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2061  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 15, 2014, 07:13:13 PM
Guys I am excited as you are but....1$ a coin? Really?

Do you realize how flawed that is? That would mean everyone who bought a few BTC worth would be millionaires. Logistics fail?

Anyway, great innovative platform...but let's stop floating in the clouds and stay grounded here.

It IS possible. I can prove it in a video which I will show this on a whiteboard and we will make many videos professionally describing the economic theory.

We will fork and immediately freeze assets. However the funds available will be a small fraction of the frozen supply. Think of how ripple has 99% off the market. Well we will be similar. Except the "market" will be all of YOU. Mathematically, if there is only 1 million coins on market and a 2 million dollar buy wall at .95 cents. If everyone sells into the wall they give all the money to the people at the wall. Now any volume has to be higher. This forces arbitrage!! Now the people at the buy wall profit instantly because they suck up all the volume at .97 cents!!! Now you may ask, if your funds are frozen what is the USE??

First of all the use is, as the market grows so does volume so we allow faster circulation. People from the frozen side move to the liquidity side. People from the liquid side move to the frozen side. This happens very slowly. We have the option to decrease or increase this speed. Much like a wheel.

Therefore, its almost the way the US Government controls price. They use money sink holes to suck money out and then allow money to circulate.


They have the ability to depress or inject. Here instead of faking it like most govs do, we do it by freezing and unfreezing or like NuBits calls it, parking. However, in this case we ALL FORM THAT BODY. So this is very similar to decentralized governance? Dont believe me? Do the math. Take 10 dollars but remove nine. Place a buy wall at one and a sell wall at two. Make the supply one dollar. If the full supply sells, the buy wall at one profits because any new volume must now buy at the higher price. The arbitrage allows people to pull pure profit. If they see losses, the circulation stops and nobody new gets in to sell. If the volume increases the circulation increases and economy has been stimulated.


ADD THIS TO THE FACT that there is a market!! This market encourages spending! And with spending invigorates volume which allows for faster circulations of funds.


So its like an engine of money. The only thing that it responds to is volume but not price. The higher volume the faster the wheel moves. But this can be calculated by the sell and buy walls. We know when those walls get hit, that we should be decreasing or increasing supply. We also know when the walls get hit that we need to be increasing speed for volume.

Thus, price and volume is invigorated by economy alone, the money is backed and volatility gone.
2062  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 15, 2014, 02:46:12 AM
ICO is Risk Potential FAIL

Wait, so you're saying an ICO is a risk with a potential failure?  Wow... I never realized that.  Roll Eyes

If you would kindly point me to the investment with potential 1000%+ gains, absolutely zero risk, and the ability for smaller investors to buy in as well as hedge funds and millionaires...

My wallet is ready...

lmao! well hey man of course its a risk but we have some fire power and we will do our best to get this coin pegged to a dollar after the markets. So lets all just be patient and keep the hands strong. This is going to be one of the most interesting projects this year.
2063  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 14, 2014, 09:39:53 PM
So the ICO is up until GMT 15:00 tomorrow, 15th ?

is code open source

you plan to get some ppl to do security audit? peter todd? sergio? the other guy ?

Halo has been for a year but nobody audited me. It is obfuscated open source. So the logic is something that can be seen however the variable names are changed. So people can read through it and prove there is no tricks, no websites, no weird addresses (except for BlackcoinEaterAdios and BitCoinEaterDontSend)

I asked for audits but was ignored because everyone is too involved in their own thing. But yeah if you know peter, send him my way would love to chat with him. We are adding his locktimeverify and then i will show you some POWERFUL smart contracts. You think double deposit is cool, wait till you see what we can do with locks.
2064  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 14, 2014, 09:31:33 PM
This looks astounding. Might very well be a game changer. Thanks to the devs for getting the snowball rolling, if you maintain integrity within this project and community you will only get rewarded more. My only worry is the amount of complex additions and features that the casual user will never be able to utilize initially. Sort of like Bitcoin in 2011.

Can someone please suggest how much BAY one needs to have at least be a middle tier early adopter? 10k? 100k? 1 million? I don't have lots of money and I have been burned by ICOs before but this seems so revolutionary...

Project that Bay could hit a dollar a coin payable over a long period of time assuming we hit our target. Depending on the math, will depend on how i want to cap it and how the liquidity is split with the hedge. The goal is 1 billion dollar market cap right below BTC. I can do this by adding new rules and splitting the network.

As for complex additions, im pretty used to complex code. If you have used Halo software you will know that its sophisticated code I'm working about 12 hours a day so I'm trying to hit all my deadlines. Then again, be patient.
2065  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 14, 2014, 09:26:22 PM
1) any plans to hire a marketing company to market
2) any plans to hire marketing company for branding?

Same question but also: any chance dev/zimbeck can tell us will this be a multinational marketing effort?  We can assume this will be marketed huge in China/rest of asia given it seems asian-based (bter and all), that alone will be amazing.  Will the coin be focusing its efforts within the north american and euro market as well, or basically outside of asia?

Im going to need people to help me with project management. I can make executive decisions and have some good ideas. Can definitely split it into several categories:

High profile head hunting
Business/Internetions relations
PR and articles
Guerilla marketing and social media
Youtube videos for training
Translating to different languages
Person for searching niche markets and attacking them

Most of the above can outsource employees to India and Manila with the exception of high profile stuff. Then we need a closer.

The only thing is i can only be the shot caller to explain the structure of our programs and make reviews. I can also pay people on Halo contracts so they can't underperform. Be my own customer.

In this case, we need project managers for all the different departments I'm going to sit down and draw up a corporate structure for everyone to see. Thanks, this has motivated me to do just this. I need to calculate the number of people required and their salaries.
2066  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 14, 2014, 06:35:32 PM


Some crazy guesses:

The investors are all huge blackcoin bagholders.

Blackcoin will only be followed with the absolute minimum and will die.

The delievered wallet and working smart contracts,  just to get released the funds from bter, will be an exact copy of blackcoin and blackhalo. So investors pay 1,3 Mio$, but not for a new coin. They pay that blackcoin will continue development under a new name.

The reason why this project is not just Blackcoin: The devs have no money left.



So far so good, understandable situation, BUT it is not transparent. We donīt know the other holders, we donīt know how much they have invested. AND if you buy into your own ICO, nobody knows if you just take your invested BTC back. I donīt wanna say they will, but it is possible and very easy.





Blackcoin won't ever die. Thats not going to happen. I'm going to protect these so called "bagholders" as long as I'm in crypto. Couldn't I have started my own coin? Sure but there is value in being part of a community and honoring them to the bitter end. You can see my post on Blackcoins subreddit about BayCoin and you will see they did not see this coming and i explained why it would be good for them. So reddit proves that there was no "plan" at all. It was a spontaneous offer that was the most sensible decision at the time.

Blackcoin is the security/multipool/contracting coin there is only one foreseeable drawback and that is: I cannot fork it. Only rat4 can do that. But what we do here, reflects back on them. This isnt just slapping a new name into Halo. Here are the differences listed below:

Blackcoin: GOALS AND PROJECTS
*Blackcoin gets their own multisignature exchange NightTrader which has Bitcoin and Blackcoin pairs. Your funds can never get stolen by the exchange
*Blackcoin gets their own fully decentralized exchange with microtrading in Halo.
*Blackcoin will have options and futures and be multicoin

*Long term goal is to make Blackcoin what it intended to be. The crapcoin killer and contracting coin. I'm playing with all kinds of ideas to put into their coin and one really basic one is, they will be tied to the two exchanges mentioned above and the multipool aspect will be transparent. NT will draw volume to Halo and keep Blackcoin very much alive. Then the long term goal is upwards price pressure. I have a couple ideas already but dont want to give out my full plan.
Both coins have Halo and Markets

BitBay: GOALS/DIFFERENCES ETC
*BitBay gets markets and these markets will be fully advertised and partnerships will be formed
*BitBay gets pegged to USD or RMB and the network is divided into liquidity, tradable coins and long term hedges ... I have one more awesome idea but going to keep it to myself
*BitBay plans on using the above to roll out a mesh network with a very attractive incentive. It will be our first foray into hardware and coins

*Long Term goal is to keep brands separate. BitBay must earn their Halo. NightTrader is a trading system for BC, it matches the name well. BitBay is a stable marketplace with a rollout plan for mesh network. It also has the business partnerships to make some of these things a reality.





2067  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 14, 2014, 04:18:31 PM
The important part here david is this

"The guys involved have a vested interest since they bought some Bay just like you guys."

I really hope

1. You know these guys personally, have met them and are sure they are large players in some industry to an extent that an easy 1.2m is not enough incentive for them to exit and ruin their reputation and your own.

2. They have bought a TON of Bay themselves.

3. They see that BAY being worth x lot more than the price they paid if they use the 3000btc wisely and let you and their team push the project through to completion.

4. 3000 BTC will be enough.



what do you say about bter holding 2000BTC of it until we see some real results and a ledger for the expenses??

Surely 1000BTC is enough to get the ball rollling.

Indeed it is, as an answer to your first question, I knew one of the guys from about 6 months back and was aware he was an investor. I know its in their best interest to let me do my work and not interfere. And nobody said they hold a lot of Bay.  There has been a lot of orders so there is all kinds of people holding. So there is alot of people who will want price pegging and markets. You guys know about BlackHalo markets so we will see this tech very soon.

Thats compounded by the fact that they made a small deposit to me for my work.

Lastly I agree 2000 is enough... I'm very happy with this ICO. They did a very good job I think. If there is any coins left. BTER was instructed to burn them. So we are almost at the end of the ICO, it might hit 3000 although because people do love to wait until the end to buy up more of the coin.

So I'm cautiously optimistic just like a lot of you. Just like you.
2068  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 14, 2014, 04:10:56 PM
Ok so I just wanted to set something straight here.

BTER will be holding the funds. And they will chop the funds to all the parties involved. They know im being licensed so they know to send me my share (at least).

So when we talked last week we agreed to have the ICO sent from BTER to a multisignature account in Armory. I know a good amount of my BTC will be there.

This would be an operating budget to pay devs. So with these guys personally vested, BTER being involved as well as myself. I highly doubt there is going to be a problem. I'm going to be coding no matter what and the whole hedging experiment is very exciting to me at least. I'm going to make it happen.

If they buy some Bay and want to sell it, they will feel pretty bad when we start pegging to the price of a dollar.
2069  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 14, 2014, 01:51:40 PM
Ok, what's the point of this "new" tech?



Hi Qawzsx

Happy to answer, which aspect of the BitBay system are you thinking about?

BitBay Team

Well, bithalo/blackhalo can do all this without asking for 3000 BTC


Lets discuss this point because it is actually true. Although I can code everything myself, there is something nice about having people like Bay actually help me move away from coding and into project management. Because otherwise, I'm carrying the world on my shoulders. With a dev team in Asia, I can ask Bay to hire project managers, coders, marketers, form bonds outsider of crypto(money helps, we can hit up conferences, send delegates to large businesses, form partnerships etc etc)

Also, if I can learn to work with a team, I could run many more projects. This is about more than Bay. This is about changing the entire planet. This is the future of finance and it doesnt just end with pegging or hedging or whatever. We discussed a long term partnership in crypto projects and a long term set of goals with Bay. There is so many damn things I could do if funded that are related to expanding the reach of crypto. Imagine how much more I could reach people with a marketing budget, with a team, like an actual business.

If you know anything about marketing, you will know that a million bucks is not even close to enough if you are trying to reach a larger audience. So mostly, there is tons of ways to use funds. The guys involved have a vested interest since they bought some Bay just like you guys.

Halo has about 10 different revenue models that can be practically applied. I have a 40 page business prospectus outlining them all. There is no limit to how useful this tech is.

So yeah, in the end it would be nice to have control of the funds, but just have some faith and keep in mind that the 4 others working with me stand to benefit immensely by just allowing some of these ideas to be unleashed.

Also there is more than having working software. There is constantly improving the UI, user experience. Making something "mom friendly" can take years and tons of money and a team.

Thats just my opinion on all of this.

For me, its about changing the world. If the guys at BitBay want to change the world they will work closely with me and forge a business relationship.
2070  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 13, 2014, 04:49:08 PM
i dont get how you can peg it to $1 / coin ....billion dollar market cap.

because ppl who bought in the ico will dump on you and ruin the peg

everyone is going to want to exit at $1 / coin...so how is this possible

can you talk more about mechanic behind this? david you seem like a genius, please explain some more than kyou

I believe he was stating that the $1B cap was his 'goal' not that it would become a reality in any specific timeframe... even ebay and Alibaba started out small-ish (though not as small as this is).

As far as pegging the coin to a currency that's possible without requiring $1B in actual capital however.  You can see an example with NuBits and a few others.  I believe he mentioned a fork for a hedging coin as a later possibility, but he also mentioned coin-parking as a possibility as well.  I'm not really qualified to explain probably, but I believe that simply involves a community that is enough involved in the 'business' of the coin to commit to park (make unavailable for spending - like is done with staking but for much longer timeframes) in order to severely limit the float in the market.

So if you have 1B coins in mintage, but 900M parked - the actual market is only 100M coins at any given time.  Adding in the fact that parking prevents 90% of the dumps at peaks, and allows for hard buy-sell walls to remain in place to provide liquidity with limited volatility... you can pretty much peg any coin to any value.  The trick is having enough capital for the walls, having enough cooperation from the holders, and some form of automatic arbitrage bot to assure that all active markets operate within the range.  You can always have off-market sales/buys without concern... just like you do with stocks or bonds.  In reality the biggest trick is coming up with enough incentive for those with large portfolios to keep the majority of their coins parked indefinitely, while still maintaining adequate liquidity in the market for trade to occur readily.

Hopefully David can comment on the (probably numerous) ways I've misunderstood how this works, but I think that's it in a nutshell.

Yeah well the gears in my head have been turning on this. I'm very familiar with NuBits and wanted to do something like this for as long as I can remember. The key to it is this, we fork the network and people can trade however that ability can be limited by splitting the network into two. However its the same port and everything its just there are new mining rules. One way is to take the NuBits method another way(and the way I'm planning to do it) is like this:

Its funny, I got a lot of emails asking about this so here is what my reply was:
"No it wont be possible to dump coins that way. The network will get split and the rules will be different for people who want to sell liquid coins. On an exchange, you will not be able to sell liquid coins. However people will be able to sell their coins on an exchange by waiting in a Queue to hedge their coins. The amount of time they wait in the queue will depend on the supply and demand and the buy and sell walls. So basically it would be impossible to sell below certain prices like .98 cents would always be a losing sell and 1.03 would always be a losing buy. Arbitrage bots can even trade exactly on the margins and give the profits to the people who hold liquid asset(more good news). Additionally, people who hedge would get higher interest rates since they are leaving the network in a slow time. It will be a popular choice to cash but we will reward people holding liquid assets. The most amazing part is, IF you want to sell your liquid coins you CAN! Just sell it in the markets that I'm making. Of course eventually we can even get a major company to buy off that market too since people may want to exit and the company may like the quick return. Once you cash out, someone buys in at the bottom so the floor MUST meet the ceiling or else arbitrage will smash the market hard. So dumping on an exchange is impossible because we now have a system for controlling supply and demand. Now one concern is that even if the free market of liquid coins is not a federated order book, it would still be possible to offer a lower price for quicker exit. But here is the thing, we can force those exchanges off the NightTrader market by setting a hard cap on the price we allow in the client. Besides, you would not want to sell so short liquid coins at .75 cents when you could wait a month, get some interest and sell at a dollar. Again, this is the reason why that floor rises because the entrance price must meet the hard capped ceiling within a certain range below. Right now, I'm discussing with another member of the project who is a real math wizard. We are deciding the best price(my target is a dollar but we have to consider volume and how much we want to take off market), supply in the hedge/liquid network and some of the minor details. So yeah, if my partners work with me, this coin is by far the best coin to invest in right now."

Note there is one more spin to this. Allow paying interest on time locked coins. So if you are a backer, we would make its very much worth your while to not keep your funds liquid or tradable. Instead you literally choose to sit out. This can give you an interest bonus. Most people using markets will want liquid funds, long term bulls will take one of two positions, they will punish bears for short sales or they will take the modest interest rate and sit out. We can require people to sit out coins also by having a rule to deflate the liquidity pool into locks. So the deal is, somebody should sit out, or everyone deflates %2. The one who sits out gets 2%. (Thats just an example) The thing im going to want our team to work on while im coding is the numbers based on predicted volumes. So we assume everyone is a bear and that our volume is suboptimal and we go from there. This gives us the best projection for how hard the rules have to be. And just like difficulty in the bitcoin network, we can adjust these parameters every block.

Most importantly we have may have an advantage over NuBits here because we are going to keep the funds more liquid with a higher market cap.

Luckily, we have good source to reference and time locks in the outputs are not available so we just add some mining rules and really just adjust and fine tune the details over the coming months. I can't even imagine how much this coin will rise before this pegging transition. Its going to be craziness.
2071  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 13, 2014, 02:35:03 AM
While you're throwing money at an ICO claiming to have smart contracts sometime in the future (although there is not even a working wallet)

You should be looking at counterparty - which is working and has working smart contracts.


http://counterparty.io/news/counterparty-recreates-ethereums-smart-contract-platform-on-bitcoin/

Oh, and look at counterparty's price.  

5   Counterparty Counterparty   $ 24,470,004   $ 9.24   2,647,077 XCP *   $ 289,689   UP 60.08 %

Oh, and it's on BTER

https://bter.com/trade/xcp_btc

 Roll Eyes

What are you talking about? BlackHalo has had contracts and a working client for doing them for almost a year. Download the software and I will do one with you right now. I'm the developer of that so yeah. Also this counterparty article was vague. Lets see a working demo. It doesnt even say this on their site. Lastly, my contracts use double deposit which makes the immune to theft and deception. Nobody cares if you can do a bunch of fancy code, if its unenforceable. Even Qora just added ATs solution to atomic trading which is turing complete. But they didnt pump it like you are trying to do right now.

As for turing complete contracts, those can be done peer to peer in Halo using python. Just go ahead and read my documentation from BlackHalo. Loops/apps are fundamentally easy to add but the excessive code done etherium style bloats the blockchain its actually better to do them peer to peer the way Halo does it and have miners check the hash of the source. If you are going to post something, please read the OP before you type.
2072  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 13, 2014, 02:13:02 AM
dzimbeck - Just wanted to say thanks for being so readily available and up for discussion.
Very refreshing.
It's easy to see you are very confident in this coin.
Cheers to everyone who is wise enough to get in now.
-spooky

Thanks no guarantees that I will be here all the time, there may be posts I overlook or a day or two that goes by because I'm just busy coding but its the least I can do right now especially since there are some really new topics being raised by the coin. You guys are forming a community so its best to keep the debate alive now that you are all starting to understand the ideas behind it. People who disagree with the methods are good to spark discussion and interest and to help others learn the why and how.
2073  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 13, 2014, 02:09:32 AM
I dont quite understand, how would one peg BitBay to the US Dollar and make 1 BB = 1$ by hedging?

Check NuBits for inspiration for an answer on that otherwise my reply will be pretty long. As for the $1 value that is the target price. Since the techniques rely on using parking to control supply and demand the answer to your question boils down to volume and what we project it to be.
2074  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 13, 2014, 02:02:25 AM
Currently I just hired 4 devs here in Cambodia and im paying out of pocket. They are totally new to Bitcoin but im training them. Cambodia does not have a lot of python devs so its been very slow getting them started. Has I not wasted time with devs, I could have coded the markets myself already.

Regardless I knew I needed help and refuse to work alone for the rest of next year. So this deal with Bitbay will help set up my dev team. That was part of the deal.

Can i ask why you hired a team from Cambodia
Im thinking cost was the prime reason which is fine. Just curious

Unfortunately, because im broke. Its too bad because i could have had so much money had i sold all my coins before the horrible summer. But once the summer ended i had nothing. The only way to expand Halo was to pay for it myself. For some ridiculous reason, we could not get funding. We just fell through the cracks. I did not want to have my "hat in my hand" looking for investors so I was just like "Screw it, I'm going to Cambodia and hiring myself a bunch of  devs". It was between Cambodia and India. But i thought Cambodia may be a hidden treasure because its so underdeveloped. And its cheaper. Although now, I wonder also about Bangladesh.

What i learned was, India may have been a better deal because finding devs here without jobs is a really slow process. So better to pay about 20-40% more and get a HQ Indian dev.

Although some of the sources here I talked to said it was the same.

About 150-300 per month for a beginning level dev (although here is most C# and little python)
         300-500 for middle level dev
         800 for senior dev


Now I get it.
You are using lots of BC code, thatīs why you are so fast.
The other remaining anonymous guys wonīt show up, cause they are related to BC too.
And you have no money left to develop this for BC. Of course because BC lost 90% of their value.
So you are running another ICO and start a new coin and get new funding.

If I am right, you should communicate this cleary from the beginning, cause this will bounce back badly if it comes out later.
Tell us right now, we invest and we are fine with that, if we know it.






This is not entirely true, although its a good theory. The reason I'm so fast is because I'm using Halo source(a minor difference). Which is technically BC and Bitcoin. Since I wrote it on my own, its really easy for me to adapt it since I know it so well. As for the parties and finding a way for funding it wasnt a decision that really was that much foresight for me. These 4 guys approached me, some of them are well known and they wanted to hire me and make sure "talented devs were sufficiently funded and protected". We then talked at length and i realize they will do most of the fundraising, marketing, management, hiring, and also get me a dev team. They explained they were in it for the long haul, they explained their contacts and even introduced me to a few. So I agreed to license my code to them because it was beneficial to my projects to get some cash flow. My dev cycle was just too slow so having the extra help made sense for Blackcoin and Halo projects.
2075  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 13, 2014, 01:54:17 AM
I think, I also decided not to invest - except if the DEV answer my questions about real time hardware control and outlines how that will be possible at all with the Blackhalo solution?

I am mainly interested in the IoT offering, but it seems to me the IoT concept does not even exists on conceptual level. If there is not even conceptual solution, I can't see how this project will release a working, blockchain enabled, peer to peer Internet of Things software that controls hardware in real time.

I believe I already answered this, im not able to monitor this thread constantly because I'm usually working. But yeah you can do zero confirmations with multisig because your device or you hold the raw transaction. It depends on the application/hardware. Best that you give me some example or use case and I can explain to you how I would approach it.

This isnt dissimilar from NightTrader multisig engine which I have made. I just dont have any front end for it. Controlling hardware in real time is fairly easy when you know multiple signatures are involved. Add this to checklocktimeverify and you can have outputs convert to different things based on blocks. Handling raw transactions where you hold the other signature can leave you secure with the fact that you can do zero confirmations.


Thanks for your reply.

I am familiar with the green address concept of Bitcoin that requires a third party and allows instant transactions and I believe you are not referring to that. So if your solution conceptually is not that, let see a concrete use case: open a gate in a sport venue where users use their wallet to enter the venue and the gate controller device charges 10 BitBay coin for opening the gate. My understanding is, prior to opening the door the device must know if the 10 BitBay Coin is available for the buyer. The device must ensure the balance is available, it's not a double spending and it's a legitimate transaction, otherwise the door cannot be opened. Once the gate controller device is satisfied the balance is available, and only in that case it opens the gate. How long it takes for the device to verify if there is a sufficient balance on the address, because prior verifying the balance the gate cannot be opened?  In other words, how long the user must stand for waiting the device to perform the service?

If you say so you have worked this out and willing to explain this, I am sure that's the case, and you will have a working solution :-))


One working solution is to have your funds locked before you get to the gate ...  Thus your primary account would have locked funds set aside for public events and interaction with IOT ... So they cant hold your money hostage because the funds are set to convert back to a regular account on the expiration of the lock ... The gate only signs with parties that were confirmed in advance to be honest. Those parties would hold a double deposit contract with the manufacturer too.

All due respect David, this solution isn't practical and such implementation would make the use case completely uncompetitive to existing FIAT or even digital currency payment solutions. Currently payment systems, even the Bitcoin network with green addresses works in ad-hoc manner: you pay at the time of the purchase. In order to buy a pizza, hotel room, concert ticket  there is no requirement to lock the fund to the seller prior to the transaction, not even with Bitcoin. I think such system that you have suggested wont be adopted at all.

I understand your solution would be still anonymous and decentralized, but having so much complication to make a payment to IoT devices would make the solution impractical in my opinion.


This starts boiling down more to logistics.


I disagree. This is not a logistical but a conceptual issue. What you have described is a workaround by asking users to comply with your work around in order to have the luxury of involving with a very-very complicated process.

Anyway, thanks for answering, apart from the IoT part, your solution will be great and I have no doubt you will roll out an excellent smart contract system. I suggest don't involve the IoT it at all. Firstly people have no idea what is it so it doesn't mean anything :-)) and no one is investing in this because the IoT feature, but once someone take a closer look at it, the reaction will be that it is not acceptable for businesses and that reaction could cause more harm than good for the project. Your decentralized market solution is flawless, it is obviously a viable use case, but the hardware industry and hardware integrators will be taking apart the IoT concept and such publicity will hurt your and the project's reputation.



Well this was just an example. Also I should mention that your client would be locking the funds. And its not dissimilar from "Parking" funds in Nubits, we can offer incentive for parking with manufacturers. One method is to use only one manufacturer at first to simplify the distribution. I'm mostly interested in mesh networks to be honest. That is exactly what I discussed with the other players. My solution works, its not "green addresses" per se but I agree even though it works it may not get adopted. That solution works around bitcoins weakness of trustless doublespend problems. What you are describing is a problem inherent in Bitcoin itself so the only other way is to make the device are party to the transaction in some way so it can trust the RAW transaction is valid. This way it doesnt have to wait for confirmations since it knows its holding a signature, hash or something that would prevent you from spending otherwise. Time locks are not permanent, they are only needed to create a connection with the hardware manufacturers server to prove you arent double spending on one of their devices.

So, no offense taken. I have yet to see a better solution. Perhaps I can come up with an additional one later and PM you when I do. After all knowledge should be free. So we are taking baby steps. Just start with what works and let the industry evolve. That solution works for your particular use case. Users can also do a double deposit contract with device manufacturers in advance. Then they would not need to use my above proposed method.

Bitcoin itself is highly flawed anyways, it doesnt have a very advanced scripting system, there is malleability which always needs to be worked around by protocols, there is major problems with botnets and sybil attacks, there is a scalabiity issue that is very complex to confront (im speaking of bandwidth issues in securing the blockchain) and so on.

With that said, they liked my ideas with mesh networks and added it as IoT which is a misnomer. The mesh netowork idea I had was working with hardware but not necessarily in real time. A good example is Blackcoins COLD Staking. This is something rat4 added some RPC calls for. Now I can do multisignature staking in Halo. We could then, use a device with the staker to sign the second sig. So this is a case where you dont need instant confirmations.

 To me, mesh networks are a dream goal if we even get close to that point this project will be a smash hit. So really my impression in starting this project was to start in mesh. If they really want to do this with me, we can change the world so its of great interest to me to see this follow through.

Lets be clear about this roadmap again:

*DEMO Smart contracting client(from BlackHalo)  --- Within a week. Trying to get it before ICO ends but not 100% sure.
*Markets(beta without advanced whitelists but with a kill switch/mod key) --- Within a month or two max. I've been working on this for Blackcoin, they coincide

The last two get worked on simultaneously with Hedging taking precedence:
*Hedging transition with the checklocktimeverify --- this is about a month... we can pull from NuBits, but we are dealing with a larger supply so that math has     to work out to manage all of everyones funds properly. If they pay my dev team I can have them work on this fork BEFORE I finish my markets which would greatly increase the speed in the fork.

*Markets with whitelists/double back on server --- one month after the main markets release. Its not a difficult implementation, its very elegant but there would also be some user interface feedback and bugs we want to respond to. This could delay one additional month so we will have to ask users to behave in our decentralized markets so we don't have to shut it down.

So give the above a total of 3 months. Realize I'm trying to underpromise and overdeliver. And you know I deliver if you read blackcoins subreddit

ONCE we are hedged, we can go for the mesh networks. We will now be capped at a billion dollars(thats my target price anyways) and be able to afford and utilize our connections to the hardware markets and we will indeed create an incentive system for setting up these networks.


Right now I can see what you are trying to achieve and thanks for the clarification.

So far a few of us, potential users and investors posted that the IoT concept seems a bit vogue and it's very questionable how that such hardware integration would work with the Balckhalo system, and generally with decentralized blockchain solutions. You have described a workaround, but also said yourself that your original suggestion to the BitBay team was a mesh network idea, and then it was called IoT. So why don't call it "mesh network" if the focus will be in fact ... on mesh network :-)) I had involved with several crypto projects at investment level that went very wrong for the same reason, the objectives were identified incorrectly, the team delivered different solution what was promised. It's your project and you do as you wish, but why to disappoint (perhaps mislead people) by promising IoT when your goal - very understandably - related to a bigger picture and you will work on mesh network?

I have been involved with IoT related design and implementation projects for years, this area is close to me, but for the given technology, the peer to peer network and the decentralized blockchain the mesh network sounds a more sensible goal. I fully agree with you that it could be game changer. (the very-very smart people of Skycoin work on the same thing) I would change the IoT in the project description to Mesh Network. Right now no one really cares, people who knows you will still believe in the project, but you could avoid lot of problems by defining the goals and deliverables accurately. Later, when the price inevitable drop (see Viacoin) investors start to complain, FUD, etc., and then it will be a huge issue why you work on mesh network if you promised IoT.

Anyway, good luck, I will throw in a few BTCs and look forward to see the mesh network implementation some times next year.




Well thanks for the well thought out reply. I can't help but think your experience in this field and possible an IoT coin gives you a vested interest in saying the above. Anyways, we can certainly change our roadmap to more accurately reflect what I'm planning to do here at Bay. I know they put something on their website too. Like I said before the multisignature solution does in fact work in real time with devices as does being on long term contracts. Its probably not the most consumer friendly solution because either the user or the client software would have to make some sort of arrangement with a manufacturer in advance either contract or lock.

Anyways, yeah I can update the roadmap to reflect my investors interest in Hardware and mesh and tell them about your feedback. Be patient though, im really busy right now and I can't promise you will see their site updated before the ICO ends.

On another topic, Skycoin is a fantastic project and we are watching it very closely. It may be more feasible to do it if Bitcoin was rewritten completely.
2076  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 12, 2014, 09:37:01 PM
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.. After the debut of the markets, we will fork the coin into a hedging coin. This will greatly reward investors who get in on the ground floor, and it will eliminate volatility using a similar system to NuBits...

Why is currency pegging good for investors? One would expect just the opposite. If the currency is pegged to something (like fiat), then its value can't rise.  

Merchants may not want the volatility associated with cryptocurrency. It's a way of attracting a wider audience. It also serves as a hedge against risk. ie. Bitshares BitUSD. It's a necessity if you're going after mass adoption imo.

Once again. I'll put this simply. I am not a user. I am a speculator. Why should I speculate on a crypto pegged to US dollars? Where is my profit? Why should I take the risk and buy Bitbay coins now, why not to keep my dollars, if not bitcoins?

And this thread is useless to help me to make a decision. It' s just full of technology promises and vague business plans. Let' s copy blackcoin, get some chinese businessmen on board etc.

Its not copying Blackcoin, the only Blackcoin devs are rat4 and myself. This project will help us develop more for Blackcoin especially since I'm setting up and training devs in Asia. Also, maybe you should realize that if this coin gets pegged at a dollar its a billion dollar market cap. Is that enough money for you? If that was the market cap, you would instantly gain tons of money. Furthermore, we can easily adjust the peg by changing the parameter of the network. So if Bitcoin grows in volume and scope we can peg to Bitcoin. Its just a hedge, the network can use whatever hedge it wants.

As far as tech promises, if you are familiar with Blackcoin subreddit you will know that I always honor my word. The reason they fork Blackcoin is because its the best coin and it supports my contracting software. The markets already are integrated because Bitmessage already works in BlackHalo. Don't trust me? Download it and do a contract with me in Bitmessage. I was approached and asked to do this. It was not the other way around. Lastly, if you think you can run a cryptocurrency business better, then go ahead. Nobody is stopping you.
2077  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 12, 2014, 09:25:24 PM
Currently I just hired 4 devs here in Cambodia and im paying out of pocket. They are totally new to Bitcoin but im training them. Cambodia does not have a lot of python devs so its been very slow getting them started. Has I not wasted time with devs, I could have coded the markets myself already.

Regardless I knew I needed help and refuse to work alone for the rest of next year. So this deal with Bitbay will help set up my dev team. That was part of the deal.

Can i ask why you hired a team from Cambodia
Im thinking cost was the prime reason which is fine. Just curious

Unfortunately, because im broke. Its too bad because i could have had so much money had i sold all my coins before the horrible summer. But once the summer ended i had nothing. The only way to expand Halo was to pay for it myself. For some ridiculous reason, we could not get funding. We just fell through the cracks. I did not want to have my "hat in my hand" looking for investors so I was just like "Screw it, I'm going to Cambodia and hiring myself a bunch of  devs". It was between Cambodia and India. But i thought Cambodia may be a hidden treasure because its so underdeveloped. And its cheaper. Although now, I wonder also about Bangladesh.

What i learned was, India may have been a better deal because finding devs here without jobs is a really slow process. So better to pay about 20-40% more and get a HQ Indian dev.

Although some of the sources here I talked to said it was the same.

About 150-300 per month for a beginning level dev (although here is most C# and little python)
         300-500 for middle level dev
         800 for senior dev
2078  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 12, 2014, 08:36:46 PM
Thanks yeah its also decentralized trading of coins. But for coin trading I dont have it listed YET because I'm coding two engines in Blackcoin called "NightTrader" its basically a micropayment engine and a multisignature exchange engine. They are meant to fully decentralize trade without relying on atomic trading. There is other things we can do too like we can microtrade time locked coins as long as the coins touch the multisignature account. This again, doesnt require checklocktimeverify on both networks its an elegant solution to decentralized trade without middle coins. But I had to be practical and make sure the markets are running and solve other problems.

So, hopefully we can get more devs to worry about adding my engine because im trying to focus on the complex stuff so they dont have to. Currently I just hired 4 devs here in Cambodia and im paying out of pocket. They are totally new to Bitcoin but im training them. Cambodia does not have a lot of python devs so its been very slow getting them started. Has I not wasted time with devs, I could have coded the markets myself already.

Regardless I knew I needed help and refuse to work alone for the rest of next year. So this deal with Bitbay will help set up my dev team. That was part of the deal.
2079  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 12, 2014, 08:08:35 PM
haven't had time to read the whole thread, but the initial post does look ...interesting. an actual decentralized market could be huge. complex though, to say the least. i'm gonna read up on this.

Did you see the flow chart i posted a few pages back? Please read up on bitmessage channels and whitelists. Then realize im adding a burn layer to bitmessage(but the first version of markets will not have the burn layer because I want the nodes)

i looked for, but did not find the flowchart.

been glancing through this thread. i'd read previously about bitmessage. i kinda feel like i did when i first heard about bitcoin. which is best summed up by the following:






That made me lol... ok well im going to repost the link. Its more of a "diagram" than a flow chart. So they way it works is, the nodes in the network do something similar to a multicast to all the other nodes that they find through each others known nodes. And they all try to decrypt everyones messages to see if it is indeed their. In order to prevent spam Bitmessage forces proof of work. But of course, an ASIC can smash their network. SO, use two methods. First burn coins on any network of your choose OR use timelock and lock a certain amount of coins to come back to you. (you pay yourself). Then, you can only post as much messages per minute as you have funds.

So, markets are channels in bitmessage or shared mailing lists. In SOME ways these can be decentralized servers. But, spam and of course inability to moderate is a problem. But its only a problem if everyone else can see you. SO, make a trust building system using Bitmessages white lists. This forces nodes to behave well in the lower level mailing list or perhaps a centralized server to earn the right into the moderators market. The mod likes you? He will burn your address into the blockchain thus making you a member of the white list. He could even store the list on a webpage no problem. You check that list, get into the network, they see you and the network is small only filled with people who behave well. Then to mitigate spam further you connect networks together like legos. Each network has moderators and can communicate with other moderators about the contents of their networks.

Thus Bitmessage is able to scale and avoid spam. It also can filter content based on rules (perhaps they want a clean market).

One more layer here... Halo itself can filter incoming and outgoing requests to bitmessage. So even if there was crap on the channel your actual client would not be able to see it. SO, here is a diagram that shows that. Granted, it sounds complex but its not so bad. I will have the markets with mods in our beta as well as a key i can publish to force it back to a server if it gets too much madness. Then after, i code the whitelists system. Basically, I force people through a server first and have them do some honest deals. Once they check out after a certain number of months and volume they get into the whitelist. Our server/bitmessage address signs for the whitelist for our market. Now if somebody wants to start their own channel, they use the same model.

A channel does not need a mod necessarily but ours certainly will and so will NightTraders.

Here is the page with my diagram...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=850267.340
2080  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: BitBay |Decentralized Marketplace|Smart Contracts|IoT Tech|ICO LIVE on Bter on: November 12, 2014, 07:52:07 PM
Good evening,
so just finished reading the thread, got back from work.Well i can see some strong hand in the Dev team for sure.
i like the simple way of explaining things,open dev is always a good sign.I would love to hear some future plans for this project it sounds promising for me personally.Can somebody provide a link to the reddit Q&A i re-installed my PC and i lost my history.(thank you in advance for that)

I want to hear about the technology, if somebody is good lad and explain to me how exactly is BitBay working will be helpful for me,this smart contracts sounds interesting for example.
With that nobody can scam me with a trade right?
maybe i didnt understand it quite right i guess, thats why i could use some help understanding the Tech better.


Ok thank u in advance with the help


P.S
Btw merry btc rise  Grin


You should check out BitHalo and BlackHalo. This is my program that has been out and tested for almost a year. And yes, nobody can ever scam these contracts. They are by far the most secure way to do business. Check out blackhalo.info. You can read my whitepaper there its very exciting tech.
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