I’m sure everyone will join me in welcoming new members : adipurnama, seafarer124, S, adds, Kevin James, cryptocodger, wkrypt, Gem, UpstairsBoat, AviXSpec, Sean, ser70, nikos, OhmDoctor, kriptau, Platon0, and invisibleknight

Developer’s Nutz and Boltz - Final testing and bug squashing for v1.4 is currently ongoing, so we’re on the down side!

“I was aiming for end of October release. It's looking like I'll miss that deadline though, there is still testing to do and some bugs from previous tests to resolve.
Should not be by much though, will know more after this weekend's testing sessions”
By @jbg from our Slack community.

Stand by everyone... v1.4 will be here..….to use a word we all hate. Soon. *smile*

 Wow, while we all are waiting on v1.4 the following members pulled together with me to retain @brycel to assist @jbg for at least another month!

The whole community owes all of these members a huge Thank You!
(in no particular order)
Harvw
Leobitman
Rkh
Pt92
Zerog
Srqrebel
Hippiepyro
Dsam
Jdb444
Spectrum_communitas
Olddog
We all owe them a debt of gratitude.

@jbg is also providing bisq.io the last items that they need to finish up the listing. I’ll let everyone know when the exchange goes live both in Slack and on BtCT.

Other SpectreCoin news: There are several trials of social marketing going on with SpectreCoin.

The first is an effort by our own @rkh and @willpower  funded by themselves , he expects to start up within the next week 10 days.

Another that is currently active is a social media manager that I hired with my own funds.
 It seems to have driven 50~60 people a day to our website and BtCT thread.
The first week starting October 25 - 68 to the website,26th - 51,27th 47,28th - 63, 29th - 54 and 30th - 47. Approximately another 30 were directed to the BtCT thread.
 This is a sample of one of the sites and it has 4200 followers.

https://twitter.com/jagga_dakku004/status/925035232344117251

I’ll update these numbers weekly as that’s their schedule.

Telegram group - We do realize that many people prefer the speed and lightweight app telegram. So join in!    https://t.me/spectrecoin
Drop in sometime…..hard for me to be in three places….. but, you never know where I’ll turn up.

Parting words : I know everyone means well with some of the comments on topics about everything from the name of the coin to exchanges and marketing. Please know that things are going on….and as positive events happen...it will be announced here and other channels. Nothing is being hidden or otherwise kept a “secret”.

So relax, SpectreCoin is in good hands with our project manager/lead developer and as we approach the birthday of SpectreCoin it’s very exciting to think of how far it’s come and what the future holds.

                         Beachguy


                                      “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
                                                                                                                       ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It



 

Things are quite good Thanks.....why do you think SpectreCoin , with over 850 Slack community members, is being dumped by
people in the original ico that had around 75 participants.

The fact that you made an unwarranted "seat of the pants" comment.
You will find unfounded "sarcastic" and fud posts are met with the same.
That's NOT the way to be welcomed to any project on BtCT.

Wow, another newbie that seems to have some kind of power and insight of being able to know who's selling. 
That's pretty incredible.

@game-over
A one post newbie  full of  FUD.....seriously?

I think I'll leave it up just for ever body to laugh at.....
as an example of what someone who is so ashamed of themselves they create a sock puppet account to spew their hate
because they have no guts to use their own.

Who pissed in your corn flakes?

Spectrecoin [xspec]  and the website   Spectreproject is NOT launching an ICO under the name spec  and is not associated in any way, shape or form.

The group spectre.ai is launching an ERC20 token with the ticker [spec] for an exchange project that they hope to produce in the future. They were well aware of the existence of  Spectrecoin and [xspec] that is a privacy coin project....and that it launched in late November/ early December of last year 2016.

They proceeded with their plans anyway, ignoring our requests to reconsider and taking the position that they were somehow "entitled"
to do as they wish.

This has led to some confusion and people coming here and our Slack community asking about tokens.
We regret this and want the crypto currency world to know this is not our fault.

In closing, we would advise extreme caution for anyone thinking of joining a group that has so little consideration for another long time exisitng project, as well as the danger  brought on by the proliferation of ethereum token projects. Especially one that has not even provided a working product.

The failure rate of these projects is extremely high. You may want to start your research here.

https://www.coindesk.com/icos-dumb-money-ethereums-ethical-dilemma/

This is a very transparent community based project. 

Just wait until the next couple of weeks....
There's more good things coming!

Slack by the numbers - Please join me in welcoming these 31 new  members and say “Hi” when you see them.
thecountofmontecrypto, serg, Stuart, ZecX, JayCee, Ol, Matt666, Mike, Josef, jaridor, recepts, hubba, rodrigotarin, sergipalencia, adrianortola, SDG, ijk, Jacob, dolphin35, Rosco, Carl, mark.cucurella, Sebastian, Sebber, Willpower, domp1, Ryan Kwon, Chandresh Aharwar , Woopie, svarghese, and Sita TSK

Thankfully…..the ethereum phishing scam dm messages and emails seem to have subsided. Which is a blessing. I’m a member of couple of other Slack communities that are still bombarded by this scourge.
One hit me with over 13 emails yesterday!

In the interest of keeping Slack Channels lean and relevant... it’s been a month since “privacy_all_aspects” and “remittance-app” were active and so they were removed today.

Some extremely old and inactive members have also been removed and the community count stands at 841!

Dev Nuts and Bolts - As the end of October draws near, @jbg reports that development continues on track. Although with the funding @Spectreproject provided for Bryce running out...the changes to ring signatures will not be a part of of v1.4 as he will have to finish on a later release. V1.4  will just be the wallet overhaul with complete rewrite of the UI in native Qt. This will mean much easier revisions and updates for future wallets as well as reliability.

Spectrecoin [xspec] News - Where to start? Several things kicking off as the release of v1.4 approaches….

Some may have noticed the “Featured Coin” scroll on Cryptopia is back! We have a nice start on funding for the second week and would welcome any donation of Cryptopia’s “DOT coin” to help us on the second or maybe even a third week.
Please DM me or @harvw for information to make a donation!
I would like to again acknowledge @harvw, @rkh , @spectrum_communitas, @blackswam6969 for adding their “DOT coin” to my own to make this possible.
Huge THANK YOU guys!

Next up!

After a lot of research and discussion…..and requests from members here wanting an
additional exchange. @jbg and I settled on an up and coming one.
Please consider bitsquare for future trades! It’s not just another exchange but, shares the values and spirit of Spectrecoin and xspec.

Want to know the best part? IT RUNS ON THE TOR NETWORK!

We truly believe decentralized exchanges are the future….some of you may have noticed the problems some of the centralized exchanges are having as well as government demands of KYC regulations.

From their FAQ
There are already other decentralized exchanges. How is Bisq different?

Currently no other project fits our definition of a decentralized Bitcoin exchange. (Open Bazaar and BitMarkets stand alone in mirroring Bisq’s principles, but they’re full market places, not specialized currency exchanges.)

To be properly decentralized, one must avoid single points of failure:

• Bisq does not hold any bitcoins. All are held in multisignature addresses rather than a Bisq-controlled wallet.
  
• Bisq does not hold any national currency. National currency is transferred directly from one trader to the other.
  
• Bisq uses a Peer-to-Peer network over Tor. This means there are no servers to be hacked or DDoS’d.
• Bisq does not know the traders. No data is stored on who trades with whom.
• Bisq does not require registration. This means privacy is maintained, there are no “approval” wait times, and identity theft becomes impossible.
• Bisq does not operate its arbitration system – traders themselves choose from an open and decentralized market of arbitrators.
• Bisq is not a company. It is an open source project aiming to organize as a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).
• Bisq is self-funded by the efforts of its volunteers and contributions of donors.

Submission has been done and we’ll update everyone on Slack when the market is ready.
We will continue to check out others but also very excited to add Bitsquare to our list of exchanges.

Lastly, stop by the reddit established by community members @chaser_888 and @rkh. It’s been up now almost a month and is really starting to grow…..and it looks fantastic thanks to @rkh graphics ability.
Be looking for an announcement soon of an AMA our own @jbg who has agreed to do one after v1.4 is out. Here will be your chance to ask our project manager and lead developer that question.

That about wraps it up! Hope everyone has a great week!

                   Beachguy

                       “Cryptocurrency is such a powerful concept that it can almost overturn governments”  - Chalres Lee

It's gotten to where even a monkey can cook up an ECR20 "token" and people wanting to get rich quick will throw money at it.
Weird times  with almost 1200 coins and tokens out there.
Caveat emptor..

I look at pretty much the same way. At first I was like ....Wait! What?
If someone looking for their "token" (it's for an upcoming exchange) stumbles on our very attractive project....And likes what they see..
....it's worth it and no real harm done.
I just hope they follow through and do nothing negative.

One thing about it.....its drawn interest in ALL privacy coins....which is a very good thing.
We're going to all need them ......soon. 

Hmmm....my laptop fans don't even kick on when I'm only staking....and its about 4 years old intel core duo....certainly not much by todays standards.
My I ask what you consider a lot of memory....we never had anyone ask this question.
what are you running it on.

-edit: whoa....took the time to look it up and it's 7 years old ...time flies huh?   

I believe you are mistaken....Spectrecoin [xspec] never has been and never will be an airdrop coin.
It is a POS v3 coin and was launched as an ICO late last year.
a new client release is expected by end of October.
You might want to check this week's newsletter
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2103301.msg23100824#msg23100824

@matt - no issue, that's just a low number of coins. In POS your balance is on the network competing with other wallets for "reward". Dependent on number and age of coins. Staking is not an "automatic" thing.might want to google POS.
 You may also want to consider getting more xspec....its a good time.

Sakura - Thank you for your interest. atm there is no bootstrap, it takes a few hours on a 25 meg cable connection.

Saw that....and wondered.....they could do a lot worse.
They have a method and history of picking way undervalued projects.    
And are going to announce it tomorrow....Thursday.
It's circulated only to their subscribers.

And either way....Spectrecoin [xspec] time is coming.....it's not even a year old yet.

Might be best to just go back to v1.2...since the v1.4 is so close.
Get it back running, learn more about how a mac does wallets ....
then give it a few days after release and touch base with anyone running mac wallet.
Just my suggestion

Slack By the Numbers - Join me in welcoming these new members to the Spectreproject Slack…..hiddenfigure, igrss, carlitoalenia, marsiobr, cryptohodl< /a>, jon-e-d, wilfridkaptoum, jorgecuenca, hodler, timchuk, moisesdelgado, Info, prociltuiprom1970, arovabwon1986, paisitliroup1977, quefusbulkren1985, tarabgadi1972, Kalash, Daniel_Asselmann, CryptoANYTHING, akguy, Titan1024, RC, and Oliver7580.

We continue to draw interest from all around the world. One of these days I need to start of a list of countries represented by our members.

Developer Nuts & Bolts - @jbg reports “testing,testing and more testing going on constantly. Still on original track for release by end of October” ….that’s great news that no major (or minor) bugs are going to stall things.

One thing I know we’ve all learned since @jbg took over as Project  Manager back in June... is that he takes pride in his work and won’t release any code until he’s satisfied.
 I know it’s hard waiting and the anticipation is building for everyone.....try to relax, play with your dog….take a walk…v1.4 is coming!

More on the Slack community front - Things are really heating up in the “marketing_xspec” channel  with the release of v1.4 so close.
@rkh has finished the graphics on the new Reddit page and they look fantastic. We invite everyone to drop by for a look. SpectreCoin Redditt . His enthusiasm for Spectreproject nevers seems to end!

Recent members @danbainbridge and @willpower who joined in the last few days are excited by Spectrecoin [xspec] and its potential. As professionals, they’re are offering marketing services and advice at little or no cost  to help promote Spectrecoin [xspec] to a wider audience. This is so recent everything is in the proposal stage….so expect more in next week’s newsletter. Or better yet….come by the marketing channel...things are happening daily.

We’re still on track to launch a two week run on Cryptopia’s “Feature Coin” scroll. It runs Monday to Monday so the first will fire up one week from today. This has always brought results and there’s no reason to think that this run will be any different and working with others’ efforts... won’t grow our community.

Contributions by several community members are making this possible, we still need to reach the cost of the second run on “Featured Coin” and ask you to check the Slack “general_xspec” or “marketing_xspec” channels for how to contribute. Or just dm me. We’ve found a better way than addresses to move the funds to the DOT wallet.

As we approach the One Year Anniversary of the Spectreproject’s ICO launch I can’t tell you how excited I am.
 Little did I know, when coming across this project while on my laptop during the Thanksgiving holidays, that I would end up with so many new friends from all around the world.
At the time, researching other privacy coins and what their values were….it just made sense to join.
 It still does since xspec like most coins go through the stages ...as they grow their communities, gain distribution and develop their tech to reach their next level….
That’s where we are today!

Happy Spectober!

Beachguy