We normally organize all of these things on slack. A note to anyone who wants to chip in and help promote should request to get on slack so we can all coordinate/communicate

We can always organize bounties of course too.

Yes that is what the templates are going to do. It will be n00b friendly. I'm trying to make it "grandma" friendly but we will see. Some grandmothers still dont know how to turn on a laptop. lol

Hmm... i noticed an amusing bug. Since when you posted your offer, you switched the template in the dropdown box in the markets to "Sell something" after you already clicked on "custom". Since that template wasnt activate yet the market wont be able to accept it. Just use "custom" and when posting dont switch it.

In fact, it can. If you put a $ in front of the amounts when typing it will convert from USD to Bitbay automatically based on the current exchange rate. Of course it confirms the rate with you first. Let me know if it does that for you im not sure what i included in the last update. I will boot up Bitbay, everyone here should be able to see your order.

The markets are sort of empty for now, all the active orders were sold and i know a few expired like the webcam(unless that was also sold).

When i finish the templates i will add automatic reposting in the settings so orders can stay alive more than 2 days. Lots to do, then next update will be significant. The next one is all about user friendliness, the program will handle as much as possible for you so no need to think about deposit levels it will make those recommendations.

Actually the way to do it, is to click "custom contract" and it will fill out the market address automatically. The other way is to select "custom" from the dropdown box in the markets tab before posting and post it. Its the other templates that dont work. Instant refund isnt necessary but you should fill out all the other fields. When clicking custom it will fill out the market address let me know if that doesnt fill out. It will also ask you if you want counter-offers. The counter offer system is similar to bidding of course. And for certain auction style contracts, i might have it say place bid instead of counter.

Automatically accept is another option it will give you and that basically would be for either pre-screening bidders or disable it so you can accept multiple offers on the same contract.

So basically "custom" is the only template available and the rest will come soon and the others will be much more friendly. i will try to get more videos in the video library when everything is totally finished. Or maybe the community will want to make some.

Yes it can as long as those coins have multisignature. Even without it, i might be able to figure out how to integrate it. I would really need to know the differences in the scripting system to know for sure. Honestly I think Node is really interesting and Qora has AT doesnt it? I would probably want to make a python library for scripting Halo escrows for any coin that doesnt have it. What interests me about Node is how they do fast transactions at first glance it seemed like a relatively secure solution. I think maybe Node could be used for cryptocurrency games.

Publicity and marketing come gradually once we have finished the dev schedule. We currently have a nice steady and organic rise.

Who knows, maybe they tricked the crave devs(i know the feeling lol) or maybe the crave dev is only a copy+paste dev. I saw his commits on their github. So far it looks like that they can manage to bring in some changes. They did in fact make updates to their source. But bringing in core Bitcoin changes is nothing compared to designing markets or wallets from scratch. This is why im only bullish on coins that were written from scratch. SDC does good work, I see that BitShares did some good work... coins with dedicated devs are the ones that should be supported.

Also its important to look at dev history. Do they just burn out and cash out? Can the dev stay with the community during hard times? I'm still doing Blackcoin work and BitBay work and will do so until the software is up to our standards regardless of market conditions. Peter Todd is a dev to keep an eye on, the guys from Notary Chains (Paul Snow etc). Lots of good devs in the lurch.

But seriously, a coin that comes out of nowhere, pays a signature campaign with fake Bitcointalk accounts (like Bitbay was bombarded with), pumps 10x overnight, doesn't release anything significant to justify the increase other than core commits, is clearly a pump and dump. Who wouldnt sell in this position? 300K volume? In this bear market with BTC at 230? Fake volume is a common trick of these groups. SDC did the same thing without a market released, just a screenshot. But it was a good time to sell. I watched to bots move orders around on Poloniex... its interesting.

People dont need to gamble on those coins. However, someone just told me "they just ride the waves". Unfortunately, you cant predict when a group is going to sell and if its a pump group, they will sell on their own group.

Just wait until this is totally finished with hedging in its commercial phase

That was me, anyone with a moderator key can boost reputation of users for posting and good behavior. However the system is funny because only the people who "see me give you points" will keep the record of it. There isnt a blockchain so only peers keep data about what they see. But this is just like the real world. We judge others by what we personally witness not by what others tell us about them. So the hope is peoples ratings will spike naturally.

Currently anyone who connected in the last week will record the points and the core team knows. Any new users will still see you as new. The other thing i was going to add to this reputation system is that you can keep track of completed orders. And other nodes can (independently) verify your reputation by researching you on the blockchain! If they see that your wallet was only involved in good transactions, they will automatically rate you. If they see your wallet was involved in destroyed escrows, the system can warn them.

Honestly, i dont trust exchanges anymore. I would recommend put your money on, make the trade and withdraw immediately. I'm going to trade on my own decentralized exchange because im not a professional trader so personally dont care for super fast trading. Security is more important than speed or good charting.

FYI, Flappy is a good coin! Maybe we should make FlappyHalo.

We are in what is very similar to a penny stock market. So people only buy into new coins that they will of course quickly sell. Pump and dump groups will make new coins because its easier to promise features than deliver and i think investors buy in because they want to gamble. I wish that investors wouldnt make it so easy for pump and dump groups to sell new coins. Of course they should be investing in coins with real developement behind them but its not the case. Perhaps if the market matures that will change.

This is exactly what the pegging system is going to (try) to solve. Its way too easy to start a new coin and some investors are not thinking about which coins will survive a year from now. Its sad but its true, the majority of the crypto space doesnt care about tech, only money. However, once we give them tools like these markets etc, the hope is eventually people will realize that coins are much more than speculative assets.

Yeah we still need a build that works on all versions of Mac. We have noticed that some versions will not run the daemon for whatever reason. The same is true for some linux versions. Perhaps it needs to be compiled with certain libraries. Its on my list of things to do.

Its funny because I didnt have that issue with gmail. However, I've still got to test out some of the other providers. Hotmail has worked before but then recently someone had an issue with outlook which i thought was the same.

The markets run on Bitmessage which is the default. You dont need anything else to run, everything runs inside of BitBay. Email is only a little bit faster, thats all.

Im sending you a PM, it already funded.

You can add email but that wont change the order, people still need to use Bitmessage to contact you on that one. At least anyone here on Bitcointalk knows that its you now. Of course there is also IRC, yeah just for now we need to put the contact info in the description. If you want to test this with me i can accept it. Is your client running? Bitmessage takes a little longer to complete(POW).

That all depends on how much you use bitmessage. The POW can take a lot of time on a slow computer. But I have other techniques to use other than POW such as time locks per kb. Also i still want to improve the speed of the program. Not sure when i will have time though. Anyways, i will take your contract and pm you with a mailing address. Once you get a tracking number just pm me back.

Ahh I see well i can take that order to test it out with you. Just make sure the client is running since its purely p2p. I noticed one of the orders on the market had its pastebin expire so most users will not be able to see the webcam anymore. I added a fix for that however i should consider giving a way to make the
pastebin images last longer than a week. Since im using a site for that, i dont want to spam them either.

Also, i noticed the order for the SD card is bitmessage only. This is fine although if someone accepts they will still need a way to contact you. I would recommend that until we have the templates finished, put some basic contact info in your description.

Hmm I noticed there are 3 orders on the market. Is this what everyone else sees? Someone should take one of them. I might take the Star Trek card...

I still need to make it so people can contact each other while in escrow. Also need to finish up those templates to make it so people can fill in all the extra info such as shipping etc.