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Announcing the Launch of TeslaCoin.

iXcoin is adding Native - C o l o r e d - Coins to its code, and TeslaCoin will be the first to ride on top of iXcoin's ultra secure network.


TeslaCoin code is being finalized - there will be a 3 day heads-up prior to launch.  

No sneak launches here.

This will be SHA256.  That's not gonna be popular but let's face it, we'd all rather merge mine BTC, LTC and another 100 coins using the same hardware and electricity costs rather than 1 coin like any scrypt coin.

SHA256 and ASICS are the future - so TeslaCoin will me merge mined, although not a initial launch as to five averting a fair chance to accumulate it.


Edit:  Launch delayed to allow TES a fair launch.

This would be an excellent proof of concept.

Start thinking of applications.

(1) Reservation of access to a leased vehicle.   A smart property is created that can unlock the parked car at a certain time (see: zipcar). 

(2) Electric charge credits.   Issue credits to use Supercharger network.

(3) Generate solar power and earn credits for supercharger network.

When is it launching?

Few days.  Trying to write the code in such a way that it will be easy to adapt to iXcoin's colored coin update later on. 

This will be Sha256.  I know that's not popular but merge mining and high hash rate network security is the future.

Oh god another scamcoin then huh?

What a horrible waste of a good idea, a good domain etc.

By the way did you get the .org and .net too? Plus maybe the country code domain for whatever nation the Tesla corp is incorporated in?

-MarkM-

Not at all.  This coin will either be done right or not at all. Send me your input.

Hate to break this to you but its already been announced.. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=419494.0

Looks like they beat you to it by a day. Regardless, I like your idea better.

I already did.

Don't make a scamcoin.

Get an existing working coloured coin client and make a coloured coin.

It does not much matter what blockchain it rides on so long as it is a massively secure blockchain such as BiTCoin, NaMeCoin, DeVCoin or IXCoin. Even I0Coin is maybe too low hashrate to be worth considering for such a critical application at this time until more merged mining pools include it in their merge.

Since you seem to be too much hurry to bother doing it right, just use the existing client don't bother screwing around with changing it to some other chain unless the chain it currenrly uses is not a secure one. I expect likely the chain currently used though is bitcoin itself which is the most secure of all.

-MarkM-

Good name!

Oh well what an insult to Tesla's good name: a pathetic scamcoin. How inventive, just like Tesla himself... NOT.

-MarkM-

Screw Ixcoin with it's 585K pre-mine. Why not use I0coin? It was created by a user who is actually still active and is a clone of Ixcoin without the pre-mine.

I don't think this version of Tesla has anything to worry about. Keep the name.

some other dude just lauched teslascoin  see:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=419494.0;topicseen

FUCK!

I should have launched it last year when I bought the domain name.

FUCK!


I hope you're happy, MarkM. 

Just name is Tessa

What do you mean?  The guy announced it yesterday then he's got dibs on the coin.

Unless he's launching TeslaCoins.  As in plural.  I noticed his website states teslaCoins.

If not then I cannot launch TeslaCoin as well.  It wouldn't be right.

Oh no, not a giant 2% premine which is long gone along with its dev.

Take a look around, some of the most popular alt coins have premines so time to come out of the dark ages and realize that devs in fact work for money and iXcoin was hence never a scam.

What a massive blown opportunity.  I was stupid for waiting so long.  I have another 200 coin domains To go through but none this perfect for what I had in mind.

Cause it looks like they're calling it The Tesla but on their site they're calling it TeslaCoin so it looks like the name is taken which means this launch is DONE!

Nobody has "dibs". You'll have to use a different ticker to differentiate it. TES. TSL, TSA, whatever. There are two NyanCat coins. Coin names aren't like domains. You can have more than one with the same name. I don't think a crapcoin is going to much of a thorn in your side.

Put it this way. If you launched first, do you think anyone would hesitate in copying the name?

If you're going with coloured coins you could try something a bit more flamboyant. Like Wavelength, Spectrum, Prism. Something like that.

Prism sounds good.

Just stick to the original plan.

A proof of concept on top of the iXcoin platform.

Let the other guy worry about the lawsuits!

You didn't bother to properly sew up domain names is part of the problem.

You should have at the least grabbed the .com, .net and .org of Teslas, TeslaCoin and TeslaCoins even if you could not get Tesla itself.

Maybe TeslasCoin and TeslasCoins also.

Maybe go more-generic... Did anyone grab autocoin and autocoins yet?

Maybe Vehicoin and Vehicoins and VehicleCoin and Vehiclecoins and CabCoin and Cabcoins and such?

-MarkM-

Are you serious?  It's not a backstab in anyway?  

I suppose it is possible as my TeslaCoin would be a completely different proof of concept.

And I bought the domain last year with this intent.  

And if there's already an acceptable precedent then I suppose it's something to think about.

I would allow them plenty if time to get their coin off the ground and get popular. I'll even wait 2-3 months so there is no confusion.  Most coins die out or are forgotten by then anyway.

Finally, my coin would be SHA256 and I'm guessing theirs is not.

I'll definitely think about it.  But for now this launch is at least delayed to allow the other guys a fair launch.

Your coin should not be SHA nor Scrypt it should be a coloured coin or based on a totally different consensus method than blockchains.

(But one that works, we don't yet though really know if any other approach actually works...)

-MarkM-

When you spend $2,000 on 160 domains in a single week and you're unemployed and have to sell your truck to buy iXcoins, trust me, the dot com domain feels like plenty.  TeslaCoin.com is plenty as rarely does anyone think to type in extra letters.

As for generics, most were gone but I did grab most sports and religions.  Lol.

I have a thread listing like half my coins if you wanna take a look.  I'm hoping to sell a few to get money for iXcoin development.

Ok thanks.

See, my version of Tesla would be very different from TES so I don't feel too bad.  I will still allot them 2-3 months to get it going.

Here are some of my domains out of which I'm hoping to sell a few [if the price is right] to further iXcoin development.


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=417890.0

Hey Vlad..thank you for your courtesy on holding off on a coin launch.  It is appreciated.
I am awaiting a valuation on the domain as we discussed and once i have a fair value i will give you a shout.  In the meantime if there are any other avenues you would like to pursue (rental etc) I am also willing to hear your thoughts,

Thanks.

I don't even know why there would need to be a different consenus method.

The corporation would own the coin,  it would issue its coin with the proper unlocking methods.

From the perspective of tying a coin to a product, the whole notion of mining coins with compuation absolutely does not make sense.

For each NUDC,  one can create a separate module that handles how the coin gets distributed.   To get the each newly minted coin each address just needs to show 'proof' of the winning condition to the issuing address and new coins are issued to the winning address.

ALL THIS IS MADNESS

I just realized that I bought TeslaCoin.com and TeslaCoin.org, as well.  That must have been before I had to sell my truck for alt coins.  lol.

I completely forgot - but this means Mr. Elon Musk is gonna get a visit from me.  

I'm not joking.  I simply don't know any better.  Ha.

There it is.  No matter what I do, it eventually leads to me being called MAD, crazy or insane. 

I think I would be more worried at this point if I didn't get such a response.  lol.

Dexter, maybe you're not seeing the big picture here and what this would mean for iXcoin.  This would be a massive Proof of Concept if we can pull it off and would likely make iXcoin the center of the alt coin universe.

This is a Massive Opportunity for iXcoin.  Trust Mark and Friction if you really think I'm crazy.

And that is brilliance, not MADNESS.  But BRILLIANCE and MADNESS tend to look the same in their early stages so I don't blame you.

Ok, so for this coin how should we be advertising it?  Just so people and miners know what to expect and so I can update the OP?

Thanks, Friction!

Hey traffic, I'm sorry, I had no idea you had already launched.  I thought it was something you were considering in the future.

Like I said in the PM, people who launch coins have very small budgets and my plans for TeslaCoin have been big due to the unique nature and popularity of the name.

I'm curious what the fair value will come out as.  Thing is, any appraising algorithm uses recently sold samples and the coin domain madness has just begun.  

But I don't know you or your situation so maybe you're what I expect to soon happen:  real developers with real budgets so make me an offer for a rental option (and include the timeframe) and the worst I can do is say, sorry but thanks.

And the reason is that I planned to take this to Elon Musk - he's gotta see the massive potential here and if he doesn't see it now I'm hoping he'll see it later this year when I expect cryptos to really blow up.

welp the launch has been postponed for the other tesla so yeah

Pull the trigger Vlad, launch this coin.

Usually domain value is based on the amount of natural type-in traffic (people who just type the domain name directly, usually with the browser adding dot com to it by default), the amount of organic search engine traffic from existing links, the alexa ranking and stuff like that.

-MarkM-

To do it on top of IXCoin needs one of the coloured coin clients to be modified (probably only a tiny bit like with making coin clones) to run on IXCoin blockchain instead of whatever other blockchain it currently uses (which might currently even be bitcoin's testnet not even bitcoin's main net yet.)

-MarkM-

Another man has put time, effort and money into launching a different tesla coin so I gotta wait a while until his coin makes it or breaks it.

And besides, we're doing so egging very different here by making this coin ride on top of IXcoin. Nobody knows if it will work but if it does it will change a lot of things and will open the door for a lot of innovation.

That said, since we have to wait a couple months now we might as well take our time and do it right to ensure a smooth launch.

I'll keep you guys posted but until then check out TES, the guy announced the launch well ahead of time and he built a nice website.  These are all things a good dev does so TES looks like it has a lot of great potential.

Thanks for your interest - I'll keep you guys posted.

That's interesting.

So how would I go about doing an appraisal for a domain then?  There must be a website that offers a quick appraisal just as a rough idea.  These coin domains are just starting to have some value so it may not come up as much since traffic to most coin sites is just starting to pick up but that should grow exponentially on a monthly basis.

There are lots of domain appraisal sites, I bet google has heard of at least some of them.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+is+my+domain+worth

Gosh how about that, isn't google amazing...

-MarkM-

Lol, I did google that earlier today but the sites I found were either misleading or only pretended to be free.  I was hoping you techies would know of a good specific site.

Thanks for the effort - I have time now to do a more in depth search.

This may be a record.

This is the 3rd Teslacoin now. Not sure which order they are in but its kinda funny. Best of luck to all of them

Plenty used to be free, I used to check at least three of them. I never use bookmarks so presumably used to use google to find them.

Maybe even Alexa itself might have estimates of the values too.

Also maybe the plain old domain-info sites that tell you who owns the domain where it is hosted what its Alexa rank is and so on, maybe searching specifically for appraisals or worth is where the non free ones congregate, maybe look for the general info about domains type of sites?

Maybe sites that tell you the pagerank, keywords and so on of competitor sites?

-MarkM-

P.S. If you haven't a hoard of I0Coins consider getting them while they are still so undervalued, people have been throwing them away dirt cheap all night.

Thanks for the help.

How much are they selling them for?

Last week they were at sound 3,000 Satoshi.  I'm broke right now but if an unreal deal came up if sell something to buy some.

No luck with those appraiser sites.  They're crap. They appraise existing sites not domain titles.  Even Coinmarketcap which is a hot site came up with a value of ZERO, on site Valuate.  That's a joke. After I checked 4 sites I gave up as they only let you check a few names.  Looks like you gotta pay to get a real appraiser.

Forget it - if BTC takes off again then everyone is gonna look at launching a coin and that's when all these domains, even the stupidest ones, will sell for 6 figures.  

Crazy but so is Bitcoin at $1,000.  lol, and it's just getting started.

What?  3rd coin?

Wow, and I'm the only one who thought ahead to get the domains?

I'm a genius!  Lol.

For such a popular coin name you'd think someone would pay big money.

Maybe Elon Musk will see the light.

They ate through my buy offers all way down into my 2675 Satoshi offer, and the three blocks of coins controlled by bots are all over on the sell side right now and manoevered down an extra bunch by my smallest possible sell offers of 4 I0Coins at a time. You could drive them down farther by placing more 4 I0Coin sell offers too, the small guy moves fast, the two larger blocks I used to think were a bot that keeps three blocks in play but now I am not so sure, maybe they are two separate slow bots or maybe the fast smaller block bot makes the two larger blocks leapfrog alternately so that both end up following it lower and lower in price. Not sure where the third block is of what used to seem to be a three blocks in play leapfrogging bot maybe it only plays with two blocks now or its not actually one bot but two.

If you have I0Coins to put lots of 4 coin sell offers and are willing to wait 5 or 6 or whatever it is minutes for the big block bot to cycle you could suck them down and down and down then snap them up with a buy...

(Basically the bots cannot tolerate not being the top of their side of the order book so keep cancelling a sell to move it to top, over and over and over... And let even the smallest possible sell offer lure them into doing so. The fact they are all over on the sell side right now though means you can get onto the top of the buy side without them constantly outbidding you by a Satoshi, so you can collect all the coins the dumpers are dumping.)

I refer, of course, to Vircurex. If you aren't on Vircurex yet here is a referral URL so you can save on transaction fees:

https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?referral_id=597-1636

-MarkM-

Teslacoin still available here

http://dotbit.me

Dot bit domain? I didn't even know that existed.

I guess if you're desperate for a TeslaCoin domain then anything would do.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it, although something about the name has always turned me off.  But the coin is almost done mining so that may create a boost.  Hard to say.

It's a peer to peer domain, it's what make namecoin so valuable. Teorically it's a domain no authority can stop. In case governments should turn against cryptocoins, it's not a bad idea have a decentralised website for a decentralised coin.

That's interesting.  I wonder how much of that is true.  I mean, I can't imagine what a dot bit domain can have to stop the Feds and NSA from shutting it down.  I'm thinking this is more of a marketing scheme than reality cause anything digital (just like all these supposed anonymous cryptos) can be easily tracked, confiscated and/or shut down. 

People don't yet realize that going to a digital currency they are completely forfeiting any anonymity and any freedoms once allotted them by the very Fiat paper cash they loved to mock when adopting the Satoshi Scheme.

So ? when will you release this coin ? :)

I don't have an exact date. Most likely in about 2 months...

TES has to have its fair time in the sun.

Can't wait.. havne touched the other one.. will wait for yours.. :)

I'm curious, why would you wait so long for this one?

I havne mined any SHA256 coins yet and I'd like to start with Yours. :)

and I have way to many Scrypt wallets atm...

and the fact that you have delayed it shows me and the rest of the crypto community what your made of... Bravo.

Lead on crypto soldier..

lol, thanks.

If you want to mine sha256 then look into merge mining.  You can mine up to 7 or 8 coins and one of them is iXcoin...and of course bitcoin.

Any SHA256 coin I launch will eventually be merge mineable.  That's the best service a dev can give miners - to allow you to mine Bitcoin plus the new coin [absolutely for free].

I started AutoCoin back in December 2013.  It launched last week.

Ok I have a big problem. Sent 56k coins to mintpal and never received on my deposit acc. Look at transaction ID and it says nothing on BE, like nothing was sent??? I contacted mintpal they dont know what is it with transaction as it isnt show in block explorer.

So or the wallet is not working or else, but what with my coins...where are devs they are responsible???

TSLA hasn't been launched yet.  There are 2 other teslacoin projects I think.  Try teslacoinS with an S.  that's your best chance.

Sorry for the confusion and good luck.

oh sorry this is sha..didnt see...sorry again :)