Does anyone else get the feeling that Factom is in some sort of unannounced partnership with IBM?

I still need help with this.  To clarify, the theme and a couple plugins are custom so you MAY need to do some coding to make them work with the upgraded wordpress.  I don't know.

I have a website with a wordpress front end.  I need wordpress upgraded and the theme/plugins made to work with it as well.  If you have expertise in this area, please contact me.  I am willing to pay a fair rate.

Thank you.

You can buy Entry Credits directly so that you never have to "touch" a Factoid.  But the store you buy the EC's at is using Factoids to get Entry Credits.  So even if YOU bypass Factoids, they are still used by the store.  The store simplifies the process which is quite brilliant and should increase adoption.

3.7 is out.  Looks like they finally tracked down the china firewall bug.

Block explorer stuck for anyone else?

Thank you.  I think I'll pick up a few more FCT.

You've made quite a few comments like this as of late.  I've been searching for when you or another Factom employee made such comments during the initial offering of Factom.  Could you please link me to such a comment as I can't seem to find it.

Thank you.

Could someone please communicate to Peter Kirby that it's not a good idea for the CEO of a company to state, "Our regulators suck" in a widely public medium?

Factom executives are going to need to be much more sophisticated if they are to successfully traverse an immature regulatory environment in a beneficial manner.

Thank you.

You're welcome.  I doubled my position in Factom after reading that.  I believe as the magnitude of the fraud and corruption are shown via the Panama Papers, people will come to understand the importance of having auditable, verifiable documents and Factom will lead the way in that regard.  I hope your marketing team seizes upon this opportunity.  At the very least, a video would be useful.

I look forward to your blog post.

Have you guys heard about the, "Panama Papers" yet?  Well, once the world begins to digest this, it will be HUGE for Factom.  Why?

"The leaked files show the firm regularly offered to backdate documents to help its clients gain advantage in their financial affairs. It was so common that in 2007 an email exchange shows firm employees talking about establishing a price structure - clients would pay $8.75 for each month farther back in time that a corporate document would be backdated."

Source: http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/articles/56febff0a1bb8d3c3495adf4/

The world is going to begin to demand that documents not be able to be backdated.  And they will turn to Factom.

This is going to be HUGE for Factom.

Because I'm an investor, not a trader.  I create an entry position and then continue to buy on the way up as fundamentals support increased prices.  If fundamentals don't support increased prices, I don't buy.  Right now, I don't see the fundamentals supporting the price.  Hiding that fact won't change much as the market always finds the fair price.

http://imgur.com/kZq1yRu - A screenshot from Poloniex

I suspect you've invested more than you should in Factoids.  If you're getting that upset, you may want to evaluate how much you're investing into your various cryptocurrencies.  

And did you actually read my post history?

I'm not trolling, as I said, I'm invested for the long haul.  If I'm wrong about something, please point it out.  I'm presenting my theory based upon the statements of the lead developer.

Or I'd love a Factom employee to explain how I'm wrong.  I'd love to be very wrong and pick up some more Factom if it's actually underpriced.  But based upon my analysis, it's overpriced at present.

I love this project and have invested a little for the LONG haul, but the fact is, Factoids are horrendously overpriced at present.  How do I know this?  From Brian Deery's post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/factom/comments/47nyx0/thoughts_of_the_economic_model_of_factom_and/d0gqwdz

1 entry credit allows you to enter up to 1kb of data according to the store here: https://www.factom.com/entry-credits/

What that means, is that at a Factoid price of $1.00, 800 gigs a year allow for 800,000,000+ entry credits to be used.  If you look at the blockchain, on 10/05/2016 they entered Project Gutenberg into the chain which consisted of over 22,000 books. Not single documents, but BOOKS. By my rough count, 22,000 books used up around 20,000 entry credits.

If I'm correct, and I believe I am, this means Factoids are pretty darn overpriced right now.    At a current price of $1.70, that means we're looking at needing to use 1,360,000,000 entry credits.

Team Factom,

Despite a couple vocal individuals, please know that the VAST majority of us are very supportive of you and appreciate your hard work.  I know how hard what you're doing is and I am thankful for you.

Keep up the good work!

Great update from Factom:

https://www.factom.com/500000th-factom-entry-latest-news/


The very last video on the page is a VERY good watch (fast forward to Johnson's part).

As I was shipping a package today, I realized another enormous use case Factom would be perfect for is tracking data.

Wow.  Can someone please record his testimony please?

When the Factom explorer went live on 09-01 there were about 8759965.42635400 factoids.  Now there are
8753230.36770280.

So around 6700 burned in a little more than 6 months or about 1000 per month.  And not much is going on but testing.

Point being, I suspect we'll be seeing deflation before too long despite the 73,000 factoids being created per month.

I appreciate it but I am looking for a step by step guide (with pictures) for people who are not tech savvy.  As a community, we need to begin to develop such things.  For example, I have a friend looking to buy some Factom but he's not tech savvy and needs to know how to withdraw it from Poloniex.  Without the guide, we are losing buyers like my friend.