Sure and I hope my response didn't come on strong. It's actually because of all we went through to get here which in it's own right was an amazing comeback. And the subject of rebrand came up many times. Although it's a great brand. What I want to attempt is finish the features (like rolling peg) and then take a step back, breath of fresh air and see how the market reacts to all of our goals met. We can continue to market it and then the subject ever presents itself in the future we can revisit it. Antshares rebranded to NEO, Darkcoin to Dash, etc. It happens but the main goal should be our mechanics, our features. A rebrand is extremely time consuming and not even needed at this stage. We speak in code, in our actions. Since Bitcoin solved a serious problem which was trust of a financial system. So our features solve another problem which is trust in agreements (two party escrow), markets/communication and hosting (decentralized markets), and volatility and backing (decentralized/moving/dynamic/rolling peg). That is my perspective as a scientist. From a marketing perspective though the brand is strong anyways and fairly conducive to the services and solutions offered. And please let us know if you have other questions and never shy away from potential criticisms because we have actually greatly improved the product due to feedback over the years.

Hey there so you should probably let atcsecure know that there is a way to do anonymous cross chain trading that I've discovered. It would be beneficial to explore this as an upgrade:

Basically what you do is allow a p2sh to refer to another p2sh address but limit it to one level deep(to prevent exhausting the nodes). The problem with p2sh in Bitcoin is they don't allow short hand reference to other p2sh addresses. This is particularly frustrating when you need to pay someone but can't because you don't know their script. Oddly, you can pay p2pkh in a script.

So how this benefits AT is to overcome a big problem in anonymity. You see, it's possible to follow every single trade by looking at the hash that is published to both blockchains and. However the way anonymous AT would work is just have the payout go to p2sh1 OR p2sh2

The first one is privately disclosed to the recipient so he knows he can spend it contingent on the other chain (this is the shared hash between both chains typical to AT)

The second p2sh is also disclosed and it contains a completely different hash (this is the anon part)

So when the first transaction publishes with the shared hash, instead of immediately spending it the user waits to receive the solution to the other hash puzzle sent privately. He knows he can publish the shared one at any time but would rather wait for other disassociated hash to protect his anonymity. Because it's p2sh, nobody would know the contents until the redeem script is published anyways protecting the anonymity.  Thus there is now a way to make to completely unrelated transactions across chains.

If he likes the idea be sure to give a shout out. I might add it to a paper at some point with some of the other crypto concepts I've come up with but have no time to work on said features or concepts since I'm already pretty busy.

Cheers and hope all is well with your dev schedule.

Well if you knew what the other investors knew about this project you wouldn't say that.

Also the exaggeration is preposterous, you can't sue a blockchain. Hahaha try suing Bitcoin. This project like many others is decentralized, ownerless. Both projects came at the same time actually by coincidence. There is no confusion, they are a centralized exchange and we are a coin with hundreds of use cases and features. Centralized exchanges won't last long anyways. Even if there was we had an international presence long before they did (they started out as a Polish exchange and grew from there).

I think they are overworked, they have drafted a lot of people and they are still getting accommodated to the project and setting up a lot of different things at once.

Change the RPC port in the config file for the QT and it should work.

Hey thanks for the comment and honestly I think that Sidhu is a great dev! We often chat on Skype and I have the utmost respect for anyone who makes real software. It's interesting to hear your take on the partnership. As a dev, I wish I had time to really dig into other projects and what they are doing. But you know as a dev it makes more sense for me to focus on delivering on goals and promises. One day when the smoke clears I will take a step back and look at what others built. As for the direction, well I know Sid would agree we chose different models. His model is blockchain based with pruning and 3rd party centralized escrow. We chose a Bitmessage based market with 2 party decentralized escrow. We also have chosen the peg and we have other features like exotic spend and pay to email and imap integration.

I'm sure any investor here can testify that whenever we are asked for recommendations at BitBay we encourage investors to buy into REAL products. As any ICO or "roadmap" coin doesn't have a physical product to display. Thus people are rewarding the founders of (enter ICO here) unjustly. Even if the founders are trustworthy. When BitBay started there was a working prototype! And that software has greatly improved since that time.

So other projects with working prototypes do indeed qualify as legitimate projects. Ethereum has a working platform although they have some bloat issues to fix, EOS has a prototype, BitBay of course, Syscoin has it's own software, Lisk has working software and even Blocknet has a prototype. Those are just examples. All we have to say on this is investors should probably be very careful when investing in a platform without a working product or prototype especially to a new team.

It should be very clear that there are only a handful of devs who do blockchain stuff and yet 1000s of projects. Where do the 1000s of projects get their devs?! The chances are they don't have devs who can code what they want and the talent pool is not increasing at the rate of demand.

Did you read my response? How can we have a product without a developer? I'm the dev. If you mean to ask am I the only developer then yes that would be true. I've worked on Halo/BitBay for 4 years. However lately we have signed on more developers who have worked on side projects such as a multisig poker platform, the web wallet and electrumx servers, bitmessage relay and now we have a guy who works on the c++ code with builds and eventually he will be able to contribute to Halo source.

Well for Windows there was one minor update to icons and splash screen and  things. Although the build should be the same. You have a screenshot?

Well because we have a working product that actually exists and has been used for many years. Obviously it makes no sense to support a crowdsale without a product... people shouldn't be getting money without actually doing hard work. And as for SYS there is many threads talking about that... to be honest there is no comparison. BitBay has many more features. In fact we have a "wall of features"  https://bitbay.market/wall-of-features

That wall isn't even the full list either. We have exotic spend like freezing, switches, hash puzzles and time locks fully integrated, notary with notifications, tons of features under the hood and the cash for coins template.

Unlike other projects we are not limited to sales of goods, unbreakable contracts have extremely strong use case in employment, barter, cash for coins, and any type of contract you can think of.

And this is by far the main advantage. We don't have escrow and SYS does. So does Open Bazaar. Escrow is a very dangerous and weak system responsible for a majority of theft and loss seen today. Like on many E-bay scams the buyers or sellers get hurt when a product isn't as described, damaged, or an empty box. The arbiters must guess as to who is right and they commonly punish innocent people. Our contracts are a two party escrow system where both parties put their funds in a joint account and if they lie to each other they lose.

We were also the first smart contracting platform in the world before Ethereum (BitHalo) and the first decentralized markets and will soon most likely be the first moving peg. And that peg is also another major advantage which is an entirely separate subject.

We have an invite form on our website for Slack. The invites are manual to prevent bots so when you put your info in the form within the day someone should add you. We have a FAQ and it used to be a section on our site specifically with any troubleshooting. There is also training videos which we used to link at the OP. After the rebrand some content was removed and I've asked our web guy to add it back. Also yeah we of course want to have a full web front end for this. For now at least we do have the web wallet on our site for people who want to simply store coins without a download.

Are you fully synchronized? When did you download the wallet? How many connections to the network? Do you have a TXID from Bittrex? What is the wallet address and can you see the coins at chainz.cryptoid.info/bay ?!

Trades are done with a shared hash in a checklocktimeverify account. It's done in two transactions on each chain. First to the account with asynchronous timelocks then withdrawn from those with the person with the shorter locktime to act first. He holds the secret to the hash puzzle and when it's published it allows the person on the other chain to move his funds as well.

It's the only decentralized exchange method. Other coins that don't do it this way are simply not doing decentralized exchange.

Funds are traded directly between you and the counter-party. Funds are not deposited on an exchange at all.

Well first of all if you had any problems installing and had to disable antivirus or something blocking it that is typical. The software was made with the consideration of your security, privacy, anonymity, resistances to hacks, etc.

Unfortunately antivirus software tends to block peer to peer software and python unjustly. I don't actually use them for that any many other reasons as they don't seem to prevent any security holes and slow down the system and send private data to 3rd parties.

With that said, the reason I didn't start with a web app is because the blockchain and all the sysetms this runs to literally run where this thing would still work in an apocalypse is not conducive to web apps.

Web has much lower security in general. However, I have long known that people will sacrifice some security for utility and thus indeed Bitbay should be something anyone can host a webpage and see the listings. To bridge both systems is unorthodox and a pretty big coding task. I've been trying to get it to that level as it would indeed be the first of it's kind. We have new people looking at breaking it into sections and getting that done. The security model is very different. We also have taken a much more aggressive stance in marketing as well lately.

Also you must realize there is a liability factor. Peer to peer systems are superior in this regard because users are responsible for their own actions. In the case of unbreakable peer to peer contracts there is a mild conflict of interest if this thing isn't engineered so that anyone can host it and that users security is all on the front end.

It can look the way you describe but it's not an overnight process.

Also the word "FUD" means "Fear, uncertainty, doubt". It can at times apply to a person who tries to attack a project or propagandize it for ulterior motives. It can also mean that something is unjustly negatively hyped, that sort of thing.

Also Greek translations... sure. I'm not the one who does the recruiting. Simply ask Aletha on Slack or perhaps they can contact you here if they still need someone.

Yeah how much something means to someone is relative. The markets client is higher security. But for me personally, over 250k would be a good amount to consider the extra security of two keys. Just remember with the higher security comes the responsibility of good backup and caring for your keys.

There is over 300 pages on this thread not to mention the locked thread and multiple other threads where if you knew anything about this project you would know we definitely talk about negatives. You made statements and accusations that were 100% deceptive and false. You literally started making things up about the team that weren't true, and then made statements about how crypto works that were impossible. You made claims that weren't true and could have been instantly answered by reading the website or even the thread.

If you come to someones house looking for a fight, you will get what you asked for. Your comment history shows your first comment to be negative about Bitbay with a brand new profile. I'm not sure if you are aware but there are teams of people in Bitcoin who "fud" or attack coins to drop price or distract developers. So no, baseless accusation or deliberate deception is not allowed here. If you want to be open, sure be open all you want.

Of that 150 billion supposed marketcap increase, a lot of it has gone into BitBay. Our volume was ranging around 40 million for weeks. We broke our all time high in USD and Bitcoin price only a few weeks ago. Crypto is volatile that is exactly why Bitcoin goes up and down 10% a day. If you don't like it, don't invest in Bitcoin. We are creating a rolling peg that deals with volatility by freezing and unfreezing funds... controlling supply. Thus this coin is one of the only in the world that even cares to deal with that problem.

Investing is not for the immature. Normal investments on the New York Stock Exchange take YEARS to grow 20%. In crypto it happens +20% or -20% in a day. It's pretty much gambling if you look at monthly charts in crypto. If you look at BitBay's yearly chart you will see the coin has exploded from the depths of nothing. So please if you want to leave we think you should. Go invest in Kittycoin or Ripple or Truckcoin or something. Be sure to tell us what you got and how amazing and how much better (insert name here)coin is.

And on that note, I challenge you to find a community where the dev takes time to talk to people on multiple social media platforms. My time is extremely precious and usually spent coding the critical features of this project. So for that I'm not going to give time to comments that are nonconstructive however you can see that I've actually taken the time to give a thoughtful response.

And again, of the 150 billion rise in marketcap as you claim Bitcoin is down almost 40% from it's peak. BitBay is also down about 50% from it's peak. Our peak was recent and it was our record after 4 YEARS of doing development. After BitBay had almost no trading volume, was trading at 100 dollars a day volume, we had people who stole from us and mocked us and myself and investors fought and created what is here today. Now we always have millions of a dollars a day in volume.

What BitBay has is the definition of a success story. If you don't think so why don't you try it? Start your own crypto, code it yourself, make things that have never existed before in history, build a team, deal with the bullshit I've had to deal with, spend 4 years coding and see if you generate similar results.

That's good to hear. 

Speaking of which, you should always backup your wallet file. You can do that from the menu.

The explorer I think is under maintenance. We have advised users to check chainz in the meantime.

Make sure your client is synced and the current block matches the most recent block on chainz. If it is, the perhaps you can try to run Bitbay-qt from the command line with the -rescan option.

If you ever had a comment deleted it was because you were saying things that were deliberately false. Personally we don't babysit threads nor have time to respond to assumptions made without even reading the site or OP. We almost never delete comments so I'm sure if one of the mods removed it, there was a good reason.  We do discuss "negatives" of our project that is exactly why we keep improving it. However we will not entertain deception or extremely lazy criticism. And I answered his question as to if funds from the supposed 150 billion that came into crypto. Did you not read the response directly above your reply?

It's a clear misunderstanding of marketcap. If Bitcoin goes up 150 billion it doesn't mean 150 billion was invested. Price * supply = marketcap. An increase in marketcap can happen for much less if there isn't enough sell walls. And also almost half of the Bitcoins have never been moved and almost half of the Bitcoins that have been moved have been stolen by third parties. So the marketcap is an illusion. Bitbay was recently at an all time high in volume so we are clearly expanding based on the increased interest in crypto. We used to have 100 dollars a day in volume now we have 10-40 million on some days. The proof is right in front of you.

Funds did come in to Bitbay we have had volume over 40 million daily and have broken all of our records including in satoshis. You have to realize that 150 Billion comes in proportion to the project. If Bitcoin grows 10% it gains billions on "paper". If BitBay grows 10% it gets another 30 million or so on paper.

As for timeline of course, we work very hard and have had a reputation to deliver on features. I think the updated roadmap was recently released.

Thanks I got it and responded.