Airdrop would finish sooner or later. I agree stopping the airdrop. In case it was not the right decision, Tony can resume it at any time.

Domain Email Wallet, I would call it. I did register an email and it actually works. I type my email and click send, and bytes went directly to my other wallet. This is way way an advanced  step. What can be better than byteball.
I tried to withdraw some bytes form bittrex using the email, but it is not working yet, I hope in the future is abilable.

Impresive

In the short term I am increasingly bullish as Byteballs reaches a key level. I see this project as the true first DAG which is a great portfolio addition to have to counter balance your blockchain bets. Byteballs is looking to overcome it's airdrop status and be a true contender in the field. With such a low supply, fee-less transactions, smart contract capabilities, and cheap POW. I see this as the MOST OPTIMAL time to add this to your portfolio. I see this as the BTC 4.07% of DAGS.

https://medium.com/byteball/sending-cryptocurrency-to-email-5c9bce22b8a9

Sending Cryptocurrency To Email
Even if the recipient doesn’t have a wallet yet
When PayPal started, they allowed to send money to an email address of another PayPal user. Users didn’t have to exchange any wallet numbers prior to payment. Another smart move: this worked even if the recipient was not a PayPal user yet. He was prompted to sign up and instantly take the money.

In cryptocurrencies, we are still sending payments to cryptic addresses like 1BtjAzWGLyAavUkbw3QsyzzNDKdtPXk95D or TKT4UESIKTTRALRRLWS4SENSTJX6ODCW, the recipient has to be already in the system, and we need to ask him about his address. And after a payment is sent, there is no easy way to tell who was the recipient. Not quite user friendly for mass adoption.

Now, this is going to change.

With the release of Byteball wallet version 2.0, Byteball users can send Bytes to email. Even if the recipient is not in Byteball yet.

The sender just writes an email address where he would normally write a Byteball address:


When he hits “Send”, his email app is opened with prefilled text for the recipient. The sender can edit it before sending.

The recipient receives an email like this:


He clicks the link and the money is added to his balance. If he doesn’t have a wallet yet, he is prompted to install in order to receive the money.

Simple as hell.

When PayPal was starting, email was the only wide spread method of P2P communication over the Internet. Now we have a lot more options, some of them are even more convenient, especially on mobiles.

When the sender is on a mobile phone and switches to “Share via message” tab (see the screenshot above), he is able to use all the options available through the phone’s standard “Share” menu: text message, Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal, Viber, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Skype, etc. The recipient receives the same link, but through a chat app.


In any case, the money is delivered through text media, that’s why we call it textcoin.

On the technical part, the link which is delivered contains a BIP39 mnemonic (we use dashes instead of spaces to avoid confusion with wallet seed). Only one address, with path m/44'/0'/0'/0/0, is generated from the mnemonic, the coins are actually sent to this address. When the recipient claims the funds, his wallet restores the private key from the mnemonic (everything happens in the background and looks instantaneous), and sweeps the entire balance from this address to one of his own addresses.

Double fee has to be paid, first to fill the temporary address where the money is stored in transit, then to sweep its balance. The sender adds a small amount to cover the fees spent when sweeping. So, the amount displayed in the email or text message is the exact net amount. This is to make it clearer for the recipient, especially when he is new to crypto.

The textcoins might be delivered through insecure media, such as emails or unencrypted chats. That’s why it is recommended to use them only for small amounts or through end-to-end encrypted chats, such as Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage.

If the sender makes a mistake in the email address or chooses a wrong recipient, the money is not lost. The sender can claim the money back using the same mnemonic. It is saved in the wallet for such occasions, and a “claim back” link is available on transaction details page.

This is like PayPal but with one important difference. The money is not kept in custody of PayPal or any other third party. The money is sent directly, from sender to recipient, peer-to-peer, in the spirit of crypto.

Sending Cryptocurrency To Email
Even if the recipient doesn’t have a wallet yet
When PayPal started, they allowed to send money to an email address of another PayPal user. Users didn’t have to exchange any wallet numbers prior to payment. Another smart move: this worked even if the recipient was not a PayPal user yet. He was prompted to sign up and instantly take the money.

In cryptocurrencies, we are still sending payments to cryptic addresses like 1BtjAzWGLyAavUkbw3QsyzzNDKdtPXk95D or TKT4UESIKTTRALRRLWS4SENSTJX6ODCW, the recipient has to be already in the system, and we need to ask him about his address. And after a payment is sent, there is no easy way to tell who was the recipient. Not quite user friendly for mass adoption.

Now, this is going to change.

With the release of Byteball wallet version 2.0, Byteball users can send Bytes to email. Even if the recipient is not in Byteball yet.

The sender just writes an email address where he would normally write a Byteball address:


When he hits “Send”, his email app is opened with prefilled text for the recipient. The sender can edit it before sending.

The recipient receives an email like this:


He clicks the link and the money is added to his balance. If he doesn’t have a wallet yet, he is prompted to install in order to receive the money.

Simple as hell.

When PayPal was starting, email was the only wide spread method of P2P communication over the Internet. Now we have a lot more options, some of them are even more convenient, especially on mobiles.

When the sender is on a mobile phone and switches to “Share via message” tab (see the screenshot above), he is able to use all the options available through the phone’s standard “Share” menu: text message, Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, Signal, Viber, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Skype, etc. The recipient receives the same link, but through a chat app.


In any case, the money is delivered through text media, that’s why we call it textcoin.

On the technical part, the link which is delivered contains a BIP39 mnemonic (we use dashes instead of spaces to avoid confusion with wallet seed). Only one address, with path m/44'/0'/0'/0/0, is generated from the mnemonic, the coins are actually sent to this address. When the recipient claims the funds, his wallet restores the private key from the mnemonic (everything happens in the background and looks instantaneous), and sweeps the entire balance from this address to one of his own addresses.

Double fee has to be paid, first to fill the temporary address where the money is stored in transit, then to sweep its balance. The sender adds a small amount to cover the fees spent when sweeping. So, the amount displayed in the email or text message is the exact net amount. This is to make it clearer for the recipient, especially when he is new to crypto.

The textcoins might be delivered through insecure media, such as emails or unencrypted chats. That’s why it is recommended to use them only for small amounts or through end-to-end encrypted chats, such as Signal, WhatsApp, and iMessage.

If the sender makes a mistake in the email address or chooses a wrong recipient, the money is not lost. The sender can claim the money back using the same mnemonic. It is saved in the wallet for such occasions, and a “claim back” link is available on transaction details page.

This is like PayPal but with one important difference. The money is not kept in custody of PayPal or any other third party. The money is sent directly, from sender to recipient, peer-to-peer, in the spirit of crypto.

domingo, 25 de marzo de 2018

1st Byteball Crypto Meetup Milano
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1st Byteball Crypto Meetup Milano

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Detalles
This will be the first Byteall meetup in Milano.
Details will be announced soon.

About the meetup group:

This group is for everyone interested or invested in Byteball and Crypto Enthusiasts in general. Milano is well known for a lot of shops, restaurants and B&B´s for accepting Bytes (the native currency of the Byteball Crypto platform) and other crypto currencies. The meetup place will accept Bytes as a payment as well

I recently watched on Youtube Louis Thomas telling his viewers he is buying Byteball (see link below). His fundamental analysis has been impressive to date, and his explanation on why he liked Byteball makes sense. One key component I find interesting is its incredibly low supply of 1,000,000 coins, and a circulating supply of 645,000 coins. Of course, if the tech behind any coin is weak, then the supply doesn't matter much (I am not saying Byteball tech is weak). Furthermore, in 2017 we've seen that supply is not that important for a major rally (Ripple, Tron -4.35% , and a few other coins with multi-billions in supply have proven this). Second, Byteball's performance in relation to other tokens and coins in 2017 was really unimpressive. This is perhaps the most important reason I will likely stay away, as Byteball has been available to the public long enough to have been noticed by now, or at least much more than 600 mill in market cap by the 4th quarter of 2017 (current market cap is 180 mill). Third, the crypto market in general is in a state of possible breakdown and bear market, so any altcoin will need to be scrutinized much more heavily than 2017. However, I am a chartist at the end of the day, so if the price action displays close to what I indicated in the chart, I will be interested to own some.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWBWwH3gSCs

The Byteball wallet and Jumio integration now works on iPhone (only iOS 11 onwards though).  We will try and submit this soon to Apple App Store, hopefully next week.

On March 9 Byteball founder and lead developer Tony Churyumoff delivered a workshop at the Blockchain Leadership Summit in Zurich, Switzerland. Tony’s workshop was entitled Byteball: Crypto Solutions for the Real World. The event was well attended with speakers from organizations such as IBM, Coinbase and UBS. Video will be included in a future email if available.

Slack user @Punqtured has been doing excellent work to help Byteball recently. Firstly he has taken a very proactive role in helping with the translation of the Byteball wallet into new languages. The current status of the translations can be viewed here. In the past week alone translations have been completed for Bosnian, Croatian, Hindi (Indian) and Turkish. This is super important as only around 13% of the world's population speaks English, and only about 5% of the world's population are native English speakers. Mass worldwide adoption is a major aim for Byteball, and having the wallet in as many major languages as possible is a big step in the right direction.   

@Punqtured also submitted this interesting proposal to Utopian.io suggesting Byteball as a possible solution to a major fraud problem the platform is currently experiencing. He stated:

I've spent this evening creating a suggestion for a platform called "Utopian". A Steem blockchain based social media project that rewards open source contributions. But their success has lead to them being flooded with attempts of fraud. I've been on their platform for a while (that's one of the ways, I find qualified translators) and therefore have seen their platform develop and seen the attempts they've made to pose new and stricter rules. The problem is, the genuine contributors have a harder and harder time until they turn their back to the project in the end, while the scammers learn pretty quickly and have an incentive to learn new ways to get their rewards (in Steem Dollars or "SBD")

The CEO of Utopian replied stating Byteball was being considered as a possibility. Fingers crossed! Examples of proposals for crypto solving current real world problems that fiat currencies can not are quite rare to find in the crypto world. Ideas are easy and plentiful, but step by step proposals much harder. The Byteball platform inspires creative thinking and proactive attitude!     

The Freebe Blackbytes Exchange crossed 100,000 GBB in total trade volume since launch just over 6 months ago. Remember, Blackbytes are the privacy coin of the Byteball platform. To maintain privacy, Blackbytes can only be bought and sold from within the Byteball wallet using P2P smart contracts.

A developer guide for accessing almost all functions of Byteball node via JSON-RPC was added to Github. Enabling developers to build their own applications for specific use cases is extremely important and will lead to adoption in a variety of areas.

The first Byteball Meetup in Milan will take place March 25. Milan is well known for a lot of shops, restaurants and B&B´s for accepting Bytes (the native currency of the Byteball Crypto platform) and other crypto currencies.

Finally, you will start to see more graphics on the Byteball Twitter feed such as this to remind and educate the crypto world on what Byteball is all about.

Questions about Byteball? Please ask them on the Byteball Subreddit, Telegram or Slack
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Byteball — What’s happening? — March 2018

Crypto does not necessarily mean mining.
Welcome to the third monthly Byteball update in 2018. If you missed the previous recap it can be found here.

For those of you who don’t know anything about Byteball yet, I recommend you to check out the website. Even better, read the whitepaper. Still have questions? Check out the wiki.

Alternatively you can check out this introduction series right here on Medium:

Introduction to Byteball — Part 1: Why?
Introduction to Byteball — Part 2: The DAG
Introduction to Byteball — Part 3: Smart Contracts
Introduction to Byteball — Part 4: Adoption

For those of you already familiar with Byteball, here we go:

March & all future airdrops cancelled
The most controversial news for sure has been the announcement by lead developer and Byteball founder Tony Churyumoff that the March full moon airdrop was cancelled. So far the great majority (65% in 10 rounds) of the Bytes distribution has been done through this innovative mechanism. People could link their Bitcoin address to receive free Bytes every full moon. Bytes holders were also encouraged to hold on to their Bytes as they also got 10–20% for free every round.


At first this distribution method was a great way to get people who were already involved in the cryptocurrency space interested in Byteball. At some point however the method started to show huge diminishing returns, not justifying the cost anymore. A few new methods of distribution were developed but they needed time to come to fruition. Tony therefor felt he had to plan a final tentative airdrop for March in case the new methods also weren’t satisfactory. He waited till almost the last possible moment (2 weeks prior to the airdrop) to announce the cancellation.

Let’s just say the news wasn’t exactly celebrated, some even say it was a PR disaster. Even long time fan Richard Heart was so dismayed that he started to tweet negatively about Byteball. And he wasn’t the only one, some long time community members ragequit and sold all their Bytes. Let me try to summarize the criticism:

Lots of people invested in Byteball just because of the airdrops. The airdrop was advertised for months, you had to really read the smallprint to understand that it could be cancelled at any time;
Keeping 35% of the undistributed Bytes without a concrete plan how they will be distributed is very sketchy and scares away investors;
Changing the plan without any discussion shows how centralized Byteball really is, no better than an ICO where the developers keep 35% of the coins;
TL;DR: Trust issues!
But the future is bright
As a long time fan I am obviously very happy that Tony made this difficult decision. Obvious to me, maybe not to you, so let me try to explain why cancelling the airdrops is perhaps the best thing that could happen to Byteball besides organic user adoption.

Tony’s vision, as laid out in the whitepaper, is crystal clear to me. He is extremely ambitious. Byteball is barely 1 year old. Distribution is nowhere near finished, decentralization still has to happen and new features are being churned out like clockwork.

Anyone who zooms out a little can see that this is the most impressive crypto project of them all, especially considering it’s mostly being built by a single genius coder who luckily cares more about actual users than so called investors. So what is it that makes me love Byteball so much then? I’ll try to summarize it here:

Byteball is designed from the ground up as a better version of Bitcoin in every possible way, yes even security wise. In theory ofcourse, Tony is busy building all this;
He has the understanding that you should focus on user adoption and user experience instead of speculation/exchanges. This is the only way to reach long term success;
Currently Byteball is capped at roughly ~15tps max but no time is wasted on speed optimization yet because the network is nowhere near capacity at the moment, so that would be a waste of time, better to work on new features. We know it can scale;
He understands that Byteball is meant to be used in the real world instead of “HODLed till moon”. So some kind of trust is not bad, extremism is bad. You can still be swindled with your 100% trustless currency, because the physical world does actually exist. So why not integrate with it! Witnesses are a brilliant solution to bond the real and virtual worlds;
Marketing, whatfor!? The basics aren’t even finished yet, why start screaming already? Marketing to get active contributors involved, yes!
So once all of this is done, a few years from now probably, Byteball will turn into:

The most feature rich, extremely fast (at least x100 from now) crypto platform you can imagine with insanely low fees that has millions of actual users;
12 high profile real world witnesses, like Jumio, Bittrex, Amazon, Tesla, Wikileaks, UNICEF, etc. providing decentralization and security;
Many useful chat bots and integration in many web front ends / web applications as a backend system.
That’s what I believe in and why I have bought some (a lot) GB on top of what I got for free.
Everyone that learned about this project before November 2017 had a chance to own a part of this for FREE, Tony never asked anyone to invest in it.

Now that the groundwork is almost finished and actual ICOs can be run on Byteball it’s beginning to make sense to buy some Bytes to actually use it, so why give everything away for free to the people who already got so many. It just doesn’t make sense. So from this whole vision it’s super obvious that the airdrops must stop, they will destroy the vision when continued.

I don’t think I will convince many of the people in the first group but at least I tried. Let me know in the comments on which side you stand and why.

New distribution methods
So, no more airdrops, how do we get new users then? Luckily Tony developed a few promising new methods:

Cashback Program
Verification & referral rewards
Giveaways (example)
Mass textcoin mailings
Most of these methods are quite new and the user adoption path is ofcourse way harder than the “free money” route, but if we can get this ball rolling the result will be far greater than the airdrops could ever achieve. And Tony isn’t stopping here, more methods will be added in the future.


New ICO on the Byteball platform
Quite a surprise was the announcement of a new ICO on February 15 called SilentNotary. SilentNotary is a digital notary that saves and certifies documents, emails, chats, and audio/video recordings.

The authenticity of these records will be ensured by posting them both to the Ethereum blockchain and the Byteball DAG.

The ICO is active until 15 March 2018. If you’re interested you can find the “SilentNotary ICO” bot in the Bot Store. You can buy SNTR tokens with Bytes, BTC, or Ether.

By the way, the ICO bot now supports KYC and non-US attestation making Byteball the only ICO platform (that I’m aware of) which supports KYC out of the box.
Save the best for last
Overlooked but awesome news nevertheless is the fact that developers can now access almost any function of headless Byteball node via JSON-RPC.

Previously, only a small subset of functions was available through RPC.

This allows to easily integrate BB nodes with programs written in languages other than node.js.

Can’t wait to see what becomes of this!

No marketing news?
A few things are brewing
I bet next month this recap will be full of marketing / PR news.

That’s it for now. Don’t forget to check out the Byteball subreddit and join the community. See you next month!

I think people from Venezuela will be highly interesting in use this promotion and get some easy cash and create an ecosystem out of byteball.

"Tony's Balls" sounds even better   or

"Giga Ball" or
"My Big Balls" or
"Ball Coin" or
"Dag Ball" or "_____ ball"

it is about balls  

I think Gbytes are overbought, that is why they don't allow to withdraw. Maybe they do internally marginal trading, who knows. In order to withdraw your capital you need to sell Gbytes and withdraw bitcoin or other crypto. This coin is not well diversify in term of exchages, so manipulate it is very easy. We are in stage of accumulation time.
This is Blockchain 3.0.  =  Byteball

So what is the point of paying 8 dollars on front UNCONDITIONALY, I don't get it. We won't have too many new Byteball user. Why centralize the verification ID with "Jumio", there is https://shuftipro.com/ also.
I thought we are in a decentralice small world with a conditional payments.
Why should I loose 8 dollars if the condition of ID verification is not met. I thoght that we were in Byteball, not bitcoin.

Byteball is supposed to be forte on smart contract or conditional payment. Here it has the opportunity to show its potential. Jumio is not supposed to receive any money if the no ID verification is done. By the way, why should I pay 8 dollars on front for ID verification, many or the mayority of people are not familiar with Crypto, even less with Jumio, so it is very easy to miss step and make a misstake and loose 8 dollar trying to verify my ID. Payment to Jumio most be AFTER, not before, the ID verification is complete,  and then I get the 20 dollars. Here the insentive is to get people on Byteball by receiving 12 dollars, not for been an expert on Jumio ID verification risking 8 dollars by not knowing the steps. Or please make use of the "smart contract".
By the way, I think Byteball is the best Cryto proyect and the new distribution idea is the best by fixing the Jumio payment order.

Byteball will grow like a snow ball. It is very hard or difficult not do anything about it. I can have a new job if I want, just teaching five people everyday  about byteball I will get 100 dollars, this other five people will do the same... and so on...Byteball can pass bitcoin very easy.  And because of the lack of exchages for byteball, it has the potential for people to people exchage...I think it cannot get any better than this...Tony and your team deserve a lot respect...