There has been a misunderstanding.

I, the developer, am saying that the seed node list in the client included a node which was no longer active. It has since been removed and replaced with a stable one.

The nodes listed above, are all active on the network currently, useful if anybody using code compiled before the I made the change has problems.

Thank you for your suggestion to the community, it is useful.

Mark

No difference. I think I may know what this is actually, one of the 'stable' nodes provided was not stable, if your client tries to connect to that one it'll stall for 100 attempts.
I will remove it from the seed list - complete
... and do another release as soon as I can.

Thank you for your kind words and support.

This project is described in reverse, because of the forum we are in, and also described inadequately because of shortfalls in my own editorial and marketing skills.

The project is to create a scalable and massively viral reputation backed monetary system which increases the fluidity of money via off chain micro-transactions between individuals based on the value of their every day actions. A system who's usage is already an every day concept used by everybody on the web, and who's implementation and integration leads to simple adoption by anybody willing, technical or not. The concept is sound and described in detail with innumerable applications to multiple avenues of every day life and business. Underneath that is the boring but required cryptographic currency part (Bitmark).

Instead the project is described as a currency with some side projects, hardly inspiring.

The problem with funding, is that I believe in the merits of the system with such conviction that I am prepared to lose everything in order to see it come to fruition - although I would prefer not to. The project has it's own momentum and I am committed to that, and must move with it, albeit moving faster than I had anticipated. Once the seed is planted and everyday people see how the simple system affects them, it will change things positively for people around the world.

It is worth doing, and will be done at any cost. If anybody wants to help in any form, then that is precisely what it is, help, which is always appreciated.

We have tried all approaches to ethical funding that have been proposed. Unless there are any more novel ideas, all that remains is for an ethical philanthropist with some belief in what is proposed, to sponsor the next round of work alleviating some pressure, and optionally acquire some of the base currency. By doing so they would secure the project's momentum, my personal well being, and their own investment.


They are all baked in to the client, consider checking your firewall or any software which can block the application first. If that doesn't fix it, please send me your debug.log through pm.

Luck is not so important. I firmly believe that the concept is sound, and that it will have a measurable positive impact on every day people. The final incarnation which people use may not be this exactly, but the seed is there, has merit, and once it is planted it will grow. So, it will be done at any cost.

I recognise that my editorial and marketing skills are sub par, maybe someone who agrees that it is worth doing will join and bring those skills to the project in the future.

Warmest Regards, and thank you for your help,

Mark

That is a move worthy of respect. I look forward to seeing what Peter produces!

Thank you to all who reviewed.

My offer was to provide 40 BTM to each reviewer, not BTC. However I will honour your requests for BTC instead, please allow until the end of today for me to acquire BTC, I will update this thread with transaction identifiers once sent.

I am glad the exchange question is now solved, and also that the markets have organized fairly.

Here are some short facts about market health

• 274000 BTM in existence
• 14200 (5.2%) BTM on markets
• 6360 (2.35%) BTM offered around the median production price
• 1380 (0.5%) BTM sold

I consider this to be very healthy, thank you for your confidence.

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Project
Yesterday we gathered requirements for our website, I have summarised them and proposed the following


Can we agree to move forward with this?

Finally, Trello has begun to be used so that we may be transparently organised, anybody is welcome to view or comment https://trello.com/b/lG3Vefkx/general

Mark

Thank you for taking the time to review the code thoroughly and for your support.

Thank you all, BTM or BTC addresses please. BTC will take a few hours longer, as I do not hold any BTC and will need to buy some. I will confirm with transaction id's once sent.

Still one more, it would be good to hear some feedback on the general concept also.

I would like some third party reviewers to read a document, and give feedback.

https://github.com/project-bitmark/marking/wiki

To say thank you, I will offer 40 BTM each to the first four people who read the document and give constructive feedback.

Mark

40 BTM is 2 block rewards, 10% of all I own, and would cost just over 0.01 BTC to mine

You can use poloniex.org as a back up website.

We will have a more formal project overview and roadmap soon, Medic is working on that.

Your getMarked question is very pertinent and we must make this clear. From the new OP, it is described as follows

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Project Bitmark
Project Bitmark is an initiative to create an every day use alternative currency.

• A stable and balanced cryptographic currency named Bitmark
• A massive adoption programme under the banner of Marking

Bitmark is the core cryptographic currency, it's primary objectives are to be safe, secure, fast, actively developed, and easy to integrate for services and adopters. read more
Marking is a novel adoption initiative which enables every day people to use cryptographic currency in every aspect of their lives. read more

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Under the banner of 'Bitmark' comes the standard client, api stuff, block explorers, mining, tools to use the block chain, and all the normal crypto currency things we see.
Under the banner of 'Marking' comes everything to do with wide spread user/service/business adoption and it is our primary focus. I encourage every one who hasn't to read the Marking document which details every aspect of how we will approach wide spread adoption.

The adoption side feeds requirements back in to Bitmark as time progresses, and Bitmark development will be responsive to the requirements of the varied user base provided by Marking.

I seek to refine and clarify this description further until such a time that it is no longer needed.

Thank you all.

I will propose the following initial website structure, we can finalise and refine each page as once it is created.

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Header Navigation
About | Download | Project | Network & Mining | FAQs | Explorer | IPM Pool

Landing Page

Wide Deep Top Panel
Top Center: Vision - A condensed overview of what Bitmark is and what the project goals are.
Left: Bitmark, Right: Marking
read more.. links to a

Row of Three Panels
1. Download... description then links through to Release Page
2. Mining... description then links through to Network and Mining Overview
3. Project... description then links through to Project Overview

Wide Narrow Panel
Community / Informative Links... twitter, reddit, irc, this thread, trello, github, wiki
Development / Software Links... third party software, forked applications, tools

Panel of Live Stats
Anything useful and interesting in chart form.

Right Side Panel
IPM... Intro and (live?) Summary Statistics


Other Pages
Description / Why ... page describing the two facets of the project (stable crypto currency, adoption programs) and info on why that is important
Download... Release Page, with all info you expect, downloads, basic coin configuration with links to rationale
Network and Mining... health, hashrate, difficulty, estimated next difficulty, mining calculators, info for miners, links to pools and documents etcetera
Project... commits, new integrations, posts / tweets, comments on things like trello etcetera
FAQs, Explorer, IPM Pool ... all as expected


Unhanded
A blog... needed later? most will be handled by the 'Project' overview page.
Project roadmap... is it required to start? does trello provide this?

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Hopefully the light structure is enough for us agree and move forward.

Do any of you have any corrections or commissions?

These were actually my own priorities to have ready also, almost all of the things you suggest are ready to have charts made and added We have all the live data from the entire network, and the IPM pool, ready to utilize, streamed as real time updates also where applicable.

So far I have three dashboard views in production:
1. IPM dashboard
2. Network and Mining overview - health, hashrate, difficulty, estimated next difficulty, mining calculators, info for miners, links to pools and documents etcetera
3. Block explorer, to be more like blockchain.info by the time I am finished

From what you suggest I would also propose:
4. project overview - commits, new integrations, posts / tweets, comments on things like trello etcetera
5. a mini overview of 1-5

I wholeheartedly agree, to cover things like using the client, backing up, restoring, generating addresses, etcetera.

This is out with my set of skills, do any of you have the skills to do this, perhaps collaboratively, or know anybody that may?

I see we are close to refining a specification of what is required, perhaps a few more replies and we can propose something.

Current Topic: Please all list what you feel it is important to provide on the Bitmark website, perhaps with a number 1-10 of importance beside each item.

My world view, is that Marking and getMarked will be the public face for the every day person, with the complex crypto part abstracted away. Think Bitmark as the core, and Marks/Marking as the daily use front.

For that reason, I suppose the Bitmark website for now is targeted more at the crypto aware, and is to serve three purposes:

1. To send those seeking information to that information quickly (miners to pool, people to downloads, etc)

2. To overview the project to people like those in this thread, to developers, service providers, and interested parties so that may join and discuss our approaches, become part of the community.

3. As a channel to quickly notify as to what we are doing, and seek input from anybody who is willing.

Perhaps the word 'portal' is more applicable, until such a time that it becomes a community, and then a technical resource area.

Okay, let us provide that then.

Please all list what you feel it is important to provide on the website, perhaps with a number 1-10 of importance beside each item.

Collaboratively defining what is required will help us not to miss anything obvious.

I should clarify that 'discourse' is community software, something we will use as our own discussion forum on bitmark.co

Do you all feel it is wise to give priority to the creation of an informational website at bitmark.co, as zadinga said 'to give us a face', adding in later our community software? Please confirm.

Milestone We have slowly reached a difficulty of 56, with an average hash rate of over 2 GH/s, there are only a handful of scrypt coins at this difficulty or higher.

Questions

Our website will have a large structure, with many resources and informative views. It will also house our discourse based community, with marking support.

The question is one of priority.

Should the website be created and put live quickly, providing a coherent informative place where people can join us and overview what Bitmark is about, with the discourse community added later?
Or perhaps we should stick with the current plan, to provide the discourse community and everything else, all at the same time?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Yes, we should be careful with our use of terms. I meant to refer to the following code: