That's even better.  I noticed in the French message board, and it appears that you are getting very close to having the android wallet.

Thanks Guillaume, it appears to have worked.  I just signed in, and did not get any email notification.

Regarding the exchange platform Cryptobec.  Is there any way you could deactivate the email message we get every single time we log into our exchange profile.  I think it is probably overkill getting an email every time we log in.  Also, the list of completed trades in the left margin only indicates the time of trades.  I think it would be more useful to see the dates as well in order to give a better picture of the level of activity.

I have to cross the border to go to my PO box to pick up my order, so sometimes there is a delay between when it arrives and when I go to pick up my mail.

I put in 0.4 BTC.  That was the most I could come up with for now, without access to a good local exchange.

Thank you, yes that would be perfect.

Laszlo would surely be proud.  Though I would point out that with just a little under 3 million QBC in circulation, it would be close to impossible for a single individual to put together 1 million Quebecoins today, and then take you up on your offer.

Based upon the last price I sold Quebecoin for on cryptobec, 1 million coins would in theory be worth  $240 USD.  However it isn't really meaningful to scale things up that big (or down so small depending upon your perspective) when there are so few Quebecoins available, and also while we still haven't yet discovered our first economic applications for the coin.  It's all kind of arbitrary at this point.

Ok, good to see you back.  I just sent the payment.

No problem.  I thought it would be good to ask just in case you had a lot of experience with it.  I was talking to him again, and it does sound like something I could figure out as I go, and play around with in November whenever it gets colder.  Before then I will go see Mötley Crüe one last time (?) in Syracuse, just in time for Halloween.

I just logged in and am noticing that the net hashrate is now up to 68 Mh/s, which is nearly twice the max of the last couple days.  I am thining that if that hashrate were to be maintained it would mean that we would make about half the number of coins that we were able to make yesterday using the same miners?  

This reminds me of something, which is off topic.  A friend of mine had a message board that was hosted on a free site called called "proboards".  The forum got taken down, after someone complained to the webmaster, who then decided to pull the plug and my friend then lost all the contents of his 10 year old forum.  It was a discussion forum dedicated to skeptical views on chiropractic, combatting and describing the pseudosciene that's involved, and was frequented mostly by former chiropractors who had decided to quit the profession, as well as others who were searching for answers to their questions about chiropractic.  The website Quackwatch.com (Chirobase) has offered to host a new discussion forum for him, however he needs to rebuild a forum from scratch.  If you think you might be able to lend a hand, let me know.

http://www.chirobase.org/00AboutChirobase/mission.html

Since I only figured out how to run a CPU miner on my PC, I have occasionally experimented with Betarigs.com's selection of X11 mining farms.   Generally, any of the occasional spikes you see in the hashrate graph correspond to a moment when I rented a big rig for a few hours:

http://explorateur-qbc.circonference.ca/statistics/


 They give you a wide range of hashrates to choose from from just 1 Mh/s up to huge farms over 700 Mh/s.  The time of the mining contract varies from a few hours to sometimes up to 2 weeks, depending upon what you are willing to pay for (in bitcoins).  I have tried mining with a large over 100 Mh/s farm on the cryptobec pool before, paying over 0.01 BTC to mine for a few hours.  This was at the time that the difficulty was higher, so generating less Quebecoins.  I realize that it is not worth pointing too much power at Quebecoin, because so few are mining it.  

I am just about to complete a 24 hour mining contract that is rated at 8.6+ Mh/s.  I think I would not bother going above that mining power.  The following miner:

https://www.betarigs.com/rig/4608

The actual hashrate varies.  Sometime it can go signifcantly higher.  Right now it is at about 6.4 Mh/s.  Overall average might by 8.25 Mh/s  For the first couple of hours I was getting a poor hashrate, which has been a typical problem this week mining Quebecoin, but then it went up and has been good for the remainder.  The owner of the miner gave me an extra hour to mine make up for the loss.

I am looking at getting a bit over 4000 QBC for 24 hours.  I paid the equivalent of $1.07 in bitcoin for the miner rental.  The global hashrate has been from 25-33 Mh/s over that period.  I think that if you plug the numbers into your equation it does come up close to 4000 coins estimated.

Unfortunately, the launch of Quebecoin back in April had none of the ingredients of innovation needed to set it apart from all of the other fad altcoins that have been popping up everywhere like bad weeds.  It also did not come with the promised maple syrup for IPO investors .  That leads to an identity crisis, which fails to attract people to join the conversation and promote development.  So it is not surprising that someone heavily involved with the industry would not be impressed with someone who has merely cooked up a different flavor of the same recipe that was already been copied and followed a thousand times.




Earlier in this thread I did set up a kind of experimental transaction for Quebecoin.  To make the Quebecoin equivalent of a $20 donation to a charity.  I picked a Montreal based charity called Mission Bon Accueil, or in English "Welcome Hall Mission".  They provide food and shelter to Montreal's homeless and most vulnerable.  I asked for everyone to pitch in some Quebecoins, arbitrarily setting the number of Quebecoins to be collected to roughly what $20 worth of bitcoin would allow you to mine at that given time.

http://www.missionbonaccueil.com/en#.VEvDKvnF8r

The idea was similar to the one used by bitcointalk's Laszlo, when he asked if someone could send him pizza in exchange for bitcoins.  In 2010 it was such an early point in bitcoin's history that essentially nobody had yet used it as a currency.  Laszlo was simply using the most basic tools he had at his disposal to try to make that first transaction happen.  And that was all that was needed to get the ball rolling  For example he did not say: "For the first bitcoin transaction I am hiring a team of web developers to create a highly advanced website that will allow you to select a pizzeria close to where I live and will automatically convert bitcoins to fiat and wire the money to the restaurant."

I think that for the earliest use, Quebecoin would work more like a token.  Imagine those plastic tokens that you use in the laundry rooms of certain apartment complexes.  The tenants have to buy them in order to do their laundry, and it prevents people who don't live there from doing their laundry.  Because the machines do not accept quarters.  That's a rather unexciting, low tech concept.  But then again so was asking someone to send you a pizza for a few thousand bitcoins back in 2010.

So there could initially be some specific use for Quebecoin at one local online store, for example.  It would be a matter of finding a business that is small enough that they would not mind taking a chance on an unusual marketing strategy involving our little cryptocurrency.  To offer customers the chance to use Quebecoin in some very limited way.  At first the only customers who would show up would be a few people from this thread.  I am thinking that the only value for Quebecoin would be to receive a discount code to use at check-out in order to save a certain percentage on the total sales price, or perhaps to get free shipping.

The benefit for this small retailer is that they would gradually be introduced to the concepts of cryptocurrency.  Without taking the risk of diving head first in accepting bitcoin as a form of payment.  Learning the basics of how to manage wallets and how to transfer the Quebecoins they receive into Bitcoin.  I would also consider providing an extra incentive to the first merchant who adopts Quebecoin.  Such as complimentary cloud hashing shares.  Let's say about 20 MHS of Zeushash.com litecoin shares.  That would also give them some crypto income that they could use.

Even this small amount of activity would be enough to drive up some demand for QBC, and give it some small value.  Gradually you could, over time add more merchant activity, and more substantial products and services being offered in exchange for Quebecoin.

Of course my main goal here would be to find ways to encourage more people from Quebec to get involved with using and benefiting from bitcoin. The kind of people who do not hang out on bitcointalk, and who probably don't read English very well.  Quebecoin is nothing more than a tool for reaching that goal.  Ideally finding new people who are not already aware of cryptocurrency, or how it works and who probably doubt that it is something that they could be concerned with.  Trying to make the process of using it simpler than it already is for people who's level of computer literacy is limited to using email.  For them we would need to design a simple online wallet.  Expecting them to be able to download the Windows wallet as it is now, is already too complicated.

Realistically that is a very broad goal, which could be achieved either with or without Quebecoin.  Depending upon whether or not Quebecoin would end up becoming a viable concept.  I think that the project that ML-R is working on has much of the same goal in mind.

I am sending a substantial Quebecoin reward to morinpa for working on the problem we had with the nodes.  To the following address:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=708702.80

There was a post yesterday by Patrick Morin.  He said that he updated DSN seeds.  Which I expect should fix the issue we had with inactive nodes that resulted in mining downtime for several hours a couple days ago.  But generally there is not much activity in the quebeco.in forum, because there are only about 10 people who might post on there at any given time.

I can't speak personally for M-L Richard, but I did notice that she has since become involved in the start up of a Montreal based bitcoin investment fund called Cryptomen.  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=811602.0

That project appears to have the potential to be lucrative, whereas Quebecoin, for the moment, would require some serious leg work to become anything substantial.  I would imagine she will return once a new development comes that will put Quebecoin on people's radar.




The successful coins also have bitcointalk threads that have gained a critical number of members reading and participating, which helps to keep the wheels running.  We only have a few chiming in on this thread, I think perhaps because we haven't yet distinguished the coin from the crowd or reached the appropriate audience.


 
We can all write well enough in English to do so for the sake of this thread.  Since I understand that we are posting in the English section of Bitcointalk.  The important thing is to keep the discussion lively and active.  We did post in French several times in this thread, because that was one of the defining characteristics of the project, the desire to carve out something that delivers a message in our own language.  But we have other venues for doing that, such as our website forum.  

This has been the problem from the very beginning.  We first become excited by the idea of this coin because of the potential for it to be used in that way, as a currency that could be used within Quebec and beyond.  However, at such an early a stage in development, where few are aware of us, it would be unrealistic to find merchants willing to consider accepting Quebecoin as payment while the coin has no definite value.
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I think one possible way forward would be to first offer the idea of using Quebecoin as a token coin.  As something that can be used as part of the marketing tools of a business, such as coupons.  Customers would get the opportunity to access special items, offers, and discounts available only if they pay a nominal fee in Quebecoin to the merchant.  For example, pay 500 QBC and receive a code that you enter at checkout to save 40% on specific items.  This would be a far more realistic starting point.

This could also be another way for merchants to gradually become involved with using cryptocurrency in general.  One that would be less demanding than trying to integrate Bitcoin into their payment system as the first step.

As demand for the coin would increase, we could then add more uses that would make Quebecoin work like a currency that has a specific value.

Worth noting that there is one hotel in Montreal that accepts bitcoin.  And they are within easy walking distance of the Longueil Université de Sherbrooke Metro Station.


http://www.sandmanhotels.ca/fr/hotels/montreal-longueuil/

This is what Kigurumi Canada is:

http://www.kigurumi.ca/

As you can see they have an online store and specialize in one type of item, an animal themed fleece costume that originates from Japan.  I see on their website that they have the bitoin logo.

I think a web based store that has a similar design and sells a simple product for Quebecoins, like custom T-shirts for example.  Could be another possible way to implement Quebecoin into the local merchant scene.

The following is from CoinMap.org :

A & M Services - Bookkeeping & Taxes
Atelier 77
AutoCoinage Bitcoin ATM/Canada Hotdog
Bar La Caverne
BitAccess Bitcoin ATM
Bitcoin Embassy
BitHost
Canfone.com
CellTek
Clinique de Massages
Crêperie St-Paul
Instacoin ATM
Kigurumi Canada
L'Espagne à vos pieds
La porte logique
Le Goût du Libre
Me Louis Sirois, LL.B. avocat
Montreal Bitcoin ATM Suite #194
Montreal Poutine
Montreal Rental Apartments
Netlink Studio
Red Rhino Recording
Sandman
sport code - MAXIM
Voxel Factory
YMR Technologies
Zinzan Studio Montreal

That's right, just to reiterate.  There are certain critical aspects of the project that are not being managed at the moment because we don't have the right technical talent involved yet.  Someone to work out the android wallet, being just one example.  Also, because the state of this thing is in limbo, quebecoin has gone off the radar for a number of people who were initially quite involved and interested.

As far as merchant adoption is concerned.  I think it would make sense to begin with less formal, home based businesses by people who already know how to use crypto currency ideally.  Like someone from our circle who is able to sell vegetables from their garden.  Just to get a baseline of merchant activity, before pitching the idea to an established brick and mortar business in downtown Montreal.  As it is, there are not yet a whole lot of places in Montreal that accept bitcoin, as far as I can tell.  I have not personally gone to some of the places that do, such as Montreal Poutine, so I am not sure what the experience is like for the customer.  Whether or not they do a good job of handling bitcoin customers,  or if it is still something that just looks good on paper as a gimmick, but which they are still struggling to figure out themselves.