The section titled "Belacoin Pools" was included in the original wallet build. On that page, we are able to feed in PHP and html through one of our servers. While you cannot mine through the wallet, soon, you will be able to see a list of places where you can mine Belacoin.


All current screenshots and updates can be found at Belacam.com. Once open beta testing rolls around, you will be able to create an account on the site and use Belacam.

Belacoin Wallet Update



We've been working on this on and off for the past few days. We're now able to feed real-time data into the Belacoin wallet. The price updates on its own every 5 minutes thanks to Coinmarketcap.com. We can also easily remove or add more addnodes. This is the first Belacoin wallet update since we released new Mac and Windows wallets in December.

Everyone on The Ambia Fund team and the Belacam team of programmers and designers live and work in the United States. In the first few weeks of The Ambia Fund's existence, we outsourced design and website work to other cryptocurrency designers, but we quickly learned that it's best to keep things like that done in house. Programming and designing for Belacam have never been outsourced and never will be.

Belacam is a standalone website. Some people mistakenly assume that it is integrated into Instagram or other social media sites, but that is incorrect.

Belacam Closed Testing Update #2 posted March 15th, 2017 at http://http://belacam.com/blog.html


Let's start off this update with some of the biggest news that Belacoin and Belacam have ever seen: the March 9th press release. We used PR Newswire to send our press release throughout the US1 national distribution channel, and it was picked up by some very big names in investor news media:

• Yahoo Finance
• Market Watch
• The Street

We've received multiple calls and emails from journalists who want to write their own original articles on Belacam. One of these was posted in the Delaware Business Times. It's more personal than the articles posted above, and it's a great 2-minute read for anyone wanting a little more information on Belacam: http://www.delawarebusinesstimes.com/dover-based-social-media-platform-adds-real-value-likes/

We do not yet have an official date set for Belacam's open beta testing. We want to release the official date at least 10 days prior to the event so that word of what we're doing can get around in time.

We are also monitoring the other news in the cryptocurrency community to make sure that we don't coincide Belacam's open beta launch with some other large event. For example, had closed testing come the day of the ETF decision, we would have been largely overlooked. We're monitoring the ETC trust and trying to gauge how much attention that will get since it's slated for the end of March. We don't want it or another coin's news to block out Belacam's attention.

We did this very well with the closed testing. There was virtually nothing else exciting in the week leading up to Belacam's closed testing launch. As a result, all eyes were on Belacam and Belacoin. We saw a great surge in people joining our Slack, going to Belacam.com, and joining the Belacoin community in other ways. We're aiming to do the same thing with open testing.

There's more stuff to share about how development with Belacam is going, but we'll save that for another update in the next couple of days. We're partnering with Project Radium LLC to bring more security to Belacam through their Smartchain. We've also done some more work on the Belacoin wallet, so look for an update on those aspects as well.[/list]

Announcing a Partnership with Project Radium: http://www.ambiafund.com/team/project-radium/

We've partnered with Project Radium to bring their SmartChain technology to Belacoin and Belacam. Their SmartChain will be very valuable in making Belacam secure, and there's a lot that we can learn from their technology. This has real life uses in managing verified user accounts on Belacam.

We have added a "Featured in" section the http://Belacam.com.

Earlier today, we sent out a Belacam press release throughout the US1 media circuit. The US1 media circuit is a database of articles and press releases that major news organizations look to when they want to find stories. Ours was picked up by some impressively large organizations:

Yahoo! Finance: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/watch-instagram-competitor-lets-paid-150000490.html
Yahoo! is the 5th largest website in the world, and Yahoo! Finance 1st when it comes to investing news.

Market Watch: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/watch-out-instagram-this-competitor-lets-you-get-paid-for-posting-2017-03-09
Market watch is a part of the Dow Jones' Consumer Media Group, owned by Dow Jones and Company. Marketwatch is a sister site to the Wall Street Journal and Barron's.

TheStreet: https://www.thestreet.com/story/14034920/1/watch-out-instagram-this-competitor-lets-you-get-paid-for-posting.html
Founded by Jim Cramer with headquarters on Wallstreet.

Seeking Alpha: http://seekingalpha.com/pr/16766995-watch-instagram-competitor-lets-get-paid-posting
Seeking Alpha was founded by an ex-Wallstreet analyst out in Israel. It pulls in more than 300,000 visitors each day.

We're seeing an increase in people asking how to buy Belacoin, which indicates that these press releases are driving new investors to the Belacoin community.

Since we saw such great success with this on the national level, our team wants to probe into the Asian markets next. Our first step is to get Belacoin listed on Chinese and other international exchanges. Then, we will be ready to submit a new press release throughout the Asian media circuit.

Belacam Closed Testing Update #1

Our timeline for closed testing is split up into two parts. For the first half of the process, we will be testing and evaluating user experience. For the second half, we will be probing Belacam for security vulnerabilities. Our goal is to make the site completely secure by the time that we begin open testing, slated for the end of this month.

What makes social sites like Instagram and Reddit so addictive is the endless supply of new and original content. This is why we believe that the ability to discover new users and trending tags on Belacam is integral to creating an always-changing, fluid social economy. As a result, we have had our programmers work on streamlining the user search bar located at the top of each page. A "Discover" page is in the works and will be unveiled sometime in the next two weeks as well. This page will format posts into a grid for easy browsing with more popular and recent posts shown near the top. In the future, we plan to make the "Discover" page smarter by improving the algorithm that autopicks posts to show so that chosen posts are geared towards what we think the user is most interested in. For example, if a user frequently browses hashtags related to cars, we want their "Discover" page to show a higher concentration of car related posts.

Another thing that our programmers have spent significant time on is the sign up and log in page. The design team still needs to get their hands on this page before we can release screenshots. While it is functional and has been for quite some time, it doesn't yet look the best. Currently, to create an acccount, we require the user to supply the following information: email, password, chosen username, age, gender, and country. We have chosen to include age, gender, and country so that we can better target advertisers' ads to a narrowed sector of users. We know that as a whole, the cryptocurrency community is not too keen about giving out personal information, but we believe that asking for those three parameters is not an overreach on our part.

You will notice one large field missing from the things that we require upon sign up: the user's real name. There are a couple of reasons why we have chosen to omit this field. Requiring your full name is about as personal as it gets, and we feel that many users might be put off by being forced to give us this information. Your email, username, password are necessary to have an account on almost any social media website, and asking for your age, gender, and country gives us the ability to monetize Belacam with a targeted advertising system. However, there is not much that we can gain by having your full name in our records. Also, if our databases were ever compromised or leaked (as is a risk with any website), your full name is one of the things that we would not want posted publicly. Therefore, by not requiring your full name upon sign up, we make your experience more lean and more secure. The only circumstance under which we would ask for your name is if we are required to by law. Since Belacam does involve the transmission of money, we are under more scrutiny than typical social media sites. At this moment however, we do not think that a name will ever be required to sign up to Belacam.

TL;DR: Don't worry, we've got this.

Okay, we're back, recharged from a 12-hour relaxing break, and ready to do work. We've been working 12 hour days since Friday, so about an hour after releasing Belacam.com last night, we shut down, closed up, and went home for a no-contact period to relax. It seems that the price of Belacoin took a hit last night. We want you to know a few things:

1)  The Ambia Fund remains unfazed by the decrease in price. Remember, we're getting our big returns/profits from Belacam, not Belacoin. Therefore, Belacoin has no risk that the developers leave the project because their coins are not worth as much anymore. We launched closed testing yesterday, and this is only the beginning.

2) Through this month, we will be spending thousands of dollars on various forms of marketing. This should help replace Belacoin investors who sold. We are reaching about 93,000 people for every $1,000 we spend. It's very easy to see the Belacoin community growing at an incredible rate as the ads only get ramped up towards open testing.

3) We are waiting to hear back from some great potential partners. With Belacam.com  out and Belacoin's monthly volume averaging $300,000 every day through the past month, it is a lot easier for us to make our case to Shapeshift, Changelly, and Bittrex.

4) With Belacam.com entering closed testing, we will soon be reaching out to as many journalists as possible. If we can get an article about Belacam on CNN, Business Insider, Tech Crunch, or other similar media sites, we could actually see millions of dollars added to Belacoin's market cap in only a few short hours overnight.

5) An announcement from categories 3 or 4 above would come out of the blue. We likely won't know ahead of time when Bittrex, Changelly, or Shapeshift will add Belacoin if they decide to do so. Nor would we likely know the exact date of being published on one of those media organizations if we are successful in that area as well. These are events that you wake up to one morning, and if you're holding Belacoin already, then now you're on top of the world. These are the type of announcements that come as a surprise and initiate an incredible surge in buying.

6) Open testing is planned for the end of this month. Investors see the incredible surge in attention that Belacoin got when it was going into only closed testing. Let's take a moment to imagine the amount of attention we will be receiving when we are one week away from open testing.

7) We've learned that hard work, dedication, and a respectable work ethic always win. We experienced Belacoin's price decline by half in early February from around .00003400btc to .00001500btc. Then, heading to closed testing, the price increased from .00001500btc to as high as .00006800btc.

It's March 1st, and we've experienced the same decline that hit at the beginning of February. If history is any indicator of the future, we're about to begin the biggest growth period that Belacoin has ever seen. Following a proportionate growth pattern would get Belacoin up to a price of .00015000 or higher by Belacam's open testing.

Just remember, Open Testing > Closed Testing


This post was originally shared in our Slack, which now has 555 members. Join it at http://Belacoin.herokuapp.com to experience a truly welcoming and different cryptocurrency community. Members in the Slack usually get early-bird updates, meaning they saw the Belacam screenshots before we released them elsewhere. They are frequently the first to hear Belacoin news when we have it.

Belacam Alpha Testing Begins Today
http://Belacam.com

After 4 months of planning, programming, and design, Belacam has launched into a series of closed alpha testings. Over the next few weeks, those who have worked on Belacam, members of The Ambia Fund, and hired security analysts will have access to the Belacam test network.

Throughout this process, we will be testing things like user experience, various designs, and the Belacoin transfer functionality. We will also be probing for security vulnerabilities so that we can be confident that the site is secure upon open testing, currently planned for late March.

One of the biggest changes that we will be making during closed testing is the implementation of sidebar content. This will include a leaderboard of users who have given the most Bela in the past 24 hours, meaning users who give more are more easily discovered. This feature is integral to creating an atmosphere of "You have to give Bela to receive Bela," and it should make the flow of Belacoin with Belacam quite fluid. Other sidebar widgets may include sponsored content or show the current trending tags. We intend for users to be able to customize their experience with the site by choosing which sidebar widgets they want to see. We will also be performing work on the "Discover" page where users can find new users to follow. Screenshots and demonstrations of these features will follow as they are designed and implemented into the test network.

Along with the beginning of alpha testing, we are launching a marketing blitz for Belacam. For the past few months, Belacam has only traveled through word-of-mouth. Starting tonight, we will be running Belacam Facebook ads through the rest of the week. This is to get people interested in the project and lay the foundation for a well-received open Beta testing launch in just a few short weeks.

Unfortunately, nothing can be done to speed up confirmations. There is one confirmation per block found, so we have to wait until 1,812 more blocks are found. For the record, the Belacoin blockchain does not require 2,000 confirmations. Poloniex requires that many for security, and they are a third party business that is not affiliated with Belacoin. This means that when sending Belacoin to other individuals, you will not need to wait for 2,000 confirmations before your money goes through.

Belacam's First Screenshot



Belacam alpha testing begins tomorrow, and the beta testing is slated for March! Look for many more screenshots tomorrow. We are preparing Belacam.com to serve as the website where we will post all of our screenshots and promotional videos, although much of it will also be posted here, in our Slack (http://Belacoin.herokuapp.com), and on Belacoin's twitter account.

The purpose of closed testing is to probe for vulnerabilities, test user experience, and test different design implementations. If you have suggestions about certain designs, please let us know. We will be testing many variations of each page of Belacam, so the screenshots that you see today and tomorrow may differ from the ones you see later this month. They will likely differ greatly from how Belacam will look by the time that open beta testing rolls around.

One of the biggest changes that we will be making during closed testing is the implementation of sidebar content. This will include a leaderboard of users who have given the most Bela in the past 24 hours, meaning users who give more are easily discovered. This feature is integral to creating an atmosphere of "You have to give Bela to receive Bela," and it should make the flow of Belacoin with Belacam quite fluid.

Other sidebar widgets may have sponsored content or show the current trending tags.

Lately, we have been focusing our resources on working on Belacam rather than building up Belacoin. We believed that the Belacoin community would grow substantially as people came to check out Belacam, and that has proven true.

On our website, you will find the winners of the 2017 Belacoin Invest Initiative (http://Belacoin.org/invest). These three businesses were awarded $500 to integrate Belacoin. They should be rolling out their Belacoin integrations as early as March.

@romanornr, it seems that you're on the old Github. We have since moved over to https://github.com/gjhiggins/bellacoin/tree/rebrand where you will find the updated code that served as the foundation for our newly-released Mac and Windows Wallets.

Belacam is not open source, so you will not find or see that code until open beta testing begins (planned for late March). Belacam programmers are using a private Github to share the code, and it has 36 commits as of now.

Join our slack at http://Belacoin.herokuapp.com to stay updated. We'll have plenty of updates over the next few days to share. In fact, we released a partial screenshot in our Slack last night and surveyed community members for a Belacam decision.

The best way for us to monetize Belacam is through advertisers. We envision a model where an advertiser's ad shows up in your feed, and you have the opportunity to interact with it. If you do, you will get Belacoin in return.

For example, Company A may have you play a quick 30-second game that reinforces their brand. Since you are interacting with the ad, you are much more likely to become a converting customer versus a user on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter who simply sees sponsored content and scrolls past it. After the interactive ad is over, the user might earn 1 Belacoin paid for from the advertiser, and we would take a 5-15% cut of that.

We also are very focused on creating an atmosphere where users feel that they have to give Belacoin to earn Belacoin. This might be promoted by having high-giving users show up higher on the list of people who have 'liked' a photo. Also, there is significant white space on either side of the post feed on Belacam. During alpha testing, we plan to add a segment that will showcase the most popular tags of the day as well as the users who gave the most Belacoin (assuming they opt in to this feature). That way, they are much more likely to get noticed, followed, and given Belacoin back.

Belacam does not have to overtake Instagram, and we don't expect it to. Instagram is worth nearly $40 billion dollars (double the market cap of Bitcoin). However, Belacam is a great alternative or complement to Instagram.

With the ability to hook up your Instagram account to an auto poster application on Belacam, both apps can work together to provide great user experiences.

We just met with the director of a local Angel Investor group. The meeting went well! Cryptocurrencies are a new concept to this group of angel investors. If Belacam shows strong fundamentals (active users, brand loyalty, etc.), an acquisition is quite possible. Once Belacam open testing begins, we're going to do our best to get some articles on CNN, Forbes, Business Insider, and other similar news sites to get the word of Belacam out to the public. An article in any of those would almost certainly attract some big money to Belacam and Belacoin.

We'll be traveling and getting settled in for the next few hours, although we may respond by phone to conversations in the Slack (join at http://Belacoin.herokuapp.com) if we're able to. Here's to a great weekend with our Belacam programmers and an awesome Tuesday alpha testing launch.

Today, one of our community members started a Belacoin bitcointalk thread for Russians. It seems active, and we would like to recommend that you check it out. We will not be participating in that forum since we do not speak Russian, but it will still be a great place to discuss Belacoin and Belacam.

Russian Belacoin Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1801610.0

On February 28th, we will begin closed testing of Belacam. Open testing is slated to launch in the following month. To coincide with this event, we will be launching a large marketing blitz with the intention of making sure that the cryptocurrency talk for the month of March is centered around Belacoin and Belacam.

The February 28th Marketing Blitz

• will consist of hundreds to thousands of dollars spent on social media ads (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.).
• We will be preparing and releasing a website for us to post Belacam screenshots, promotionals, and other updates as we move through the closed testing.
• Also, we are meeting with a professional videographer on Saturday and Sunday to try to get a quick, flashy Belacam commercial filmed and released by February 28th.