is anyone else having issues with this pool:  ebt.dsync.com

https://www.swisscex.com/voting

EBT just got added to the SwissCEX voting page.  "Long term" goals aside, this coin could really use some added exposure before it winds up like QRK with just a few players holding all the coins.  58% are already mined.

Doesn't look like the 5mil donation was from the pre-mine address according to:

http://finder.fairquark.com/address/qLSALnUEFuBR5tjFudfHJx9SR3qAcfR2oY

So someone was extremely generous!

Completely forgot I even had Karma!  Been trading on Cryptsy all day.  My KARM balance is still the same yet I've made 1.7 LTC buy putting in low buy and high sell orders! 

Anyone else having trouble today with ebt.dsync.net pool? 

If someone can make more faucets, I'll help donate to support it.

If someone can make casino games, I'll bet on it.

If someone want's to sell something for EBT I'll bid on it (unless it's a unicorn or a yacht...unicorns scare me and I don't think I have enough EBT for a yacht yet.)

The Market Cap for BTC (Bitcoin) is as high as it is because everyone knows about it.  They might not understand Bitcoin, or use bitcoin, but they know about it and so they're investing in it.

Who knows anything about the 300+ alt-coins, including EBT, other than a few miners and posters on bitcointalk.org?

The doom of every altcoin is that it comes out and miners try to get as much of it as they can to sell on an exchange for BTC.  Other than trade up value to BTC, altcoins aren't good for anything else yet.  That's why I'm hoping that flea market site takes off and other sites like it follow.

Until coins are actively being used to buy real goods and services and merchants are willing to accept them they're not good for anything, so why put value into them?

This is why we need to entire community to push for EBT to be accepted at sites like altoutlet.com so that we can actually use the coins for something.  We need more developers who believe in EBT to build faucets, dice games, make promotions, publish news articles about it.

EBT's value is low right now because no one knows about EBT and those who do know about EBT can't do anything with it.

# of EBT faucets: 1 (magicinternetmoney)
# of BTC faucets: 100+

# of businesses accepting EBT:  0 (for now)
# of businesses accepting BTC:  12,000

# of "real" news articles about EBT:  0 (for now)
# of "real" news articles about BTC:  many and daily

BTC's value for the first 2.5 years was under $1
EBT has only been out 4 months?

It's up to us as early adopters to change this.

BTQ is up for voting at altoutlet.com

Let's see if we can get it accepted!

https://www.europex.eu/#!coin/btc/frq

That's the exchange still trading FRQ.

Shame...Fairglu I don't think is a dev and has done some really nice work for the coin and I really like FRQ.  Anyway, I agree with RoboCoder 100%.  Coins need more to function than a bitcointalk thread and a few exchanges to become mainstream.

Dice games, faucets, pools, shops, marketing materials...anything that breaths life into it.

I wonder if anyone's going to take over the FRQ source and maybe relaunch it?

is poloni really delusting it?  frq is on another exchange but poloni is the only one i have actually used for trading frq

Me too.  I think this will really push up the value of coins if it takes off and will really show us which coins people want. Everyone has coins they want to spend, but this will show us which coins are people willing to accept for their stuff?  I think it will help us see:

How many FRQ is someone willing to accept for their used 42" flat screen TV?

How many QRK is someone willing to accept for thier used washing machine in good condition?

How many BTQ is someone willing to accept for their old iPhone 3S they want to get rid of?

Right now all coin prices are tied to exchanges and how much BTC/USD we think we can trade up for.  There are very few online shops that accept anything but bitcoin.  The flea market could change all this and make coin prices based on what people feel the value of the coin is, plus it will make it easier for the masses to get coins without investment through an exchange or mining.

Anyone hear about this yet?  Still under development but supposed to come out in May and supports Quark coins.

http://m.cryptofleamarket.com/

Is there anyway to find out how many EBT wallets there are or how many miners there are?  I know I'm using the ebt.dsync.com pool and last stat says 14 miners.  I don't know how many are using the p2p pools or solo mining but we definitely need more promotion, advertising.

I know the EBT Facebook page has 28 likes.  I think everyone here needs to share some of the memes that came out when the coin first started and the videos to draw up more interest in the coin.

I think of this photo every time I open my wallet and see stake deposits!

Every coin is dead except BTC.

300+ crypto-currencies and other than trade up for BTC on some obscure "exchange" there's nothing else you can do with them.

However...

EBT has an active dev team, EBT has an infrastructure slowly being built so that you can actually use the coin (buy and sell real goods for it) and it's a well built coin.  As long as that keeps up, it will be profitable long term.

It took BTC 3 years before it became worth anything, don't expect EBT to make you a millionaire in 3 months without constant development, promotions and a solid infrastructure where people can easily use the coin to buy and sell stuff.

Not sure about this site, haven't really used it yet, but http://c-cex.com  You can trade one coin for another, not just an alt-coin for BTC.

Might be a way to generate more interest in EBT.

Hoping to get EBT supported at the altoutlet.com and this is looking promising:




Don't forget to vote for EBT on the exchanges keep sharing the videos the EBT devs made!  I've started asking every hooker I see if she accepts EBT.  Most say yeah, but they don't think I'm talking about EBT Coin...still it's spreading the word right?

More infrastructure, ways to earn/spend it and more news/marketing.  Very few people (comparatively speaking) use Bitcoins let alone any of the 300+ altcoins out there including BTQ.

More and more mainstream merchants are beginning to adopt bitcoin technology, but right now it's still all speculation and lately all the news about bitcoin is bad (price drops, ponzi, MtGox, hacks, etc.) so even interest in Bitcoin is dropping for the average person.

Right now there are only two ways to get bitcoins, either buy them on an unregulated exchange or mine them.  The only way to get an altcoin (BTQ or any of the others) is to mine, or buy bitcoins and trade down for an altcoin, so again, too much work for the average person and the only people into it are tech heads or speculative investors who don't care about the coin or helping to change the world from fiats to digital currencies, just about quick profits.

Sounds bleak, I know...but that's reality.

Ask yourself this, what can I buy with bitcoins or even bitquarks that I can't already buy with the $50 bucks I have in my pocket?  How easy is it to buy a pack of smokes with bitquark versus dollars?  How easy is it to earn dollars vs. how easy is it to earn bitquark?

Now from a miners point of view, it's free money.  Maybe a little, maybe a lot depending on the profitability of the coin and electricity costs.  From a speculative traders point of view it's quick money, maybe a little, maybe a lot depending on the profitability of the coin.  But still from the average Joe's point of view, it's a mission to do anything with these coins.

We need people to want BTQ.  We need people to say, "damn I wish I had some BTQ."  Until hookers start giving BJ's for BTQ (*cough* mobile wallet *cough*) just keep on doing grass roots, spreading the good word and building up the infrastructure.

* Publish new feeds and press releases (google free press releases)
* Ask your friend who owns a restaurant/bar to put up a sign that says "BTQ promotion - small fry for only 7 BTQ
* Give 10 BTQ to your best buddy for his birthday
* Call a few businesses and ask if they accept BTQ
* Get it on more exchanges
* Get more retailers to accept it
* Make some videos like EBT, Quark, Bitcoin
* Put up some faucet sites that anyone can use

The coin seems well built, the coin dev is very active.  Keep having faith and remember it took Bitcoin 3 years to get where they are with no competition and if it hadn't been for the Silk Road they'd never be this popular.

https://altoutlet.com/alt/currencies

Need everyone's help getting EBT listed at altoutlet.com 

Would be nice to have another place to actually spend the coins!

https://altoutlet.com/alt/currencies

Let's try and get FRQ listed here.  Would be great to actually spend them on stuff.

I still have hopes that they will finish cryptofleamarket.com/home.php soon so we can start selling stuff for FRQ too!

Nice!  Another place to spend Alt Coins!