Please provide instructions how to add Monaco custom token to myetherwaller. I know that in such case must be typed some coin adress and decimals.

I think if you just joined the signature campaign, you have already late. Crowdfunding was over, and yesterday signature bounty spreadsheet had been counted. Please correct me if i am not right, that 3-rd signature week was the last.

Bitcoin adoption is growing in Akihabara, an area in Japan known as “the world’s largest electrical equipment marketplace.”

World’s Largest Electronics Marketplace

Bitcoin Adoption Grows in World's Leading Electronics DistrictAccording to Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), Akihabara is “the world’s largest electrical equipment marketplace.” Locally known as Akiba, the area is also a favorite destination for tourists. The Tokyo Convention and Visitors Bureau, the official Tokyo travel guide, describes Akihabara as “well-known as a world-leading electronic district.”

“The area houses thousands of shops selling every technological gadget you can imagine, from computers to gaming consoles and vacuums to DVDs, at rather reasonable prices,” Wikitravel wrote about Akihabara. “This area is also known as the ‘Gamer’s Mecca’ and has in recent times become strongly identified with anime/manga subculture.”


While full of high-tech stores, where one might expect to find many bitcoin-loving patrons, only a small number of shops have accepted bitcoin so far. Bitcoin adoption is growing, however, as more stores start to embrace the digital currency.

The largest and most recent store to accept bitcoin in the shopping district is Bic Camera, a leading consumer electronics retailer chain in Japan. The chain opened its first store in Akihabara on Thursday and started accepting bitcoin on the same day using Bitflyer, Japan’s largest bitcoin exchange by volume. This is its third location to accept the digital currency. The first two locations still accept and promote bitcoin today.

Besides Bic Camera, there are some other smaller stores that accept bitcoin in the district. Ark computer shop accepts both bitcoin and the local favorite altcoin called Monacoin for payments starting earlier this month. Ark sells PC parts and game devices. The company partnered with Osaka-based Tech Bureau Co, the parent company of the bitcoin exchange Zaif, in order to accept the cryptocurrency.

In addition to retail stores, there are other types of businesses accepting bitcoin there as well. Dualtap Property Management in Akihabara, for example, recently announced that it is accepting bitcoin through Coincheck, another prominent bitcoin exchange in Japan. The company provides one-stop services involving property development, sales, management and building maintenance internationally and domestically.

Bitcoin Adoption Grows in World's Leading Electronics DistrictSome food establishments also accept bitcoin such as Au Tokyoite, a restaurant and wine bar featuring cheese fondue and Swiss cuisine in Akihabara.

While most stores still do not accept bitcoin directly, many of them accept smart cards such as the popular Suica and Pasmo cards. Both use Sony’s Felica technology. Bitcoin.com recently reported that Felica Marketing is working on turning these smart cards into bitcoin hardware wallets. If launched, customers will have the option to pay with bitcoin at many more stores in Akihabara through their contactless smart cards.

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-adoption-grows-worlds-leading-electronics-district/

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Over the past six months, the bitcoin scaling debate has been going on relentlessly as many cryptocurrency proponents are trying to figure the best solution to improve the network’s fees and transaction throughput. There have been many ideas brought to the table, but this summer there are some specific plans that all bitcoin holders should keep on their radar.

Bitcoin Scaling Changes and Three Possibilities

The block size debate has been going on since Satoshi Nakamoto put a 1MB limit on blocks in 2010, which only allows for a certain amount of transactions per block. More recently the ‘community’ has been divided talking about a variety of ideas that could help blocks hold more transactions as bitcoin becomes increasingly more popular.

One of the ideas right now is Segregated Witness (Segwit), a soft fork protocol designed to remove witness data from transactions which theoretically will add more space for additional transactions. Then the other side of the community wants to implement a hard fork that would change the 1MB block size limit to either 2MB, 4MB, 8MB, or even unlimited block space.

For a long time now Bitcoin proponents have yet to implement any of these plans. There has been a stalemate for quite some time between businesses, users, miners, and many individuals involved in the bitcoin economy. Now certain members of the bitcoin community seem to be moving a lot closer to attempts towards activating their plans on the bitcoin network.

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https://news.bitcoin.com/scheduled-scaling-updates-for-the-bitcoin-network-are-getting-closer/

This situation happens with all altcoins right now. Humanique is still standing quite firmly. I think we will see price pump in the nearest future, just when new features will be added to app.

Please clarify the question that bothers me. Only stakes matters for future bounty calculations? If i have "0" in the "weeks" fields but have 1 general stake at all, that "1" will be my reward? Thank you.

За начисление баунти и сроки пока Джамшут молчит. Хотя нет, вру, вроде как выплаты 28 июня, слух такой.

Relax, drink some tea or coffee, due to unforeseen circumstances and hacking activity millions of tokens were stolen and EncryptoTel team made decision to reboot their monetary system. At first investors must be satisfied, then turn will come to bounty hunters. It`s a question of their reputation, of course if managers would like to work on another projects in the future.

As i read from the signature bounty rules, general OpenANX requirements was to write down 10 post per week. Number of 50 posts are not spelled out. Am i right?

Czech Republic-based Alza is the largest retailer in the country and neighboring Slovakia. Primarily operating in Central and Eastern Europe including Austria, Germany and Britain, Alza is also seeing expansion plans take shape toward Western Europe. Altogether, the retailer enables deliveries to 25 EEA countries including the UK.

Last month, Alza began accepting bitcoin, citing ‘numerous requests’ from customers asking to enable the cryptocurrency as a method of payment. Alza also installed Bitcoin ATMs in its physical retail storefronts in Prague and Bratislava.

The move to enable bitcoin payments has proved a resounding success, with 4% of all payments made via bitcoin since the launch. That’s a significant number for a retailer which recorded €644 million in turnover last year.

‘During the first month of its introduction across the European e-shop network, a staggering 4% of all payments were made in BTC,” Alza stated in an email to CCN.

Tesla for Bitcoin

A month after accepting bitcoin for purchases on its online store, Alza has now listed Tesla electric cars for sale on its website. And they’re yours, for 50 bitcoins.

Alza has listed both the Tesla Model S and the Tesla Model X, a sedan and an SUV respectively. There have been several examples of Tesla purchases with bitcoin in the past. One adopter even used bitcoin during the pre-sale of the upcoming Tesla Model 3.

Read more - https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/european-retail-giant-alza-will-deliver-your-tesla-tomorrow-for-bitcoin/

Netcents and VISA have announced a partnership to facilitate the direct purchase of bitcoins using a credit card.

Netcents Have Announced That They Will Be Partnering With VISA to Allow Customers to Purchase Bitcoin Using a Credit Card

Netcents are a wallet service provider and payment processor that offers cryptocurrency products to businesses and private individuals. The announcement comes just months after a similar partnership was established with Mastercard. Netcents are based in Vancouver, Canada, but provides depositing services to 194 countries. Netcents is registered as a Money Services Business with the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC).

Netcents and VISA Team up to Allow Bitcoin Purchases

The partnerships with Visa and Mastercard allow Netcents to be one of the most streamlined services for purchasing cryptocurrency with fiat currency via credit card. The partnership has particularly positive ramifications for Netcents’ woocommerce payment processing plugin, which provides online merchants the ability to accept all fiat currency credit card payments in addition to bitcoin and ethereum payments

Although Netcents’ services offer one of the easiest options for a cryptocurrency beginner making their first purchases in the bitcoin markets, some cryptocurrency enthusiasts are arguing that integration between bitcoin businesses and major financial institutions such a Visa or Mastercard undermine many of the core values that underpin cryptocurrency.

Read more - https://news.bitcoin.com/netcents-and-visa-team-up-to-offer-bitcoin-purchases-via-credit-card/

The Indian government recently announced that it is in favor of regulating bitcoin. A task force is being set up to provide recommendations. Bitcoin.com spoke with the CEO and co-founder of bitcoin exchange Unocoin, Sathvik Vishwanath, to find out the effect this decision has on Bitcoin adoption in India.

India in Favor of Regulating Bitcoin

In order to decide whether to regulate bitcoin, the Indian government set up a committee in April to evaluate the situation and provide recommendations. The finance ministry also asked for public comments, most of which are in favor of legalizing and regulating bitcoin.

Indian Bitcoin Adoption Responds to Government Signalling for RegulationOn Tuesday, CNBC aired a news segment announcing that the most of the committee members are in favor of regulating bitcoin. Bitcoin.com interviewed Sandeep Goenka, co-founder of the bitcoin exchange Zebpay, prior to this announcement. He clarified that a task force is being set up and it would take about 6 months for them to come up with recommendations.

Unocoin CEO Sathvik Vishwanath has since agreed, confirming that it would take a while for the recommendations to be finalized. Prior to asking for public opinions, the government met with him and other Bitcoin businesses in a “closed door meeting” to discuss bitcoin regulation. While the committee is supposed to deliver a report next month, Vishwanath told Bitcoin.com that “things with Indian government move quite slowly and Bitcoin may not be on their priority list,” adding that:

        "It would be amazing to see if they come up with the report in 1 month but this will still be a recommendation and not the government decision."

Read more - https://news.bitcoin.com/indian-bitcoin-adoption-government-regulation/

Hello, when bounty for signature campaign are planned for distribution. How long should participants wear the signatures? Thanks in advance.

Hi all, Is bounty distribution date already known? When approximately managers will count signature campaign stakes and tokens? And of course, when expected monaco will be listed on main exchanges?

Recovery Begins: Cryptocurrencies Regain Chunks from Thursday Bloodbath

Cryptocurrencies staged a recovery yesterday following the massive fallout that occurred the day before. The top 100 cryptocurrencies all posted gains except for five, none of which have more than $130 million in market capitalization.



Cryptocurrency prices continue to follow market leader bitcoin. The post-fallout correction began early Thursday around the time Bitmain announced it said the bitcoin network was at a high risk of being split.

Bitcoin’s price recovered around from its $2,150 low yesterday to $2,521.28, but it is still almost 20% below its all-time high at $3,000.


Bitcoin’s market share fell to a historic 40% low, with Ethereum now above 30%, according to coinmarket.com. Ethereum’s recovery was stronger than bitcoin’s, moving to $372.79, gaining 13.82 points in the last 24 hours, almost fully recovering the 16.04 points in lost in the prior 24 hours. Ripple, a distant number three with a $10 billion market capitalization, posted one of the weaker recoveries, gaining only 3.78 points after losing more than 12% the previous day.

NEM, number four posted a 7.91 point gain after falling 17%. Litecoin, number five, had one of the healthier recoveries at 15.11 points, more than recovering the 7 points it had lost. Ethereum Classic, number six, gained 7.33 points after losing 13.77.

IOTA, number seven, posted the biggest 24-hour recovery at 18.77 points, but that was after suffering the biggest loss of all currencies in the previous 24-hour period, falling 36.5 points. Dash, number eight, the only other cryptocurrency with more than $1 billion market capitalization, regained 9.22% after losing 13.62%.

Total market cap today was $107.691 billion.

Read more: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/recovery-begins-cryptocurrencies-regain-chunks-from-thursday-bloodbath/

Back in February a new privacy white paper for the Bitcoin network called ‘Dandelion’ was published and received a lot of attention from the bitcoin community. Now the researchers and programmers involved with the idea have submitted a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) to the bitcoin developers list for feedback and review.


Dandelion is a concept designed by the Zcash advisor and developer Andrew Miller and a team of University of Illinois researchers. A few months ago the team released its white paper ‘Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity.’ The project is a new type of transaction broadcasting method that aims to stop people snooping and locating Internet Protocol addresses (IP). Essentially transactions relayed to nodes go through a few hops followed by a symmetric broadcast sent to other nodes which cannot identify the original IP source.

According to the recently submitted Github proposal Dandelion works in two phases. 

“[The first phase] is the “stem” phase, and then “fluff” phase,” explains the Dandelion BIP. “During the stem phase, each node relays the transaction to a *single* peer. After a random number of hops along the stem, the transaction enters the fluff phase, which behaves just like ordinary flooding/diffusion. Even when an attacker can identify the location of the fluff phase, it is much more difficult to identify the source of the stem.”

Read more: https://news.bitcoin.com/dandelion-bitcoin-anonymize-transaction-broadcasts/

Philippines’ Central Bank Issues Guidelines for Virtual Currency Exchanges


The BSP (Central Bank of the Philippines) has released official guidelines for the regulation of virtual currency exchanges. The statements emphasize the potential benefits of remittances, threats posed by money laundering, and the desire for the Philippine government to foster development in bitcoin businesses.


After 12 months of deliberations the Philippines central bank, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), has announced its guidelines for virtual currency exchanges.

The guidelines’ statement of policy opens by announcing that “It is the policy of the Bangko Sentral to provide an environment that encourages financial innovation while at the same time ensure that the Philippines shall not be used for money laundering (ML) or terrorist financing (TF) activities and that the financial system and financial consumers are adequately protected”, echoing familiar statements to other governments who have been proposing regulations for bitcoin and cryptocurrency.

The guidelines continually stress that the Philippines feels vulnerable as an under-regulated financial market, acknowledging the potential for those seeking to use virtual currencies for money laundering or terrorist financing to be attracted to the Filipino cryptocurrency markets.

The BSP also states that it “does not intend to endorse any VC, such as bitcoin, as a currency since it is neither issued or guaranteed by a central bank nor backed by any commodity”. Although this may appear negative, the statement in no way suggests that individuals are not permitted to use bitcoin, and a continual effort is made throughout the document the emphasize that the BSP does not wish to stifle innovation within the virtual currency space.

The document announces recognition on the part of the BSP that “Virtual Currency (VC) systems have the potential to revolutionize delivery of financial services, particularly for payments and remittance, in view of their ability to provide faster and more economical transfer of funds, both domestic and international, and may further support financial inclusion.”

Read more: https://news.bitcoin.com/philippines-central-bank-issues-guidelines-for-virtual-currency-exchanges/

Top German Banker Warns Cryptocurrencies Could Precipitate a Financial Crisis

A top German banker, Jens Weidmann, commented Wednesday that digital currencies like bitcoin could cause a financial catastrophe. The banker alluded to the idea digital currencies are unstable and prone to violent fluctuations on the market. Weidmann said for people to expect banks to adopt digital currencies so the average citizen begin to have faith in them.

A Business Insider article further suggested the banking system has a leg up on digital currencies, because they have the ability to print as much money as they want. In other words, they can avert a financial collapse by magically creating more liquidity.

The article quoted Weidmann, saying, “This is a feature which will become relevant especially in times of crisis – when there will be a strong incentive for money holders to switch bank deposits into the official digital currency simply at the push of a button.”

The article’s author also said the banker’s position was that when banks have their own digital currencies, they can use various features to protect the banks from going on bank runs. They could provide people with digital assets so they don’t start taking all their cash out of the bank. The article read:


Full article: https://news.bitcoin.com/top-banker-warns-cryptocurrencies-could-precipitate-a-financial-crisis/

Our monkey nature makes us to get angry with other people, protect our opinion with fists. Bad attitude to people is just habit, we should work on ourselves, feed the wolf who makes us better and lighter.