It's not unusual that wallets give a fake virus warning. My AV had no objections to the wallet, and judging by other posts here the same goes for others. Most likely you have a false positive, but by all means, be carefull until you know for sure.

That is as wrong as it gets. There are several coins working with smart contracts, and some of them, like BitBay, are way ahead of ETH. Try running both BitBay wallet and ETH wallet, and see for your self.

Yes it has been discussed. There are several resons we don't allow darknet items. The most important one is that neither David nor the team is willing to be involved in illegal activities in any way. Another reason is that the legal market is so much bigger than the illegal one, that it doesn't make sense to focus on darknet. Some vanilla items might be ok per se, but having them listed in the same market that sells anything from electronics to baby cloths is not. It is however possible to use private markets for that. There have been several posts relevant to this question starting here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=890531.msg17782226#msg17782226



We don't have a big marketing budget, but we do have some money for it. More importantly, we have some very skilled people on the team that work for free or symbolic pay. Lately we have also seen several community members helping out.
2017 is the first year we have started marketing, and we have already done a bit.
-We had a big buzzword campaign.
-Twitter and facebook are active again.
-Blog on bitbay.market has new articles all the time.
-Several articles written for/by other outlets (4 or 5 this far in 2017 I think. Last two are mentioned on previous page in this thread)
-Radio interview with David

More is in the pipeline...




You can actually do that already with custom contracts. But I assume you are talking about the templates that will make it a lot more user friendly. We never give ETA's, but now that important improvements and features are mostly done, David will focus on the templates.  



Because most of those that have been active in posting contracts are now busy testing the new release. Also David recently posted this in our slack:

"Please everyone who does a lot of contracts... do me a favor and in the email you use for contracts please do the following:
IF you are not involved in any active contracts, please clear all your orders
Then please go into the email you use for contracts and delete all emails that have the subject line as "Halo"
So everything should be clear unless you are negotiations in a contract then finish it and do this step
The reason is because I'm trying to increase performance of emails and for old unencrypted emails the inbox will simply bloat"

The marketplace will fill up again once the new release is out. But there is only so much the team can do. The community has to help get this going by posting contracts, so lets hope many in here will do that.

I like them, and I think it might be worth considering further down the line. But atm it's people that are already into crypto that buy Bay, and they have bitcoin and can buy cheaper on exchanges.

Here is another good article about BitBay

http://www.superbcrew.com/bitbay-aims-to-close-the-gap-between-digital-currency-and-real-purchases/

BitBay is not listed on Bter anymore. Can you please update?

It is already implemented in the new release for BitBay. Testing has been going on for a while, and it will have official release march 22nd

I absolutely think cold staking is the way to go for POS coins, but then I'm biased of course.
Bathrobehero raises a good point as to what it should be called though. Maybe we can get some suggestions in this thread?

Just use the form

https://poloniex.com/coinRequest

BitBay Release 1.26 Feature Focus – Cold Staking

The public release of BitBay’s Client v1.26 by the end of March comes with a few new key features we want to tell you about over the next few days.  This new version is actually already live, and we are currently testing, perfecting and documenting for public release.  If you would like to help test and try it out yourself, come visit us in Slack and one of the core members there will send you the link to get the update.

The first feature on the list is Cold Staking.  This is a security feature making it nearly impossible for people to break into your wallet and manipulate your BAY balance in any way.  If you are familiar with BitBay, you know there are two keys for every wallet.  Cold Staking gives you the option to put those two keys on separate systems.  This means not only would a potential hacker need to break into the computer BitBay is running on and crack your first key (which is all the protection most wallets offer), but they would also need to find and break into the second computer and unencrypt a second key as well.

This feature is currently working for computers on the same LAN (Local Area Network), and research is being done now into how to make it possible to connect the two systems over the internet.  Working out the details for this has been a challenge due to firewalls and dynamic IP addresses, but once it is completed in a future release, we will provide you with the information you need to make it work for you.

Cold Staking, along with other features you will read about in the upcoming days, helps make BitBay the most complete and secure digital currency software available.  This is the second update released in 2017, and more monumental updates, such as the rolling peg you have been hearing about, are on the way.  Hang on tight BitBay fans.

I have to say it's very refreshing to see someone explore other uses for blockchain than to become millionair in one day. Please keep posting

Sorry, not yet.

Right now Blackhalo and BitBay are identical. The big difference will be the rolling peg. Only BitBay will get that.
Also, the development is done here in bitbay. Blackcoin community is not very active on Blackhalo. This will result in more differences. There is already a community driven project that will be included in BitBay but not Blackhalo.

The site https://www.glbcoin.com/ has been changed since first time we saw it.  A week or so ago it had a slide show that is now missing. One of the slides was a text about signing of deal between Global holding and BitBay. Naming someone unknown to the BitBay team as director of BitBay

BitBay has nothing to do with Global holdings. Someone is missusing BitBay's name. The question is: Why?

Here is the image JohnsonDAI can't post due to being a new account



@JohnsonDAI There seems to be a little missing on the left side. Do you have that as well?

Yes you can buy and sell Renos on BitBay marketplace. The pic shows a buy order for Renos. But the marketplace is not an exchange, so does not have the speed or functionality you are accustomed to from exchanges. Now that Renos is listed on an exchange, I recommend you use that for ordinary trading. The BitBay marketplace is perfect for over the counter deals though. It is decentralized, and uses double deposit escrow, so no middleman involved. And it's free to use save the anti spam fee.
You are also welcome to use the BitBay marketplace as a place to sell stuff for payment in Renos. You can even make your own exlusive channel for that purpose if you like. You need Bay for the double deposit (that will be refunded when deal is ok), but payment can be in Renos.

@RenosCoin Congrats for what seems to be a successfull launch

First Contract to Buy Renos in BitBay market





Not an exchange, but does the job until Renos gets listed somewhere.
You will need to download the BitBay client to access the market

The account's in Craig's research could belong to them, but this is not certain at all because they have shown a little different pattern than the main accounts (that are now empty) of the scammers. Doesn't really matter one way or the other. There isn't much in them, so who cares

We know that the site thebitbay.org used to be controlled by Steven/Patrick Dai (See Qtum thread for name issue starting here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1720632.msg17936906#msg17936906)

We can't say for sure who controlls it today though