News travels fast and you guys have ruined our big announcement today 

Thanks for the kind words, this is a really big deal for the project. Kaspersky were one of strongest critics labeling us in the same bracket as hidden background miners so to get a whitelisting is huge.

Thanks again. We'll make an official announcement later today.

Hi CDRX,

The server.jsecoin.com subdomain is only used for platform self-miners. There's absolutely no reason why any antivirus should block that. We are going to be pushing out the opt-in only update this week. Once this is done we've been told we should be able to get whitelisted by Kaspersky. Web anti-virus I'm not familiar with but we will contact them too.

Tialex, no plans to list on a stock exchange any time soon. Not sure if you mean ICO which will be later this year, exact date TBA.

Arghabd, can you get to this URL? https://jsecoin.com/en/support/contact/
If not what is happening?

Hi Vladivostokom, thank you.  There's an up to date list of bounty opportunities here: https://jsecoin.com/en/oddJobs/smallJobs

These include:-

• Bug bounty for security vulnerabilities
• Typos (English site only)
• Video editing
• Browser testing
• Affiliate promotions
• Translation editing

If you are interested then please contact us at: https://jsecoin.com/en/support/contact

Thank you to everyone that has offered support so far!

Hi arghabd, yes winners are drawn at random at the end of each block cycle and reward transactions are added to the next block.

Hi ByBraiiaN, unfortunately not. The only countries that are currently included are: US,CA,GB,IE,AU,NZ,ZA

We are working on translations today for the website. To start with we used Google Translate API to roughly translate the JSON files. We are now looking for native speakers to go through the files and correct / improve the translations.

More info at: https://jsecoin.com/en/oddJobs/smallJobs

Contact us here if you would like to get involved in editing the translation files: https://jsecoin.com/en/support/contact

Hi Arghabd,

So the system works via a lottery based on each 30 second block. So every 30 seconds 50 users (who have submitted at least one hash) will be entered into a lottery. The winners all receive 0.005 JSE which adds up to the total daily cap of 720 JSE for the self-miner pool.

Other ways to earn JSE are:

• Publisher Mining - Placing JSE code on your website
• Referrals - Affiliate payments for sending friends
• Bounty - Translations, Bug bounty, SEO, Videos, even Typos: https://jsecoin.com/en/oddJobs/smallJobs

Hi arghabd,

The best way I've found to do this is to open jsecoin in a separate browser window as opposed to a separate tab. Most modern browsers reduce resources right down to hidden tabs but if you keep it in a separate window you should see the hash rate stays more constant.

I think that's the message from the load balancer when one of the back-end pools isn't available. I know there were some updates that were pushed out to new website/homepage today which could have caused it temporarily. Should only have been for a short period though. Hopefully it's working for you again now.

Hi smgeek,

I've just double checked this and it's working with Internet Explorer:
Version: 11.192.16299.0
Update Versions 11.0.50

It could be an adblocker or something perhaps causing an issue. Are you getting any error messages in the developer console if you press F12 from within IE?

Thank you everyone.

Rod, we have an account on Steemit at https://steemit.com/@jsecoin
Is this what you mean or something else?

CDRX, yeah a lot of the affiliate networks do this as well. Give big publishers exclusive domains etc. It's basically cloaking the links and I don't think we are doing anything wrong so shouldn't have to hide anything. It's something we could consider in the future if we can't get whitelisted by the av companies and ad blockers that have blocked the jsecoin.com domain. It should be fairly straightforward to just redirect a domain to the load servers. The slight issue is that as soon as a domain starts getting blocked again the publishers would have to update their code and we would have to rotate domains. I think it's an option but not something we want to get in to right now. At the moment we are focusing on trying to find someone technical at each of the companies and getting them to take a proper look at the platform. This is easier said than done with some of the organizations but in time I am fairly confident we will get through.

We will be pushing out the website update in the next couple of hours, platform and mining wont be affected as it's on a different subdomain and servers. Might get some downtime/broken links etc on the homepage in the next few hours.

Exchange listing will be after the ICO later this year. No exact dates or confirmed exchanges at this stage.

We are getting ready to roll out our new website. Here is the design we have been working on:

https://jsecoin.com/homepage/

Feel free to take a sneak peak and send us some feedback before we go live.

There is no set price yet for the ICO. This will be set at an exchange rate to ethereum based on the current market value and demand from investors. After the ICO the token will be listed on exchanges where the price will be determined by the open market according to supply and demand.

Atracom, that's funny, true and scary all at the same time

I think our best chance to really make this project is a success is to deliver a great product before the ICO.

Going off-topic slightly I think there is room for multiple cryptocurrencies in the market as opposed to a bitcoin killer. Bitcoins market dominance has fallen recently and I expect this will continue as other projects develop at a faster pace and become more efficient, consumer friendly, adaptable. Bitcoin will always have a first mover advantage and I think it could position itself as a store of value long-term and let other projects compete for mainstream transactional adoption.

Anyway the new website should be ready in the next week or two and then we will get to work on the platform update so we should be ready to start getting translations done shortly. I think website/platform/whitepaper/support(currently FAQ) are the key things we need to get translated ASAP.

Hi Rudicode,

No we have to include the privacy notice because it lets users know we are doing cryptocurrency mining and also offers them a chance to opt-out. We never have and never will partake in hidden background mining as we see this as unethical and not fair on the end-user.

cryptur, just to let you know that we have rolled out an update for the self-mining platform today. To try and prevent the issues discussed we've put a system in place where the socket.io connection and mining will restart itself every 30 minutes. I'm not 100% sure what was causing the problem, I suspect bad connections between the server/client but this should resolve it as everything will be reset and the mining will automatically restart without user interaction every 30 minutes. It's all client-side so you'll need to refresh your browsers and log back in to get the update. After 30 minutes you may notice a line in the logs which says "Restarting JSE Socket.IO and Mining at 30 min Intervals", then everything will stop and after a 15 second delay it will all restart back up again. Let myself or one of the team know if you experience any further issues with the self-mining. Thanks.

Hi Coincoiner,

I'll answer these questions separately.

We don't currently plan to use the computational power to host dapps or smart contracts.

The distribution is set as a fair amount relating to the current distribution of just under 850,000. We may adjust the payouts in future to match supply and demand.

If a really large website came in with 100m uniques a day then they would be taking 90% of the publisher distribution. I think if that happened we would probably have to look at capping the per site amount as our policy is to try and distribute the tokens as far and wide as possible. This isn't an issue at the moment but we will continue to review the publisher accounts and make decissions accordingly. We need to balance attracting large publishers with ensuring small sites can still earn a worthwhile amount of JSE.

The lotto system on the publisher side has a number of inputs but the key one is unique visitors. If a site has a lot of visitors then they will earn more. So to simplify it every time a unique visitor loads a page a lottery ticket is drawn and given to the publisher who owns the site. At 30 second intervals we draw out the rewards and choose 50 winners at random each getting 0.01 JSE. On the self-mining side each user that finds a hash that block gets a ticket and we draw 50 users who all receive 0.005 JSE. This provides the 1440 and 720 JSE distributions per day.

It's not at the moment but it's not a big secret either and will be released in full when we open-source the platform. Basically it's unique visitors (that stay on the site for more than a set period) and also the hashes they find. But as difficulty is increased the hashes become harder to find and this means that it is more directly correlated to unique visitors to the site. Time on site plays a part as does the relation of desktop to mobile users because desktops have more processing power but the key thing is unique visitors.

Thanks for your support and I hope this explains it as clearly as possible. If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask.

Hi Cryptur,

We reset the stats at midnight UTC each day, (Coordinated Universal Time). So this would be around 4pm Pacific time for example. Could this be why the Today's earnings figure reset?

Additionally we have had a few people mention that they left the self-mining run overnight and it has cut out after a certain period. We think this is either due to firebase dropping queries or the way socket.io reconnects after a bad connection. It's something that we need to work on to make it more robust. It's a hard bug to recreate though as it only seems to be happening randomly once every 48-72 hours or something like that. It's difficult to test and fix but we are aware of it happening and will work on making the self-mining platform more resilient and reliable.

Hi Cryptoroll,

It is true because the mining distribution is currently set at 720 JSE for self-miners and 1440 JSE for publishers. These amounts are divided between the entire pool of miners and publishers. We could in theory increase/decrease these amounts but at the moment we have sufficient usage and want to protect the circulating supply of 835,670 JSE to protect the early investors.

Once we have gauged interest before the ICO we may further cap the total supply to balance the valuation to expected demand.

Mr.Zet, ICO will be later this year. Exact date to be announced.

Sencix, that's particularly good. Is that with a publisher website or just on the self-mining?

RE: Kaspersky, this is the current email conversation with them, they are a difficult company to work with. We did get a whitelisting from Bitdefender recently so I'm hopeful eventually Kaspersky will come around to.

Hello,

1) Yes the mining process starts after the 15 second privacy notification has ended. So the user has enough time to opt-out. If you feel we need to increase this time period we could. The system is opt-out because it wouldn’t work as an opt-in model for all the same reasons digital advertising doesn’t work as opt-in. Our mining process isn’t resource intensive and consumes less resources in testing than an auto-loading video advertisement. I feel that we aren’t doing anything worse than the big companies that are running digital ads. From a user experience perspective less resources are consumed and our system is less intrusive than advertising.

2) We could potentially increase the time the privacy notification displays or display it for a set amount of time and then shrink it down to a tiny icon in the bottom of the screen so users can always reach the opt-out link from the icon. This was something we discussed with webmasters in this thread and I think will be pushed out in the next update: https://jsecoin.com/forums/topic/privacy-notification/page/2/#post-4851

Would this help us reach compliance? If so we can bring this forward as a priority and get it rolled out in the next week.

3) The wording of the notification is also discussed earlier in that thread. We can not put too much text in there because it needs to display on all devices including older mobile devices which don’t have much room but if you would prefer we could potentially add a smaller line underneath the main notification for desktop devices with something like “Mathematical mining process will start consuming a small amount of resources starting in x seconds”

The opt-in model we have a system in place where users can register at https://platform.jsecoin.com and do what we call self-mining. As previously discussed I don’t see how it would be possible to run the publisher mining effectively as an opt-in model. I think trying to make the opt-out system work for publishers in a way that is transparent and ethical is better than having no system at at all. However I am biased because our business model is dependant on us getting this right.

Thank you for taking the time to look at our platform. I hope this answers your queries and goes some way to showing our commitment to working with your compliance team.

Kind regards,

James Bachini

On 26/12/2017 18:50,  [email removed] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we agree that any type of opt-out is better than completely hidden mining.
> But still, do you confirm that in jsecoin:
> 1) Mining process on publisher sites is started just after page load and without visitors consent
> 2) Visitor has about 15 seconds or so to notice banner and take action. If he doesn’t, banner dissapears and mining continues unnoticeably
> 3) Displayed privacy notice does state that Website is monetized with cryptocurrency mining, but it doesn’t mention that visitor’s hardware is utilized for this monetization right now?
>
> Have you considered opt-in model, rather than opt-out?
>
> Best Regards, NewVirus
>
> 39A/3 Leningradskoe Shosse, Moscow, 125212, Russia Tel./Fax: + 7 (495) 797 8700 http://www.kaspersky.com https://securelist.com
>
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> Sent: 22.12.2017 19:15:00
> To: [email removed]
> Subject: [Malicious link] Re: [Malicious link] RE: [Malicious link] Re: [Malicious link] RE: [Malicious link]Anti-virus Lab replies to your request [VD3][URL:3][LN:EN] [KLAN-7384385269] [KLAN-7390565559]
>
> Hello,
>
> load.jsecoin.com contains only our own miner script and it displays a
> privacy notice with network wide opt-out link. See screenshot attached.
>
> It is less CPU intensive than a video advertisement. We are operating
> fully transparently with our publishers and their visitors.
>
> We do not offer an option for publishers to hide the privacy notice and
> also have checks in place to make sure publishers aren’t running the
> code in an iframe to hide the notice.
>
> I know cryptocurrency mining has a bad reputation but we believe that
> our system offers a real alternative for intrusive advertising with less
> disturbance to the end user. We are doing everything we can to operate
> in an ethical and transparent manner.
>
> If you feel that our platform is still non-compliant with your standards
> please advise on how we can make this work to meet with your approval?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> James

Hi Cryptur bare in mind that the mining is reset at midnight UTC not local timezones, this might have caused the issue.

Atracom, that is strange as firefox or chrome are normally the two fastest browsers and both are tested with the platform. It could potentially be a adblocker plugin causing an issue. In firefox you can also open up a developer console using CTRL + SHIFT + K. This will let you know if there are any errors being reported.

Chris, that's great to hear thank you!