radius. Bob finds that SC broker1 is available and can see that SC broker1 is able to facilitate a transfer of £100,- (using location services)

At the same time Alice has installed her SC app and set her proximity parameters for SC brokers within a 10-mile radius as she lives in rural China. (using location services)

When the proximity conditions / liquidity conditions are met, i.e. SC broker1 is within 2 miles of Bob and SC broker2 is within 10 miles of Alice and SC broker1 and SC broker2 are both able to facilitate a £100,- transfer (cash > SPEC and SPEC > cash), Bob can click “INITIATE TRANSFER”. This created a temporary secure connection between Bob and Alice and broadcast request to the brokers who have marked themselves available for trade.

This will alert all parties that Bob is looking to send £100,- and open a chat between Bob and SC Broker 1 and on the other side open a chat between Alice and SC broker 2 so they can all agree to meet up.

Alice will accept the transfer and Bob’s and Alice’s SC apps will exchange “secret” addresses that is unknown to the brokers.

SC broker1 and SC broker2 also accepts the transfer request.

Bob meets SC broker1 and gives him £100,-. Using the NFC or QR codes or other codes, SC broker1 accepts the trade and 100 SPEC is sent to Alice’s secret SPEC address in escrow.

Alice meets SC broker2 who gives Alice Yuan currency equivalent to £100,-. Alice accepts the trade and the 100 SPEC is sent to SC brokers2 SPEC account.

The thing is that Bob and Alice do not need to know anything about cryptocurrencies or SPEC. SC broker1 and SC broker2 are the "Hawala" intermediaries and they could be "roaming" or they could be based in a geographical location.

If you are familiar with Localbitcoin and Uber, this is sort of a combination of the two.

It may sound a bit convoluted bit the overall effect is the same as a classic "Hawala" transactions. Hawala intermediaries today advertise their services in local papers and through community links as this is a service normally used by poorer layers of society and people wishing to send money "back home" wherever that might be. This is a good short example here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/10/economist-explains-12

Then at the back of each successful transaction a "null" transaction is created that will rate the success of the main transaction based on some criteria. A decentralised trust model that doesn’t require knowing the identity of the participants, and doesn’t require the ability to correlate their transactions, but maintains a trust score for network participants. Some sort of fee structure will also have to be agreed upon, likely to be based on the exchange rates.

Q2
An Android app is being built first. This is imagined as a free app and there is no revenue stream from the app. Once its done, release it into the "wild" as it were to enable people to make such transactions and release the source code. PR is an essential part of the project past phase one to make people aware that the app exists. This is where we imagine spending funds, PR and also hire specialist programmers to solve any issues along the way. Shake things up a bit and release something that undermines traditional money transfer and protects privacy.

Q3
1 mill will be split in 5, so 200k to each of the four team members as a share (stake) to ensure an interest in staying together and taking the project to its final destination. 200k for some select bounties and incentives to get the system going in a time past the main distribution. No bounties will be paid out at all to anyone at this stage and not for a while. There is no intended revenue stream from app and funds raised is intended to get the system created and released. The 200k retained by the dev team is "pay" if you like. We obviously believe that if we have a moderately successful ICO that we can push the value of SPEC up and once the main exchanges can see what this is about they will want to list SPEC.

change the title this thread dev.
its not PRE-ANN again  ;D

I have changed the title now

Yeah it is very correct thinking friend. But I also hope that this also gives a good impact in performance and growth of the SPEC that you manage and hopefully could be one of a very large cryptocurrency and can help everyone in the world needs this. Wait for the growth that happens and boasting with it. Good work and do the best for everyone

Sometimes investors and traders observe first how the Ico perform before they invest,and the distribution bonus is not only fair,but they will not think that they have missed the train

Add to iconews.org.
http://www.iconews.org/spectrecoin-start-ico/

Thanks for the ad, I will include it on the main page.

I think the privacy is nice.
Graphically, it needs to be more beautiful.
It looks very simple, the investor looks at the details.

I am planning maybe some more detail. I would that investors would look at the potential this has to transform cryptocurrency and be really subversive.

Thanks a lot, that clear things up quite a bit!

There is one point I am not so sure about - you assume both Bob and Alice have Android phones... Given the pace the technology is evolving, this could be a reasonable assumption, but from other hand, if we consider this transfer system being a replacement of Hawala-type systems, one should account for the case where the parties just do not have an advanced phone; especially this refers to the one who receives the funds, but could be true for both.
For un-banked people this could be a problem, both because of financial issues (smartphones are still expensive to some), and personal views (some people just hate technology and would refrain from using smartphone). Those people are however the target userbase of the project (besides the brokers), right?

Is there a scenario considered allowing the funds sender and (especially) recipient, to avoid using smartphones?

Good Day!

I have not downloaded the app yet but will certainly do as soon as time allows me to do so. Are there rewards feature on this app? For example, earn specific number of reward points for referring someone. The wallet that I am using now have this feature.

There is a limit to what old tech can do I guess and it is aimed at an emerging market and is a first application. There is a great potential for other uses and possibly other applications as well. It can also be used as a payment app you know. The tech is essentially just a "trustless" chain of transfers.

Not too big to campaigns and things that limit people to campaign for at least a signature look was very tight :)
all competing on other ICO

Sure, I understand old tech is limited and you cannot write an app for old "dumb" cellphone :)

But what about giving a possibility at least for the recipient of funds to avoid using a smartphone, but just use a code-word instead (entered at smartphone of dealer 2)...?

In any case, good luck to your project. I surely do not want to push you do something. Just want to see if this could be really used to bring a tech advancements to the people who do not have/understand/like technology. They could be a very good target market. Generally speaking, I believe the further the clients are from tech world, the bigger the benefits of tech can be for them, and so bigger margins could be expected for someone entering the field.

Did you consider?

Spectrecoin Private and Anonymous Distribution
The only way to acquire SPEC is by taking part in the ICO and by offering a stealth address to receive the coins. With a Tor / I2P integration and a ‘no personal information’ policy, the whole of the distribution will occur anonymous and traceless and all transactions are protected from the outset. Total privacy from block 1, no compromise. You can also take part in the ICO by using the built-in ShapeShift function to pay with Monero or Shadowcash for increased privacy. This means that you can acquire SPEC in total privacy and anonymously. This supports the philosophy behind the project. I would suggest that upon distribution, SPEC is the most private blockchain in the cryptocurrency space for these reasons. We do not keep any personal information and we do not ask and you do not need to register with anything else but a SPEC stealth address and a Bitcoin address.

I know alot of development have been done on Tor technology, but recently FBI was able to bridge this tech and trace some users

SPEC ICO will be used escrow or direct addresses Dev?

DO we have twiiter campaign for this coin.. i want to share this promising coin to my cryptobuddies on twitter. Already followed you for some update and news.

I think no need of any Twitter campaign but we need Facebook advertisement  .
At twitter only less numbers of words are available to tell about Bitcoin and this best service So i think we need Facebook instead of twitter .

Anyone has nodes for the wallet? Mine cannot find any :/

Is there a blog/article bounty for Spectrecoin?
I'm interested whether you guys will accept someone articles created to market the coin on steemit and facebook bitcoin related groups. You'd get more users to learn more about you if marketed well.

pliss chek my pm sir

I did and I answered you...