In-App Billing (IAB), also called In-App Purchase, consists in the possibility for the user to
buy digital items inside an app or a game. Although those items are perceived to be bought
inside the App, the items are bought through the app store.
The need for the transactions to go through the app store were introduced as mandatory
by Apple App Store and then by Google Play. The conditions for the developer’s app to be
distributed is that all the financial transactions have to be managed by the app store.
The app store adds some value to this flow: 1) it may know the customer already and have
their payment data, thus easing the entrance hurdles for the user and providing a better user
experience, 2) it has the trust of the user when the developer may not have it yet and 3) it
develops the necessary technology, allowing the developer to focus on the app development.
Although IAB represents a market with a huge volume of transactions processed by Google
Play and Apple, there are still two big challenges.
The number of users with a credit card loaded in the store is still a minority. Only small
part of the world population has access to credit card. Alternative methods like pre-paid cards
are an approach but they are physical and depend on points of sale, therefore do not scale well.
On the other hand, some of other payment methods like carrier billing have prohibitive
margins that compromise the revenue share of 70% for the developer. In some markets, the
margin of the telecom operator varies between from 35% to 60% of the cost of the transaction.
The reasons given by the telecom operators are: 1) high risk of fraud that has to be compensated
and 2) the users may cannibalise the telecommunications balance so the margin has to pay that
possibility.
Providing the user has a proper payment method, there are still some risks that have to be
mitigated

I understand where you are coming from. However, the pre-mine is used for developing the project. As you can see that a lot of ICO now need to have funds for the dev team in order to have a successful development of the project. The amount of pre mine is not actually a lot and if these amount can help to evolve the super bitcoin to have all these features implemented, it will bring a lot more values to the sbtc holders.

AppCoins ICO Team.
Names, pictures and even links to social profiles like LinkedIn and Twitter: Yes

Founders have credentials in the area they are venturing into. Yes

Members who have already completed successful projects in the field of blockchain: No

Members experienced in blockchain: Yes

A few details

SHA256, block time is 10 minutes and block size is 1mb.

The team is working on the wallet. It should be ready in a day or 2. So you dont really need exchange as long you have private key to your btc wallet.


One of the easiest way is to have your btc deposit into one of the 4 exchanges that is currently supporting SBTC. More exchange will support in times to come. These exchanges will do the fork for you and you will receive SBTC when the wallet appear in the exchange.

You need to follow the team on the Twitter and join their telegram channel. Then you will need to talk to the bot to capture all your data to qualify for the airdrop.

Super Bitcoin is a fork and Huobi and Okex and BigOne exchanges are all supporting for the fork.

AppCoins ICO Review.

1. Concept.

Industry: App economy

Similar projects: Mobius, Google playstore and Apple playstore

How is it different from other projects in the space?

You can use AppCoins across all the app stores that support it.
If a user clicks in an Ad, installs the app and gives two minutes of attention, he can earn coins to spend inside apps and games.
Fees being charged: The user has to pay fees on each Ether deposit to his account with App Stores and on checking out, i.e. settling his Raiden payment channel. Further fees may be the taxation done by the App Stores used to pay for their infrastructure.

VC Investors: Yes, during presale.

Market statistics:

The number of smartphone users is forecasted to grow from 2.6 billion in 2017 to nearly 4 billion by 2020 [3, 4].
36% of the world’s population is projected to use a smartphone by 2018.
The gross revenue of the entire mobile ecosystem was estimated to be worth +US$50 billion in 2016, growing to +US$88 billion in 2017, while the mobile app market is forecasted to reach US$100 billion worldwide by 2020 [5].
the annual revenue of the third party app stores matches Google Play’s in 2017[6]

BigOne Exchange releases Official Statement on SUPER BITCOIN!
For more details, visit here.
https://medium.com/@sbtc.org/bigone-exchange-releases-official-statement-on-super-bitcoin-fcbfa0fba044

Actually the bounty task is already shown in the telegram chat. However, we will do the official announcement of our bounty about 5 hours later. This is to ensure that the early community in our telegram can benefit from the bounty first.

It seems to work fine for me now.

https://appcoins.io/

Do take note that you have to confirm your email. If you still need more immediate help, do join the telegram group here as their respond rate is a lot higher.
https://t.me/appcoinsofficial

At this point, we are not looking for translation bounty yet. We will be announcing our bounty campaign in less than 10 hours time.

The idea is really good. It also has zero-knowledge proof. So it has great potential, and the most important is the dev. The project success or not depend hugely on the dev team. So far, they already have secured a few partners and more news is coming up.

Yes this is very true. We even have popular exchange like okex and huobi to partner with us. The dev also have been working work to find more partners and reach out to the community as well. Stay tune for the bounty rewards.

That sure will be many people fighting for the btc fork every now and then. However, that is why the dev team must be experience and capability to support the fork. So for this project, they manage to have two popular exchanges as partner to support their fork

and they are
Okex and Huobi.

Reserved 2.

This also tackles the risk of repudiation since developers can claim that a certain user did not actually do the required action to be given the attribution, i.e. that either the app store, the user or both are being dishonest.

There is a wallet that contains the budget of the created campaign, which is meant to lock the budget, addressing the risk of default by the developer. To address the same risk, there is also a wallet that will temporarily store the value of the impression, to make sure that if the attribution occurs within a certain time, i.e. the user installs and opens the app within a certain time interval, there are funds available to pay for the conversion.
To prevent leakage of user data, the protocol does not expose any sensitive user information at any time and interaction with app stores. The only information that can be seen by others are the wallet addresses when a transaction occurs.
To avoid the risk of malware, the protocol attributes a reputation level to the developers as “Trusted”, “Unknown” or “Critical” according to their track record of transactions in the blockchain. This is then extended to all their apps and across different app stores.

Solutions.

To prevent fraud by (fake) users several mechanisms will be used such as setting a lower limit, e.g. one install a day and three per week for unknown users, preventing cashing out of tokens. I.e. the user has to use the AppCoin tokens for in-app purchases.
To deal with the risk of attention, a client-side method, running in the smartphone’s untrusted environment, will be used to register that a user is paying attention to an app (installed from an app store) for a certain amount of time. Once the necessary requirements (such as the app being in foreground, or the device screen being on) are met, a proof-of-attention (PoA) is issued using through a server-side platform and stored in the blockchain.

Problems being solved:

The central authorities behind the app stores reap a disproportional high share of the created revenue in the smartphone value chain.
Centralization also stifles competition and innovation. Apps are commonly censored if they compete with the app store owner’s economic interests.[1]
Risk of fake person which consists of the impression of the ad and later installation being presented to a non-real person (bot…) with the purpose of deluding the advertiser.
Risk of double attribution whereby there is a possibility of the same user to count twice as a conversion, leading the developer to pay two times what was due.
Risk of no attention which consists in the user installing the app that is being advertised but paying no attention to it.
Risk of data leak which consists in the information regarding the user being leaked to third-parties for advertising purposes.
Risk of default which consists in the developer creating a campaign but not having enough funds to pay the conversions that are generated in that campaign, leading to him not paying the due amount.
Risk of repudiation which happens when the developer does not recognize the installation, failing to attribute the conversion to the publisher. The attribution is generally monitored by tracking platforms like AppsFlyer, Adjust or Rodin that have multiple variables that can be changed by the developer to define what it considers a real attribution.
The number of users with a credit card loaded in the store is still a minority.
Risk of digital goods lost may happen when a user buys a digital good inside the game or app but it is not delivered. Often, the user does not have a way to recover the payment or claim the digital good.
Risk of double payment occurs when the user pays twice for the same in-app item purchase. Also in this case, the user may not have a proof that they paid twice.
Risk of digital items cloning when the user is able to duplicate and transfer the digital good to another user, leading to losses for the developer that charge once for a digital good that is used twice.
Risk of malware is the possibility of an app or game submitted to the app store being infected with a virus or malware that steals data or damages the user’s device. [2]
Risk of censorship when an app store blocks the publishing of an app or game based on political, religious or social factors that are subjective and totally unrelated with technical aspects.

AppCoins ICO is a project that seeks to build an open and distributed protocol for App Stores. The protocol will drastically improve and speed up advertising, in-app billing and app approvals, using blockchain and smart contracts technology.

In advertising, the protocol guarantees not only that the users install apps but that they pay attention to it during at least 2 minutes (Cost Per Attention – CPAt). The value invested by the developer in CPAt is then used to award the user with AppCoin tokens for their attention. These AppCoin tokens are stored in user’s wallets.
In App Purchase transactions will grow because users can make purchases directly, using their earned AppCoins or by purchasing them through various payment methods. Financial transactions are registered in the blockchain and later used to detect double spending and to guarantee user authenticity.
App approvals are made universal and more transparent through a developer reputation system. The reputation is tied to the financial transactions on the public ledger and is auditable. A dispute system will be created so that AppCoin owners can open a ranking for developers.