Twoplusstwo.com and Cardschat banned our posts.

Our announcments was taken down, the forums though it was spam and did not like it.
It sucks, as I am sure there are many there that would find our service very interesting!

Of course we dont give up that easily, so we have tried again with a different approach.
Registrering with a normal pokername (Blockpoker's username on pokerforums is threeplusstwo) and just informing in our thread about Blockpoker without promoting it.
Basically acting as a poker player.
It's not the preffered way to go, but I think its the only way to get our service out to these forums for free.
In the future when we have some capital it will be much more easy for us to reach out to these players with paid advertisments and other methods.

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Twoplusstwo.com
Cardschat.com
Let's hope they stays up and don't get taken down.
You can help with that if you reply on the topic.


Seeking experienced people in the pokerboard field

None of us really have to much experience with these boards and don't have old accounts to post with or know the best methods to bring our service on these boards.
If you do and are willing to help us out, we are prepared to give out some BP rewards to those that do.
Even if you don't have to much experience and just have some spare time, you can go around different poker boards and talk about Blockpoker and get rewards in BP.
Amounts will be determined individually but we can assure it's worth your time, so please contact us if you are interested.

Got a PM today asking me if I was interested in taking over another coin.

Was not rude in reply, but that attitude annoyed me.
Smartchips was a special situation. It was the concept that dragged me in and pushed me over the edge to build something I always had a dream of building.
I will never take over another coin, and hopefully Blockpoker becomes so successful that I will never be involved with another coin.

Just a heads up to others that might be thinking of asking the same, and to those that have it in their mind that I am going around and taking over coins.

Over to something more positive,
some announcements of our project will be dropped on poker boards today.
Get ready for some traffic

Kevin

As far as I know, whitepaper is not on our priority list.
It has been mentioned but none of us saw it as really important, but maybe Kevin have plans to write up something in the future. He will need to answer this himself.

When it comes to the poker forums as you suggest Timeline, that is in the works as I type.
Don't know if you where the guy suggesting it to us on an email, but it was a great idea and we have started to look into some poker related forums where we can bring our service out to more people.
Updates/links regarding that will come here shortly, stay tuned 

Kenneth

No worries, I am happy to give out some details about this again

The BP wallet is integrated into our poker software, therefore nobody will be able to get a BP address before the launch day.
On 1/1-16 you can instantly swap your smartchips, but until then you have to keep on to them.
However, if there is a reason you can't swap during the swapping face and need to do it before, we can arrange something. So contact us and we will do everything we can to help you out!

Hope this covers it, please bring on more questions if you should have some.

Kevin

We have received a couple emails asking if everything is going okay and on schedule, since we have been a little silent.
I would like to point out it has not been a long time since last post, but I love the enthusiasm!

If there are more out there that was wondering the same, yes everything is going good.
Since I am between jobs (much of the reason I was able to develop Blockpoker), I have many hours of the day to work on our service.
The days that will come after today will be mainly used to double check everything, making sure that every function works as it should.
It's highly important to me and for this project as a whole that we can get a smooth and fault free launch.

The others have jobs and do not have that much time during work days, but its the weekend and christmas now, so you will see them getting more active in the next days with bringing the service out to people.
Creating a larger community and more attention to our launch and distribution week.

Kevin

To play at our tables on 1-7 Jan you will need have BP, yes.
Those can easily be purchased via our BP | Bank.

Smartchip investors will be able to swap our their share for BP right after the service comes out and they can get a BP address. So they will be able to play without going to our bank.

We have also been suggested to have a couple freeroll tournaments for people that don't want to pay to try our service, which we are considering.
But those that play in these will not be able to receive BP from the distribution pot. To do that, you need to play in one of our real money games like cash games or guaranteed tournaments.
However, it will be possible to win some BP in the freeroll (if we decide to have that) that then can be used to play those modes.

Hope to see you in the first week of 2016!

Good day all!

I can see that everybody in here agree about the big potential for our project, and that's great!
However, I also acknowledge the negativity. I thought I would address it, because I had hopes that Blockpoker could start of different then how the majority of projects start of here in Bitcointalk.

First of, the whole reason why we announced this before the service got online was to have people lined up to play at our tables. We have a well detailed plan on how to achieve that, and it will be noticed in the next two weeks.
But it may have been a wrong decision and we should have just waited until we dropped the service to announce Blockpoker. Time will tell.

I see that the criticism comes because people say there is a financial opportunity with smartchips.
The reason we distribute the BP to smartchips investors was because those investors put their money on me, and I could not let them down and go a different route when distributing the coin, it would have been wrong.

Honestly, I can't see why those that invested in my work would want to part now right before the launch. I personally can't understand why they put their money up when I promised them nothing but hard work, and they part with that investment right before I am finished.
But that's really not my buisness, people can do whatever pleases them.
To add another point, if you believe I am just lying or this is some kind of setup, then don't buy anything.
I still wish you would follow Blockpoker and try out our service on 1.1.16 or later on though, and if you are pleased with our service you can then buy from the bank.

On the note about these users that post positive comments, Blockpoker has no connection to them.
Maybe they just like our project, or maybe there is a group who is working together for some kind of reason. I personally have no idea.

It might be a little unprofessional to even comment on these things, but I really don't want Blockpoker to start of with a big negative vibe around it.
Therefore I took a little time out to address this. I will now go back to finishing up our service, there is missing a few touches before it's complete but it will be done before 1.1, that I am 100% positive of.
In a couple of days one in the team will also write up a bit in our news section with some answers to the different questions we have received in here and on email, there will also be some good to know information that we have not been detailed enough about before.
So stay tuned for that, and have a great day everybody!

Kevin

Thanks for that! It took a good amount of hours to make, but it was worth it in the end

Could not agree with you more! A real voice would be better.
I tried to do it myself, but it did not sound good. Guess I don't got the voice for it.
But if you are good and have done something like this before, I think it can be great!

So thanks for the offer, and I will follow you up on it. Shooting you a PM right now!

Kenneth

Happy to do it

I have a good message for you, there will be Omaha!
We will be offering cash games with Hold'em & Omaha at different stakes, and some guaranteed tournaments as well (not many considering we can't achieve same amount of players in so short time compared to what the general sites have now)
More formats will come with time, but thats low priority at this moment.

Freerolls are not in the plans at this moment, but it has been discussed between us before.
We felt like there was enough "giveaways" with the distribution week.
However, if that's something many people would like to have. We could arrange that. So shout out if that's something you would like to see
We would need to take some BP from the original distribution pot and put it towards a couple freerolls

First of, great that you are joining us at Jan 1!

Second, yes you can say we are giving away free. But I would prefer to just call it a distribution round, where we make the distribution of BP more equal
The way it will be handled is a little complicated, but will explain it as easily as possible.

There will be this algorithm running between 1-7 Jan, where it calculates the time a player sits & play at one of our tables.
It will then take the total amount of coins that will be distributed that day and divide it between players at the rate they have played.
There will be no way of cheating this, as you have to play to get a portion of the distribution pot.
Making more accounts will not do any difference.
To clarify more, you will get a larger portion if you play at more tables then one. You will also get a larger portion the higher stakes you play.

Again, it's a little complicated but I think you get the general idea and I promise it will be as fair as it can possibly be.
The more you play and the more you play with, the more of the distribution pot you will get, it's as simple as that for the player

Thanks for your interest Timeline, and great that you are ready to play! I know it's new years and the days after can have some busy days.
But I will encourage you to make as much time as possible to play in our distribution week (1-7Jan), where we will be distributing 120 million BP to those that sit and play at our tables.

Now, that's an excellent questions which I actually hoped someone would ask. I'll try to explain this method we have chosen as best as possible.

A big problem with altcoins (even bitcoin) is the volatility, which I think most of us in here will agree on.
So that was always in the teams heads when we were forming everything around Blockpoker.
We decided on a fixed value in the BP Bank for that specific problem. It will keep the stability to our currency. Which is very important in every currency, but maybe ever more important for the poker concept.
Nobody want's to deposit 100$ worth of BP, sit down and triple your BP and then realize you only get 250$ back when withdrawing because the value of the currency has gone down.
This fixed value will create a high stability on the market, making players able to withdraw the same worth as they put in.

There is other concerns here, which you address yourself. If Blockpoker gets such a large base that the demand for BP becomes to high for the bank to handle.
That's why the 100 sat fixed value is not set in stone, it can be changed. If the BP Bank experiences to much demand in BP, price will be set up. If it experiences to much demand in Bitcoin withdraws, price will be set down. (But with low amounts to keep stability, 10% up/down or so, those values will need to be perfected when the time comes.)
And the market will then follow the values that gets set to some degree.
You may ask what's even the point with trading BP on the market. But I would say that there is a huge reason to trade BP on the market when we become so big that the things above apply. Traders would trade on how they believe Blockpoker is doing (Is there a rise in players, or a decline?), and if they are right, the profit will come when the Bank raise/lower the value. It will be much more like the real world, and not surrounding the usual crypto pumps & dumps we all have witnessed countless times.

Now, this method is something we believe will be very successful. However, it's not set in stone and we could change the bank to follow the market.
It would be wonderful to have a debate around this current topic, so if you have some points and opinions you would like to put forward, I encourage you to do so.

Hope I explained myself alraight Timeline, if something is unclear or you have counterpoints please come with it

Kevin

Just want to add a little thank you for all the positive feedback that have been posted. It feels very good, and I hope with all my heart that what I have built will live up to the expectations

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter & Facebook.

Kevin

Nono, you are not slow! Thanks for your interest Sasha.
We have tried to be as clear as possible about all, but I understand it can be little bit hard grasp the whole history.

Let me try my best to explain

BP will come when the poker-service comes online. (When the download page gets active, which happens first day of 2016)
We will then contact those exchanges you have listed and chose one to be our official exchange. (I would think everybody would like to add us after they have tried our technology for themselves)
You can then buy from that one, or you can buy from the BP | Bank, which will also get active first day of 2016.

That's what makes Blockpoker groundbreaking, the rake aspect.
While we don't make any money from it, the BP | Bank will be able to make us some kind of money if we go really big. Right now we only have 1% fee, but it may increase to 2-3% when we have a large base.
In addition, the team get's 80 million BP to start of funding the bank and to pay back the expenses the team has had + the future expenses we will run into, like advertising.

Let me know if you have anything more to ask and I'll be happy to answer them.

- Kevin

Thanks for your interest.

Could you be a little more specific about that issue?
Because I don't really see a benefit to inflating the coin supply to satisfy people holding smartchips.

If BP had the exact same amount as Smartchips, they could switch for 1:1. Now they can switch 1:545.
In fact, people holding smartchips could argue that we have taken some coins away from them since 200 million is going to distribution week and funding the BP | Bank.
But I would be shocked if anyone did so, I think everybody understand the importance of this.

Now, back to the coin supply.
The only reason we have made it much bigger is to fit better with the poker aspect. Where 1.5 million would be very very little.
In fact, I wanted the coin amount to be higher, but I lost that debate 

It's been a couple months now since I took over Smartchips, and right then it did not feel that great.
People did not show very much faith, and I can understand it considering the circumstances.
Even though I moved away from Smartchip as the coin, I feel like I have kept my word towards the community, with the distribution model for BP.
(If you was an investor in smartchips, you can swap your SC for BP. 600 million out of 800 million is going towards the Smartchips investors. Swap your coins here.)

It was not easy for me in the start, as I promised to always be honest about the situation my project was in.
Because of it, the enthusiasm was not there, and it was understandable.
That's why I went dark, so I could focus all my energy and focus on establishing a team and start building the client.
From there it took off. Niklas came along and helped me out with development, and he did a great job. I probably wouldnt have been successful if it was not for him.
Dustin also came a long and joined us. He helped Kenneth with the marketing part.
It basically became a two part team, where me and Niklas was working on the client. And Dustin & Kenneth was taking care of the website, graphics and putting together a solid plan for when the client was ready.

They have more then filled my expectations with the website and everything else they have been cooking together, but even if my faith is there. It could never hurt with more help.
So if you want to take part in our project and help us out, please share the video under here to your non-crypto fans and share the flyer to your crypto friends.

Kevin
Main Developer


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