Great ideas! The amount of applications we can build on top of this great network we are building is infinite. There are many short term goals that we need to achieve this week since it's absolutely crucial for our long-term success. We need two more large exchanges in the next week, more media appearances and more online merchants to accept us. After that is done and we become only PoS, we will start attacking our long-term initiatives head-on.

I'm just about to jump off too for a few hours, but anyone else who has any ideas whatsoever is urged to contribute to this conversation. We read every single one of these messages and will be responding to most of them.

Great discussion guys!

Also FicklePickle, Universities are very bad with letting people distribute flyers on campus. I think we would need more of a targeted approach. I personally always ask people on campus if they've heard of cryptos, and an impressive amount of them are extremely interested in them, however don't understand them much. So instead of just simply handing out flyers that would have a low conversion rate, I think loaded paper wallets with a few dollars of UVC on them, that students can spend at local businesses surrounding their Unis, which are given out by our ambassadors, would be the most effective way.

Also regarding our ambassadors, we aren't trying just yet to grow our ambassadors that quickly. Much of our long-term plans are still not revealed, therefore potential ambassadors don't know what is expected of them. Also, we want to target the right people who are as motivated as we are about this project. We eat, sleep and breath UVC at the moment, and only want individuals on the team who feel the same passion as we do.

Therefore we believe that our presence in this marketplace over the next few weeks, and the attention we attract, will bring the right people to us instead of us going out there to find them. Power of attraction my friends

ficklepickle... Thank you sooooo much for your ideas!! This is a great place to start, let's get right to the discussion.

I think a BitcoinTalk-wide search for an android developer that has built PoS wallets in the past with success is a must. We need to find someone reputable who is willing to help us out (for a bounty of course).

The Point of Sale system/UPC scanner system is an amazzzing idea and this is exactly the type of innovations we want to bring to this industry. I think once we find the right android dev, they will be able to advise us further regarding these projects.

One thing I'd like to clear up though, is your mention of getting UVC accepted actually on University campuses. From our experience, we have learned that Universities are very rigid and have an infinite amount regulatory boundaries. Also, franchises like Subway, Harvey's, Teriyaki, Manchuwok, ect, lease out the cafeteria space and are absolutely not open to fresh, innovative and new ideas.

Therefore instead of actually getting the coin accepted on campuses, our strategy is to harness the power of social-media and word-of-mouth through our Ambassadors, and get the students of their Universities to use UVC to support local businesses, surrounding the actual University.

As we all know, franchises are killing our local economies and local businesses and we would love for UVC to act as a tool for these establishments to drive customer acquisition and retention. One idea we have, is to setup local businesses surrounding Universities to accept UVC, and then utilize our ambassadors to give out paper wallets loaded with a few dollars worth of UVC to students on campus who are interested in cryptocurrencies. Therefore, UVC would start out as somewhat of a "coupon" for students to save some money at surrounding local businesses, and it would help these local businesses gain and retain new customers.

Regarding Stage 2 of what you outlined above, I think this is a great idea. Many Universities rent out booths in their University Community Centres to people who would like to advertise on campus. Our team would jump at the chance to represent UVC in our own Universities, so it's just a matter of getting there. We need to accomplish all of the steps you have outlined above before we start on these initiatives and we are determined to get there as soon as possible.

So to sum up, your ideas are amazing, please keep them coming! However keep in mind we will be targeting the local economy surrounding Universities, and not actually Universities themselves due to their ridiculous restrictions.

Let's keep this discussion going! What do you guys think?

Hey guys we really want to find an experienced android developer asap so that we can get prepared for the week following PoW. We would like to start contacting independent retailers around our University campuses and teach them about cryptocurrencies, Universitycoin, and why they matter. We will also be convincing them to accept UVC as a means of customer acquisition for their businesses.

This is just a taste of our long-term plans, however getting an experienced android developer to build our wallet is absolutely essential for this plan. If anyone knows of, or sees in other threads, any mention of an experienced android developer, please PM us immediately.

Thank you!

Thanks Jolly, you've been extremely supportive and we couldn't be more appreciative!

We also sent MP an e-mail last night, and Poloniex has already been contacted.

Also, one of our community members "TrollBoxChamp" has been supporting us in the Poloniex Trollbox, as I was informed last night when I popped in. So TrollBoxChamp, we thank you as well! 

Also guys, we are looking for an experienced Android developer who can build us an Android Wallet that works with PoS. If anyone could please recommend someone, PM us!

Thanks guys!

Yes we did. The instructions were to place your UVC address in your signature here on BitcoinTalk and everyone that did received a nice giveaway on launch day. We also announced our Twitter giveaway for launch day, which we gave coins away to everyone who participated, even though we said there would only be 1 winner every 10 minutes. Please follow our daily twitter giveaways.

I'll start today's Twitter contest right now

https://twitter.com/_UniversityCoin

Hey guys, thought I'd pop in and take a break from what I was doing to address this since it's crucial. We have been shooting for Poloniex for this week, and think MintPal would be great right after PoW ends.

Although I'm more interested in hearing what you guys think would be best. Poloniex or MintPal next? And when?

Also Jollyriffic, scratch what we said on Twitter about going to small exchanges first and building up to the majors. Our rational was that building on these smaller exchanges would safe-guard against the crazy volatility that comes with MP, Pol or Cryptsy. However at the rate we are growing, we need two big-time exchanges in the next 2 weeks for sure.

Cryptsy does have a reputation of being the place where certain altcoins go to die, however we don't think that will be the case with us. If we hit Cryptsy at the right time, and more people learn about our project, our supporters will likely skyrocket. What I mean by... the right time.. is after hitting Poloniex, allowing the volatility to settle, hitting MintPal, allowing the volatility to settle, and then Cryptsy.

What do you guys think?

Did you download the new wallet from OP?

If you did, the new wallet should start to sync automatically.

The PoS started with PoW at the same time, just wait for 24 hours and you will get your interests!

Our team would like to take this opportunity to thank every single one of you who has shown us support over the past few days. We have undoubtedly made some mistakes, however we have learned a lot and have come back stronger than ever. We are forming strategic partnerships all over this industry and are attracting some huge attention. We still have a LOT of work to do this week and are pushing to get it all done in a timely manner.

We are completely committed to this community and hope that it shows by our actions up until this point. Fairness is essential, transparency is key, and you all mean the world to us. As many of you know, multipools may be starting to target UVC since many people are beginning to see the true value of what we are bringing to this industry. However our team truly believes that if we work together and consciously address the short-term profit driven nature of multi-pools, we will be able to effectively safeguard ourselves against their ugly nature.

We would like to once again make sure that everyone is being cautious on Bittrex since the price action is largely out of our control. We don't want to see anyone getting hurt which is why we want to make sure everyone is being patient and cautious. We are currently about 30 hours old in this marketplace and are looking to support this coin for the indefinite future. Patience is a virtue my friends.

We would also like to propose a discussion topic for the thread that will allow us to better serve our community. Please let us know any recommendations, suggestions, comments or criticisms that you may have about our project in the thread because we read through every single one. The collective knowledge and experience of this great community is an invaluable resource that we would like to tap into, so let the discussion begin!

Sincerely,

UniversityCoin Team

Dear community,

We now have a Mac wallet available for the public and are looking for some testers. Please let us know in the thread if you experience any issues using the wallet. Thanks! More to come soon.

https://mega.co.nz/#!ZV4EBDDR!ksF8mb_cDrmzg9rutKDMWadoYT4I6j27jKE1tSFkjRg

Sincerely,

UniversityCoin Team

Then you got the wrong wallet, please download the new one and delete UniversityCoin folder on your %appdata% folder before you open the new wallet.(Instruction can be found on OP)

4 confirms

Dear community,

We have posted an update to our News section regarding our launch and what we have been up to during the past 24 hours. The exchange rate on Bittrex has been holding up extremely well as investors are holding strong and not chasing the market. We are long-term supporters of this project and will make it known through our continuous updates and developments for the community. Please read our current statement here: http://universitycoin.co/news/index.php/universitycoin-project/

Daily Twitter Contest: Just Posted

https://twitter.com/_UniversityCoin

Thank you all for your support and we look forward to seeing you all at graduation!

Sincerely,

UniversityCoin Team

We will contact you soon, currently working on getting the previous bounties sent.

Also our premine is solely a marketing fund. We plan to grow this community as large as possible with what we have.

We are working throughout the night to tally up the bounties and giveaways. Still lots to do, please be patient. Then finishing it off with a statement for the community regarding some of our plans.

Thank you for your response xmtx:

The reason we have been slow to respond following our launch is because we have become overloaded with emails and messages, and managing it all has become a bit overwhelming during the past few hours. However we are working through all the messages, getting to all the giveaways, getting to the UVC remedies for those who rented rigs last night, getting to the bounties and trying to stay awake through it all.

The entire team has completely put their lives on hold for the past few days to launch UVC. We have barely slept, eaten, seen our family or our friends. We're completely motivated to make UVC a major success, so all we ask is for people to be patient, and we will get to all the messages.

Thank you for coming clean about your mistake... If there's anyone that understands the fact that people make honest mistakes, it's us! You weren't the only pool that started mining early however, and that is on us. We now know to be very cautious and we have taken responsibility by remedying those who rented rigs last night.

However regarding the difficulty retargeting, we had three different experienced coin developers review the source before we relaunched, and they all found nothing wrong with the difficulty retargeting. Therefore, it was still our mistake by pushing the source public too early, which led to certain individuals mining before the launch creating a major instamine, but we still aren't at all trying to deflect blame, or point fingers.

We considered publishing the names of the pools that mined early, but nothing positive comes from pointing fingers. If people are still curious, they can PM us and we have no problem getting the truth out there, however blaming other people for our honest mistake is simply not our style.

We can assure everyone that this is NOT a scam coin, pump and dump coin, short-term profit driven coin, or anything of the sort. We are completely committed to this community and this project over the long-term and we guarantee that you will all be very impressed during the next few weeks.

Thanks again for your comment.

UVC Team

Sorry that was our fault